HProxy vs MarsProxies: Per Gigabyte vs Per Day (2026)

MarsProxies sells four proxy products, and only one of them is priced the way most of this market prices things. Residential goes by the gigabyte. ISP and datacenter go per IP for a number of days you choose, starting at one. Mobile goes per port. That is a difference in kind rather than a difference in price, and it is the more interesting half of this comparison. The other half is a rate on the MarsProxies homepage that we could not find a purchasable tier behind.

Is HProxy a good MarsProxies alternative?

For residential traffic, yes, and the gap is wide. HProxy residential is $0.50/GB from the first gigabyte with no plan and no commitment, falling to $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+. MarsProxies residential started at $4.99/GB for one gigabyte, the smallest purchase we could find on its pricing page on 10 August 2026, which puts its entry rate at about ten times ours. Where MarsProxies is harder to replace is the short-duration end of its catalogue. A single ISP proxy for a single day is not something we sell, and if that is what brought you here, the price comparison below matters less to you than the model comparison further down.

Where the two differ

• Residential price: HProxy is $0.50/GB from the first gigabyte. MarsProxies entry was $4.99/GB on 10 August 2026, with $3.49/GB advertised on its homepage.
• Billing unit: we bill residential by the gigabyte. MarsProxies bills ISP and datacenter per IP for a chosen duration, and mobile per port.
• Commitment: HProxy is pay as you go and a balance never expires. MarsProxies starts at one day, which is a short commitment rather than no commitment.
• Range: both catalogues cover residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile. Ours run on a single balance at one set of rates.

MarsProxies pricing vs HProxy

Entry to entry is the comparison a new buyer actually faces, and that is $4.99/GB for the first gigabyte at MarsProxies against $0.50/GB at HProxy, about ten times the rate. At fifty gigabytes the difference stops being abstract: that volume costs $25 with us. Our own advertised rate of $0.44/GB is a volume rate and we say what it takes, which is 2,000 GB+, but nobody has to reach it to get the $0.50/GB above, because that price applies from gigabyte one.

The advertised $3.49 we could not find

On 10 August 2026 the MarsProxies homepage advertised residential at $3.49/GB. On the residential pricing page the same day, the smallest purchase available was one gigabyte with no commitment at $4.99/GB, and every tier we were able to price started from that same $4.99/GB. We could not find a published plan that reaches $3.49/GB, and nothing printed beside the figure names a condition for it: no volume threshold, no monthly plan, no minimum term.

That is a statement about what we could see on those pages, not a claim about what exists. There may be a volume agreement, a sales conversation or a promotion that lands at $3.49/GB. What we can say is that a buyer arriving from the homepage and clicking through to buy will be shown $4.99/GB, with no printed path from one number to the other.

Two things are worth setting against that. The first is that the distance is 1.4x, which is narrow by the standards of this industry. When we measured sixteen residential vendors against what they charge a new customer with no commitment, the median advertised rate sat two and a half times below the real entry price and the widest gap was twenty times. MarsProxies is nowhere near that end of the distribution. The second is that most vendors with a gap at least name the condition, even when the condition is a large one: a plan, a monthly spend, a geography tier. An unlabelled headline is a smaller offence in dollars and a larger one in usefulness, because there is nothing for a buyer to plan around.

If you are comparing residential vendors on price, treat every advertised "from" rate as a question rather than an answer, and price the smallest purchase you would actually make. That single step tells you more than any comparison table, ours included.

Buying by the day instead of by the gigabyte

The rest of the MarsProxies catalogue is priced on a model that deserves its own section, because per-gigabyte comparisons cannot reach it.

ISP proxies started at $1.39 per IP on 10 August 2026, with a five-proxy minimum and a duration you choose, beginning at one day. The advertised floor was $1.35 per IP.

Datacenter proxies started at $0.99 per IP on a "For Testing" plan, one day, in the one to forty-eight proxy bracket, with an advertised floor of $0.89 per IP.

Mobile proxies started at $8.49 per port for a single proxy for one day, with an advertised floor of $2.83 per port. The mobile page describes its duration discount as "the longer duration you choose, the better discount you get: up to 15% off". Fifteen percent off $8.49 is $7.22, so whatever reaches $2.83 per port is not the discount the page describes.

What that model gives you is a proxy with a defined cost for a defined window. If a campaign runs for three days, you buy three days. There is no bandwidth allowance to estimate, no gigabytes left over, and no monthly plan attached to a job that is not monthly. That is a legitimate way to buy proxies and it fits a class of work that per-gigabyte billing fits badly.

It also has a cost shape worth understanding before you commit. Paying per IP per day means the meter runs on time rather than on traffic, so an idle proxy costs the same as a saturated one. Whether that favours you depends entirely on how heavily you use each address, which is the same calculation behind picking sticky or rotating sessions in the first place.

Where MarsProxies genuinely wins

You can buy a single day. A one-day ISP proxy at $1.39 per IP, or a one-day datacenter IP at $0.99, is a real product with a real use, and we do not sell it. HProxy sells ISP at $2.50/IP and datacenter at $0.30/IP for IPv4 and $0.10/IP for IPv6, and those are not the same unit as a day, so a head to head on that line would be comparing two different things. If your work is short bursts on dedicated addresses, MarsProxies is built closer to your shape than we are.

Small brackets are priced, not hidden. A testing plan for one to forty-eight proxies at $0.99 per IP means the smallest possible order has a published price rather than a sales form. Plenty of vendors in this market make you ask.

The unit is an address, not an allowance. Per IP and per port pricing means what you buy is a specific address for a specific window, which is easier to reason about when a task depends on holding one identity than a gigabyte counter is.

Where HProxy wins

Residential price, by a distance. $0.50/GB from the first gigabyte against $4.99/GB at entry is roughly ten times cheaper, and our rate is still well under the $3.49/GB MarsProxies advertises but does not appear to sell.

The advertised rate names its condition. Our $0.44/GB is a volume rate and we print what unlocks it, 2,000 GB+, in the same breath. The number a buyer with no commitment pays is $0.50/GB, and it is on the page as its own rate rather than as the small print under a better one.

No charge for failed requests. Blocked and errored requests are not billed, which attacks cost per successful result from the billing side. Our full pricing sets that out.

Four products on one balance. Residential, ISP at $2.50/IP, datacenter at $0.30/IP and $0.10/IP, and mobile all draw on the same account, so a job that moves between types stays with one vendor.

Who should pick which

Pick MarsProxies if you buy dedicated addresses for short, defined windows, if a one-day ISP or datacenter proxy is the shape of your work, or if per-port mobile suits you better than a bandwidth allowance. Go in knowing that the residential rate you will be offered at checkout is $4.99/GB, not the figure on the homepage.

Pick HProxy if residential bandwidth is what you are actually buying. $0.50/GB from the first gigabyte with no plan, a balance that never expires, no charge for failures, and four proxy types on one account covers most scraping, price monitoring and multi-region work at a fraction of the per-gigabyte rate.

The mistake to avoid on either side is comparing a per-day price with a per-gigabyte price and concluding anything. They answer different questions. Work out whether your cost is driven by time or by traffic first, then compare inside that column.

Try it before you decide

You do not have to take our word on the network. Run our free proxy checker and the live free proxy list to see the infrastructure, then start on residential at $0.50/GB for your first gigabyte when you are ready. If you want the wider market view before committing to either vendor, our residential proxy price study puts sixteen providers' advertised rates next to what they charge, and our guide to vetting a proxy provider covers what to check beyond the price.

Sources

MarsProxies figures were read from its own pages on 10 August 2026. HProxy rates come from our live pricing rail rather than being typed into this article.

• MarsProxies, homepage (the advertised residential rate of $3.49/GB, and the advertised floors of $1.35 per ISP IP, $0.89 per datacenter IP and $2.83 per mobile port)
• MarsProxies, residential proxy pricing ($4.99/GB at 1 GB, the smallest purchase available, with no commitment)
• MarsProxies, ISP proxy pricing ($1.39 per IP at a five-proxy minimum for a one-day duration)
• MarsProxies, datacenter proxy pricing ($0.99 per IP on the "For Testing" plan, one day, one to forty-eight proxies)
• MarsProxies, mobile proxy pricing ($8.49 per port for one day on a single proxy, with the duration discount described as up to 15% off)
• HProxy, pricing (residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile rates)