Every provider we track

Independent California fiber ISP with a long-standing privacy stance: it does not log or sell customer browsing data.

1 state · up to 10 Gbps · from $50/mo

Midwest fiber overbuilder that goes into college towns and mid-size cities. Some of the lowest per-megabit pricing in the country.

14 states · up to 2 Gbps · from $50/mo

Verizon completed its $20bn acquisition of Frontier on 20 January 2026, and the brand now operates as Frontier, a Verizon Company. Still one of the most aggressive fiber builders in the country, with cheap gigabit pricing.

25 states · up to 500 Mbps · from $30/mo

Pacific Northwest fiber with the cheapest entry tier in the country and a genuine 10 Gig residential product.

4 states · up to 1 Gbps · from $20/mo

Symmetrical fiber with flat pricing that does not step up after a promo year. Where it is built, it is usually the best option on the street.

22 states · up to 5 Gbps · from $50/mo

Built from CenturyLink's former Southeast copper territory and converting it to fiber. Cheap gigabit in mid-size towns that had DSL only.

20 states · up to 500 Mbps · from $39/mo

Lumen's fiber brand. Symmetrical multi-gig with locked pricing, rolling out fastest in Denver, Phoenix, Minneapolis and Seattle.

19 states · up to 500 Mbps · from $50/mo

Fiber to the home across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Consistently the highest-rated large ISP in the country for reliability.

10 states · up to 300 Mbps · from $40/mo

Rural-focused telco converting copper to fiber across 17 states. Often the only wired gigabit in towns under 20,000 people.

17 states · up to 300 Mbps · from $40/mo

Metro-only fiber with no contracts, no fees and no price step-up. Where it exists it sets the price for everyone else in town.

16 states · up to 1 Gbps · from $70/mo

Independent telco building fiber into small cities and resort towns across 16 states, often alongside its older copper and cable plant.

16 states · up to 300 Mbps · from $45/mo

The island's incumbent telephone company, converting its copper network to fiber across the San Juan and Ponce metros.

1 state · up to 200 Mbps · from $40/mo

Hawaii's incumbent telephone company and the main fiber builder across Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island.

1 state · up to 400 Mbps · from $60/mo

Regional cable operator in the Southeast and Michigan. Consistently rates above the big cable brands on customer satisfaction.

6 states · up to 1.2 Gbps · from $35/mo

The RCN, Grande, Wave and Astound brands under one name. An overbuilder that competes head-on with Xfinity and Spectrum on price.

11 states · up to 1.5 Gbps · from $30/mo

Puerto Rico's largest broadband provider, running the island's cable plant plus a growing fiber footprint in the San Juan metro.

1 state · up to 1 Gbps · from $50/mo

Cable and fiber in the New York tri-state area plus former Suddenlink territory in the South and West. Cheap entry tiers, no data caps.

14 states · up to 5 Gbps · from $40/mo

The largest cable provider in the country. Wide availability and fast downloads, but uploads lag fiber and the price steps up sharply once the promo ends.

40 states · up to 2 Gbps · from $30/mo

Cable service across 41 states with no data caps and no contracts. Straightforward pricing for the first year, then a large step-up.

41 states · up to 2 Gbps · from $50/mo

Cable One's residential brand, built around small-city and rural markets across the West and South.

15 states · up to 1 Gbps · from $45/mo

Cable across 17 states with strong metro coverage in Phoenix, Las Vegas, San Diego and New Orleans. Good speeds, above-average prices.

17 states · up to 2 Gbps · from $50/mo

Alaska's dominant provider, running cable and fiber in Anchorage and Fairbanks and microwave links out to the bush.

1 state · up to 2 Gbps · from $70/mo

Cable serving small and mid-size Midwest and Southern markets that the national operators never built. Often the only wired option in town.

21 states · up to 400 Mbps · from $30/mo

Fixed wireless over Verizon's 5G Ultra Wideband. Cheap if you already have a Verizon phone line, and there is nothing to install.

Nationwide · up to 1 Gbps · from $50/mo

The widest fixed-wireless footprint in the country. One flat price with taxes included, and it reaches plenty of places cable never did.

Nationwide · up to 354 Mbps · from $50/mo

Home internet over AT&T's 5G network. Flat $60, self-install in minutes, and a reasonable fallback where no wire reaches the house.

26 states · up to 225 Mbps · from $60/mo

Lumen's legacy DSL and copper brand. Its one real selling point is Price for Life: the rate you sign up at is the rate you keep.

16 states · up to 500 Mbps · from $55/mo

A reseller rather than a network owner: it buys capacity on other carriers' lines and sells it with no data caps and no throttling.

Nationwide · up to 500 Mbps · from $50/mo

Fixed wireless aimed squarely at farms and small towns on the plains, where the alternative is satellite or nothing.

15 states · up to 100 Mbps · from $45/mo

Low-earth-orbit satellite. The only satellite service with latency low enough for video calls, and it works essentially anywhere with sky.

Nationwide · up to 220 Mbps · from $49/mo

The other geostationary satellite option. Cheaper than Viasat at the entry tier, with the same latency limits.

Nationwide · up to 50 Mbps · from $50/mo

Geostationary satellite covering the whole country. Latency makes it a last resort, but it reaches addresses nothing else does.

Nationwide · up to 50 Mbps · from $100/mo