ProxyScrape is a different kind of competitor from the enterprise names. It started as a free proxy list, it still runs one of the biggest free lists on the internet, and its paid products lean toward cheap datacenter volume. That makes the honest comparison less about enterprise tooling and more about two concrete things: the per-GB residential price, and the fact that ProxyScrape puts a clock on the data while we do not. We run a competing network, and we will tell you exactly where ProxyScrape is the smarter buy.
Is HProxy a good ProxyScrape alternative?
For residential, yes. HProxy sells residential IPs at $0.65/GB, pay as you go, on a balance that never expires. ProxyScrape's popular residential pack works out to about $3.55/GB and the data expires in 30 days. ProxyScrape still wins if you want very cheap datacenter proxies in bulk or a free public list to pull from. If you need clean residential IPs at the lowest per-GB rate without an expiry clock, HProxy covers it.
The short version
- Price: HProxy residential is $0.65/GB, pay as you go. ProxyScrape's popular residential pack is 10 GB for $35.50, about $3.55/GB. That is roughly a five times difference per gigabyte.
- Expiry: HProxy's balance never expires. ProxyScrape residential packs carry a 30-day duration.
- Datacenter: ProxyScrape is genuinely cheap here, at 1,000 datacenter proxies for $25. HProxy sells datacenter too, but ProxyScrape's bulk datacenter pricing is a real strength.
- Free option: ProxyScrape runs a large, well-known free proxy list. HProxy publishes its own free list and a free checker for testing.
If cheap datacenter volume or a free list is what you came for, read the ProxyScrape section below honestly. If you need residential proxies at the lowest per-GB rate without a clock on them, the pricing section is the whole story.
ProxyScrape pricing vs HProxy: the part that decides it
| HProxy | ProxyScrape | |
|---|---|---|
| Residential, entry per GB | $0.65 | $3.55 (10 GB pack) |
| Billing model | Pay as you go | Packs with a set duration |
| Balance or data expiry | Never expires | Residential packs expire in 30 days |
| Datacenter | Yes, pay as you go | 1,000 proxies for $25 |
| Free option | Free list and free checker | Large free public proxy list |
| Onboarding | Self-serve, no KYC | Self-serve |
| Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, SOCKS5 | HTTP, SOCKS5 |
The residential gap is straightforward. HProxy prices residential bandwidth as credit you top up once and draw down whenever, at $0.65/GB. ProxyScrape prices it as a pack you buy for a window, at about $3.55/GB for the popular 10 GB size, and the gigabytes lapse when the window closes. On a 50 GB month that is roughly $33 at HProxy versus about $178 of ProxyScrape residential at that pack rate, and the ProxyScrape gigabytes come with a duration where ours do not.
Here is how ProxyScrape's own pricing lays out its main products today, so the figures are not something you have to take on our word:
| ProxyScrape product | Example price | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | 10 GB for $35.50 | about $3.55/GB, 30-day duration, 120M+ pool |
| Unlimited residential | from $933 for 7 days | billed by bandwidth (200 Mbps), 4M+ pool |
| Premium datacenter | 1,000 proxies for $25 | 30-day subscription, 40,000 pool |
| Dedicated datacenter | 10 proxies for $19 | US only |
Two things that table makes plain. On residential, larger packs are usually cheaper per GB than the 10 GB example, as they are with most providers, but the entry rate most people start at is several times HProxy's $0.65 and the data still carries a duration. And ProxyScrape's real price advantage is on datacenter, not residential: 1,000 datacenter proxies for $25 is genuinely cheap volume, and we say so plainly below.
The expiry difference matters as much as the per-GB number. The figure that actually decides your bill is what you pay per successful request, and a residential pack that lapses in 30 days pushes that number up every time you buy gigabytes you do not finish. HProxy ties the cost to work you actually did: the balance never expires, so a bursty project that goes quiet for a few weeks does not lose the credit it already paid for.
Where ProxyScrape genuinely wins
This is the part a marketing comparison would skip, so here it is straight.
The free proxy list. ProxyScrape's free list is one of the best-known free proxy sources anywhere, and it started the company. For learning, casual testing, and throwaway tasks it is a genuine resource. Free proxies are shared and unreliable by nature, which is why we cover when free proxies are fine and when they are not, but as a free resource it is real and useful.
Cheap datacenter proxies in bulk. At 1,000 datacenter proxies for $25, ProxyScrape is priced for volume datacenter work, and that is a legitimate strength. If your target does not need residential IPs and plain datacenter proxies get the job done, ProxyScrape's bulk pricing is hard to beat on raw proxy count.
An unlimited-bandwidth residential tier. ProxyScrape sells a residential option billed by bandwidth rather than by the gigabyte (its 200 Mbps tier). For very heavy, continuous scraping where per-GB billing would add up fast, a bandwidth-based plan can be the right shape, and HProxy does not offer that particular model.
If those describe your job, ProxyScrape earns the pick. Do not let a cheaper residential rate talk you out of cheap datacenter volume or a free list you actually wanted.
Where HProxy wins as a ProxyScrape alternative
Residential price, and no expiry. $0.65/GB against about $3.55/GB is the headline, and our balance never expires where ProxyScrape's residential packs run out in 30 days. You pay for gigabytes you actually pull, whenever you pull them.
A full four-type network. HProxy sells residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile IPs, so if a job moves from datacenter to residential to ISP you stay on one balance at one vendor rather than assembling it from packs. The differences between those types are laid out in datacenter vs residential proxies.
More protocol coverage. HProxy supports HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5. ProxyScrape covers HTTP and SOCKS5. For most work either is enough, but if you specifically need SOCKS4, HProxy has it.
Free testing without giving up quality. HProxy publishes its own free proxy checker and free proxy list for the same casual and testing purpose ProxyScrape's free list serves, and then offers paid residential that actually holds up when you move to production.
Who should pick which
Pick ProxyScrape if you want cheap datacenter proxies in bulk, a free public proxy list to pull from, or an unlimited-bandwidth residential tier for very heavy continuous scraping, and residential per-GB price is not your main concern.
Pick HProxy if you want residential, ISP, datacenter, or mobile proxies at $0.65/GB pay as you go, on a balance that never expires, without a 30-day clock on your data and with SOCKS4 in the mix. That covers the large majority of scraping, monitoring, and multi-region tasks.
The two products are honestly aimed a little differently, and for datacenter-heavy or free-list users ProxyScrape is a fair call. For residential at the lowest per-GB rate with nothing expiring, HProxy is the one.
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 ProxyScrape and the rest side by side, and our full pricing lays out every per-GB rate with nothing to sign.