Comparison

Leaving Proxying: the numbers side by side

Comparing a Proxying 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.

Residential proxies

Before anything about Proxying: pool totals, uptime badges and country counts predict almost nothing about your result. What predicts it is a measured success rate on your own target, and that measurement costs a few dollars.

Proxying on the record

Proxying operates from proxying.io.

A price is missing here on purpose. We have not captured a sourced rate for Proxying recently enough to publish one, and a stale number in this market is a wrong number.

Copy down the entry rate, the commitment attached to the cheapest rate, the minimum top-up and the expiry rule. Those four turn a marketing figure into something you can compare.

What is on their front page

As of 9 September 2026 the tab reads "Buy Fast Residential Proxies, HTTP and SOCKS5 Rotating Proxies". In the description they hand to search engines: "Get ethical, fast 10M+ rotating residential proxies that support HTTP, SOCKS5, UDP for enterprise level web scraping."

The rest of what the page puts in writing:

The product lines named on that page are residential, datacenter, ISP or static residential and SOCKS5. They advertise 195 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: PayPal, crypto and cards. The page offers some form of free trial. Their pricing page is titled "Best Residential Proxy Provider Pricing - Cheap Proxies".

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 June 2022, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 4 years old. Those dates come from a registry query on 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 8 snapshots of the site, the earliest from November 2024. Their registration is booked through 1 June 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.

How much site there is

A crawl of 167 pages on 19 June 2026 returned 118 blog pages, 1 pricing page, 8 location pages, 16 use-case pages and 1 integration page.

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 activity record

Our crawl of their site found 165 pages carrying a date, 116 of them articles. The oldest is from September 2025 and the newest from August 2026. 164 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.

What the advertised numbers cannot tell you

Coverage in the one country you need

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 response time nobody advertises

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.

Nothing here stays true for long

Pools are rebuilt, suppliers change and detection improves. A provider that beat the field last spring may be mid-table now. Nothing in this market stays true long enough to buy once and stop measuring.

What separates them, in a table

This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:

Question to askProxyingHProxy
Entry priceNot verified by us, read their pageFrom $0.44/GB, pay as you go
Does unused balance expire?Check the current terms, this one movesNever
Minimum commitmentNot published clearly, ask before payingNone
Identity checksOn their own terms pageCard 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

Blanks in that table are deliberate. We print what we read and date it, and leave the rest empty rather than repeating something we cannot stand behind.

How to settle it yourself in ten minutes

Run this before you commit any volume. It replaces every opinion on this page, including ours.

  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. Buy the one that won on your target, and diarise a re-test in three months.

Others in this market

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

Where HProxy sits in that test

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

Why look for a Proxying 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 Proxying advertise?
We do not hold a current, sourced price for Proxying, 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.
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.

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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