Choosing a proxy provider on price alone is the most common and most expensive mistake in this market, because a cheap request that fails costs more than a dearer one that works. That framing runs through the whole page.
The published numbers
Read from their own public pricing pages on 10 August 2026, and stated as advertised rather than as verified by us:
- Datacenter: $100 per month on none stated; homepage headline for the datacenter category.
- Mobile: $50 per month on 50 GB/month bundle.
- Mobile: from $1.10 per GB on none - 'Build Your Own' pay-as-you-go.
- Residential: $49.95 per month on none stated; homepage headline for the residential category.
- Residential: from $1.10 per GB on 100 GB/month plan ($110.00/month).
Every one of those is a published rate rather than a measured outcome. That is not a criticism of Proxyrack: our own page is built from the same material. It is the reason the rest of this comparison is about what published rates leave out.
Proxyrack in its own words
Their homepage title, read on 9 September 2026: "Buy Proxies HTTP, UDP, SOCKS Proxy - Proxyrack". Their own summary of the product runs: "Unmetered Residential Proxies - SOCKS, HTTP and UDP Protocols - 7 Day Trial Available - 24/7 Support - Instant Setup - 35m+ IPs"
Reading the same page for the things buyers actually ask about:
The product lines named on that page are residential, datacenter, mobile, SOCKS5 and a scraping or SERP API. They advertise 140 countries or locations. Support is advertised as around the clock. A refund or money-back term is mentioned. Their pricing page is titled "Proxyrack Pricing".
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.
Age, and why it matters here
The domain was registered on 15 April 2012, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 14 years old. Checked against the registry on 23 April 2026. The registration currently runs to 15 April 2027.
This proves nothing about the product. It is a cheap check against the one failure mode that costs buyers real money in this market, which is paying a provider that will not exist in six months.
Ownership of the list
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.
A company that sells proxies runs this list. That is worth knowing before you judge the entries: a free list published by a vendor is a lead magnet, and the entries are chosen to make the paid product look necessary. It does not make them fake, and it does mean the list is not neutral about what free proxies can do.
The Internet Archive has it from 10 June 2007 to 3 January 2026, about 17 years of coverage. The domain was registered 15 April 2012 through NameCheap, Inc.
What none of that tells you is how many of the addresses answer today. We publish our own measurement of that on the free side: of 589918 addresses discovered, 4023 were alive at the last check, with a median lifespan of 145 hours. Any list without a check date is describing a past that has already gone.
What the search data says about Proxyrack
Search volume around the name runs to 90 a month, split as 70 a month for a review of them, 10 a month for an alternative to them and 10 a month for their pricing. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
The biggest slice is people checking whether to trust it, so the useful thing to hand a reader is evidence rather than an opinion.
What you still do not know after reading their site
Why a cheap address is often a used one
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
On a hard target, failures are the majority of your traffic. Whether those failures are billed decides the real cost, and the clause covering it is rarely on the pricing page.
Concurrency limits decide throughput
A plan with generous traffic and a low thread limit is a slow plan. Find both numbers before you size anything, because the smaller of the two is your actual ceiling.
The two of us, on the questions that matter
Set the two side by side on the questions that decide the outcome, rather than on feature counts:
| Question to ask | Proxyrack | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Published, see above, dated 10 August 2026 | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Read their current terms | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Lower rates require one, see above | None |
| Identity checks | Their terms page answers this | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Check the current terms, this one moves | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Their terms page answers this | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
The useful part of that table is the left column. Take those six questions to any provider in this market and the answers will sort them faster than any review.
The measurement that outranks every review
This costs less than a coffee and produces the only evidence that applies to your workload.
- Take the smallest paid unit each provider will sell you. A free trial works for a first pass, though trials sometimes ride better pools than paid plans do.
- Fire the same batch through both on one afternoon. Different days are different conditions, and that ruins the comparison.
- Track the success rate and the bandwidth. A cheap gigabyte that fails half the time is not cheap.
- Run a sample of the addresses through an independent lookup, because advertised geography and actual geography differ more often than the market admits.
- Go with whichever performed, then measure again next quarter. Networks change underneath you.
The rest of the shortlist
Buyers comparing this name usually have two or three of these open in other tabs:
- ProxyTee alternatives
- Proxyuniverse alternatives
- Proxyup alternatives
- Proxyv6 alternatives
- ProxyWhite alternatives
- Proxywing alternatives
What we sell, stated plainly
Our position is narrow. Residential from $0.44 per GB, no subscription, no expiry on the balance, and a public record of what our free network actually does. A provider unwilling to be measured is telling you something, and so is one that asks to be.
