Comparison

Floxy alternatives on price, pool and commitment

A Floxy 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.

HProxy Team··4 min read
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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 Floxy: 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.

Floxy on the record

The domain is floxy.io.

Floxy 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.

How Floxy presents itself

As of 9 September 2026 the tab reads "Floxy - Reliable Proxy Infrastructure for Data Gathering". The description they publish for search engines reads: "Floxy is a reliable proxy provider, offering clean, dedicated, rotating proxies with over 30M+ IP's. Extract public data at scale today!"

The rest of what the page puts in writing:

The product lines named on that page are residential, datacenter, ISP or static residential, mobile, SOCKS5 and a scraping or SERP API. They advertise 200 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: crypto. Their pricing page is titled "Pricing - Floxy".

None of that is verified performance. It is what the vendor chose to publish, recorded with a date so you can see whether it still says the same thing.

Longevity, on the public record

The domain was registered on 6 January 2021, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 5 years old. That record was read from the registry on 23 April 2026. The registry shows it renewed to 6 January 2027.

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.

How much site there is

We crawled 125 pages of their site and found 15 blog pages, 1 pricing page, 60 location pages and 33 use-case pages.

Read it as a map of what they emphasise. It is our count, from our crawler, on the date shown, and it is the only figure on this page that neither of us can dispute.

What the advertised numbers cannot tell you

The reputation you inherit

A shared address arrives with a history you did not create and cannot see. For read-only work it rarely matters. For anything that keeps a session, it is the most common cause of unexplained failure.

Ask whether failed requests are billed

Some vendors bill every request, some bill only successful ones, and the difference is the whole comparison once a target starts blocking. A cheap rate with a fifty percent success rate is twice its advertised price.

Threads, not gigabytes, are often the ceiling

Bandwidth is rarely the constraint on a real workload. Concurrent connections, requests per second and per-session caps are, and they are frequently buried in the documentation rather than the pricing page.

What separates them, in a table

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

Question to askFloxyHProxy
Entry priceNot verified by us, read their pageFrom $0.44/GB, pay as you go
Does unused balance expire?On their own terms pageNever
Minimum commitmentTheir terms page answers thisNone
Identity checksCheck the current terms, this one movesCard orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested
TargetingTheir terms page answers thisCountry, city and ISP
Free way to evaluateCheck the current terms, this one movesFree 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:

The competing offer, for completeness

HProxy suits buyers who want to add funds, send traffic and stop thinking about it. Residential from $0.44 per GB, no commitment, nothing expiring. Buyers who need procurement paperwork and a named account manager are better served elsewhere, and we would rather say so here than waste your afternoon.

Frequently asked questions

Why look for a Floxy 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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