Comparison

Proxymania alternatives: what to check before you switch

A Proxymania alternative, judged by a competitor who says so up front: the record we hold, the gaps in it, and the test that outranks this page.

HProxy Team··3 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

People arrive at a proxy provider comparison for one of two reasons: the price moved, or the thing stopped working. This page assumes you are in one of those two positions with Proxymania and wants to be useful in ten minutes rather than impressive in thirty.

What we can and cannot tell you about Proxymania

The company behind the name sits at proxymania.gg. We could not fetch their site automatically on the last attempt. A bot filter is the usual explanation and says nothing about the business.

Proxymania 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.

Look for the tier you would actually land in, not the one at the bottom of the table, and find the expiry and failed-request clauses before the rate impresses you.

What Proxymania says about itself today

On 9 September 2026 their homepage carried the title "proxymania.gg, 526: Invalid SSL certificate".

The rest of what the page puts in writing:

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

None of that is verified performance. It is what the vendor chose to publish, recorded with a date so you can see whether it still says the same thing.

What the advertised numbers cannot tell you

The country total, and the country you use

Almost every provider claims almost every country. What differs is depth, and depth decides whether a single city or a single carrier is usable. No published figure tells you that.

Shared or dedicated changes everything

An address you share carries the reputation of everyone else on it. That is acceptable for some work and fatal for anything involving a login. The price difference between shared and dedicated usually reflects exactly this.

What a blocked response costs you

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.

What separates them, in a table

The rows that matter, with our own answers stated plainly:

Question to askProxymaniaHProxy
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 commitmentTheir terms page answers thisNone
Identity checksCheck the current terms, this one movesCard 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

We would rather show an incomplete table than a confident wrong one. Anything we could not source is left for you to read at the source, with the date you read it.

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. Open an account on each and add the smallest amount they take. Skip the trial if a paid unit is cheap enough to buy outright.
  2. Point both at your real target, through your real tool, on the same day, with the same mix of requests.
  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. Take the winner and set a reminder to run this again, since a result has a shelf life of about a quarter.

Who else is in this bracket

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

Our side of it

HProxy is pay as you go from $0.44 per GB on residential, with ISP, mobile and datacenter under one balance and no commitment attached to any of them. Run the test. If we lose on your target, we lose, and you have your answer.

Frequently asked questions

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

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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