We compete with Mullvad, so treat every line below as coming from an interested party. What follows is the record we hold, the questions their marketing page does not answer, and a test you can run yourself that outranks this page and every other review.
The honest disclaimer: different product
We should be straight before you spend time here. Mullvad is a VPN and HProxy is a proxy network, and they solve different problems even though both change the address a site sees.
A VPN takes all of your device's traffic, encrypts it and pushes it down one tunnel. A proxy takes the traffic you point at it, one app or one request at a time, and sends it from an address you picked, with no encryption of its own.
The reason a proxy company has a page about a VPN is that a real share of people leaving one are leaving because they were trying to do something a VPN was never built for: run many requests, hold a session on one address, or appear in a specific city. If that is you, this page helps. If it is not, buy another VPN.
What we know about Mullvad, and what we do not
You will find them at mullvad.net.
We price the providers we can source and date, and Mullvad is not currently one of them. The rest of this page is about what to check when you read their pricing yourself.
Check the reachable rate, the minimum, the expiry terms and the failure billing, and date your note. A price without those four attached is not a price.
Mullvad in its own words
Their homepage title, read on 9 September 2026: "Mullvad VPN - Privacy is for the people". The one-paragraph pitch on their own page: "Free the internet from mass surveillance and censorship. Fight for privacy with Mullvad VPN and Mullvad Browser."
How far back the record goes
The domain was registered on 10 July 2008, through Domeneshop AS dba domainnameshop.com, which makes it about 18 years old. The lookup behind those dates ran on 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 14 snapshots of the site, the earliest from March 2009. As things stand the domain is held to 10 July 2026.
None of it predicts success rate. It is here because domain age and archive depth are free to check, and a provider whose public record starts last quarter deserves a smaller first order.
What Mullvad publishes
Our own crawl reached 1.495 of their pages, last run 19 June 2026. The mix was 487 blog pages and 22 pricing pages.
Site size is a signal about marketing budget rather than network quality, and the two are frequently unrelated. It is useful for a different reason: a provider with many pricing pages is usually segmenting hard, and a provider with none is selling by quotation.
How recently the site moved
Our crawl of their site found 561 pages carrying a date, 487 of them articles. The oldest is from January 2010 and the newest from August 2026. 54 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.
Timestamps are not quality, and a company still publishing is at least a company still trading. That is worth more than it sounds in a market where providers disappear without notice.
What buyers type into Google about them
Worldwide, the brand carries about 2,450 searches a month: 1,600 a month for their pricing, 590 a month for a review of them and 260 a month for an alternative to them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
The largest share is people trying to work out what it costs, which is the honest starting point for a page like this one.
Advertisers bid up to $5.68 for one of those clicks, which is a useful proxy for what a customer in this market is worth and for how hard the results page is fought over.
What a pricing page leaves out
The entry price is not the effective price
A starting rate is a marketing number. What you pay depends on the tier your volume lands in, the minimum purchase, and what happens to traffic you bought and did not use. An expiring balance quietly raises the price of every unit you did consume.
What happens at the end of the month
Expiry is the quietest price increase in this market. A plan sized for a busy month is expensive in a slow one, and the difference never appears in any comparison table, including ones written by vendors who benefit from it.
What the lowest rate actually costs
A commitment converts a variable cost into a fixed one. That is a good trade at steady volume and a poor one otherwise, and the decision belongs to you rather than to whichever tier looks cheapest per unit.
The rows that decide it
Here are the comparisons that survive contact with a real workload:
| Question to ask | Mullvad | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Check the current terms, this one moves | None |
| Identity checks | Their terms page answers this | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Check the current terms, this one moves | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Their terms page answers this | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
Treat the right-hand column as a claim by an interested party, because it is one. Every line in it is checkable on our own pages and in our own terms.
What to do instead of reading more comparisons
The steps below take about ten minutes and settle the question properly.
- Put a few dollars on each account. Trials are fine for a first look, but paid traffic is what you will actually be buying.
- Run them against the site you actually care about, using the code you actually run, within the same hour.
- Track the success rate and the bandwidth. A cheap gigabyte that fails half the time is not cheap.
- Run a sample of the addresses through an independent lookup, because advertised geography and actual geography differ more often than the market admits.
- Choose on the measurement, not the marketing, and expect the answer to change within a year.
The rest of the shortlist
Buyers comparing this name usually have two or three of these open in other tabs:
- Anonymous Proxies alternatives
- AnonymousProxy alternatives
- AnonymoX alternatives
- Anoox alternatives
- Anyip alternatives
- ArabProxy alternatives
And to close where this started: a proxy is not a VPN replacement for privacy work. If Mullvad was doing the right job for you and you only want it cheaper, this comparison is the wrong page.
Our own position
Our end of it is a wallet, four proxy types and no contract. Residential begins at $0.44 per GB and the balance does not expire. The free proxy list and checker are open to anyone, and they are the fastest way to see how we treat measurement before you spend anything.
