Rayobyte is the competitor in this set that is built most like us. It sells genuine pay-as-you-go residential, it does not force a monthly commitment or a sales call, and it has a real reputation for ethically sourced IPs. That makes for the most honest comparison of the bunch, because it comes down to price at your volume rather than model versus model. We run a competing network, and we are going to show you the exact volume where Rayobyte becomes the cheaper choice, because pretending it never does would be the dishonest version of this page.
Is HProxy a good Rayobyte alternative?
For most buyers, yes. HProxy sells residential at a flat $0.65/GB, pay as you go from the first gigabyte, on a balance that never expires. Rayobyte's pay-as-you-go residential starts at $3.50/GB and only drops below our rate at multiple terabytes a month. Rayobyte still wins for very heavy buyers, for its cheap datacenter proxies, and for its scraping tools. If you are pulling anything short of terabytes and want the low rate without a volume ladder to climb, HProxy is cheaper.
The short version
- Price at normal volumes: HProxy residential is a flat $0.65/GB from gigabyte one. Rayobyte pay-as-you-go residential starts at $3.50/GB and steps down only with volume.
- Price at scale: Rayobyte's pay-as-you-go reaches $0.70/GB at 1,000 GB and $0.50/GB at 5,000+ GB, so above roughly 5 TB a month Rayobyte is cheaper per GB. We will not hide that.
- Model: Both are pay as you go with no monthly commitment and a self-serve signup. This is where the two are most alike.
- Range: Rayobyte sells cheap rotating datacenter from $0.30/GB, plus a scraper API and web unblocker. HProxy focuses on clean residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile IPs at a low flat rate.
If you are a terabyte-scale buyer, read the Rayobyte section honestly, it may be your answer. If you are at normal volumes, the pricing section is the whole story.
Rayobyte pricing vs HProxy: the part that decides it
| HProxy | Rayobyte | |
|---|---|---|
| Residential, entry per GB | $0.65 | $3.50 (1 to 49 GB, pay as you go) |
| Lowest published per-GB | $0.65 (flat, any volume) | $0.50 (5,000+ GB) |
| Billing model | Pay as you go | Pay as you go or monthly plans |
| Monthly commitment | None | None on pay as you go |
| Onboarding | Self-serve, no KYC | Self-serve, free trial |
| Rotating datacenter | Yes, pay as you go | From $0.30/GB |
| Balance expiry | Never expires | Not stated for pay-as-you-go credit |
The two models rhyme, so the whole comparison is the per-GB curve. HProxy charges $0.65/GB whether you pull 1 GB or 1,000, with nothing to commit to. Rayobyte charges by a volume ladder that starts well above us and ends slightly below us. Here is Rayobyte's own pay-as-you-go residential ladder today, so the crossover is not something you have to take on our word:
| Rayobyte residential, pay as you go | Volume | Per-GB |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | 1 to 49 GB | $3.50 |
| Consumer | 50 to 249 GB | $2.00 |
| Professional | 250 to 999 GB | $1.50 |
| Corporate | 1,000 to 4,999 GB | $0.70 |
| Enterprise | 5,000+ GB | $0.50 |
Read that ladder honestly and the picture is clear. At the volumes most people actually buy, tens to a few hundred gigabytes a month, Rayobyte runs $3.50 down to $1.50/GB while HProxy is a flat $0.65, so HProxy is roughly two to five times cheaper. The lines cross around a terabyte: at 1,000 to 4,999 GB Rayobyte is $0.70/GB, a hair above our $0.65, and at 5,000+ GB Rayobyte reaches $0.50/GB and goes below us. So if you genuinely pull multiple terabytes every month, Rayobyte's per-GB rate is lower, and we would rather tell you that than have you find out after buying.
What HProxy's flat rate buys you is that you reach the low number on gigabyte one, with no volume you have to sustain to keep it. The figure that decides your bill is what you pay per successful request, and a volume ladder only pays off if you reliably stay near the top of it every month. If your usage is bursty or seasonal, a flat $0.65 with a balance that never expires is steadier than a rate that snaps back up the month your volume dips.
One framing before the honest part, because it is where most of this market misleads and Rayobyte mostly does not. Rayobyte advertises residential as low as $0.50/GB, and unlike the enterprise names, that floor is genuinely reachable, though only at 5,000 GB a month and up. What it is not is a starting price. A new buyer pays $3.50/GB for the first 49 GB, seven times the headline, and crosses below our flat $0.65 only deep into terabyte territory. We give Rayobyte more credit than the others here: its floor is real and its model is honest pay as you go with nothing to sign. The advertised number is still a volume floor rather than the price you start at, though, and at the volumes most people actually buy, our $0.65 from gigabyte one is the lower rate.
Where Rayobyte genuinely wins
This is the part a marketing comparison would skip, so here it is straight.
Price at real scale. Above roughly 5,000 GB a month, Rayobyte's $0.50/GB pay-as-you-go rate undercuts our flat $0.65. If you are a terabyte-scale operation, that is a real, ongoing saving, and it is the honest reason to pick Rayobyte over us.
Cheap datacenter and a broad toolkit. Rayobyte's rotating datacenter starts at $0.30/GB, and it sells a web scraper API and a web unblocker alongside raw proxies. If you want datacenter volume or a managed scraping layer under one roof, that range is a genuine product.
Reputation and ethical sourcing. Rayobyte, formerly Blazing SEO, is an established US provider with a strong public stance on ethically sourced residential IPs and a well-regarded support operation. For a buyer who weighs sourcing and a track record heavily, that reputation is worth something real.
If those describe you, Rayobyte earns the pick. We are not going to pretend a fair, well-run competitor is a bad choice.
Where HProxy wins as a Rayobyte alternative
Price at normal volumes. From 1 GB to about 1,000 GB a month, HProxy's flat $0.65/GB beats Rayobyte's ladder, by a wide margin at the small end where most buyers live.
The low rate with no volume to sustain. You do not climb a ladder or hold a monthly volume to reach $0.65. It is the rate on your first gigabyte and every gigabyte after, and the balance never expires, so a slow month does not cost you the rate.
One low-rate balance across four types. HProxy sells residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile on the same pay-as-you-go balance, so a job that shifts between types stays on one rate at one vendor. When a target fights back on the anti-bot layer, we cover the manual playbook in how to avoid IP bans while scraping.
The same easy model, cheaper. Both are pay as you go with no monthly commitment and an instant self-serve signup, so you are not giving up flexibility to save money here. You are getting the same easy model at a lower flat rate, unless and until you are buying terabytes.
Who should pick which
Pick Rayobyte if you pull multiple terabytes of residential a month and want its $0.50/GB scale rate, if you want cheap datacenter volume, or if you want its scraper API, web unblocker, and ethical-sourcing track record under one roof.
Pick HProxy if you buy anything short of terabytes and want a flat $0.65/GB from the first gigabyte, with no volume ladder to climb, the same no-commitment, self-serve model, and a balance that never expires. That covers the large majority of scraping, monitoring, and multi-region tasks.
This is the one comparison in our set where the honest answer really does flip at a volume, and we would rather name the number than bury it. Under a terabyte, HProxy. Deep into terabytes, price it against Rayobyte's $0.50 and decide.
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 Rayobyte and the rest side by side, and our full pricing lays out every per-GB rate with nothing to sign.