Comparison

ProxyCompass alternatives when the list stops refreshing

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

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.

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Nothing here is a hit piece. ProxyCompass has customers who are well served by it, and this page says which ones. It also says where we think the model costs a buyer money.

ProxyCompass on the record

ProxyCompass operates from proxycompass.com. Our classification for them is free proxy list.

ProxyCompass 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.

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

Read 9 September 2026, the homepage titles itself "Buy Fast Proxy Servers HTTP and SOCKS5 - ProxyCompass". Their own summary of the product runs: "Get premium proxy servers supporting IPv4, HTTP, HTTPs, SOCKS5 protocols. Fast and private. From 8 cent per IP. ProxyCompass supports your business 24/7."

Taken from the same page, on the same day:

The product lines named on that page are datacenter, ISP or static residential and SOCKS5. They advertise 20 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: crypto and Alipay. The page offers some form of free trial. Support is advertised as around the clock. A refund or money-back term is mentioned. Their pricing page is titled "Proxy Prices - ProxyCompass".

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 10 December 2016, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 9 years old. That record was read from the registry on 23 April 2026. The registry shows it renewed to 10 December 2026.

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.

The shape of their site

We crawled 1.476 pages of their site and found 345 location 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.

The operator, and why it matters

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. Ranks #9 for "free proxy list" (DE results).

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 15 January 2017 to 2 January 2026, about 10 years of coverage. The domain was registered 10 December 2016 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.

Signs of life

Our crawl of their site found 1,476 pages carrying a date. The oldest is from June 2023 and the newest from August 2026. 217 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.

An actively maintained site is table stakes rather than a recommendation. It does rule out the failure that costs buyers the most here, which is prepaying a company that has quietly stopped.

The parts no marketing page answers

A pool total is not a promise

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.

Why 195 countries tells you nothing

Ask for the pool size in your country rather than in total, and expect the answer to be vague. Where it is not published, the ten minute test at the end of this page settles it for a few dollars.

The day something goes wrong

Support quality is invisible until it is the only thing that matters. A cheap provider that takes three days to answer a routing problem has cost you more than the saving, and no pricing page reveals that.

Side by side, with the blanks left blank

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

Question to askProxyCompassHProxy
Entry priceNot verified by us, read their pageFrom $0.44/GB, pay as you go
Does unused balance expire?Worth confirming in writing before you commitNever
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

That comparison covers what is publishable. What is not publishable, and what actually decides this, is how many of your requests come back correct.

A test worth more than this comparison

Do this once and you will never need a comparison page for this decision again.

  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. Measure what came back correctly and what it consumed, then divide the spend by the successes.
  4. Push a sample of exit addresses through an independent checker and confirm the country and connection type are what was advertised.
  5. Take the winner and set a reminder to run this again, since a result has a shelf life of about a quarter.

Others in this market

Nearest alternatives by product shape rather than by who pays us, since nobody does:

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.

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.
Why do free proxy lists stop working so quickly?
Because the addresses on them are mostly misconfigured devices that get fixed, or short-lived hosts that get shut down. We measure this on our own free network: of 589918 addresses discovered, 4023 were answering at the last check. A list without a check date is telling you nothing about today.

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