Review

In-depth proxy service and scraping-tool reviews from HProxy, backed by real testing: what each one is good at, where it falls short, what it costs.

10 articles

CaptchaAI Review: Unlimited Solves, Priced by Thread

CaptchaAI sells concurrency, not solves, which inverts the usual cost curve. We worked the break-even from its own numbers: about 25,000 solves a month.

September 8, 2026 · 7 min read

Bright Data Review: The Real Price Behind the Headline

An honest Bright Data review: why the headline residential rate is double-gated behind a commitment and a promo, what a new account pays, and who it suits.

August 3, 2026 · 8 min read

Decodo Review: The Smartproxy Rebrand, and What It Actually Costs

Decodo is Smartproxy under a new name. What the rebrand changed, what the proxies cost a new buyer, and which advertised headline rates you cannot actually buy.

August 3, 2026 · 8 min read

IPRoyal Review: A Good Provider With an Expensive First Gigabyte

An independent provider with never-expiring traffic and a wide catalog, reviewed on the gap between its advertised per-GB floor and what a new buyer pays.

August 3, 2026 · 9 min read

Oxylabs Review: What the Proxies Actually Cost in 2026

An honest Oxylabs review: what the residential, mobile and ISP tiers really cost, why three pages quote three different starting prices, and who should skip it.

August 3, 2026 · 8 min read

SOAX Review: Credits, Country Tiers, and the Real Price of Tier-1 Traffic

SOAX prices residential and mobile proxies on two levers at once: your plan, and the countries you target. What that means for your bill, and who it suits.

August 3, 2026 · 8 min read

Webshare Review: The Free Tier Is Real, and So Are the Limits

Webshare has a genuinely free plan and datacenter proxies sold per IP rather than per GB. What each product costs a new buyer, and where the limits sit.

August 3, 2026 · 7 min read

PIA Proxy Review: Does Private Internet Access Have a SOCKS5 Proxy?

The PIA proxy is a SOCKS5 endpoint bundled with every Private Internet Access VPN plan: what it is, how to switch it on, and where a dedicated pool beats it.

July 3, 2026 · 7 min read

HideMyAss Free Proxy Review: The Anonymity Myth

HideMyAss's free proxy hides your IP from websites, not from HMA. Here is the documented record, from the 2011 LulzSec case to what the proxy still logs.

July 2, 2026 · 7 min read

Hidester Review: Does the Free Web Proxy Actually Hide You?

An honest Hidester review of the free web proxy: what it hides, the metadata its policy logs, its Hong Kong base, and when a dedicated proxy is smarter.

July 2, 2026 · 6 min read

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.

129M+ proxy checks run · 100+ countries · HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS · re-checked every few minutes · no signup