Readers land here mid-decision, usually with a cart open somewhere. The fastest thing we can do is set out what ASocks publishes, what it does not, and what a few dollars of testing settles better than any argument.
ASocks on the record
ASocks operates from asocks.com. Our classification for them is proxy provider.
A price is missing here on purpose. We have not captured a sourced rate for ASocks recently enough to publish one, and a stale number in this market is a wrong number.
Read their page for the reachable rate rather than the headline, the minimum spend, the expiry clause and the billing treatment of blocked requests. Write down the date, because all four move.
What is on their front page
As of 9 September 2026 the tab reads "Buy Proxies: Mobile and Residential". Their own summary of the product runs: "ASocks , the ultimate proxy service. Affordable rates for anonymous IPv4 proxies: 150+ locations, 7M+ IP addresses."
Taken from the same page, on the same day:
They advertise 150 countries or locations. Support is advertised as around the clock. A refund or money-back term is mentioned. We found no separate pricing page linked from the homepage, which usually means the price arrives by quotation.
Every line above is a quotation from their marketing rather than a measurement by us. It is included because it is checkable, not because it is evidence of performance.
Longevity, on the public record
The domain was registered on 29 March 2021, through Registrar R01 LLC, which makes it about 5 years old. Those dates come from a registry query on 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 20 snapshots of the site, the earliest from December 2002. Their registration is booked through 29 March 2030.
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.
How much site there is
A crawl of 306 pages returned 34 location pages.
That mix tells you how the company sells. Heavy location pages mean a geography-led pitch, heavy blog means a search-led one, and a single pricing page usually means one simple offer or one sales call.
The demand around this name
The Keyword Planner puts brand demand at 30 a month: 10 a month for an alternative to them, 10 a month for their pricing and 10 a month for a review of them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
Weighted towards people looking for a way out. A comparison that ignores that and opens with a pitch has misread the room.
Advertisers bid up to $12.87 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
Test the support channel before you need it. Ask something specific and technical, and judge both the speed and whether the answer came from somebody who understood the question.
Why an old benchmark is wrong
Every review of this market, this one included, is a photograph of a moving thing. Read the date on any comparison you find, and discount it heavily once it is more than a few months old.
What actually caps your throughput
Bandwidth is rarely the constraint on a real workload. Concurrent connections, requests per second and per-session caps are, and they are frequently buried in the documentation rather than the pricing page.
What separates them, in a table
This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:
| Question to ask | ASocks | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Their terms page answers this | None |
| Identity checks | Check the current terms, this one moves | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | On their own terms page | 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.
A test worth more than this comparison
Do this once and you will never need a comparison page for this decision again.
- Open an account on each and add the smallest amount they take. Skip the trial if a paid unit is cheap enough to buy outright.
- Point both at your real target, through your real tool, on the same day, with the same mix of requests.
- Log successes, failures and gigabytes used. Cost per successful request is the figure you are after.
- Verify a slice of the exits independently. Country labels in this market are self-reported and are not always right.
- Take the winner and set a reminder to run this again, since a result has a shelf life of about a quarter.
The other names that come up
Other providers in the same bracket, priced and dated the same way:
- Proxy Arabic alternatives
- Proxy Buy alternatives
- Proxy Cheap alternatives
- Proxy-Hub alternatives
- Proxy Ipv4 alternatives
- Proxy-Man alternatives
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.
