Comparison

Proxybrowser is blocked or down: what to use instead

Comparing a Proxybrowser alternative? The published numbers, the questions their pricing page leaves open, and a ten minute test that beats every review.

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.

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A comparison written by a competitor is worth reading only if it says where the competitor loses. That rule shapes this page about Proxybrowser, and the last section names the reader who should stay put.

What we can and cannot tell you about Proxybrowser

Proxybrowser operates from proxybrowser.info. Our classification for them is web proxy.

What we do not hold is a current, sourced price for Proxybrowser. Rather than print a figure we cannot stand behind, this page leaves it out and tells you what to look for when you read their page yourself.

Their pricing page will answer three of the four questions that matter. Send an email for the fourth, which is usually whether blocked requests are billed, and keep the reply.

What is on their front page

On 9 September 2026 their homepage carried the title "proxybrowser.info". The blurb under their search result reads: "Find information, resources and relevant links for proxybrowser.info. This domain may be for sale."

Reading the same page for the things buyers actually ask about:

We found no separate pricing page linked from the homepage, which usually means the price arrives by quotation.

Treat all of it as advertising, because it is. Its value is that it is dated and quotable, which is more than most comparison pages offer.

Longevity, on the public record

The domain was registered on 1 May 2026, through Dynadot Inc, which makes it about 0 years old. Registry data as of 9 September 2026. It is paid up until 1 May 2027.

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.

Where published figures stop being useful

Logging, and who can read it

Free and cheap services are paid for somehow. Read the privacy policy for what is retained, for how long, and whether traffic is inspected or altered. This matters more than speed for anything involving an account.

Why the pool number is the least useful figure

The number that matters is how many usable exits you can reach in the one country your job needs, this week. A pool total averages that away, which is why two providers with similar totals produce opposite results on the same site.

The reputation you inherit

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.

A comparison that admits what it cannot say

The rows below are the ones that change what you pay and whether the job runs:

Question to askProxybrowserHProxy
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 commitmentRead their current termsNone
Identity checksWorth confirming in writing before you commitCard orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested
TargetingRead their current termsCountry, city and ISP
Free way to evaluateWorth confirming in writing before you commitFree proxy list and proxy checker

Nothing in that table settles the decision on its own. It narrows the field to two or three, and then measurement finishes the job.

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. Start with the smallest purchase each vendor allows, so the test costs less than the decision it replaces.
  2. Use your own scraper and your own target. A benchmark against a neutral site measures nothing you will experience.
  3. Count how many requests returned what you wanted, and how much bandwidth each side spent doing it.
  4. Spot-check the exits. Confirm they are in the country you paid for and the connection type you were sold.
  5. Keep whichever pool won on your job. Re-run this whenever success rate drops or the bill moves.

Who else is in this bracket

The same treatment, applied to the providers most often weighed against this one:

Our side of it

We sell residential proxies from $0.44 per GB with no subscription and a balance that does not expire, plus ISP, mobile and datacenter in the same account. That is the pitch, and the test above is a better judge of it than this paragraph.

Frequently asked questions

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.
Are free web proxies safe to log in through?
Treat them as unsafe for anything involving an account. A web proxy sits between you and the site and can read and alter what passes through it, and many are funded by advertising injected into the pages they serve. Use them for reading, not for signing in.

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