HProxy vs SOAX.com: Residential Prices by Plan and Country, and the Terms (2026)

Compared against SOAX

For United States traffic, HProxy costs less per GB than every SOAX plan below its $3,000 Enterprise plan. SOAX prices each GB by plan and by the country of the exit IP, and its credits expire 60 days after they are added. Ours have no scheduled expiry date and cost the same in every country. SOAX still wins on Enterprise volume, in its cheapest countries, and with ZIP and ASN targeting from its Scale plan. We read SOAX's pricing page, docs, policies and terms on October 22, 2026. We sell residential proxies, so weigh our view with that in mind.

SOAX.com vs HProxy at a glance

SOAX sells one credit balance for residential and mobile traffic. A plan sets the rate per GB, and the exit country's tier moves it up or down. Every paid purchase starts with identity verification.

The SOAX column rests on its pricing page, its developer docs, its KYC policy and its terms, read through our server on October 22, 2026, with prices before VAT. The HProxy columns rest on the catalog that runs our checkout and on our refund policy.

What a GB costs in the United States

The United States sits in SOAX's Tier 1, its dearest tier. There, a GB costs $5.00 on the free Sandbox, $3.00 on the $200 Builder plan, $2.20 on the $500 Team plan and $1.50 on the $1,500 Scale plan. The $3,000 Enterprise plan starts at $0.85, then drops to $0.75 after 5 TB in a month and $0.50 after 15 TB.

What that means by job:

• Country-level work in the United States. Lite at $0.50/GB and $0.44/GB costs less than every SOAX Tier 1 rate, Enterprise included.
• City or network targeting, below Enterprise. SOAX's Scale rate of $1.50 sits beside Premium's $1.49/GB for one GB, and Premium falls below it from 50 GB. Every smaller SOAX plan costs more.
• Steady volume of several TB a month. SOAX Enterprise, from $0.85, costs less than Premium's $1.00/GB. Its $3,000 fee buys about 3,500 GB at that rate.

A small order shows the gap. 50 GB of Tier 1 traffic costs $250 at Sandbox rates. The same 50 GB of Lite costs $25.

The country decides SOAX's price

SOAX groups countries into three geo tiers "based on the cost of serving each market". Its FAQ puts the United States in Tier 1 and India in Tier 2. The tier follows the exit IP, so a GB through India costs less than a GB through the United States on the same plan. Our prices do not change with the country.

So if your traffic goes mostly through Tier 3 countries, SOAX's larger plans can cost less than our pools. For United States work, the first chart is the one that counts.

Credits that expire

SOAX bills in prepaid credits, and "one credit usually represents about $1 of usage". Its FAQ sets the clock: credits added on Sandbox or a monthly plan "expire 60 days after they are added". Annual-plan credits last 12 months. Its terms add that credits are non-refundable, and that unused credits are not refunded on cancellation. Usage counts data in both directions, "including partial responses, retries, and interrupted connections".

GB bought from us have no scheduled expiry date, so a project paused for three months still has its balance.

Sessions, UDP and blocked destinations

• Sessions. A SOAX session "expires after 60 seconds of inactivity". Its timed rotation can swap the IP every 10 seconds up to once a week. HProxy Premium holds a sticky exit for a set time between 3 minutes and 24 hours. Rotating vs static residential proxies explains which jobs need a long session.
• UDP. SOAX carries UDP over SOCKS5 to listed destination ports, among them 53, 443 and 10000 to 65535, and its HTTP interface does not support it. Premium also runs UDP over SOCKS5, on the proxy lines where you switch it on.
• Ports. SOAX blocks all other destination ports by default, including email (25, 465, 587), FTP, SSH and RDP.
• Destinations. SOAX restricts some banks, payment providers and crypto platforms, naming stripe.com and paypal.com, and government domains such as .gov and .mil.

Verification, refunds and payment

• Verification. SOAX's KYC and KYB policy says identity verification "is a condition of access to the paid Platform", before any purchase or paid service. We ask for no documents at sign-up or at an ordinary purchase, and the identity checks page covers the exceptions.
• Refunds. SOAX's terms say "Credits are non-refundable". Exceptional refunds cover a duplicate charge, a confirmed service failure, a termination by SOAX, or a case SOAX judges fit. We refund unused balance for 14 days, back to the card or crypto you paid with, under our refund policy. Traffic you already used is not refunded.
• Payment. SOAX takes "most major credit and debit cards", with bank transfer for approved business accounts. We take card, crypto, Alipay, Pix and QRIS, starting at $3 in crypto and $10 by card and the others.

Where SOAX is the better pick

• Several TB a month on Enterprise, where its Tier 1 rate falls from $0.85 to $0.50.
• Traffic through cheaper countries, where Tier 3 rates go down to $0.35.
• ZIP and ASN targeting, from its Scale plan up. We offer ASN on Premium, but no ZIP.
• Session control by rule, such as rotating every N requests or on a timer up to a week.
• Residential and mobile on one rate, from one credit balance.

Where HProxy is the better pick

• United States traffic below Enterprise volume, where Premium costs less than every smaller SOAX plan from 50 GB, and Lite less than all of them.
• No expiry clock. Our GB keep, where SOAX credits lapse after 60 days.
• No verification before buying. Sign up and top up.
• A refund window. 14 days on unused balance, crypto included.
• More ways to pay: card, crypto, Alipay, Pix and QRIS, as payment options lists. All four of our proxy types, residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, draw on the same balance.

Who should pick which

Pick SOAX if you move several TB a month on Enterprise, send most traffic through cheaper countries, or need ZIP targeting and rule-based rotation, and can pass its verification.

Pick HProxy for United States and other Tier 1 traffic below that scale, or wherever you want GB that keep and no verification first. Lite suits work that needs only a country. Premium suits work that needs a state, a city, a network, a device, UDP or a long session.

Try it before you decide

Neither of us gives a free trial, so test the setup first. Our free proxy checker checks a tool's proxy settings, and the live free proxy list gives you addresses to try. Residential traffic starts at $0.50 per GB for one GB, and our pricing page has the rest. How to avoid IP bans while scraping and how to vet a proxy provider apply to either network. Our SOAX review covers the rest of SOAX. For the other big names, see our Oxylabs and Bright Data comparisons. The cheapest residential proxies in 2026 puts SOAX beside the market.

Limits of this comparison

• No proxy tests. This page measured no traffic through SOAX's network or ours. Speed, success rates and blocks are left out.
• Pool sizes. SOAX's pool figure is its own claim, and we make none about ours.
• Country tiers. SOAX's FAQ names only the United States and India. We did not list every country's tier.
• VAT. SOAX's plan prices and rates are shown before VAT.
• Our balance. HProxy GB have no scheduled expiry date. Our terms cover the pool behind a product for 30 days after each purchase.
• One day. Prices and terms change without notice. Check again after December 22, 2026.

Sources

• SOAX, pricing page with its billing FAQ, read through our server on October 22, 2026.
• SOAX developer docs: residential proxies and access restrictions, read October 22, 2026.
• SOAX, KYC and KYB policy and Terms of Use with the Billing and Refund Policy, both effective June 1, 2026, read October 22, 2026.
• HProxy, our catalog and the product sheet in our dashboard, October 22, 2026.
• HProxy, refund policy, identity checks page, terms and checkout minimums, October 22, 2026.
• Google Keyword Planner, read October 22, 2026: "soax" 12,100 searches a month worldwide, "soax proxy" 1,900.