Readers land here mid-decision, usually with a cart open somewhere. The fastest thing we can do is set out what Airvpn publishes, what it does not, and what a few dollars of testing settles better than any argument.
The honest disclaimer: different product
Airvpn is a VPN. HProxy sells proxies. If what you want is an encrypted tunnel for all of your traffic, with an app that protects the whole device, buy a VPN and stop reading here. We would rather lose the click than take a customer who needed something else.
The difference in one line: a VPN routes everything through one encrypted tunnel and hides your traffic from the network you are on. A proxy routes one application or one request through a chosen address, gives you control over which address and which country, and does not encrypt anything by itself. A VPN is for privacy on a network you do not trust. A proxy is for controlling where a request appears to come from.
If you are switching away from Airvpn because you kept hitting blocks while automating something, or because you needed a specific city or a stable address per session, that is a proxy problem and this page is for you. If you are switching because you want cheaper streaming or a better mobile app, it is not.
What we can and cannot tell you about Airvpn
The domain is airvpn.org.
A price is missing here on purpose. We have not captured a sourced rate for Airvpn recently enough to publish one, and a stale number in this market is a wrong number.
Copy down the entry rate, the commitment attached to the cheapest rate, the minimum top-up and the expiry rule. Those four turn a marketing figure into something you can compare.
The domain record
The domain was registered on 31 May 2010, through GoDaddy.com, LLC, which makes it about 16 years old. Those dates come from a registry query on 9 September 2026. The registry shows it renewed to 31 May 2028.
Read that as a floor rather than a recommendation. Longevity says somebody has kept paying the registrar, and in a market with this much churn that is worth ten seconds of your attention.
The demand around this name
The Keyword Planner puts brand demand at 600 a month: 320 a month for their pricing, 260 a month for a review of them and 20 a month for an alternative to them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
Weighted towards people trying to work out what it costs. A comparison that ignores that and opens with a pitch has misread the room.
Advertisers bid up to $8.07 for one of those clicks, which is a useful proxy for what a customer in this market is worth and for how hard the results page is fought over.
What the advertised numbers cannot tell you
What happens when it breaks at two in the morning
Every provider works when nothing is wrong. The difference shows up on the day a subnet gets flagged or a gateway stops answering. Before committing volume, send one real question through the support channel and time the reply.
Why a cheap address is often a used one
Ask how many accounts can sit on one address at once. Where the answer is unlimited or unspecified, price the plan as shared regardless of what the product is called.
Who pays for the requests that fail
On a hard target, failures are the majority of your traffic. Whether those failures are billed decides the real cost, and the clause covering it is rarely on the pricing page.
What separates them, in a table
This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:
| Question to ask | Airvpn | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Check the current terms, this one moves | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Not published clearly, ask before paying | None |
| Identity checks | On their own terms page | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Read their current terms | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
That comparison covers what is publishable. What is not publishable, and what actually decides this, is how many of your requests come back correct.
The ten minute version of this decision
For a few dollars you can get a verdict specific to your job, which no comparison page can honestly promise you.
- Start with the smallest purchase each vendor allows, so the test costs less than the decision it replaces.
- Use your own scraper and your own target. A benchmark against a neutral site measures nothing you will experience.
- Count how many requests returned what you wanted, and how much bandwidth each side spent doing it.
- Spot-check the exits. Confirm they are in the country you paid for and the connection type you were sold.
- Buy the one that won on your target, and diarise a re-test in three months.
The other names that come up
Other providers in the same bracket, priced and dated the same way:
- Hidester alternatives
- Hiper Smm alternatives
- Hola VPN (commercial) alternatives
- HomeIP alternatives
- Honeygain alternatives
- Hotspotshield alternatives
And to close where this started: a proxy is not a VPN replacement for privacy work. If Airvpn was doing the right job for you and you only want it cheaper, this comparison is the wrong page.
Where HProxy sits in that test
We sell residential proxies from $0.44 per GB with no subscription and a balance that does not expire, plus ISP, mobile and datacenter in the same account. That is the pitch, and the test above is a better judge of it than this paragraph.
