Proxy-Seller is one of the older names in the proxy business, and it earns its reputation with a genuinely broad catalogue: datacenter IPv4 and IPv6, ISP, residential and mobile, all from one account, with targeting down to the city and ISP. We run a competing network, and we are still going to tell you exactly where Proxy-Seller is the right call, because the honest question is narrow: do you need its pool size and per-type targeting, or do you need good residential IPs at the lowest honest price?
Is HProxy a good Proxy-Seller alternative?
For most buyers, yes. HProxy sells residential IPs at $0.65/GB, pay as you go, 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 clean residential proxies without paying more for scale you will not use, HProxy does that for less.
The short version
- Price: HProxy residential is $0.65/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 is roughly a third of the cost.
- 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 is larger (20M+ residential IPs, 220+ countries) with city and ISP/ASN targeting. HProxy is leaner and focused on a low flat price.
- 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 honestly. If you just need residential proxies that work 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 | $0.65 | ~$2.00 |
| Lowest published per-GB | $0.65 (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 is not a promo trick, it is 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 $33 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/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, 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. $0.65/GB pay as you go is roughly a third of Proxy-Seller's entry residential rate and still meaningfully 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.
The same four types, done. For the work most people buy proxies for, scraping, price monitoring, ad verification and managing accounts across regions, HProxy's residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile IPs do the job at a lower price.
Test before you pay. The live free proxy list and the proxy checker are open with no signup, so you can see the network before spending a cent, which no prepaid-volume vendor lets you do.
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 that work, at $0.65/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
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 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.