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.
Why a proxy company is writing about PrivateVPN
PrivateVPN 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 PrivateVPN 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.
Everything we can stand behind
You will find them at privatevpn.com.
We have no verified current rate for PrivateVPN on file. Printing a guess would make this page worse than useless, so the price row below is empty and the reading list is not.
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.
Their own description, read this week
In the description they hand to search engines: "Experience lightning-fast internet access and military-grade privacy with PrivateVPN. Unblock media and surf securely with us today!"
The rest of what the page puts in writing:
A refund or money-back term is mentioned. Their pricing page is titled "Just a moment...".
Every line above is a quotation from their marketing rather than a measurement by us. It is included because it is checkable, not because it is evidence of performance.
How far back the record goes
The domain was registered on 3 August 2009, through Name SRS AB, which makes it about 17 years old. The lookup behind those dates ran on 9 September 2026. As things stand the domain is held to 3 August 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.
What our crawl found
We crawled 734 pages of their site on 19 June 2026 and found 353 blog 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.
How active PrivateVPN still is
Our crawl of their site found 733 pages carrying a date, 352 of them articles. The oldest is from December 2013 and the newest from August 2026. 67 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.
Read that as a liveness check rather than a review. It says the lights are on, and nothing about whether the proxies work on your target.
What buyers type into Google about them
Search volume around the name runs to 280 a month, split as 210 a month for a review of them and 70 a month for their pricing. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
The biggest slice is people checking whether to trust it, so the useful thing to hand a reader is evidence rather than an opinion.
At up to $5.01 a click, these are expensive words. Worth remembering when a review ranks first and happens to recommend whoever pays the most.
The questions behind the numbers
Why 195 countries tells you nothing
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.
Per gigabyte against per address
Half this market prices bandwidth and half prices addresses. A per-address plan is cheap for heavy traffic through few exits and ruinous for light traffic through many, and the reverse holds for per-gigabyte plans.
Networks age, so re-test quarterly
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.
The comparison, honestly framed
Set the two side by side on the questions that decide the outcome, rather than on feature counts:
| Question to ask | PrivateVPN | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Read their current terms | 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 |
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.
- Take the smallest paid unit each provider will sell you. A free trial works for a first pass, though trials sometimes ride better pools than paid plans do.
- Fire the same batch through both on one afternoon. Different days are different conditions, and that ruins the comparison.
- 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.
- Go with whichever performed, then measure again next quarter. Networks change underneath you.
The rest of the shortlist
Buyers comparing this name usually have two or three of these open in other tabs:
- Muaproxy alternatives
- Mullvad alternatives
- Multilogin alternatives
- MultiProxy alternatives
- Multiwebproxy alternatives
- MyPrivateProxy alternatives
The disclaimer at the top stands at the bottom too. We are not the answer to "which VPN next". We are the answer to "I need requests to come from somewhere specific, reliably".
Our own position
Residential starts at $0.44 per GB, the balance never expires, there is no minimum commitment and no sales call, and city and ISP targeting are included. We publish our free side openly, 129,131,311 verification checks and counting, because a network that is confident has no reason to fear measurement.
