Readers land here mid-decision, usually with a cart open somewhere. The fastest thing we can do is set out what Proxy Cheap publishes, what it does not, and what a few dollars of testing settles better than any argument.
What is on their pricing page
Read from their own public pricing pages on 10 August 2026, and stated as advertised rather than as verified by us:
- Datacenter: $1.49 per IP on none stated; 15% promotional discount off $1.75 list.
- ISP: $2.12 per IP on none stated; 15% promotional discount off $2.49 list.
- Mobile: from $5.99 per GB on none - 1 GB minimum purchase.
- Residential: $0.78 per GB on not published; 70% off a $2.60 regular rate, per-tier GB thresholds unknown.
Every one of those is a published rate rather than a measured outcome. That is not a criticism of Proxy Cheap: our own page is built from the same material. It is the reason the rest of this comparison is about what published rates leave out.
What is on their front page
As of 9 September 2026 the tab reads "Buy Proxies: Residential, Mobile, ISP and Datacenter, Proxy-Cheap". The blurb under their search result reads: "Buy proxies with pay-as-you-go pricing and no monthly commitment. Residential, mobile, ISP, and datacenter IPs across 180+ countries. Cancel anytime."
The rest of what the page puts in writing:
The product lines named on that page are residential, datacenter, ISP or static residential, mobile, SOCKS5 and IPv6. They advertise 180 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: PayPal, crypto, Alipay and cards. Support is advertised as around the clock. A refund or money-back term is mentioned. Their pricing page is titled "Just a moment...".
That is the vendor speaking, not us. We print it because a claim with a date attached is at least falsifiable.
Longevity, on the public record
The domain was registered on 13 November 2018, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 7 years old. Those dates come from a registry query on 23 April 2026. Their registration is booked through 13 November 2029.
Read that as a floor rather than a recommendation. Longevity says somebody has kept paying the registrar, and in a market with this much churn that is worth ten seconds of your attention.
How much site there is
We crawled 3.649 pages of their site on 18 June 2026 and found 192 blog pages, 2.424 location pages and 330 use-case 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.
Whose list this is
We checked this one by hand on 6 September 2026. It is a list, and we record the operator as a company that sells proxies.
The operator sells proxies. Free lists run by vendors exist to demonstrate the limits of free, which they do honestly enough, and they are not disinterested about the conclusion.
The Internet Archive has it from 10 May 2019 to 7 January 2026, about 8 years of coverage. The domain was registered 13 November 2018 through NameCheap, Inc.
Every list in this category has the same underlying problem, which is decay. We measure it on our own network and publish it: 4023 alive right now out of 589918 ever discovered, median lifespan 145 hours. A list is only as good as its last check.
The demand around this name
The Keyword Planner puts brand demand at 150 a month: 110 a month for a review of them and 40 a month for their pricing. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
Weighted towards people checking whether to trust it. A comparison that ignores that and opens with a pitch has misread the room.
Advertisers bid up to $36.15 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.
Where published figures stop being useful
Who else is using your address
A shared address arrives with a history you did not create and cannot see. For read-only work it rarely matters. For anything that keeps a session, it is the most common cause of unexplained failure.
The line item hidden in the success rate
Some vendors bill every request, some bill only successful ones, and the difference is the whole comparison once a target starts blocking. A cheap rate with a fifty percent success rate is twice its advertised price.
What actually caps your throughput
Rate limits are often enforced per account rather than per plan, which means buying more traffic does not raise them. Confirm how yours scales before you assume a bigger plan runs faster.
A comparison that admits what it cannot say
This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:
| Question to ask | Proxy Cheap | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Published, see above, dated 10 August 2026 | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Check the current terms, this one moves | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Not published clearly, ask before paying | None |
| Identity checks | On their own terms page | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Read their current terms | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | 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.
The ten minute version of this decision
For a few dollars you can get a verdict specific to your job, which no comparison page can honestly promise you.
- Start with the smallest purchase each vendor allows, so the test costs less than the decision it replaces.
- Use your own scraper and your own target. A benchmark against a neutral site measures nothing you will experience.
- 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.
- Buy the one that won on your target, and diarise a re-test in three months.
The other names that come up
Other providers in the same bracket, priced and dated the same way:
- proxybox.io alternatives
- ProxyBR alternatives
- Proxybrief alternatives
- ProxyBroker (OSS tool) alternatives
- Proxybros alternatives
- ProxyBunker alternatives
Our side of it
What we offer is one account holding residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter, priced from $0.44 per GB on residential, with no tier to climb and no allocation to lose at month end. Whether that suits you depends on how steady your volume is.
