HProxy vs Proxy-Cheap.com: Residential Prices, the Long Discount and the Terms (2026)

For country-level residential work, HProxy's Residential Lite costs less per GB than Proxy-Cheap at every size, discount or not. With state or city targeting, the answer flips: while Proxy-Cheap's discount runs, its rotating residential costs less than our Residential Premium from 4 GB up. Premium earns its price with network targeting, UDP and sessions of up to 24 hours. We read Proxy-Cheap's prices, help center and refund policy on October 22, 2026. We sell residential proxies, so weigh our view with that in mind.

Proxy-Cheap.com vs HProxy at a glance

Proxy-Cheap's rotating residential plan targets country, state and city. That puts it between our two pools: our Lite targets countries only, and our Premium adds network (ASN) and device targeting.

Proxy-Cheap's figures come from its residential and pricing pages, its help center and its refund policy, read through our server. Ours come from our catalog, our dashboard's product sheet and our refund policy.

What a GB of residential traffic costs

Proxy-Cheap prices its rotating residential plan in three steps: $1.50 from 3 GB, $1.20 from 4 GB and $0.78 from 51 GB. Each is shown as a discount off a list price of $2.99 or $2.60. The discount is not new. We recorded the 70 percent rate on August 3, 2026, and the same three rates on September 27, October 10, October 12 and October 22.

How to read it for your job:

• Country-level work. Lite at $0.50/GB and $0.44/GB costs less than Proxy-Cheap's discounted rates at every size.
• State or city targeting. Proxy-Cheap's discounted $1.20 and $0.78 cost less than our Premium at $1.49/GB and $1.00/GB. At 3 GB the two are within a cent. If the discount ends, the list prices of $2.99 and $2.60 cost more than Premium at every size.
• Network targeting, UDP or long sessions. Only Premium offers all three.

At 50 GB the gap is easy to see. Lite comes to $25. Proxy-Cheap's 50 GB comes to $60 at its discounted rate and $149.50 at its list price.

Sessions, speed and UDP

• Sessions. Proxy-Cheap's help center says a long session ID keeps the same rotating residential exit "for up to 30 minutes". Our Premium lets one exit last anywhere from 3 minutes to 24 hours. That matters for logins, carts and any flow longer than half an hour, as rotating vs static residential proxies explains.
• Speed. Each of Proxy-Cheap's rotating residential plans lists "<100 Mbps".
• UDP. Proxy-Cheap's rotating residential page does not list UDP. Our Premium passes UDP over SOCKS5 for the proxy lines you turn it on for.

Payment fees, refunds and ID checks

• Payment fees. Proxy-Cheap's help center lists a fee added at checkout: 2.9% + $0.30 by card, 0.8% by crypto, 3.49% + $0.49 by PayPal, and others for iDEAL, Przelewy24 and Korean wallets. On a $50 card payment, that is another $1.75.
• Refunds. Proxy-Cheap refunds unused balance to a card. Crypto balance comes back only "if the account is permanently closed". A bandwidth plan gets a full refund if no more than 20 percent was used, for a single purchase. We refund unused balance for 14 days whichever way you paid, card or crypto, under our refund policy. Traffic you have used is excluded.
• ID checks. Proxy-Cheap says it may ask for identity verification before some purchases, and its refund policy refunds nothing if a required check fails. We ask for no ID at sign-up, and no documents for an ordinary purchase.

Where Proxy-Cheap is the better pick

• City-targeted traffic on a budget, while the discount runs. $1.20 from 4 GB and $0.78 from 51 GB, with state and city targeting.
• Cheap static IPs by the month. Datacenter IPv4 from $1.49, datacenter IPv6 from $0.15 and static residential (ISP) IPv4 from $2.71 a month, with a 7-day trial at $1.99. Our guide to IPv4 vs IPv6 proxies covers when IPv6 is enough.
• More ways to pay, including PayPal, iDEAL and Korean wallets, with a fee.

Where HProxy is the better pick

• Country-level residential traffic, where Lite undercuts every Proxy-Cheap rate at every size.
• Network (ASN) and device targeting, UDP over SOCKS5 and sessions of up to 24 hours on Premium.
• One price with nothing to time. Our rates are not a discount off a list price, so there is no end date to plan around.
• Small top-ups: $3 by crypto, $10 by card, Alipay, Pix or QRIS.
• One balance, four proxy types: residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile.

Who should pick which

Pick Proxy-Cheap for city-targeted residential traffic at the discounted rate, for cheap static or IPv6 IPs by the month, or if you want to pay by PayPal.

Pick HProxy for country-level residential traffic at the lowest price per GB. Take Premium when the job needs a network, UDP or a session longer than 30 minutes.

Test with our free tools first

The proxy checker and the live free proxy list cost nothing and confirm that a tool's proxy settings work. Once you buy, residential costs $0.50 per GB for one GB. Our cheapest residential proxies in 2026 puts Proxy-Cheap beside the rest of the market. How much proxies cost explains discounts and list prices, and our full pricing lists every rate.

Limits of this comparison

• No proxy tests. We put no traffic through Proxy-Cheap or our own pools, so speed, success rates and blocks are not judged here.
• Pool sizes. Proxy-Cheap's pool figures are its own claims. We make none about ours.
• Unpublished terms. Proxy-Cheap does not say whether unused rotating residential traffic expires, or when its discount ends.
• The help center. We read its articles through Proxy-Cheap's public help-center API; each carries its own update date.
• One day. Discounts and terms can change overnight. Check again after December 22, 2026.

Sources

• Proxy-Cheap, rotating residential page and pricing page, read through our server on October 22, 2026.
• Proxy-Cheap, the same rates in our price database on August 3, September 27, October 10 and October 12, 2026.
• Proxy-Cheap help center: targeting options (updated August 21, 2026), long session IDs (October 19, 2026) and accepted payment methods (August 18, 2026), read October 22, 2026.
• Proxy-Cheap, refund policy, updated August 21, 2026, read October 22, 2026.
• HProxy, catalog prices and the dashboard's product sheet, read on October 22, 2026.
• HProxy, refund policy, identity checks page and checkout minimums, read October 22, 2026.
• Google Keyword Planner and Google Autocomplete, read October 22, 2026: "proxy cheap" 40,500 searches a month worldwide, "proxy-cheap review" 110.