Comparison

HProxy vs Froxy on residential price, plans and the HEATWAVE sale: the one thing Froxy publishes that almost nobody in this market does, and what changes on 1 September 2026.

IPFoxy's residential runs from $5.99/GB down to $1.99/GB, but the cheap rate needs $1,999 up front and every package carries a validity window. What that clock costs a workload that pauses.

HProxy vs MarsProxies on residential price, the advertised $3.49/GB we could not find a tier behind, and the per-IP, per-day model MarsProxies sells everything else on.

MobileHop rents one thing, a dedicated 5G modem, at $8.00 for a day or $5.00 for an hour. Why the smaller price is the worse rate, and which jobs a rented modem beats bandwidth by the gigabyte.

ProxyRack publishes one of the lowest residential rates in this market, and reaching it means buying a 100 GB plan every month. What 5, 20, 100 and 300 GB actually cost on each side, worked out.

Providers seized by the FBI, erased by Google, sued out of existence, or gone without a word. The full record of proxy industry deaths, and what the survivors look like.

IPBurger sells residential in monthly buckets rather than metered bandwidth, and its cheapest published rate is still far above ours. When a small predictable bill is worth it, and when it is not.

HProxy vs Shifter on price, model and sourcing history. Shifter sells monthly plans with no pay as you go, and its advertised ISP rate exists on no published tier.

HProxy vs Thordata on residential price and model: a cheaper flat rate at every normal volume, and the one thing Thordata does better than almost anyone.

The English 'best Chinese proxy' roundups name only Western brands and zero real Chinese operators. Here is who actually runs China's proxy industry.

DePIN proxy tokens like Grass and Nodepay are residential proxy networks with a crypto wrapper. The real funding, the token crashes, and what you actually sell.

How to tell if your proxy provider just resells a bigger pool: shared gateways, identical pool sizes, WHOIS and ASN overlap, and rebrand chains.

Google's 2026 takedown named 13 proxy brands under IPIDEA: 922Proxy, PIA S5, IP2World and more, built on hijacked home devices. What it means for buyers.

IPIDEA runs IP2World, PIA S5 Proxy and a dozen storefronts on one pool through Hong Kong shells. Here is the shared infrastructure and how it was built.

NordVPN and Surfshark merged on February 2, 2022 under one Dutch holding company, Cyberspace B.V. Here is the sourced proof, and what it means for buyers.

Researchers tied two dozen 'independent' mobile proxy brands to one Belarusian software stack, ProxySmart. Here is the map and what it means when you buy.

Thordata claims a 2018 founding, but its Hong Kong company dates to 2023 and its own US trademark claims first use in 2025. Here is the sourced timeline.

AWM Proxy sold access to malware-infected PCs as proxies from 2008 until Google sued its operators in 2021. How it worked, who ran it, and the Glupteba link.

BuyProxies sold dedicated 'virgin' datacenter proxies at buyproxies.org. What it sold, why the private-proxy era faded, and if it is still worth buying.

GeoSurf was one of the oldest enterprise residential proxy networks. It lost a patent war to Bright Data and shut down all proxy services on December 20, 2023.

HighProxies sold private, shared, and social media datacenter proxies. What it was, why social-media proxies moved on, and if it is still live.

LimeProxies sold premium dedicated datacenter proxies from 2010, then went quiet. What it was, why it faded, and whether its domain still means anything.

LuxSocks was a Russian SOCKS5 proxy market prized by carders. It went dark in January 2022 in a reported Russian takedown. The story and the buyer lesson.

ProxyBonanza is a 2010s datacenter proxy veteran still trading today, but its UK company dissolved in 2013 and its tooling froze in 2019. Verify before you trust it.