HProxy vs Massive (joinmassive.com): Residential Prices, Rollover and the Rules (2026)

Compared against Massive

Massive's lowest residential rate is $3.20 per GB on enterprise terms, and its plans run from $8 down to $4.90 per GB. One GB of our Residential Premium costs less than half of that floor. Massive's strongest case is its consent record: every device opted in through its own SDK, backed by a SOC 2 Type 1 audit and an AppEsteem certificate. It also rolls unused bandwidth over and offers ZIP and geohash targeting. We read Massive's pricing page, docs and FAQ on October 22, 2026. We sell residential proxies, so weigh our view with that in mind.

Massive vs HProxy at a glance

Massive sells residential traffic on four monthly plans, plus enterprise terms. It calls itself a device-access network, with requests routed through consumer devices that opted in.

Massive's side of the table comes from its pricing page, its developer docs and its FAQ, read through our server on October 22, 2026. Our side comes from the price catalog our checkout uses and from our refund policy.

What a GB costs at Massive

Massive's four plans each buy a month of bandwidth. Starter is $80 for 10 GB, which is $8.00 per GB. Builder is $225 for 30 GB ($7.50), Scaler $385 for 70 GB ($5.50) and Pro $490 for 100 GB ($4.90). Above that, Residential Enterprise starts at $3.20 per GB.

Read by job:

• Country-level work. Lite at $0.50/GB and $0.44/GB sits far below every Massive rate.
• State, city or network targeting. Premium at $1.49/GB for one GB already costs less than Massive's enterprise floor.
• ZIP code or geohash targeting. Only Massive offers these.

In money, a month of 30 GB on Massive's Builder plan costs $225. The same 30 GB of Lite costs $15 and stays in the balance until used.

Rollover softens the monthly plan

Every residential plan on Massive's pricing page says the same thing: "Unused bandwidth rolls over to the next month". Plans can be canceled anytime. That removes the use-it-or-lose-it problem of many monthly sellers. The pages we read do not say how long rolled-over bandwidth lasts, or what happens to it when a plan ends.

Our GB have no scheduled expiry date to begin with, and no plan sits around them. You buy the amount you need and nothing renews.

Consent, audits and vetting

Massive's main argument is how it sources and polices its network. It says every IP "is opted in through the Massive SDK". Its pages list a SOC 2 Type 1 audit, GDPR and CCPA compliance, and an AppEsteem certificate for its SDK practices. Its FAQ adds that customers "are vetted through identity, use-case, payment, and sanctions checks before they get production access".

For a buyer whose purchase goes through a compliance review, that paper trail is real value. How to vet a proxy provider lists the questions to put to any seller, us included. At HProxy, opening an account and making an ordinary purchase need no documents. Our identity checks page names the cases where we do ask.

Targeting, sessions, UDP and blocked categories

• Targeting. Massive's pricing page names country, state or region, and city. Its docs go further: ZIP code, geohash areas, network (ASN) and device type, with ASN usable "in combination with all other options". Our Premium covers country, state, city, ASN and device. Lite works at country level.
• Sessions. The pricing page says a session holds a device "for up to 12 minutes". The docs set 15 minutes by default, with a sessionttl of up to 1,440 minutes. Premium sticky exits run from 3 minutes to 24 hours. Whether a job needs one at all is covered in our residential proxy explainer.
• UDP and ports. Massive's usage restrictions say "UDP communication isn't allowed" and block every port except 80 and 443. Premium relays UDP over SOCKS5 on the proxy lines where you enable it.
• Blocked categories. Massive blocks financial and cryptocurrency services, adult content, gambling, weapons, extremist content and remote-access services, plus mail and remote-administration ports.

Refunds and payment

• Refunds. We found no public refund policy for Massive customers. Its /terms page is the license for people whose devices run its SDK. Our refund policy lets you take back unused balance for 14 days, by card or crypto, as you paid. GB already spent are kept.
• Payment. The Massive pages we read do not list payment methods. Our checkout accepts card, crypto, Alipay, Pix and QRIS, from $3 by crypto and $10 for the rest, as payment options shows.

Where Massive is the better pick

• A documented consent and audit trail for a compliance review.
• ZIP code and geohash targeting, which our pools do not offer.
• AI tooling beside the proxies: a Web Render API, an LLM Render API and an MCP server. Our guides to proxies for AI agents and proxies for AI training data cover the proxy side of those jobs.
• A monthly plan whose unused bandwidth rolls over, if a fixed bill suits you.
• Startups: its menu offers 1 TB free for three months.

Where HProxy is the better pick

• Price. Every Massive rate costs more than twice one GB of Premium, and Lite sits lower still for country-level work.
• No plan and no vetting step before you buy.
• UDP over SOCKS5 on Premium.
• A 14-day refund on unused balance.
• Other proxy types on the same balance: residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile.

Who should pick which

Pick Massive if your purchase must pass a compliance review that asks for documented consent and audits, or if you need ZIP or geohash targeting. It also suits teams that want its AI rendering tools on the same account.

Pick HProxy for residential traffic at a fraction of Massive's price per GB, with no plan and no vetting first. Lite is enough when a country is all the job needs. Premium adds state, city, network and device targeting, long sessions and UDP.

Try it before you decide

Our proxy checker is free and shows whether a tool's proxy settings work, using an address from our live free proxy list if you have none yet. A first GB of residential traffic costs $0.50 per GB, and our pricing page shows each step down. The cheapest residential proxies in 2026 puts Massive beside the rest of the market.

Limits of this comparison

• No proxy tests. Nothing was routed through Massive or through us for this page, so it holds no measure of speed, success rates or blocks.
• Pool sizes. Massive's device counts are its own claims. We make none about ours.
• Two session figures. Massive's pricing page and its docs disagree, and we report both.
• Missing terms. We found no public refund policy or payment list for Massive customers.
• Our balance. HProxy GB carry no scheduled expiry date. Our terms cover the pool behind each purchase for its first 30 days.
• One day. Massive's prices and rules can change without notice. Check again after December 22, 2026.

Sources

• Massive, Web Access API page with the residential plans and the enterprise line, read through our server on October 22, 2026.
• Massive docs: sticky sessions, usage restrictions, geotargeting and ASN targeting, read October 22, 2026.
• Massive, FAQ and /terms (the end-user license for its SDK), read October 22, 2026.
• HProxy, our price catalog and the product sheet in our dashboard, October 22, 2026.
• HProxy, refund policy, identity checks page, terms and checkout minimums, October 22, 2026.
• Google Keyword Planner, read October 22, 2026: "massive proxies" and "massive proxy" 480 searches a month worldwide each, "joinmassive" 210.