Most comparisons on this blog come down to a gap between the rate a vendor advertises and the rate it charges you. IPFoxy has that gap, and by the standards of this market it is unremarkable: entry to floor spreads about 3x, against the 2.5x median we measured across sixteen residential providers on 3 August 2026.
The pricing page has something more consequential on it than the spread. IPFoxy's gigabytes have a deadline. One gigabyte of rotating residential is $5.99/GB with 30 days of validity. The package that brings the rate down to $1.99/GB is 1,000 GB for $1,999 paid up front, with 180 days of validity (all figures read on IPFoxy's pricing pages, 10 August 2026).
A metered rate with a clock attached is a different product from a balance, and it is priced by a different question. Not "what does a gigabyte cost", but "how confident are you about your next six months". Our balance has no validity window, so that is where this comparison starts.
Is HProxy a good IPFoxy alternative?
On the entry rate, comfortably: $0.50/GB flat against $5.99/GB for the same rotating residential traffic, roughly twelve times the rate (10 August 2026). IPFoxy's entry sits near the top of the $0.79 to $8.00 range of no-commitment residential rates we measured across sixteen providers on 3 August 2026.
On billing model the difference is larger than the rate suggests, because the two products expire differently. Ours does not. If your volume is genuinely steady and high, IPFoxy's floor is reachable and real, and the section below says so with the arithmetic attached. If your volume is uncertain, seasonal, or tied to a project that might pause, the clock is the thing that will decide your bill.
What IPFoxy publishes
IPFoxy's published rates and what each one requires
| Product | IPFoxy entry | IPFoxy lowest | What the lowest rate requires | HProxy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rotating residential | $5.99/GB | $1.99/GB | 1,000 GB at $1,999 up front, 180-day validity | $0.50/GB |
| Mobile | $6.99/GB | $2.79/GB | 1,000 GB at $2,799 up front, 180-day validity | $25/month per modem |
| Static ISP | $6.39/IP for 1 IP, 30 days | $7.99/IP | no quantity or term condition published | $2.50/IP per month |
| Datacenter | not published separately | $4.99/IP | stated per month, no quantity condition published | $0.30/IP IPv4, $0.10/IP IPv6 |
ipfoxy.com pricing, rotating, mobile and residential pages, read 10 August 2026. HProxy rates from hproxy.com/pricing.
Two rows deserve their own paragraph, and the residential one comes first.
The clock, priced
The 1,000 GB residential package costs $1,999 for 1,000 GB, which IPFoxy publishes as $1.99/GB. The validity window is 180 days. Divide the volume by the window and the rate carries a required pace: about 5.6 GB every single day, for six months, without a gap.
That pace is not exotic. A production scraper on a fixed target list clears it easily. What matters is that the pace is not optional, because the $1,999 is spent whether you hit it or not. The per-gigabyte figure you end up paying is the package price divided by what you actually pulled, and only one row of that division is the advertised one.
The crossover at roughly 334 GB is the number to keep. Below it, the customer who bought the biggest discount has paid more per gigabyte than the customer who walked up and bought one gigabyte at $5.99/GB. The discount inverts, quietly, without anybody changing a price.
Now the same volume bought both ways, including what a pause does to each.
1,000 GB of rotating residential, bought two ways
| IPFoxy, 1,000 GB package | HProxy | |
|---|---|---|
| Paid up front | $1,999 | $500, or nothing until you buy |
| Rate if fully used | $1.99/GB | $0.50/GB |
| Time allowed to use it | 180 days | no limit |
| Pace required | about 5.6 GB a day, every day | none |
| After a two-month pause | 1,000 GB left to pull in 120 days, about 8.3 GB a day | balance unchanged |
| If you finish half of it | about $4.00 a gigabyte | $0.50/GB, you bought half as much |
| Left over at the deadline | no longer available to pull | still on the account |
ipfoxy.com/pricing/rotating/, read 10 August 2026. HProxy rates from hproxy.com/pricing.
The pause row is where the two products separate. A two-month gap does not cost an HProxy customer anything, because a balance has nothing to lose to time. The same two months take a third of the IPFoxy window and hand back a daily pace of 8.3 GB for the remainder, on volume that was paid for six months ago.
The same thousand gigabytes costs $500 here, so the $1,999 is about four times the outlay, and ours is spendable across two years or two weeks.
Where the package genuinely works
A validity window on a large prepaid block is not unusual in this industry, and it is not a trick. Bandwidth a vendor buys has a cost of carry, packages priced without any window get resold, and most providers selling volume discounts attach some form of expiry. IPFoxy prints its windows next to the prices rather than burying them in terms, which is more than several vendors in our residential proxy price study manage with far softer conditions.
More to the point: if your volume really is steady and high, $1.99/GB is a rate a real customer reaches. A team running a continuous crawl at 6 GB a day finishes the block with room to spare and pays what the page said. The risk is not spread evenly across buyers. It is concentrated in bursty and uncertain workloads, which is most of them, and in the first purchase a new customer makes, when nobody yet knows what their real monthly volume is.
IPFoxy also publishes its whole ladder without a sales call, which puts it ahead of the vendors whose lowest rate exists only in an email thread. You can price a job from the page. That is worth something, and it is why the criticism here is aimed at what the clock does to a buyer rather than at any attempt to hide it.
The static ISP line we cannot explain
IPFoxy's static ISP pricing has an oddity worth flagging plainly, because it does not resolve from the published page. The entry rate reads $6.39 per IP for a single IP over 30 days. The figure presented as its lowest reads $7.99 per IP, with no quantity, term, or location condition stated beside it (both read 10 August 2026).
A rate labelled as the floor sitting above the rate a walk-up buyer pays is not something we can account for. It may be a location tier, a different IP class, or a page that has drifted out of sync with itself. We are not going to guess a mechanism and present it as fact. If static ISP is what you came for, ask which figure applies to your quantity before you plan a budget around the lower one. Our static ISP is $2.50/IP per month, and the same number applies whether you take one address or fifty.
Datacenter has a version of the same ambiguity: $4.99 per IP stated per month, with no quantity condition printed. Ours is $0.30/IP per month for a dedicated IPv4 address and $0.10/IP for IPv6, both on the same balance as everything else.
Mobile follows the residential shape exactly: $6.99/GB for a single gigabyte on 30 days, or 1,000 GB at $2,799 up front on 180 days to reach $2.79/GB (10 August 2026). We sell mobile by the dedicated modem at $25/month rather than by the gigabyte, so the two are not directly comparable per unit. Per modem tends to win on heavy continuous use and per gigabyte on light occasional use, a trade we lay out in how much do proxies cost.
Where HProxy wins as an IPFoxy alternative
The balance does not expire. No validity window, no daily pace to keep up with, no forfeited volume. A project that stops for two months resumes on the same credit.
The entry rate, by roughly twelve times. $0.50/GB against $5.99/GB for the first gigabyte, with no package to buy first.
Our volume floor has no clock on it. We advertise $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+, so we publish a volume discount like everyone else on this page, and we will not pretend otherwise. The difference is what the discount asks of you: a quantity, not a deadline, and the two published numbers sit close together rather than a spread of 3x.
Four proxy types on one balance. Residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile draw from the same credit, so a job that shifts between types does not strand volume in the wrong bucket.
Who should pick which
Pick IPFoxy if your residential or mobile volume is high, steady, and predictable enough to clear roughly 5.6 GB a day for six months without a gap, you can commit $1,999 up front, and you want a vendor that prints its packages and validity windows on the page rather than hiding them behind a form.
Pick HProxy if your usage is irregular, seasonal, or new enough that you cannot yet forecast it, if you would rather hold credit than a countdown, or if you simply want the lower rate on the first gigabyte: $0.50/GB flat, no package, no expiry, and no minimum.
The failure mode we see most often with expiring packages is a buyer who forecasts their volume from a good month, buys the discount tier, and finishes the window at 40 percent of the block. They paid for a discount and received a premium. Before you commit $1,999 anywhere, measure a normal week rather than a peak one, and test the addresses against your actual target first: our free proxy checker reports the real exit IP and anonymity level for any proxy you point it at, and how to read a proxy pricing page covers the conditions that turn an advertised rate into a different one.
Sources
- IPFoxy, pricing (static ISP at $6.39 per IP for 1 IP over 30 days, the $7.99 per IP figure presented as its lowest with no quantity condition stated, and datacenter at $4.99 per IP stated per month), read 10 August 2026
- IPFoxy, rotating residential pricing (entry at $5.99/GB for 1 GB with 30-day validity, floor at $1.99/GB via the 1,000 GB package at $1,999 with 180-day validity), read 10 August 2026
- IPFoxy, mobile pricing (entry at $6.99/GB for 1 GB with 30-day validity, floor at $2.79/GB via the 1,000 GB package at $2,799 with 180-day validity), read 10 August 2026
- IPFoxy, residential proxies (the static ISP entry rate), read 10 August 2026
- HProxy, our residential proxy price study (sixteen residential providers measured 3 August 2026: no-commitment entry rates from $0.79 to $8.00 per GB, median advertised-to-charged gap of 2.5x)
- HProxy, pricing (our residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile rates, and the non-expiring balance)