Inside our IPv6 pools: why they're a fraction of the cost

IPv6 pricing on our calculator starts at a fraction of the equivalent IPv4 datacenter rate, and that surprises people enough that we get asked about it constantly. The reason isn't marketing — it's address space math.

The address space is not the same scale

The entire IPv4 space is about 4.3 billion addresses, already fully allocated and fiercely contested. A single standard IPv6 allocation to an organization is typically a /32 block — which is billions of times larger than the entire IPv4 internet. Where IPv4 IPs are scarce and expensive to acquire in bulk, IPv6 addresses within an allocated block are effectively free to provision.

That means for us — and it means low prices for you

Because provisioning cost per address is negligible, we pass that through directly: IPv6 pricing is a fraction of the equivalent IPv4 datacenter rate. The tradeoff is compatibility — a meaningful slice of the internet still doesn't accept IPv6 traffic at all, so it's not a drop-in replacement for every use case.

When IPv6 is the right call

• High-volume requests against targets that support IPv6 — API scraping, monitoring, anything where cost per request matters most
• Situations where you need a large number of distinct source addresses cheaply, rather than a small number of highly-trusted ones
• As a first-pass, low-cost pool with automatic fallback to IPv4 datacenter or residential for targets that reject IPv6

It's not a universal replacement for IPv4 — it's a very cheap tool for the subset of traffic where it works, and that subset is bigger than most people assume.