Readers land here mid-decision, usually with a cart open somewhere. The fastest thing we can do is set out what Grass publishes, what it does not, and what a few dollars of testing settles better than any argument.
First: Grass pays you, and we charge you
This one needs a disclaimer at the top rather than the bottom. Grass buys bandwidth from ordinary people and we sell bandwidth to businesses. Same market, opposite ends.
So if you found this looking for another app that pays you, there is nothing here for you, and we would rather say that in the first paragraph than bury it.
What we can offer is the other half of the picture. Residential proxy supply largely comes from arrangements like theirs, and understanding that is the most useful thing a buyer in this market can learn, because it explains both where the addresses come from and why the ethics of consent matter.
The record we hold
The domain is grass.io.
What we do not hold is a current, sourced price for Grass. 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.
Read their page for the reachable rate rather than the headline, the minimum spend, the expiry clause and the billing treatment of blocked requests. Write down the date, because all four move.
How Grass presents itself
On 9 September 2026 their homepage carried the title "Get rewarded for the internet you don't use". In the description they hand to search engines: "Grass turns the unused part of your internet into rewards. Just download the app, let it run in the background, and start earning."
Taken from the same page, on the same day:
We found no separate pricing page linked from the homepage, which usually means the price arrives by quotation.
Those are claims, and claims are free. They earn their place here only because the date makes them checkable later.
What the registration record shows
The domain was registered on 21 April 2013, through GoDaddy.com, LLC, which makes it about 13 years old. Registry data as of 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 20 snapshots of the site, the earliest from October 2014. It is paid up until 21 April 2027.
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.
The shape of their site
We crawled 42 pages of their site and found 34 blog pages.
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.
What the timestamps show
Our crawl of their site found 42 pages carrying a date, 34 of them articles. The oldest is from June 2026 and the newest from August 2026. 42 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 questions Grass gets asked
The Keyword Planner puts brand demand at 13,550 a month: 8,100 a month for an alternative to them, 5,400 a month for their pricing and 50 a month for a review of them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
Weighted towards people looking for a way out. A comparison that ignores that and opens with a pitch has misread the room.
Where published figures stop being useful
What happens when it breaks at two in the morning
Support quality is invisible until it is the only thing that matters. A cheap provider that takes three days to answer a routing problem has cost you more than the saving, and no pricing page reveals that.
Why an old benchmark is wrong
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.
What actually caps your throughput
Rate limits are often enforced per account rather than per plan, which means buying more traffic does not raise them. Confirm how yours scales before you assume a bigger plan runs faster.
A comparison that admits what it cannot say
This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:
| Question to ask | Grass | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | On their own terms page | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Read their current terms | None |
| Identity checks | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Their terms page answers this | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Check the current terms, this one moves | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
That comparison covers what is publishable. What is not publishable, and what actually decides this, is how many of your requests come back correct.
A test worth more than this comparison
Do this once and you will never need a comparison page for this decision again.
- Buy the minimum each side offers. Prefer a small paid batch over a trial, because trial traffic does not always ride the same pool.
- Send an identical workload through each: same target, same tooling, same time of day, same request mix.
- Measure what came back correctly and what it consumed, then divide the spend by the successes.
- Push a sample of exit addresses through an independent checker and confirm the country and connection type are what was advertised.
- Keep whichever pool won on your job. Re-run this whenever success rate drops or the bill moves.
Who else is in this bracket
The same treatment, applied to the providers most often weighed against this one:
- 1024Proxy alternatives
- 1Abc alternatives
- 2Captcha alternatives
- 4Gproxies alternatives
- 4GProxy alternatives
- 50na50 alternatives
Once more, plainly: we do not pay for bandwidth and there is no earner here. What we sell is access, and the point of this page was to explain how the two sides connect rather than to convert somebody who wanted the other one.
Our side of it
What we offer is one account holding residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter, priced from $0.44 per GB on residential, with no tier to climb and no allocation to lose at month end. Whether that suits you depends on how steady your volume is.
