Billal Ainaoui
Billal Ainaoui is the founder of HProxy.com. He started it to make honest proxy infrastructure anyone can afford, and he still reads every support message himself. The guides he signs come from the prices, tests and support questions the team works with every day. HProxy sells proxies, so weigh his view with that in mind.
Founder of HProxy.com · 1666 articles
Guide
How to Use Proxies With Puppeteer
How to use proxies with Puppeteer: the proxy-server launch arg, authenticated proxies with page.authenticate and proxy-chain, per-context proxies, and rotating a pool.
August 23, 2026 · 5 min read
Guide
How to Use a Proxy With wget (and Wget2): Variables, Flags and What Is Sent
How to send wget through a proxy: the lowercase variables, -e and .wgetrc, proxy auth, no_proxy, why there is no SOCKS, and what changes on Wget2, measured against a stub proxy.
August 23, 2026 · 8 min read
Explainer
ISP vs Mobile Proxies: Which One and When
ISP vs mobile proxies: an ISP proxy is one address of your own on a server, a mobile proxy shares a phone carrier's address with many people. What IP data sees, what each costs, and which to buy.
August 23, 2026 · 7 min read
Guide
LLM API Rate Limits and Proxies: Why Changing Your IP Does Nothing
Developers hitting 429s on an LLM API often reach for a rotating proxy pool. The quota follows the key in the header, not the address it came from. What actually fixes it, and where proxies do belong in an AI stack.
August 23, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
No-KYC Residential Proxies: Who Lets You Buy Without an ID Check
The ID rules of nine residential proxy companies, read October 22, 2026: who checks before you buy, who asks only when flagged, and what no-KYC does not protect.
August 23, 2026 · 10 min read
Guide
Proxies for Antidetect Browsers: The IP Has to Agree With the Fingerprint
An antidetect browser gives each profile its own fingerprint. If the IP behind it contradicts that fingerprint, the pair is easier to catch than either half alone. What to buy, and why rotation breaks it.
August 23, 2026 · 10 min read
Use case
Proxies for browser-use: ProxySettings, the login and the MCP server
browser-use takes a proxy as ProxySettings on the Browser, imported from browser_use.browser. The login, the MCP variables and the gaps, read in 0.13.10.
August 23, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
Proxy ASN Targeting: When the Network Matters More Than the Country
When choosing proxies by ASN or ISP is the real requirement, why one provider can span nine ASNs, and how to check which network a proxy really uses.
August 23, 2026 · 11 min read
Explainer
Proxy vs VPN vs Tor: Who You Have to Trust, and What Each One Hides
These three get ranked as if hiding were a single scale. They are different trust models. Who can see what in each one, where each genuinely wins, and where each is the wrong tool.
August 23, 2026 · 10 min read
Guide
requests vs httpx vs aiohttp: Proxies Compared
How the three Python HTTP clients handle proxies: the config each one uses, SOCKS support, sync versus async, connection reuse, and which to pick for a scraper.
August 23, 2026 · 5 min read
Explainer
Types of Proxies: Residential, ISP, Mobile and Datacenter Explained
The four types of proxies by address source, plus protocol, rotation and sharing, with median prices from the price lists of up to 64 sellers per type.
August 23, 2026 · 8 min read
Guide
Do Your Proxies Support WebSockets? How to Test It in Two Minutes
WebSockets fail through proxies in a few specific ways, and provider docs rarely mention it. The two-minute test, how to read the failure, and why rotation is the usual cause.
August 23, 2026 · 11 min read
Explainer
What Is a White Label Proxy Provider, and When Should You Use One?
White label proxy reselling means selling someone else's network under your brand while they run the infrastructure. How the model works mechanically, what it can and cannot do for you, and the questions that separate good programs from traps.
August 23, 2026 · 6 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs Froxy.com: Residential Prices After the Sale, Plans and Refunds (2026)
HProxy vs Froxy.com on residential proxies: Froxy's rates back at $2.69 per GB after its summer sale, monthly plans from $5.50, rollover rules and refunds.
August 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs IPFoxy.com: Proxy Prices, Package Expiry and Refunds (2026)
HProxy vs IPFoxy.com: residential from $5.99 to $1.99 per GB on packages that expire after 30 to 180 days, static IPs from $7.99 a month, and no refunds.
August 11, 2026 · 9 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs MarsProxies.com: Two Pay-as-You-Go Residential Ladders Compared (2026)
HProxy vs MarsProxies.com on residential proxies: two sellers whose traffic never expires, MarsProxies' ladder from $4.99 to $1.65 per GB against our Lite and Premium, sessions up to 7 days, the 24-hour refund rule, payment and products by the day, read October 22, 2026.
August 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs MobileHop.com: Mobile Proxies by the Hour or by the GB (2026)
HProxy vs MobileHop.com: SingleHop and MultiHop US mobile proxies rented from $5 an hour to $225 a month, against our mobile traffic billed by the GB.
August 11, 2026 · 6 min read
Comparison
HProxy vs Proxyrack.com: Residential Plans, Prices and Refunds (2026)
HProxy vs Proxyrack.com: Premium Residential at $110 for 100 GB a month, unlimited plans from $300, a $5 trial, ID checks and a 72-hour refund window.
August 11, 2026 · 9 min read
Guide
Roblox API Proxy: Fix the HttpService 403 and Read the Real Rate Limits
HttpService refuses the roblox.com web API, so swapping the host clears the 403 in one edit. The per-endpoint rate limits, measured again on September 16, 2026, and the batch endpoints decide how much one address can read.
August 11, 2026 · 27 min read
Data study
Scraping API Price Spread: Costs Run 50x Apart for the Same Job
Four scraping APIs, converted to one number: dollars per 1,000 requests. The range runs from $0.0749 to $3.75, and on one vendor both ends of a 25x spread sit inside the same $30 plan.
August 11, 2026 · 10 min read
Data study
Correcting Our Own Price Data: Four Errors We Found Re-Checking 20 Vendors
We re-verified all 20 residential proxy vendors we track against their own pricing pages on August 10, 2026, one week after the first capture. Four of our records were wrong, and one of them was wrong in the direction that suited us.
August 10, 2026 · 10 min read
Guide
How to Read a Proxy Pricing Page: The Floor, the Fine Print and the Meter
The lowest number on a proxy pricing page belongs to a plan, a tier or a meter. What unlocks it at 14 sellers, read in October 2026, and five questions to ask.
August 10, 2026 · 7 min read
Data study
The Permanent Sale: 8 of 20 Proxy Vendors Are Discounting and Only 1 Says When It Ends
We re-read the residential pricing page of 20 proxy vendors on August 10, 2026. Eight were running a discount. One of the eight published an end date.
August 10, 2026 · 11 min read
Tutorial
Antidetect Browser Proxy Setup: One IP Per Profile
One proxy per profile, and why a rotating IP quietly ruins the thing you bought the browser for. Setup for AdsPower, Dolphin Anty, GoLogin and Multilogin, plus the mistakes that get profiles flagged.
August 8, 2026 · 6 min read
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Proxies that don't die mid-job
Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.
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