PlainProxies is a legitimate mid-market proxy provider, and if you landed here while comparing options, the useful thing we can hand you is not a hit piece. It is the advertised numbers laid side by side, the questions the marketing pages of every provider leave unanswered, and a test you can run tonight for a few euros that outranks every review on the internet, including this one. We compete with them, so read our bias into every line and check the numbers yourself.
What PlainProxies advertises
Taken from its own public pages in September 2026, stated as advertised rather than as verified by us:
- Residential proxies from €0.55 per GB, drawing on a claimed pool of 25M+ IPs across 195+ countries.
- An unlimited residential product billed per day rather than per gigabyte.
- ISP proxies priced per IP and a small datacenter line priced per month.
- A free trial with no credit card, and payments spanning cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay and major crypto.
That is a sensible, complete product menu, and the no-card trial is genuinely buyer-friendly. Note what the list is made of, though: advertised prices and claimed pool sizes. Every provider's page is built from the same two materials, ours included, which is why the rest of this comparison is about what those materials do not tell you.
What advertised numbers cannot tell you
Pool size is not success rate
A 25M+ claim, a 4M+ claim, a 100M+ claim: none of them predicts whether your requests get through on your target this week. What your job meets is the handful of exits you draw, in your countries, against your site's bot defenses. Pool freshness and rotation policy move that outcome far more than raw pool size does. The only measurement that matters is run on your own target, which is what the test at the bottom is for.
Entry price is not effective price
From €0.55/GB is a fine headline. The real number depends on which tier your volume lands in, what the minimum purchase is, and above all what happens to traffic you paid for but did not use. Expiring balances quietly raise the price of every gigabyte you actually consumed. Whatever provider you evaluate, find the expiry answer before the price impresses you. We put the whole market's entry prices in one table in how much residential proxies cost.
Per-day unlimited is a shape, not a discount
Unlimited products billed per day reward one pattern: extremely heavy, concentrated bursts. If you can saturate a day, they are efficient. If your usage spreads thin across a month, a day-billed unlimited plan is the most expensive way to buy bandwidth. Know which pattern you are before the word unlimited does the deciding.
The comparison, honestly framed
| Question to ask | PlainProxies (advertised) | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price, residential | From €0.55/GB, tiered | From $0.44/GB, flat pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Check their current terms | Never |
| Minimum to start | Free trial, then plan minimums | $2 wallet top-up |
| Identity checks | Check their current terms | No KYC |
| Targeting | Country level advertised | Country, city and ISP |
| Payments | Cards, PayPal, wallets, crypto | Cards, PayPal, Alipay, crypto |
| Trial | Advertised, no card | Free tier: live proxy list and checker |
Two honest observations about that table. First, the rows where we wrote "check their current terms" are not dodges: those answers change, and quoting a stale terms page would be exactly the kind of review we dislike. Second, the table cannot contain the one number that should decide your purchase, the success rate on your target, because nobody's table can. That number is yours to measure.
The ten-minute test that beats this page
- Take the smallest paid unit from each provider you are considering. A trial works for a first pass; a small paid batch is the honest benchmark, since trials sometimes ride better pools.
- Point both at your actual target through your actual tool, same day, same request mix.
- Record success rate and gigabytes consumed for the identical batch.
- Push a sample of exit IPs through an independent proxy checker and confirm the advertised country and connection type are what you actually got.
- Keep the winner. Repeat quarterly, because pools age.
For a few euros you get a verdict specific to your job, which no comparison page, ours or anyone's, can honestly promise you.
Where we fit in that test
Our lane is simple to state: residential proxies starting at $0.44 per GB, a wallet that tops up from $2 and never expires, no KYC, no subscription unless you want the optional discount, city and ISP targeting included, and a network we measure in public, 129,131,311 verification checks and counting on the free side alone. If the test above puts us second on your target, buy the winner. The pitch is the test itself, because a provider confident in its pool has no reason to fear ten minutes of measurement, and that is the fastest way to sort the whole market, one comparison at a time.