Compared against Proxy-Seller
Proxy-Seller is one of the older names in the proxy business, and it earns its reputation with a genuinely broad catalog: datacenter IPv4 and IPv6, ISP, residential and mobile, all from one account, with targeting down to the city and ISP. We sell residential proxies too, and we are still going to tell you exactly where Proxy-Seller is the right call, because the question is narrow: do you need its pool size and per-type targeting, or do you need residential IPs at the lowest price you will actually be charged?
Is HProxy a good Proxy-Seller alternative?
For most buyers, yes. HProxy sells residential IPs at $0.50/GB for one GB, pay as you go, and $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+, with no plan and a balance that never expires. Proxy-Seller residential starts higher and is sold in prepaid volumes whose cheapest per-GB rate only appears once you stack volume, duration and auto-renewal discounts. Proxy-Seller still wins for buyers who need its larger pool, its city/ISP targeting or dedicated IPv6. If you just need residential proxies without paying more for scale you will not use, HProxy does that for less.
The short version
- Price: HProxy residential costs $0.50/GB for one GB and $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+, pay as you go. Proxy-Seller residential is from ~$1.3/GB at its deepest stacked discount, with a small entry purchase closer to ~$2/GB. Entry to entry, HProxy costs about a quarter as much.
- Model: HProxy is self-serve pay as you go, no plan, balance never expires. Proxy-Seller is prepaid volume with volume, duration and auto-renewal discounts that stack.
- Network: Proxy-Seller advertises 20M+ residential IPs in 220+ countries, with city and ISP/ASN targeting. HProxy competes on price; its Residential Premium adds state, city and ISP targeting.
- Types: Both cover the common cases. Proxy-Seller adds dedicated IPv6 datacenter; HProxy covers residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile.
If you need pool size, city-level targeting or IPv6, read the Proxy-Seller section below carefully. If you just need residential proxies at the lowest price without a plan, the pricing section is the whole story.
Proxy-Seller pricing vs HProxy: the part that decides it
| HProxy | Proxy-Seller | |
|---|---|---|
| Residential, entry per GB | $0.50 | ~$2.00 |
| Lowest published per-GB | $0.44 (pay as you go) | ~$1.30 (volume + duration + auto-renew stacked) |
| Billing model | Pay as you go | Prepaid volume |
| Commitment | None | Larger volumes / auto-renew for the best rate |
| Balance expiry | Never expires | Plan-based |
| Proxy types | Residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile | Datacenter IPv4/IPv6, ISP, residential, mobile |
| Targeting | Country | Country, city, ISP/ASN |
The gap comes from the model. Proxy-Seller sells residential as prepaid bandwidth whose lowest rate is gated behind bigger commitments; HProxy prices the same residential bandwidth as credit you top up once and spend whenever. On a 50 GB month that is roughly $25 at HProxy versus $65 to $100 at Proxy-Seller depending on how deep your discounts stack, for residential traffic that does the same work.
The pay-as-you-go part matters as much as the per-GB number. A prepaid volume you underuse pushes your real cost per successful request up every month you do not finish it, and duration discounts assume you will keep buying. Pay as you go ties the cost to work you actually did: if your scraping is bursty, heavy one week and quiet the next, a balance that never expires means a paused project does not burn prepaid credit.
Where Proxy-Seller genuinely wins
This is the part the marketing comparisons leave out, so here it is straight.
Pool size and targeting
Proxy-Seller advertises 20M+ residential IPs across 220+ countries with rotation on every request or on a timer, and targeting down to city and ISP or ASN. If you need huge concurrency in obscure locations, or you need to pin traffic to a specific city or carrier network, that granularity is real and it is broader than ours.
Every proxy type, including IPv6
Beyond residential, Proxy-Seller sells datacenter IPv4 and IPv6, ISP and mobile from the same account. If your target specifically speaks IPv6 (and plenty still do not), or you want to buy every type in one place, that breadth is a genuine convenience.
A long track record
Proxy-Seller has been selling proxies since the mid-2010s, with a support desk and a large existing customer base. For a buyer who values longevity and a known name, that history counts.
If those three things describe you, Proxy-Seller earns its price. Do not let a cheaper competitor talk you out of targeting or a pool you actually need.
Where HProxy wins as a Proxy-Seller alternative
Price, plainly. $0.50/GB for one GB, pay as you go, is about a quarter of Proxy-Seller's entry residential rate and still well under its deepest stacked discount. That headline does not go away.
No prepaid guesswork
Self-serve signup, top up any amount, start. No volume you have to commit to for a good rate, no auto-renewal to remember to cancel, and the balance never expires, so you pay for what you actually pull. How top-ups and refunds are handled is written out in the account FAQ.
Four types on one balance
For the work most people buy proxies for, scraping, price monitoring, ad verification and managing accounts across regions, HProxy sells residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxies on one balance at a lower price.
Free tools without a signup
The live free proxy list and the proxy checker are open with no signup, so you can test a tool's proxy settings before spending a cent.
Who should pick which
Pick Proxy-Seller if you need its larger residential pool, city or ISP-level targeting, dedicated IPv6, or you want every proxy type from one long-established vendor, and the higher per-GB rate is worth it for that.
Pick HProxy if you want residential, ISP, datacenter or mobile proxies, with residential from $0.50/GB for one GB, pay as you go, without a prepaid commitment or a rate gated behind auto-renewal. That covers the large majority of scraping, monitoring and multi-region tasks.
The mistake we see most often is a buyer picking a bigger pool for a job that never touches obscure cities, and paying two to three times per gigabyte for scale that sits idle. If that is you, you are the exact person this comparison is for.
Try it before you decide
Our free proxy checker and live free proxy list let you test a tool's proxy settings at no cost, and residential starts at $0.50 for one GB, pay as you go, when you are ready. If you are choosing proxies for a scraping project specifically, our complete guide to proxies for web scraping walks through which proxy type fits which target, and our full pricing lays out every per-GB rate with nothing to sign.
