Comparison

Leaving Crawlmagic: the numbers side by side

A Crawlmagic alternative, judged by a competitor who says so up front: the record we hold, the gaps in it, and the test that outranks this page.

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Free proxies won't hold up here.

Shared datacenter IPs get flagged and dropped fast. When it has to hold, gaming, streaming, accounts, you need mobile and residential IPs that read as a real device, from $0.44/GB, pay as you go.

Residential proxies

The shortest useful answer about Crawlmagic: find out what their current published rate is, find out whether your balance expires, then measure success rate on your own target. Everything below expands those three steps.

What we can and cannot tell you about Crawlmagic

Crawlmagic operates from crawlmagic.com.

What we do not hold is a current, sourced price for Crawlmagic. Rather than print a figure we cannot stand behind, this page leaves it out and tells you what to look for when you read their page yourself.

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.

What is on their front page

As of 9 September 2026 the tab reads "Best web scraping service in USA, Crawlmagic". The blurb under their search result reads: "Crawlmagic offers the best web scraping services. Trusted & Best data scraping service provider in USA and UK. Get a free trial of web scraper and web crawler!"

Taken from the same page, on the same day:

The product lines named on that page are a scraping or SERP API. The page offers some form of free trial. Support is advertised as around the clock. We found no separate pricing page linked from the homepage, which usually means the price arrives by quotation.

That is the vendor speaking, not us. We print it because a claim with a date attached is at least falsifiable.

The domain record

The domain was registered on 16 November 2020, through GoDaddy.com, LLC, which makes it about 5 years old. That record was read from the registry on 23 April 2026. The registry shows it renewed to 16 November 2026.

Age is not quality. A long registration does not make a network good, and a new one does not make it bad. What it does rule out is the shortest-lived pattern in this market, which is a site that appears, sells, and is gone inside a year.

The parts no marketing page answers

Ten million addresses, and none of them yours

Claims of ten million, one hundred million or more say nothing about whether your requests get through this week. Your job meets the handful of exits it draws, in your countries, against one target. Rotation policy and freshness move that outcome far more than the headline total.

Shared or dedicated changes everything

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.

What a blocked response costs you

Divide the spend by the successful responses, not by the requests sent. That single change reorders most price comparisons in this market, and your accounting will use it eventually anyway.

Side by side, with the blanks left blank

The table answers what we can answer and marks what we cannot:

Question to askCrawlmagicHProxy
Entry priceNot verified by us, read their pageFrom $0.44/GB, pay as you go
Does unused balance expire?Check the current terms, this one movesNever
Minimum commitmentRead their current termsNone
Identity checksWorth confirming in writing before you commitCard orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested
TargetingRead their current termsCountry, city and ISP
Free way to evaluateWorth confirming in writing before you commitFree proxy list and proxy checker

Every unfilled cell above is a question to put to them directly, in writing, before money changes hands. Vendors answer those questions readily; comparison sites guess at them.

A test worth more than this comparison

Do this once and you will never need a comparison page for this decision again.

  1. Buy the minimum each side offers. Prefer a small paid batch over a trial, because trial traffic does not always ride the same pool.
  2. Send an identical workload through each: same target, same tooling, same time of day, same request mix.
  3. Log successes, failures and gigabytes used. Cost per successful request is the figure you are after.
  4. Verify a slice of the exits independently. Country labels in this market are self-reported and are not always right.
  5. Take the winner and set a reminder to run this again, since a result has a shelf life of about a quarter.

Others in this market

Nearest alternatives by product shape rather than by who pays us, since nobody does:

Our side of it

HProxy is pay as you go from $0.44 per GB on residential, with ISP, mobile and datacenter under one balance and no commitment attached to any of them. Run the test. If we lose on your target, we lose, and you have your answer.

Frequently asked questions

Why look for a Crawlmagic alternative at all?
The usual reasons any buyer compares two providers: the pricing model stopped fitting the usage pattern, a target started blocking, a specific country underperformed, a balance expired, or support went quiet. None of those is visible from a marketing page, which is why a small paid test on your own target settles it faster than any review.
How is HProxy different?
The models differ more than the products do. HProxy is pay as you go from a balance you top up when you want, the balance does not expire, there is no subscription unless the optional discount suits you, and residential starts at $0.44 per GB with city and ISP targeting included. Whether that beats a tiered plan depends on your usage pattern, which a short test settles.
Do I have to talk to sales or sign a contract to switch?
Not with us. You can sign up, add funds and send traffic without a call, a minimum or a subscription. Whether another provider requires any of those is on their own pricing page and is worth reading, because a required commitment is part of the price even when it is not part of the rate.
How often should I re-test a provider?
Quarterly is a reasonable rhythm for most workloads, and immediately after a noticeable drop in success rate. Pools are rebuilt, suppliers change and detection improves, so a benchmark from last year describes a network that no longer exists.
Does a bigger pool mean better results?
No. Your job meets only the exits it draws, in the countries it needs, against one target's defences. Freshness and rotation policy move the outcome far more than the headline total, and pool totals across this market are counted generously and rarely audited.

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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