Comparison

Leaving LocalProxies: the numbers side by side

Looking past LocalProxies? Match the units, find the expiry clause, then measure success rate on your own target. This page covers all three.

HProxy Team··4 min read
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Free proxies won't hold up here.

Shared datacenter IPs get flagged and dropped fast. When it has to hold, gaming, streaming, accounts, you need mobile and residential IPs that read as a real device, from $0.44/GB, pay as you go.

Residential proxies

Buyers rarely leave a proxy provider over features. They leave over a bill that grew, a balance that vanished, a country that stopped working, or a support ticket that went unanswered. This page is organised around those four.

What is on file for LocalProxies

Their site is localproxies.com. Their site refused our automated request at the last check, which is common for providers behind a bot filter and is not by itself a sign of trouble.

There is no price in this comparison because we do not have one we can date and attribute. What follows instead is the set of questions that decide the cost once you do read their page.

The four figures worth copying down are the rate without a commitment, the smallest purchase allowed, what happens to unspent balance, and whether a failed request still costs money.

The site, as it reads today

On 9 September 2026 the site introduced itself as "Private Residential Proxies, Boutique Service, LocalProxies". The one-paragraph pitch on their own page: "Private residential proxies sourced with consent in 195+ countries and territories. Sticky sessions, high rotation, HTTPS + SOCKS5. Free 12-hour trial."

What else that page states, without interpretation:

The product lines named on that page are residential and SOCKS5. They advertise 195 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: cards. The page offers some form of free trial. Support is advertised as around the clock. A refund or money-back term is mentioned. We found no separate pricing page linked from the homepage, which usually means the price arrives by quotation.

All of the above is their copy, not our finding. A dated quotation is the weakest kind of evidence that is still evidence.

How long LocalProxies has been trading

The domain was registered on 11 February 2016, through Cloudflare, Inc, which makes it about 10 years old. The lookup behind those dates ran on 9 September 2026. As things stand the domain is held to 11 February 2027.

This proves nothing about the product. It is a cheap check against the one failure mode that costs buyers real money in this market, which is paying a provider that will not exist in six months.

Their published surface

A crawl of 249 pages returned 13 blog pages and 204 location pages.

The number is not a compliment or a criticism. It describes how much of their effort goes into being found, which is worth knowing when you are weighing a marketing claim against a measurement.

What a pricing page leaves out

Why 195 countries tells you nothing

Ask for the pool size in your country rather than in total, and expect the answer to be vague. Where it is not published, the ten minute test at the end of this page settles it for a few dollars.

Per gigabyte against per address

Residential is normally billed per gigabyte, datacenter and ISP per address, mobile per day or per port. Setting one against another produces a number that means nothing. Convert both sides into the unit your own workload consumes.

Concurrency limits decide throughput

Bandwidth is rarely the constraint on a real workload. Concurrent connections, requests per second and per-session caps are, and they are frequently buried in the documentation rather than the pricing page.

The rows that decide it

Set the two side by side on the questions that decide the outcome, rather than on feature counts:

Question to askLocalProxiesHProxy
Entry priceNot verified by us, read their pageFrom $0.44/GB, pay as you go
Does unused balance expire?Not published clearly, ask before payingNever
Minimum commitmentWorth confirming in writing before you commitNone
Identity checksRead their current termsCard orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested
TargetingWorth confirming in writing before you commitCountry, city and ISP
Free way to evaluateRead their current termsFree proxy list and proxy checker

Read the table as a list of questions rather than a scoreboard. The answers on their side move, and the row that decides the outcome, success rate on your target, is not printable by anyone.

The measurement that outranks every review

This costs less than a coffee and produces the only evidence that applies to your workload.

  1. Put a few dollars on each account. Trials are fine for a first look, but paid traffic is what you will actually be buying.
  2. Run them against the site you actually care about, using the code you actually run, within the same hour.
  3. Record the success rate and the data consumed for the identical batch on each side.
  4. Check some of the addresses yourself for country, ASN and type before you trust the label on the plan.
  5. Choose on the measurement, not the marketing, and expect the answer to change within a year.

Where else buyers look

If this one does not fit, these are the nearest comparable providers we have written up, each on the same terms as this page.

Where we fit

The offer, stated once: residential from $0.44 per GB, pay per gigabyte, no subscription, balance does not expire, and free tools that stay usable without an account. Everything above this paragraph applies whether or not you choose us.

Frequently asked questions

Why look for a LocalProxies alternative at all?
The usual reasons any buyer compares two providers: the pricing model stopped fitting the usage pattern, a target started blocking, a specific country underperformed, a balance expired, or support went quiet. None of those is visible from a marketing page, which is why a small paid test on your own target settles it faster than any review.
What does LocalProxies advertise?
We do not hold a current, sourced price for LocalProxies, so this page does not print one. Read their own pricing page for the rate, the minimum and the commitment, and note the date you read it, because all three move.
How do I compare two providers fairly?
Match the units first, because residential is billed per gigabyte, datacenter and ISP per address, and mobile per day or per port. Then compare the rate you can actually reach today rather than the volume tier behind a commitment. Finish by measuring the success rate on your own target, since a cheap request that fails costs more than a dearer one that works.
Is a cheaper provider usually worse?
Not reliably. Price in this market reflects the supply model and the sales overhead as much as the network. What price does not tell you is the success rate on your target, and that is the figure that decides whether the cheaper option was cheap or expensive. Measure before assuming either way.
Do I have to talk to sales or sign a contract to switch?
Not with us. You can sign up, add funds and send traffic without a call, a minimum or a subscription. Whether another provider requires any of those is on their own pricing page and is worth reading, because a required commitment is part of the price even when it is not part of the rate.

Proxies that don't die mid-job

Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.

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