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proxyan.net alternatives: what to check before you switch

Weighing up proxyan.net? What is actually published, what it does not tell you, and how to settle the decision on your own target for a few dollars.

HProxy Team··4 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

The useful question is never whether proxyan.net is good. It is whether it fits the job you are about to run, on your target, this month. A proxy provider that suits one workload is wrong for the next one.

What we know about proxyan.net, and what we do not

Their site is proxyan.net.

We have no verified current rate for proxyan.net 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.

Take down four numbers and a date: reachable rate, minimum purchase, commitment for the floor rate, and expiry period. Anything less and you cannot compare them to anyone.

The site, as it reads today

The title tag on 9 September 2026 was "Buy Proxies from Multiple Providers on PROXYAN". The blurb under their search result reads: "Buy proxies with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Proxies are available with support for HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5, IP whitelisting or username and password authentication, an API for automation, and flexible IP rotation or replacement options."

Taken from the same page, on the same day:

The product lines named on that page are residential, datacenter, ISP or static residential, mobile, SOCKS5 and IPv6. They advertise 200 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: crypto, cards and Wise or Payoneer. The page offers some form of free trial. We found no separate pricing page linked from the homepage, which usually means the price arrives by quotation.

That is the vendor speaking, not us. We print it because a claim with a date attached is at least falsifiable.

Age, and why it matters here

The domain was registered on 8 July 2012, through Beget LLC, which makes it about 14 years old. Checked against the registry on 23 April 2026. The registration currently runs to 8 July 2026.

None of it predicts success rate. It is here because domain age and archive depth are free to check, and a provider whose public record starts last quarter deserves a smaller first order.

What you still do not know after reading their site

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.

Who pays for the requests that fail

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.

The limit that stops the job

A plan with generous traffic and a low thread limit is a slow plan. Find both numbers before you size anything, because the smaller of the two is your actual ceiling.

The two of us, on the questions that matter

Compare on these rows and ignore the feature lists on both sites:

Question to askproxyan.netHProxy
Entry priceNot verified by us, read their pageFrom $0.44/GB, pay as you go
Does unused balance expire?Read their current termsNever
Minimum commitmentOn their own terms pageNone
Identity checksNot published clearly, ask before payingCard orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested
TargetingCheck the current terms, this one movesCountry, city and ISP
Free way to evaluateTheir terms page answers thisFree proxy list and proxy checker

Treat the right-hand column as a claim by an interested party, because it is one. Every line in it is checkable on our own pages and in our own terms.

What to do instead of reading more comparisons

The steps below take about ten minutes and settle the question properly.

  1. Put a few dollars on each account. Trials are fine for a first look, but paid traffic is what you will actually be buying.
  2. Run them against the site you actually care about, using the code you actually run, within the same hour.
  3. Track the success rate and the bandwidth. A cheap gigabyte that fails half the time is not cheap.
  4. Run a sample of the addresses through an independent lookup, because advertised geography and actual geography differ more often than the market admits.
  5. Keep the winner, and repeat the whole thing quarterly, because pools age.

Comparable providers

We hold the same record for these, and the same honest limits apply to each:

Our own position

Our end of it is a wallet, four proxy types and no contract. Residential begins at $0.44 per GB and the balance does not expire. The free proxy list and checker are open to anyone, and they are the fastest way to see how we treat measurement before you spend anything.

Frequently asked questions

Why look for a proxyan.net 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.
What does proxyan.net advertise?
We do not hold a current, sourced price for proxyan.net, so this page does not print one. Read their own pricing page for the rate, the minimum and the commitment, and note the date you read it, because all three move.
How do I compare two providers fairly?
Match the units first, because residential is billed per gigabyte, datacenter and ISP per address, and mobile per day or per port. Then compare the rate you can actually reach today rather than the volume tier behind a commitment. Finish by measuring the success rate on your own target, since a cheap request that fails costs more than a dearer one that works.
Is a cheaper provider usually worse?
Not reliably. Price in this market reflects the supply model and the sales overhead as much as the network. What price does not tell you is the success rate on your target, and that is the figure that decides whether the cheaper option was cheap or expensive. Measure before assuming either way.
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.

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