Before anything about Ficstar: pool totals, uptime badges and country counts predict almost nothing about your result. What predicts it is a measured success rate on your own target, and that measurement costs a few dollars.
What we can and cannot tell you about Ficstar
The company behind the name sits at ficstar.com. We carry them as a scraping API.
Ficstar is not in our priced record, so nothing about their rate appears below. That gap is stated rather than filled, which is the only honest option available.
Their pricing page will answer three of the four questions that matter. Send an email for the fourth, which is usually whether blocked requests are billed, and keep the reply.
What Ficstar says about itself today
Read 9 September 2026, the homepage titles itself "Managed Web Scraping Services, Data Extraction Services, Ficstar". The one-paragraph pitch on their own page: "Start today with Ficstar’s custom web scraping services for enterprises. Get compliant, fully-managed, large-scale data extraction for pricing and product insights."
What else that page states, without interpretation:
The page offers some form of free trial. Their pricing page is titled "Web Scraping Pricing, Web Scraping for Enterprises, Ficstar".
Those are claims, and claims are free. They earn their place here only because the date makes them checkable later.
The domain record
The domain was registered on 28 November 2003, through Wix.com Ltd, which makes it about 22 years old. That record was read from the registry on 9 September 2026. The registry shows it renewed to 1 January 2029.
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.
What they have built around the product
Our own crawl reached 166 of their pages. The mix was 1 use-case page.
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 activity record
Our crawl of their site found 166 pages carrying a date. The oldest is from October 2024 and the newest from August 2026. 120 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.
An actively maintained site is table stakes rather than a recommendation. It does rule out the failure that costs buyers the most here, which is prepaying a company that has quietly stopped.
The parts no marketing page answers
What the starting rate leaves out
Rates in this market are quoted from the bottom of the table. The relevant question is which row you land on at your volume, and whether reaching a cheaper row costs more in commitment than it saves per unit.
What the lowest rate actually costs
Treat a required call with a salesperson as a cost. It delays the work, it usually arrives with an annual term attached, and it exists because the published price is negotiable in one direction only.
Nothing here stays true for long
Pools are rebuilt, suppliers change and detection improves. A provider that beat the field last spring may be mid-table now. Nothing in this market stays true long enough to buy once and stop measuring.
Side by side, with the blanks left blank
This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:
| Question to ask | Ficstar | 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 |
Blanks in that table are deliberate. We print what we read and date it, and leave the rest empty rather than repeating something we cannot stand behind.
How to settle it yourself in ten minutes
Run this before you commit any volume. It replaces every opinion on this page, including ours.
- 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.
Others in this market
Nearest alternatives by product shape rather than by who pays us, since nobody does:
- Anti-Captcha alternatives
- Import.io alternatives
- MMOAPI alternatives
- Parsera alternatives
- Prospeo alternatives
- Scrapebox alternatives
The competing offer, for completeness
We are the pay as you go option in this market. Residential from $0.44 per GB, ISP and datacenter per address, mobile alongside them, all from one balance with nothing to forfeit. That model wins on irregular volume and loses on very large steady volume, which is worth knowing before you test.
