Most of this market advertises a price nobody pays. We measured sixteen residential providers on 3 August 2026 and fourteen of them advertised a rate below what they charge a new customer, with a median gap of three times.
IPBurger sits at the mild end of that pattern, and that is worth saying before anything else. Its published residential ladder runs from $5.90/GB on the $59 Starter plan down to $4.48/GB on the $269 Pro plan, a spread of about 1.3x against a market median of two and a half times. Every rung is printed on the page, and nothing is held back for a sales call.
What is not mild is where the ladder sits. $4.48/GB is the second most expensive floor of the twenty vendors we track, beaten only by Massive.
Both of those things are true at once, and this comparison is mostly about holding them together.
Is HProxy a good IPBurger alternative?
On price, overwhelmingly. HProxy residential is a flat $0.50/GB against IPBurger's $5.90/GB, roughly twelve times the rate for the same kind of rotating residential traffic. On a 50 GB month that is $25 with us, against IPBurger's nearest plan, the $269 Pro tier.
Where IPBurger is genuinely the better answer is narrower and worth stating properly: you want a small, predictable monthly bill with no metering anxiety, you value a vendor that prints every rung of its ladder, and your volume fits inside one of its buckets.
The short version
- Price: HProxy is a flat $0.50/GB pay as you go. IPBurger's residential works out at $5.90/GB on its $59/month Starter plan.
- The ladder: entry to floor is about 1.3x, mild for this market, but the bottom rung is still $4.48/GB.
- Ceiling: IPBurger's published residential plans stop at 60 GB a month. Past that you contact sales.
- The one gated number: static ISP at $14.41 per IP per month requires annual prepay, and no monthly rate is published.
- The guarantee: voided once you use 0.5 GB, which is under a tenth of the Starter allowance.
IPBurger pricing vs HProxy: the part that decides it
IPBurger sells residential as monthly plans with an included allowance rather than as metered bandwidth. That is a real difference in kind, not just in price: you buy a bucket, and the per-gigabyte figure is what the bucket works out to.
IPBurger residential plans against our flat rate
| Plan | Monthly | Effective $/GB | HProxy $/GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starter (10 GB) | $59 | $5.90/GB | $0.50/GB |
| Plus (30 GB) | $149 | $4.97/GB | $0.50/GB |
| Pro (60 GB, the ceiling) | $269 | $4.48/GB | $0.50/GB |
| Beyond 60 GB | contact sales | not published | $0.50/GB |
ipburger.com/pricing, read 10 August 2026. HProxy rate from hproxy.com/pricing.
The ceiling matters more than the rate for a lot of buyers. IPBurger's largest published residential plan carries 60 GB. If your job needs 100 GB, you cannot price it from the website, and a vendor you have to call before you can compare is a vendor you cannot really compare.
Where IPBurger genuinely wins
Every rung is on the page. Read our residential proxy price study and the pattern is relentless: SOAX advertises a rate gated behind both a $3,000 plan and a geography tier, and NodeMaven advertises a volume rate it never says how to reach. IPBurger publishes three plans, their allowances, and what each works out to per gigabyte. Its ladder does descend, by about 1.3x, but there is no phantom rung and nothing you have to ask for. If you have been burned by a headline that evaporated at checkout, that legibility has real value.
A predictable bill. A monthly plan with an included allowance cannot surprise you. Metered bandwidth can, if a job runs longer than expected. For a small recurring task where the volume is known and modest, paying a fixed $59 and never thinking about it again is a legitimate preference, and we are not going to pretend it is irrational.
One account across proxies and VPN. IPBurger sells consumer VPN products alongside its proxy catalogue. If you want both from one vendor, that consolidation is worth something.
Where HProxy wins as an IPBurger alternative
The rate, by roughly twelve times. $0.50/GB against $5.90/GB is the whole headline, and buying the biggest bucket barely narrows it: IPBurger's cheapest published rate, $4.48/GB on the $269 Pro plan, is still many times our flat one.
No ceiling, and no sales call. Our rate is the same at 1 GB and at 10,000. There is no tier where the price stops being published and starts being negotiated.
You pay for what you pull. A monthly allowance you underuse is money spent on bandwidth you never touched, and IPBurger's own guarantee stops protecting you after 0.5 GB. Our balance does not expire, there is no monthly minimum, and blocked or errored requests cost nothing, so a quiet month costs nothing and a failed request costs nothing.
Legibility is not the only thing worth having. IPBurger deserves credit for printing its whole ladder. We advertise $0.44/GB and charge $0.50/GB on the first gigabyte, a gap of about a tenth, which is a narrower spread than IPBurger's at a fraction of the price. Clear pricing is worth a lot. It is not worth twelve times.
Who should pick which
Pick IPBurger if your residential volume is a few gigabytes a month, you want one fixed monthly figure rather than a meter, you also want a consumer VPN from the same vendor, and you place a high value on a provider whose advertised price is simply its price.
Pick HProxy if you care about the rate, if your volume is unpredictable or above 24 GB, or if you would rather hold a non-expiring balance than a monthly allowance that resets whether you used it or not.
Before committing to either, it is worth testing the addresses against your actual target rather than trusting a table. Our free proxy checker reports the real exit IP and anonymity level for any proxy you point it at, and how to vet a proxy provider is the checklist we use ourselves for catching the strings attached to a price before they reach your card.