Comparison

Proxy Store alternatives: what to check before you switch

A Proxy Store alternative, judged by a competitor who says so up front: the record we hold, the gaps in it, and the test that outranks this page.

HProxy Team··5 min read
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Free proxies won't hold up here.

Shared datacenter IPs get flagged and dropped fast. When it has to hold, gaming, streaming, accounts, you need mobile and residential IPs that read as a real device, from $0.44/GB, pay as you go.

Residential proxies

You can settle this yourself for less than the price of lunch. That is the argument of this page, and the sections before the test exist to tell you what to measure once you start.

Proxy Store on the record

The domain is proxy-store.com. They are filed here as a proxy provider.

Proxy Store 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.

Note the price, the unit it is quoted in, the minimum, and the expiry. Unit and expiry are where most comparisons in this market quietly go wrong.

How Proxy Store presents itself

Read 9 September 2026, the homepage titles itself "Buy proxies - Datacenter, Residential, Mobile, Proxy-Store". The blurb under their search result reads: "Buy proxies the smart way. Private, dedicated, SOCKS5, IPv4. High Quality. Fast Speeds. No Subnet Bans. 24/7 Support, Proxy-Store"

Also on the page, stated plainly:

The product lines named on that page are residential, datacenter, mobile and SOCKS5. They advertise 195 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: crypto and cards. Support is advertised as around the clock. A refund or money-back term is mentioned. Their pricing page is titled "Buy proxies - Datacenter, Residential, Mobile, Proxy-Store".

Nothing there has been tested. It is a record of what the page said on the day, which is the honest limit of what a page like this can offer without a measurement.

Longevity, on the public record

The domain was registered on 24 August 2017, through Internet Domain Service BS Corp, which makes it about 9 years old. Registry data as of 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 20 snapshots of the site, the earliest from May 2019. It is paid up until 24 August 2027.

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.

How much site there is

We crawled 1.200 pages of their site on 18 June 2026 and found 158 blog pages.

Read it as a map of what they emphasise. It is our count, from our crawler, on the date shown, and it is the only figure on this page that neither of us can dispute.

What the timestamps show

Our crawl of their site found 1,200 pages carrying a date, 158 of them articles. The oldest is from August 2026 and the newest from August 2026. 1,200 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.

Recent dates prove somebody is still at the keyboard. They prove nothing about the network, which is what the test at the end of this page is for.

What the advertised numbers cannot tell you

Ten million addresses, and none of them yours

Claims of ten million, one hundred million or more say nothing about whether your requests get through this week. Your job meets the handful of exits it draws, in your countries, against one target. Rotation policy and freshness move that outcome far more than the headline total.

Shared or dedicated changes everything

Ask how many accounts can sit on one address at once. Where the answer is unlimited or unspecified, price the plan as shared regardless of what the product is called.

What a blocked response costs you

Divide the spend by the successful responses, not by the requests sent. That single change reorders most price comparisons in this market, and your accounting will use it eventually anyway.

What separates them, in a table

The table answers what we can answer and marks what we cannot:

Question to askProxy StoreHProxy
Entry priceNot verified by us, read their pageFrom $0.44/GB, pay as you go
Does unused balance expire?On their own terms pageNever
Minimum commitmentTheir terms page answers thisNone
Identity checksCheck the current terms, this one movesCard orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested
TargetingTheir terms page answers thisCountry, city and ISP
Free way to evaluateCheck the current terms, this one movesFree 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.

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.

  1. Buy the minimum each side offers. Prefer a small paid batch over a trial, because trial traffic does not always ride the same pool.
  2. Send an identical workload through each: same target, same tooling, same time of day, same request mix.
  3. Log successes, failures and gigabytes used. Cost per successful request is the figure you are after.
  4. Verify a slice of the exits independently. Country labels in this market are self-reported and are not always right.
  5. 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:

The competing offer, for completeness

HProxy suits buyers who want to add funds, send traffic and stop thinking about it. Residential from $0.44 per GB, no commitment, nothing expiring. Buyers who need procurement paperwork and a named account manager are better served elsewhere, and we would rather say so here than waste your afternoon.

Frequently asked questions

Why look for a Proxy Store alternative at all?
The usual reasons any buyer compares two providers: the pricing model stopped fitting the usage pattern, a target started blocking, a specific country underperformed, a balance expired, or support went quiet. None of those is visible from a marketing page, which is why a small paid test on your own target settles it faster than any review.
How is HProxy different?
The models differ more than the products do. HProxy is pay as you go from a balance you top up when you want, the balance does not expire, there is no subscription unless the optional discount suits you, and residential starts at $0.44 per GB with city and ISP targeting included. Whether that beats a tiered plan depends on your usage pattern, which a short test settles.
Do I have to talk to sales or sign a contract to switch?
Not with us. You can sign up, add funds and send traffic without a call, a minimum or a subscription. Whether another provider requires any of those is on their own pricing page and is worth reading, because a required commitment is part of the price even when it is not part of the rate.
How often should I re-test a provider?
Quarterly is a reasonable rhythm for most workloads, and immediately after a noticeable drop in success rate. Pools are rebuilt, suppliers change and detection improves, so a benchmark from last year describes a network that no longer exists.
Does a bigger pool mean better results?
No. Your job meets only the exits it draws, in the countries it needs, against one target's defences. Freshness and rotation policy move the outcome far more than the headline total, and pool totals across this market are counted generously and rarely audited.

Proxies that don't die mid-job

Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.

129M+ proxy checks run · 100+ countries · HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS · re-checked every few minutes · no signup