A discount is a claim about time. Most of this market makes the claim and never attaches a date to it.
Froxy does. Read on 10 August 2026, its HEATWAVE sale names itself, states its size (up to 30% off all proxies) and states when it stops: 31 August 2026. On two of its four product lines it also prints the price the sale is struck against, so you can see exactly what reverts and to what.
We published a study of exactly this on 10 August 2026. Twenty vendors, eight running a discount, one publishing an end date. Froxy was not among those twenty, and read on the same day it does the thing that only Bright Data did in the whole set. That belongs at the top of this comparison rather than buried under it.
Froxy dates its own sale
The HEATWAVE promotion states a size and an expiry: up to 30% off, ending 31 August 2026. In our 10 August 2026 study of twenty vendors, seven of the eight running a discount published no end date at all. Froxy's datacenter and mobile pages go further and show the list price beside the sale price.
Then the comparison, which is a different question from the credit.
Is HProxy a good Froxy alternative?
On residential, yes, and the gap is not close. HProxy is a flat $0.50/GB from the first gigabyte, with no plan to buy and no volume to reach. Froxy's cheapest published residential rate on 10 August 2026 was $1.88/GB, which is roughly four times ours.
The part that makes this comparison unusual is that the Froxy figure has a shelf life the page tells you about. Every other discounted vendor we track leaves you guessing about September. Froxy does not, which means a buyer can do arithmetic here that is impossible anywhere else.
What Froxy publishes, product by product
Four product lines, all read on 10 August 2026. Two of them print both numbers.
Froxy pricing during the HEATWAVE sale, 10 August 2026
| Product | Sale rate | List rate stated | Smallest plan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | $1.88/GB | Not published | $5.50/mo |
| Datacenter | $0.42/GB | $0.60/GB | $24/mo |
| Mobile | $2.73/GB | $3.90/GB | $7.50/mo |
| Static ISP | Not published per GB | Not published | $5.50/mo |
froxy.com pricing pages, read 10 August 2026. The volume required to reach each per-gigabyte rate is not disclosed.
Two things fall out of that table.
The datacenter and mobile pairs are each exactly 30% off, not approximately. $0.42 against $0.60 is 0.70 of the list rate, and $2.73 against $3.90 is 0.70 of the list rate. Where Froxy shows its work, the "up to" in "up to 30% off" is doing no work at all: both products sit at the top of the stated range.
The residential row is the one with a blank in it, and residential is the product most buyers come for.
The one number that is missing
Because the end date is published, a Froxy buyer can ask a question no other discounted vendor allows: what does this cost me in September?
For datacenter and mobile the page answers it. Datacenter goes from $0.42/GB to $0.60/GB. Mobile goes from $2.73/GB to $3.90/GB. Both are stated, both are checkable, and a buyer can budget against them without trusting anyone.
For residential the page does not answer it. Froxy's residential pricing page showed $1.88/GB on 10 August 2026 with no struck-through figure beside it, and we found no residential list price stated anywhere else on the site. So the correct thing to report is that the number is not published, and we are not going to invent one.
What we can do is show the arithmetic and label it as ours. If residential carries the same 30% that datacenter and mobile demonstrably carry, then $1.88 is 70% of its list rate, and the list rate would be about $2.69/GB. That is an inference from Froxy's own two published pairs, not a figure Froxy states, and it is worth treating as an estimate for one specific reason: "up to 30%" permits a smaller residential discount, and a smaller discount implies a lower reversion. The estimate is a ceiling on the plausible range rather than a prediction.
On a 50 GB month that is the difference between $94.00 at the sale rate and roughly $134.50 at the estimated one. With us, 50 GB is $25 in August and $25 in September, because there is no sale to end.
Plans against a balance
The second real difference has nothing to do with the discount.
Froxy sells monthly plans. Its smallest residential plan on 10 August 2026 was $5.50/mo, and static ISP started at the same figure. HProxy sells a balance: one gigabyte at $0.50/GB, no plan, no monthly commitment, and credit that does not expire when the month does.
Say the fair part plainly. A $5.50 entry point is low. It is among the lowest starting prices we have recorded anywhere in this market, and a vendor that lets you in for the price of a sandwich is not gatekeeping its product behind a sales call. For someone who wants to try four proxy types cheaply from one account, that matters.
The structural difference shows up over a year rather than in a single month.
What a light, medium and heavy month costs
| Residential in a month | HProxy | Froxy at its best published rate |
|---|---|---|
| 10 GB | $5 | $18.80 |
| 50 GB | $25 | $94.00 |
| 200 GB | $100 | $376.00 |
| A month you use nothing | $0, balance carries over | Priced as a monthly plan |
froxy.com residential pricing, read 10 August 2026, and hproxy.com/pricing.
That last row is the model difference rather than a price difference. A plan is priced by the month, so a month is the unit you commit to. A balance is priced by the gigabyte, so the quiet month costs nothing and the credit is still sitting there for the busy one. Buyers with steady, predictable monthly volume will barely notice the distinction. Buyers whose work arrives in bursts, which is most scraping work, meet it every quarter.
Where Froxy genuinely wins
It dates its own promotion. This is the reason we wrote the piece. Froxy states a name, a percentage and an expiry, and on two products it prints the reversion price too. Seven of the eight discounting vendors in our 10 August 2026 study published none of that. A sale with a date is a sale. A sale without one is just the price, drawn to look like a favour.
A very low entry point. $5.50 for residential and $5.50 for static ISP is a small amount of money to risk on an unknown vendor. Cheap entry is a real feature and we are not going to talk around it because it competes with us.
Four product lines under one account. Residential, static ISP, datacenter from $24/mo and mobile from $7.50/mo. If consolidating vendors is worth something to you, that is a genuine argument.
Where HProxy wins
The residential rate, at every volume. $0.50/GB flat against $1.88/GB is roughly four times, and ours applies to the first gigabyte with nothing to reach. Froxy's floor rate does not disclose the volume that unlocks it, so $1.88 is the best case rather than the entry case.
Nothing expires and nothing reverts. Our rate carries no code, no clock and no struck-through number, and it falls to $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+ on volume rather than on a calendar. Topped-up balance stays yours. There is no date on which your cost per gigabyte changes because a marketing campaign finished.
Per-IP products priced per IP. Datacenter IPv4 is $0.30/IP and IPv6 is $0.10/IP, with static ISP at $2.50/IP. Where Froxy meters datacenter by the gigabyte, we sell the address, which prices differently for anyone holding addresses rather than pulling bandwidth through them.
Failed requests cost nothing. Blocked and errored requests are not billed, which moves the number that matters from cost per gigabyte to cost per successful request. On a defended target that gap is usually larger than any sticker difference.
Who should pick which
Pick Froxy if you want the lowest possible amount of money at risk to start, if you want residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile billed together, or if you value a vendor that tells you when its promotion ends and what the price goes back to. On datacenter specifically, its $0.42/GB sale rate is competitive, with the caveat that it is stated to end on 31 August 2026 and return to $0.60/GB.
Pick HProxy if residential is your main product and the rate is what decides it. $0.50/GB flat against a promotional $1.88/GB is roughly four times, our number has no expiry attached, and a quiet month costs nothing rather than a plan fee.
One piece of advice that applies whichever way you go. If you buy on a sale price, write the reversion date in your own calendar, because the vendor will not remind you. Froxy is unusual in giving you the date to write down at all. Our study of undated proxy discounts covers what happens when a vendor does not, and how much do proxies cost breaks pricing down by proxy type if you are still deciding which product you need.
Try it before you decide
No comparison should be taken on trust, including this one. Test any provider's addresses against your own target with our free proxy checker, which reports the real exit IP, the anonymity level and whether the proxy leaks your address. That is faster than reading pricing pages, and it answers the question a pricing page cannot.
Sources
- Froxy homepage and HEATWAVE sale terms, read 10 August 2026: froxy.com/en
- Froxy residential pricing, read 10 August 2026: froxy.com/en/residential-proxies/pricing
- Froxy datacenter pricing, read 10 August 2026: froxy.com/en/datacenter-proxies/pricing
- Froxy mobile pricing, read 10 August 2026: froxy.com/en/mobile-proxies/pricing
- Froxy static ISP pricing, read 10 August 2026: froxy.com/en/fast-proxies/pricing
- Our study of twenty vendors' discounts, read 10 August 2026, for the eight-of-twenty and one-end-date figures.
- Our own residential pricing, the source of every HProxy figure above.