Most pages titled "LightningProxies alternative" are affiliate lists with the payout order baked in. This one is written by a rival, which is a different bias and an easier one to correct for, because you can check every number we print.
LightningProxies on the record
The company behind the name sits at lightningproxies.net. We carry them as a proxy provider.
A price is missing here on purpose. We have not captured a sourced rate for LightningProxies recently enough to publish one, and a stale number in this market is a wrong number.
Their pricing page will answer three of the four questions that matter. Send an email for the fourth, which is usually whether blocked requests are billed, and keep the reply.
What LightningProxies says about itself today
On 9 September 2026 their homepage carried the title "Proxy Provider for Web Data, LightningProxies". In the description they hand to search engines: "Access 20M+ residential, mobile, ISP, datacenter and IPv6 proxies with precise geo-targeting for web scraping, SERP monitoring and market research."
The rest of what the page puts in writing:
The product lines named on that page are residential, datacenter, ISP or static residential, mobile, SOCKS5, IPv6 and a scraping or SERP API. They advertise 250 countries or locations. The page offers some form of free trial. Support is advertised as around the clock. Their pricing page is titled "Residential Proxy Pricing - From $4.50/GB, Lightning".
That is the vendor speaking, not us. We print it because a claim with a date attached is at least falsifiable.
What the registration record shows
The domain was registered on 25 November 2022, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 3 years old. Those dates come from a registry query on 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 20 snapshots of the site, the earliest from January 2023. Their registration is booked through 25 November 2032.
Age is not quality. A long registration does not make a network good, and a new one does not make it bad. What it does rule out is the shortest-lived pattern in this market, which is a site that appears, sells, and is gone inside a year.
The shape of their site
A crawl of 139 pages on 18 June 2026 returned 28 blog pages, 6 pricing pages, 50 location pages and 6 use-case pages.
Read it as a map of what they emphasise. It is our count, from our crawler, on the date shown, and it is the only figure on this page that neither of us can dispute.
The activity record
Our crawl of their site found 89 pages carrying a date, 22 of them articles. The oldest is from June 2026 and the newest from June 2026. 89 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.
Recent dates prove somebody is still at the keyboard. They prove nothing about the network, which is what the test at the end of this page is for.
Where published figures stop being useful
Ten million addresses, and none of them yours
Claims of ten million, one hundred million or more say nothing about whether your requests get through this week. Your job meets the handful of exits it draws, in your countries, against one target. Rotation policy and freshness move that outcome far more than the headline total.
The entry price is not the effective price
Rates in this market are quoted from the bottom of the table. The relevant question is which row you land on at your volume, and whether reaching a cheaper row costs more in commitment than it saves per unit.
Threads, not gigabytes, are often the ceiling
Rate limits are often enforced per account rather than per plan, which means buying more traffic does not raise them. Confirm how yours scales before you assume a bigger plan runs faster.
A comparison that admits what it cannot say
The table answers what we can answer and marks what we cannot:
| Question to ask | LightningProxies | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Check the current terms, this one moves | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Read their current terms | None |
| Identity checks | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Read their current terms | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
We would rather show an incomplete table than a confident wrong one. Anything we could not source is left for you to read at the source, with the date you read it.
The ten minute version of this decision
For a few dollars you can get a verdict specific to your job, which no comparison page can honestly promise you.
- Buy the minimum each side offers. Prefer a small paid batch over a trial, because trial traffic does not always ride the same pool.
- Send an identical workload through each: same target, same tooling, same time of day, same request mix.
- Log successes, failures and gigabytes used. Cost per successful request is the figure you are after.
- Verify a slice of the exits independently. Country labels in this market are self-reported and are not always right.
- Take the winner and set a reminder to run this again, since a result has a shelf life of about a quarter.
Others in this market
Nearest alternatives by product shape rather than by who pays us, since nobody does:
- SERPHouse alternatives
- Setupad alternatives
- ShadowProxies alternatives
- Shakergainske alternatives
- Shanchendaili (闪臣代理) alternatives
- Shellfire alternatives
Where HProxy sits in that test
Our own lane is easy to state. Residential starts at $0.44 per GB, the balance is topped up when you want and does not expire, there is no subscription unless the optional discount suits you, and city and ISP targeting are included rather than sold separately. If the test above puts us second on your target, buy the winner.
