NodeMaven has built its name on one idea: that the problem with residential proxies is not the IPs you can get but the bad ones you get handed, so it filters its pool for quality before you touch it. That is a real pitch, and for some buyers it is worth paying for. We run a competing network at a fraction of the price, and the honest question is whether you need that filter enough to pay several times more per gigabyte for it.
Is HProxy a good NodeMaven alternative?
For most buyers, yes. HProxy sells residential at a flat $0.65/GB, pay as you go, with no plan. NodeMaven's pay-as-you-go residential is $4.50/GB, and its cheaper rates need monthly commitments. NodeMaven still wins for a buyer who specifically wants its IP quality filter, its 24-hour sticky sessions, and its curated high-clean-rate pool, and will pay the premium for that packaging. If you just need clean residential IPs at a low price without a plan, HProxy does that for a fraction of the cost.
The short version
- Price: HProxy is $0.65/GB flat. NodeMaven is $4.50/GB pay as you go, with monthly plans advertised from $2.20/GB that appear only at committed volume. Entry to entry, that is roughly a seven times difference.
- Model: HProxy is self-serve pay as you go, no commitment, balance never expires. NodeMaven runs a paid trial then monthly plans and pay-as-you-go, with traffic rollover.
- The NodeMaven pitch: an IP quality filter, a 95 percent clean-IP claim, sticky sessions up to 24 hours, and a 30M+ residential pool. That curation is what you are paying the premium for.
- Range: NodeMaven sells residential, mobile, and ISP. HProxy sells residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile on one balance.
If NodeMaven's quality filter is the thing you are shopping for, read its section below honestly. If you want clean residential IPs at a low flat rate, the pricing section is most of the story.
NodeMaven pricing vs HProxy: the part that decides it
| HProxy | NodeMaven | |
|---|---|---|
| Residential, pay as you go per GB | $0.65 | $4.50 |
| Advertised "from" per GB | $0.65 (flat) | $2.20 (needs volume) |
| Cheapest small plan | Top-up, no plan | $8.50 for 2 GB ($4.25/GB) |
| Billing model | Pay as you go | Paid trial, monthly plans, pay as you go |
| Balance or traffic | Never expires | Rollover on plans |
| Onboarding | Self-serve, no KYC | $3.50 trial for 750 MB |
| Headline feature | Low flat rate, no failure charges | IP quality filter, 24h sticky |
The number a new customer without a commitment actually pays is the honest one to compare, and that is $4.50/GB at NodeMaven against $0.65/GB at HProxy, roughly a seven times gap. NodeMaven does advertise rates "from $2.20/GB," but that is a volume rate, not the entry price. Its smallest monthly plan is $8.50 for 2 GB, which works out to about $4.25/GB, right next to the pay-as-you-go rate, so the $2.20 sits behind a larger monthly commitment. Our $0.65 is the advertised price and the price you pay from the first gigabyte, with nothing to reach for it.
That premium buys a specific thing, which is NodeMaven's filtering, and it is fair to say that curation has value on a hard target. It is also fair to say that the figure which decides your bill is cost per successful request, and there is more than one way to keep that number down. NodeMaven's route is to pre-filter the pool. Our route is to charge you nothing for blocked or errored requests and to start from a rate that is seven times lower, so even a slightly higher block rate on our side has a lot of room before it catches up to paying $4.50 a gigabyte for a filtered one.
Where NodeMaven genuinely wins
This is the part the marketing comparisons leave out, so here it is straight.
The IP quality filter. This is NodeMaven's whole identity, and it is a real feature. It screens residential IPs for quality and reputation before handing them to you, and advertises a 95 percent clean-IP rate and a 99.54 percent success rate off the back of it. If you want the provider to do that filtering rather than manage it yourself, that is a genuine convenience.
Sticky sessions up to 24 hours. Long sticky sessions matter for tasks that must hold one identity for a long stretch, like managing an account through a slow workflow. NodeMaven advertises sticky sessions up to 24 hours, which is longer than many networks offer.
Traffic rollover and a curated pool. NodeMaven carries unused plan bandwidth into the next month and advertises a 30M+ residential pool plus mobile IPs. If a curated pool with rollover fits how you buy, those are real strengths, and we are not going to wave them away.
If those describe what you need, NodeMaven earns its premium. A cheaper competitor does not erase a filter you specifically want.
Where HProxy wins as a NodeMaven alternative
Price, by a wide margin. $0.65/GB flat against $4.50/GB pay as you go is roughly seven times cheaper, and still well under NodeMaven's advertised $2.20 volume rate. That headline does not go away.
No plan and a balance that never expires. HProxy is pay as you go with no monthly commitment, and what you top up stays there. You are not fitting your usage to a plan or watching a trial clock.
Billing that ignores failures. HProxy does not charge for blocked or errored requests. That attacks the same problem NodeMaven's filter attacks, cost per successful result, from the billing side rather than the pool side, and it does it at a seventh of the price.
Four proxy types on one balance. HProxy sells residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile on the same account, so a job that moves between types stays at one vendor on one rate. If long single-identity sessions are your reason for looking at NodeMaven, our sticky vs rotating proxy sessions explainer covers how to set those up.
Who should pick which
Pick NodeMaven if its IP quality filter, its 24-hour sticky sessions, or its curated pool are specifically what you are buying, and the premium per gigabyte is acceptable for that packaging.
Pick HProxy if you want clean residential IPs at a flat $0.65/GB pay as you go, no plan, a balance that never expires, no charge for failed requests, and four proxy types on one account. That covers the large majority of scraping, monitoring, and multi-region work at a fraction of NodeMaven's rate.
The mistake to avoid is paying a filtered-pool premium on a target that does not need it. If your job runs fine on standard clean residential, which most jobs do, you are paying several times over for a filter that is solving a problem you do not have.
Try it before you decide
You do not have to take our word on the network. Test HProxy's free proxy checker and the live free proxy list to see the infrastructure, then start on residential at $0.65/GB pay as you go when you are ready. If you are comparing residential proxies on price across the whole market, our cheapest residential proxies in 2026 breakdown puts NodeMaven and the rest side by side, and our full pricing lays out every per-GB rate with nothing to sign.