Before anything about Rainproxy: 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.
Rainproxy on the record
Rainproxy operates from rainproxy.io.
A price is missing here on purpose. We have not captured a sourced rate for Rainproxy recently enough to publish one, and a stale number in this market is a wrong number.
Read their page for the reachable rate rather than the headline, the minimum spend, the expiry clause and the billing treatment of blocked requests. Write down the date, because all four move.
What Rainproxy says about itself today
Read 9 September 2026, the homepage titles itself "Free 250 MB Proxy , Premium Residential Proxies, Rainproxy". In the description they hand to search engines: "Buy residential proxies from $0.80/GB or claim a free 250 MB proxy trial , no credit card. 110M+ ethically sourced residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter IPs in 195+ countries."
What else that page states, without interpretation:
The product lines named on that page are residential, datacenter, ISP or static residential, mobile and IPv6. They advertise 150 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: PayPal, crypto and cards. 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 Pricing: Residential, ISP, Mobile and IPv6, Rainproxy".
All of the above is their copy, not our finding. A dated quotation is the weakest kind of evidence that is still evidence.
Where the interest in Rainproxy goes
The Keyword Planner puts brand demand at 10 a month: 10 a month for a review of them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
Weighted towards people checking whether to trust it. A comparison that ignores that and opens with a pitch has misread the room.
What the advertised numbers cannot tell you
What happens when it breaks at two in the morning
Test the support channel before you need it. Ask something specific and technical, and judge both the speed and whether the answer came from somebody who understood the question.
Why an old benchmark is wrong
Every review of this market, this one included, is a photograph of a moving thing. Read the date on any comparison you find, and discount it heavily once it is more than a few months old.
What actually caps your throughput
Bandwidth is rarely the constraint on a real workload. Concurrent connections, requests per second and per-session caps are, and they are frequently buried in the documentation rather than the pricing page.
Side by side, with the blanks left blank
This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:
| Question to ask | Rainproxy | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Their terms page answers this | None |
| Identity checks | Check the current terms, this one moves | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | On their own terms page | Free 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.
- 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.
- Point both at your real target, through your real tool, on the same day, with the same mix of requests.
- Log successes, failures and gigabytes used. Cost per successful request is the figure you are after.
- Verify a slice of the exits independently. Country labels in this market are self-reported and are not always right.
- 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:
- Proxyaz alternatives
- Proxybase alternatives
- Proxybasic alternatives
- Proxyblocks alternatives
- Proxyboost alternatives
- proxybox.io alternatives
The competing offer, for completeness
We are the pay as you go option in this market. Residential from $0.44 per GB, ISP and datacenter per address, mobile alongside them, all from one balance with nothing to forfeit. That model wins on irregular volume and loses on very large steady volume, which is worth knowing before you test.
