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 is one of the exceptions, and that is worth saying before anything else. Its advertised residential rate and its actual entry rate are the same number. No volume floor, no promo that reverts, no monthly commitment to unlock the headline. A gap of 1x.
The number itself is $8.17/GB, which was the highest residential rate in the entire study.
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 $8.17/GB, roughly sixteen times the rate for the same kind of rotating residential traffic. On a 50 GB month that is $25 with us, and IPBurger does not publish a plan that reaches 50 GB at all.
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 does not play pricing games, and your volume is measured in single-digit gigabytes.
The short version
- Price: HProxy is a flat $0.50/GB pay as you go. IPBurger's residential works out at $8.17/GB on its $49/month Starter plan.
- Honesty: IPBurger's advertised rate equals its entry rate, a 1x gap. Only two other providers in our study of sixteen managed that.
- Ceiling: IPBurger's published residential plans stop at 24 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 | $49 | $8.17/GB | $0.50/GB |
| Plus | $79 | not stated per GB | $0.50/GB |
| Pro (24 GB, the ceiling) | $139 | $5.79/GB | $0.50/GB |
| Beyond 24 GB | contact sales | not published | $0.50/GB |
ipburger.com pricing, read 3 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 24 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
It does not play the starting-price game. This is the reason we wrote about it at all. 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, Infatica advertises a rate its own published tiers never reach. IPBurger prints a number and charges that number. If you have been burned by a headline that evaporated at checkout, that reliability 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 $49 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 sixteen times. $0.50/GB against $8.17/GB is the whole headline and it does not narrow. Even IPBurger's cheapest published residential rate, $5.79/GB on the $139 plan, sits far above 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.
Honesty is not only about the gap. IPBurger deserves its credit for advertising the rate it charges. We would add that advertising $0.44/GB and charging $0.50/GB on the first gigabyte, a gap of about a tenth, is the same virtue at a sixteenth of the price. The absence of a trick is worth a lot. It is not worth sixteen 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.