We keep a record of what providers in this market charge and what happens to them over time. This page is the part of that record covering NordVPN (SOCKS5), written up for somebody deciding today.
Read this first if you want a VPN
NordVPN (SOCKS5) is a VPN. HProxy sells proxies. If what you want is an encrypted tunnel for all of your traffic, with an app that protects the whole device, buy a VPN and stop reading here. We would rather lose the click than take a customer who needed something else.
The difference in one line: a VPN routes everything through one encrypted tunnel and hides your traffic from the network you are on. A proxy routes one application or one request through a chosen address, gives you control over which address and which country, and does not encrypt anything by itself. A VPN is for privacy on a network you do not trust. A proxy is for controlling where a request appears to come from.
If you are switching away from NordVPN (SOCKS5) because you kept hitting blocks while automating something, or because you needed a specific city or a stable address per session, that is a proxy problem and this page is for you. If you are switching because you want cheaper streaming or a better mobile app, it is not.
NordVPN (SOCKS5) on the record
NordVPN (SOCKS5) operates from nordvpn.com.
What we do not hold is a current, sourced price for NordVPN (SOCKS5). Rather than print a figure we cannot stand behind, this page leaves it out and tells you what to look for when you read their page yourself.
Read their page for the reachable rate rather than the headline, the minimum spend, the expiry clause and the billing treatment of blocked requests. Write down the date, because all four move.
What is on their front page
On 9 September 2026 their homepage carried the title "Just a moment...".
Also on the page, stated plainly:
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.
The domain record
The domain was registered on 20 September 2012, through EuroDNS S.A, which makes it about 13 years old. Those dates come from a registry query on 23 April 2026. Their registration is booked through 20 September 2026.
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 parts no marketing page answers
The country total, and the country you use
Country totals are counted generously across this whole market. A country with a handful of addresses counts the same as one with hundreds of thousands. If your work depends on one location, test that location before you switch.
Match the units before anything else
Work out what your job actually consumes, in gigabytes or in concurrent addresses, before you look at any price. Without that number, no two quotations in this market can be compared at all.
What happens when it breaks at two in the morning
Test the support channel before you need it. Ask something specific and technical, and judge both the speed and whether the answer came from somebody who understood the question.
Side by side, with the blanks left blank
The rows that matter, with our own answers stated plainly:
| Question to ask | NordVPN (SOCKS5) | 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 | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | On their own terms page | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
Two notes on that table. The rows we left for you to check are not evasions: those terms change, and printing a stale figure is exactly the failure this page is trying to avoid. And no table can hold the number that should decide your purchase, which is the success rate on your own target.
How to settle it yourself in ten minutes
Run this before you commit any volume. It replaces every opinion on this page, including ours.
- Open an account on each and add the smallest amount they take. Skip the trial if a paid unit is cheap enough to buy outright.
- Point both at your real target, through your real tool, on the same day, with the same mix of requests.
- Count how many requests returned what you wanted, and how much bandwidth each side spent doing it.
- Spot-check the exits. Confirm they are in the country you paid for and the connection type you were sold.
- Take the winner and set a reminder to run this again, since a result has a shelf life of about a quarter.
Who else is in this bracket
The same treatment, applied to the providers most often weighed against this one:
- Enot alternatives
- Entireweb alternatives
- Evomi alternatives
- Exactseek alternatives
- Expatshield alternatives
- Expressvpn alternatives
To repeat the thing at the top, because it is the honest answer and not a hedge: if you want a VPN, buy a VPN. We are a reasonable answer only when the job is controlling where a request comes from rather than hiding what you send.
Where HProxy sits in that test
HProxy is pay as you go from $0.44 per GB on residential, with ISP, mobile and datacenter under one balance and no commitment attached to any of them. Run the test. If we lose on your target, we lose, and you have your answer.
