Thordata does something most of this market avoids. It publishes its entire residential price ladder, every rung from one gigabyte to five thousand, with a real number at the bottom instead of a contact form. That deserves credit before any comparison starts, because the more common pattern is a headline nobody can reach and a sales call to find out the truth.
The comparison then comes down to the rate itself, and to what you have to buy to reach it.
Is HProxy a good Thordata alternative?
For most buyers, yes, and the reason is arithmetic rather than argument. HProxy residential is a flat $0.50/GB, pay as you go from gigabyte one. Thordata starts at $2/GB and works down with volume.
The detail worth knowing before you read any further: Thordata's cheapest published residential rate, $0.65/GB, requires a 5,000 GB single purchase at $3,250 up front. That rate is still higher than our flat $0.50/GB. So unlike Rayobyte or SOAX, where the lines genuinely cross at scale, there is no volume at which Thordata's published residential price falls below what we charge for a single gigabyte.
The short version
- Price: HProxy is a flat $0.50/GB from the first gigabyte. Thordata's entry rate is $2/GB, roughly four times ours.
- The floor: Thordata reaches $0.65/GB on a 5,000 GB purchase ($3,250 up front), which is still above our flat rate.
- Model: both sell single purchases rather than monthly subscriptions, so neither charges you for a quiet month.
- Where Thordata wins: a genuinely published ladder, a real number at the floor, and residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile and scraping APIs under one account.
- The catch: every Thordata tier is permanently framed as a discount off a struck-through price, so the "sale" is the standing price.
Thordata pricing vs HProxy: the part that decides it
Thordata prices residential by the size of the block you buy in one go. The ladder is public and it is honest about what each rung costs, so you can price your own volume without a sales call.
Thordata residential ladder against our flat rate
| Purchase size | Thordata $/GB | Up front | HProxy $/GB |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | $2/GB | $2.00 | $0.50/GB |
| 10 GB | $1.80/GB | $18.00 | $0.50/GB |
| 50 GB | $1.50/GB | $75.00 | $0.50/GB |
| 150 GB | $1.00/GB | $150.00 | $0.50/GB |
| 350 GB | $0.80/GB | $280.00 | $0.50/GB |
| 1,000 GB | $0.73/GB | $730.00 | $0.50/GB |
| 2,000 GB | $0.70/GB | $1,400.00 | $0.44/GB |
| 5,000 GB | $0.65/GB | $3,250.00 | $0.44/GB |
thordata.com pricing and hproxy.com/pricing, read 3 August 2026.
Two things that table settles. Thordata's rate falls steadily and predictably, which is a real virtue, and it never falls below ours. At 50 GB you would pay $75.00 at Thordata against $25 with us. At 1,000 GB the gap narrows but does not close.
One quirk worth naming, because it changes how you read every number above. Every consumer-facing Thordata tier is presented as a discount against a struck-through higher price. A sale that never ends is simply the price, and the struck-through figure beside it is decoration. That does not make the rates wrong, and we quote them as published, but it is worth recognising the pattern so a countdown banner does not rush a purchase.
Where Thordata genuinely wins
It publishes the floor as a number. Most of this market advertises a low rate and then hides the conditions, or replaces the bottom of the ladder with "contact sales". Thordata prints $0.65/GB and prints what it costs to get there. Our whole residential price study exists because that is unusual, and Thordata comes out of it better than most.
Breadth under one account. Residential, static ISP from $1.50/IP, datacenter, mobile from $5/GB, plus a Web Scraper API, a SERP API, a Web Unlocker and a Scraping Browser. If you want several products billed together and do not want to run four vendor relationships, that consolidation is worth something real.
No subscription. Like us, Thordata sells bandwidth as a purchase rather than a recurring plan. A quiet month costs nothing. That is a better model than the monthly-credit vendors whose unused allowance expires, and we are not going to pretend otherwise just because they compete with us.
Where HProxy wins as a Thordata alternative
The rate at every volume you are likely to buy. $0.50/GB flat against $2/GB at entry is roughly four times. At 50 GB it is $1.50 against our flat rate. The gap narrows as the blocks get bigger, and it never reverses.
No block to buy. Our rate does not depend on how much you commit to at once. You top up what you want, and $0.50/GB applies to the first gigabyte and the thousandth alike. Reaching Thordata's better rates means deciding your annual volume up front and paying for it before you have pulled any of it.
A balance that does not expire, and no charge for failures. Credit you top up stays yours, and blocked or errored requests cost nothing, which pulls down your cost per successful request rather than your cost per gigabyte. On a defended target that difference usually matters more than the sticker.
Who should pick which
Pick Thordata if you buy bandwidth in large single blocks, want one account covering residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile and scraping APIs, and value a vendor that publishes its whole ladder rather than gating the bottom behind a sales call.
Pick HProxy if you want the lower rate without deciding your volume in advance, if your usage is irregular, or if you would rather keep a non-expiring balance than commit $3,250 to reach a rate that is still above our starting one.
The mistake we see most often on ladders like this is a buyer sizing their purchase to reach a rate rather than to match their work, then holding bandwidth they do not use. If you are about to commit to a block, price the volume you actually expect to pull first. How much do proxies cost breaks that down by proxy type, and our residential proxy price study compares sixteen providers on exactly this advertised-versus-real axis.
Try it before you decide
You do not have to take a comparison on trust. Test any provider's addresses against your own target with our free proxy checker, which reports the real exit IP, the anonymity level and whether the proxy leaks your address. If you want to see what our network returns on your target before spending anything, that is the fastest way to find out.