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ProxyGuru alternatives: what to check before you switch

Weighing up ProxyGuru? 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 ProxyGuru 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 is on file for ProxyGuru

You will find them at proxyguru.in.

We have no verified current rate for ProxyGuru 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.

When you do read it, note four things: the rate you actually qualify for today, the minimum purchase, whether unused balance expires, and whether failed requests are billed. Those four decide the real cost more than the headline does.

Their own description, read this week

On 9 September 2026 the site introduced itself as "ProxyGuru: Where Proxy Wisdom Begins!". Their own summary of the product runs: "Welcome to ProxyGuru, your go-to source for Proxies. From in-depth guides to expert reviews, explore and enhance your online experience."

What else that page states, without interpretation:

The product lines named on that page are residential and ISP or static residential. We found no separate pricing page linked from the homepage, which usually means the price arrives by quotation.

Those are claims, and claims are free. They earn their place here only because the date makes them checkable later.

How long ProxyGuru has been trading

The domain was registered on 5 September 2023, through GoDaddy, which makes it about 3 years old. We pulled that from the registry on 9 September 2026. The current registration term ends 5 September 2027.

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

Match the units before anything else

Residential is normally billed per gigabyte, datacenter and ISP per address, mobile per day or per port. Setting one against another produces a number that means nothing. Convert both sides into the unit your own workload consumes.

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.

Why an old benchmark is wrong

Supply changes hands quietly in this industry. The network behind a brand can be replaced with no announcement, which is why a benchmark is a perishable good and a re-test is cheap insurance.

The two of us, on the questions that matter

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

Question to askProxyGuruHProxy
Entry priceNot verified by us, read their pageFrom $0.44/GB, pay as you go
Does unused balance expire?Not published clearly, ask before payingNever
Minimum commitmentCheck the current terms, this one movesNone
Identity checksTheir terms page answers thisCard orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested
TargetingWorth confirming in writing before you commitCountry, city and ISP
Free way to evaluateRead their current termsFree 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.

The measurement that outranks every review

This costs less than a coffee and produces the only evidence that applies to your workload.

  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 ProxyGuru 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 ProxyGuru advertise?
We do not hold a current, sourced price for ProxyGuru, 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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