SOAX has built a good reputation on one thing in particular: targeting. If you need to land in a specific city, on a specific carrier, filtered down to an ASN, SOAX is one of the names that does it cleanly. It is also priced as a monthly platform rather than a top-up balance, and that is where the honest comparison lives. We run a competing network, and the real question is narrow: do you need SOAX's targeting depth and its combined residential-and-mobile network enough to pay for a monthly credit plan, or do you need clean residential IPs without one?
Is HProxy a good SOAX alternative?
For most buyers, yes. HProxy sells residential IPs at $0.65/GB, pay as you go, with no monthly plan and a balance that never expires. SOAX bills residential and mobile per GB by region on monthly credit plans that start at $200 a month, and its credits expire. SOAX still wins for buyers who need its granular geo and carrier targeting or its specific pools. If you just need residential proxies that work, without a plan or an expiry clock, HProxy does that for far less.
The short version
- Price: HProxy residential is $0.65/GB, pay as you go. SOAX's pricing page shows residential and mobile billed per GB by region, from about $5/GB for Tier-1 regions on the entry plan down toward $0.85/GB only at the $3,000/month tier.
- Model: HProxy is self-serve with no monthly commitment. SOAX is built around monthly credit plans (1 credit equals $1), the smallest paid one being $200/month.
- Expiry: HProxy's balance never expires. SOAX credits roll over 60 days (or 365 on annual billing), then lapse.
- Network: SOAX is larger and targeting-focused, advertising 155M+ IPs across 195+ locations. HProxy is leaner and focused on selling clean IPs cheaply across residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile.
If you need SOAX's city, region, and carrier targeting, read the SOAX section below honestly. If you just need residential proxies without a monthly plan, the pricing section is the whole story.
SOAX pricing vs HProxy: the part that decides it
| HProxy | SOAX | |
|---|---|---|
| Residential, entry per GB | $0.65 | about $5 (Tier-1 regions, entry plan) |
| Lowest published per-GB | $0.65 (pay as you go) | about $0.85 (Tier-1, $3,000/mo plan) |
| Billing model | Pay as you go | Monthly credit plans (1cr = $1) |
| Minimum to start a paid plan | None, top up any amount | $200/mo (Builder) |
| Balance or credit expiry | Never expires | Credits lapse after 60 days (365 on annual) |
| Cheap way to test | Free proxy list and checker | $1.99, 400 MB, 3 days |
| Onboarding | Self-serve, no KYC | KYC/KYB verification required for paid use |
| Network | Residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile | 155M+ IPs, 195+ locations |
The gap is the business model, not a promo. SOAX prices residential and mobile as a targeting platform you subscribe to, with credits you buy monthly and spend per GB. HProxy prices the same residential bandwidth as credit you top up once and draw down whenever. On a 50 GB month of Tier-1 traffic that is roughly $33 at HProxy versus about $250 of SOAX credits at its entry Tier-1 rate, before you factor in that the SOAX credits arrive on a $200 monthly plan and expire if you do not use them.
Here is how SOAX's own plans page lays out its credit tiers today, so the numbers are not something you have to take on our word:
| SOAX plan | Monthly price | Credits (1cr = $1) |
|---|---|---|
| Sandbox | Free | 0 (test only) |
| Builder | $200 | 500 |
| Team | $500 | 1,500 |
| Scale | $1,500 | 3,000 |
| Enterprise | $3,000 | 3,000 |
The credits are then spent per GB at a rate that depends on the region and the plan. SOAX groups geographies into tiers: Tier-1 regions like the US, UK, and Western Europe run from about $5/GB on the entry plan down toward $0.85/GB at the top, cheaper regions run lower, and the most remote regions lower still. So the headline "500 credits" on Builder buys roughly 100 GB of Tier-1 traffic at that entry rate. Two things follow from that. The low per-GB rates are tied to the biggest plans, not to a top-up you control, and the credits themselves expire, so a quiet month can mean paying $200 for bandwidth you never pull.
In the language of the starting-price trap the rest of this market runs, SOAX is a clean example. It advertises residential from $0.85/GB, and that rate exists only on the $3,000-a-month Enterprise plan, in Tier-1 regions. The rate a new customer actually starts at is about $5/GB for Tier-1 traffic on the entry plan, several times the advertised figure, and it arrives as monthly credits that expire rather than a balance you keep. Our $0.65/GB is both the advertised rate and the rate you pay on day one, pay as you go, with nothing to subscribe to and no credits to burn before they lapse.
The pay-as-you-go 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 monthly credit plan you underuse pushes that number up every month you do not spend the credits before they lapse. HProxy ties the cost to work you actually did: bursty scraping, heavy one week and quiet the next, does not leave prepaid credit expiring on a shelf, because the balance never expires and there is no monthly minimum to hit.
Where SOAX genuinely wins
This is the part a marketing comparison would skip, so here it is straight.
Targeting depth. This is SOAX's real edge. Country, region, city, and ASN or carrier-level targeting, applied cleanly, is genuinely useful when your job depends on appearing in one exact place. If you are verifying ads in a specific metro or testing a carrier-gated flow, that granularity is worth something, and it is more surgical than most networks expose.
A combined residential and mobile network. SOAX bills residential and mobile at one credit rate across 155M+ IPs and 195+ locations. If your work needs both and you would rather not juggle two products, that bundling is a real convenience.
A mature platform and support. SOAX has an established dashboard, session controls, and a support reputation that enterprises lean on. For a team that wants a polished console and a vendor with a track record, that maturity is a feature.
If those three things describe you, SOAX earns its plan price. Do not let a cheaper competitor talk you out of targeting you actually need.
Where HProxy wins as a SOAX alternative
Price at normal volumes. $0.65/GB against roughly $5/GB at SOAX's entry Tier-1 rate is the headline, and it holds until you are buying at the very top of SOAX's plan ladder.
No monthly plan and no expiry. HProxy has no $200 monthly minimum and no credit clock. You top up a balance, and it sits there at $0.65/GB until you use it. A paused project costs nothing.
No KYC for standard use. Self-serve signup, top up, start. SOAX, by contrast, makes identity verification a condition of paid access, so you clear a KYC or KYB check before you can activate a paid plan. With HProxy there is no verification interview to run a normal scraping or monitoring job.
The same jobs, done, across four proxy types. For scraping, price monitoring, ad verification, and managing accounts across regions, HProxy's residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile IPs do the work, and you pay the datacenter rate for datacenter jobs instead of a blended residential-and-mobile credit price. When a target is fighting you on the anti-bot layer specifically, we cover the manual playbook in how to avoid IP bans while scraping.
Who should pick which
Pick SOAX if your job depends on its granular city, region, or carrier targeting, or you want one combined residential-and-mobile network with a mature console, and a monthly credit plan fits your budget and your volume.
Pick HProxy if you want residential, ISP, datacenter, or mobile proxies that work, at $0.65/GB pay as you go, without a monthly plan, an expiry clock, or an entry rate several times higher for targeting you may not need. That covers the large majority of scraping, monitoring, and multi-region tasks.
The mistake we see most often is a team buying a targeting platform for work that only ever needs a country selector, and paying the platform's monthly rate for it. If that is you, you are the exact person this comparison is for. If you do need surgical geo control, SOAX is a fair choice and we will say so.
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 weighing proxies on price across the market, our cheapest residential proxies in 2026 breakdown puts SOAX and the rest side by side, and our full pricing lays out every per-GB rate with nothing to sign. For the enterprise end of the market, the Oxylabs and Bright Data comparisons cover the platforms SOAX competes with.