Infatica is a broad, well-run proxy business with a genuine ethical-sourcing story and a full product line: residential, mobile, ISP, datacenter, plus a scraper API and a web unblocker. Where it is not broad is cheap residential. Its residential per-GB rate sits several times above ours, and it asks companies for KYC where we do not. We run a competing network, and the honest split is clear: Infatica is a strong pick for its datacenter, mobile, and tooling, and a pricey one for plain residential IPs.
Is HProxy a good Infatica alternative?
For residential, yes, decisively. HProxy sells residential at a flat $0.65/GB, pay as you go, with no KYC for standard use. Infatica's residential starts at $4/GB and bottoms out at $2.60/GB only on a 1,000 GB buy, and it asks registered companies for KYC. Infatica still wins for cheap datacenter, its mobile network, ISP proxies with unlimited traffic, and its scraping tools. If you mainly need clean residential IPs, HProxy is several times cheaper and simpler to start.
The short version
- Residential price: HProxy is a flat $0.65/GB, pay as you go. Infatica residential is $4/GB pay as you go, and its lowest published rate is $2.60/GB at 1,000 GB. HProxy is about six times cheaper at entry.
- Onboarding: HProxy is self-serve with no KYC for standard use. Infatica notes KYC for registered companies.
- Datacenter: Infatica is genuinely cheap here, shared from $0.60/GB. This is a real Infatica strength.
- Network: Infatica advertises 35M+ residential IPs and a 5M+ mobile network with an ethical peer-to-peer sourcing model. HProxy focuses on clean residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile at a low flat rate.
If you want Infatica's datacenter, mobile, or tooling, read the Infatica section below honestly. If you mainly need residential proxies, the pricing section is the whole story.
Infatica pricing vs HProxy: the part that decides it
| HProxy | Infatica | |
|---|---|---|
| Residential, entry per GB | $0.65 | $4.00 (pay as you go) |
| Lowest published residential per-GB | $0.65 (flat, any volume) | $2.60 (1,000 GB) |
| Billing model | Pay as you go | Pay as you go or packs |
| Onboarding | Self-serve, no KYC | KYC for registered companies |
| Shared datacenter | Yes, pay as you go | From $0.60/GB |
| Mobile | Yes | From $8/GB, 5M+ pool |
| Cheap way to test | Free list and checker | $4 for 7 days |
The residential gap is the business model, not a promo. HProxy prices residential bandwidth as credit you top up once and draw down at $0.65/GB whenever. Infatica prices it as a premium product with a full toolkit around it, at $4/GB to start. On a 50 GB month that is roughly $33 at HProxy versus about $200 at Infatica's pay-as-you-go rate. Here is Infatica's own residential pricing today, so the per-GB figures are not something you have to take on our word:
| Infatica residential | Volume | Price | Per-GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go | any | n/a | $4.00 |
| Entry pack | 25 GB | $96 | $3.84 |
| Popular | 241 GB | $700 | $2.90 |
| Volume | 1,000 GB | $2,600 | $2.60 |
Two things that table makes plain. Infatica's residential never gets close to our flat $0.65: even the 1,000 GB rate of $2.60/GB is four times ours, and the entry rate of $4/GB is about six times. And the cheaper Infatica rates still come from buying volume, where HProxy's $0.65 is the rate on your first gigabyte with nothing to commit to. Infatica's premium IPv6 residential runs higher still, from $6/GB, and its mobile from $8/GB.
The pay-as-you-go point holds here as it does across this comparison set. The number that decides your bill is what you pay per successful request, and a low flat rate on clean IPs beats a higher rate every time your job is ordinary residential work. Where Infatica genuinely earns its price is not residential, it is the rest of its catalog, and that is worth being specific about.
Where Infatica genuinely wins
This is the part a marketing comparison would skip, so here it is straight.
Cheap datacenter. Infatica's shared datacenter starts at $0.60/GB and falls toward $0.30/GB at 2,000 GB, with dedicated datacenter IPs at roughly $1 to $1.50 each per month on unlimited traffic. If your target does not need residential and datacenter proxies get the job done, that is genuinely cheap volume, and the difference between the two types is laid out in datacenter vs residential proxies.
A real mobile network and unlimited-traffic ISP. Infatica runs a 5M+ mobile pool and sells static ISP proxies with unlimited traffic from about $1.95 per IP a month. If your work needs mobile IPs or an ISP proxy you can hammer without watching a bandwidth meter, those are real products.
Ethical sourcing and a full toolkit. Infatica is well known for an ethical, consent-based peer-to-peer sourcing model, and it sells a scraper API and a web unblocker alongside raw proxies. For a buyer who weighs sourcing heavily or wants a managed scraping layer, that combination is a genuine reason to choose Infatica.
If those describe you, Infatica earns the pick. We are not going to pretend a broad, well-sourced competitor is a weak choice outside of residential price.
Where HProxy wins as an Infatica alternative
Residential price, at every tier. $0.65/GB flat against $4/GB entry and $2.60/GB at volume. There is no Infatica residential rate that reaches ours, so on residential the gap does not close.
No KYC, self-serve for everyone. HProxy does not run a KYC interview for standard use, individual or company. Infatica's page notes KYC for registered companies, which is friction HProxy does not add.
The low rate with no volume to reach it. $0.65 is the rate on gigabyte one, not a reward for buying 1,000 GB, and the balance never expires, so a paused project keeps its credit.
One balance across four types. HProxy sells residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile on the same pay-as-you-go balance. Infatica's datacenter may be cheaper than ours, but for residential-led work that occasionally touches other types, staying on one low-rate balance is simpler than assembling it across separately priced products.
Who should pick which
Pick Infatica if you want its cheap datacenter volume, its mobile network, ISP proxies with unlimited traffic, or its scraper API and web unblocker, and its ethical sourcing model matters to you.
Pick HProxy if you mainly need residential (or ISP, datacenter, or mobile) proxies at $0.65/GB pay as you go, with no KYC and a balance that never expires, and you do not want to pay four to six times more per gigabyte for a residential IP wrapped in a catalog you will not fully use. That covers the large majority of scraping, monitoring, and multi-region tasks.
The mistake we see most often is a residential-led buyer choosing a broad platform for the two products they will use once, and paying the platform's residential rate for the one they use daily. If that is you, you are the exact person this comparison is for. If you genuinely want the datacenter, mobile, and tooling spread, Infatica is a fair choice and we will say so.
Try it before you decide
You do not have to take our word on the network. Test HProxy's free proxy checker and the live free proxy list to see the infrastructure, then start on residential at $0.65/GB pay as you go when you are ready. If you are comparing residential proxies on price across the whole market, our cheapest residential proxies in 2026 breakdown puts Infatica and the rest side by side, and our full pricing lays out every per-GB rate with nothing to sign.