Readers land here mid-decision, usually with a cart open somewhere. The fastest thing we can do is set out what Plainenglish publishes, what it does not, and what a few dollars of testing settles better than any argument.
What we can and cannot tell you about Plainenglish
The company behind the name sits at plainenglish.io.
Plainenglish is not in our priced record, so nothing about their rate appears below. That gap is stated rather than filled, which is the only honest option available.
Copy down the entry rate, the commitment attached to the cheapest rate, the minimum top-up and the expiry rule. Those four turn a marketing figure into something you can compare.
What Plainenglish says about itself today
Read 9 September 2026, the homepage titles itself "In Plain English".
The rest of what the page puts in writing:
The product lines named on that page are a scraping or SERP API. They advertise 200 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: crypto. 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.
What they have built around the product
Our own crawl reached 4.215 of their pages, last run 19 June 2026. The mix was 7 blog pages.
That mix tells you how the company sells. Heavy location pages mean a geography-led pitch, heavy blog means a search-led one, and a single pricing page usually means one simple offer or one sales call.
What the timestamps show
Our crawl of their site found 4,215 pages carrying a date. The oldest is from August 2026 and the newest from August 2026. 4,215 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.
An actively maintained site is table stakes rather than a recommendation. It does rule out the failure that costs buyers the most here, which is prepaying a company that has quietly stopped.
The parts no marketing page answers
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.
Why an old benchmark is wrong
Every review of this market, this one included, is a photograph of a moving thing. Read the date on any comparison you find, and discount it heavily once it is more than a few months old.
What actually caps your 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.
Side by side, with the blanks left blank
This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:
| Question to ask | Plainenglish | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Their terms page answers this | None |
| Identity checks | Check the current terms, this one moves | 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 |
That comparison covers what is publishable. What is not publishable, and what actually decides this, is how many of your requests come back correct.
A test worth more than this comparison
Do this once and you will never need a comparison page for this decision again.
- 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.
- 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.
Who else is in this bracket
The same treatment, applied to the providers most often weighed against this one:
- LegionProxy alternatives
- Lemonclub alternatives
- LightningProxies alternatives
- Linkcentre alternatives
- Linken Sphere alternatives
- Linkideo alternatives
The competing offer, for completeness
We are the pay as you go option in this market. Residential from $0.44 per GB, ISP and datacenter per address, mobile alongside them, all from one balance with nothing to forfeit. That model wins on irregular volume and loses on very large steady volume, which is worth knowing before you test.
