About 2,900 people a month search Google for a proxy free trial, and 1,300 for a residential proxy free trial. We read the trial, credit and refund terms of 16 residential proxy companies from our server on October 22, 2026. Six offer a free trial, five sell a paid one, three give a credit or a free plan, and two have none. At least two of the free trials, Decodo's and Evomi's, turn into a paid plan unless you cancel. HProxy offers no free trial: the smallest start with us is one gigabyte at $0.50 per GB, from a $3 crypto top-up. We sell residential proxies, so weigh our view with that in mind.
Four kinds of first test
- A free trial: traffic or days at no cost, often tied to a plan. Decodo, Evomi and Bright Data offer one, and ASocks, Rayobyte and Live Proxies did on our October 13 reading.
- A paid trial: a small fixed price for a small allowance. ProxyEmpire, NodeMaven, Infatica, Proxyrack and Proxy-Cheap sell one.
- A credit or a free plan: money on the balance, credits on request, or a plan that stays free. Oxylabs, PacketStream and Webshare work this way.
- No trial: you buy, then rely on the refund window. SOAX and DataImpulse sit here, and so does HProxy.
The terms, company by company
Trial terms of 16 residential proxy companies, October 22, 2026
| Company | First test | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Decodo | 100 MB for 3 days, free | The chosen plan starts after |
| Evomi | Free trial | Then $49 a month |
| Bright Data | Free trial button | Trial traffic is not billed |
| ASocks | 3 days, free | The selected plan is billed after |
| Rayobyte | Free, no card | Size not stated |
| Live Proxies | Free trial | Business line only |
| ProxyEmpire | $1.97 trial | No subscription by itself |
| NodeMaven | 750 MB for $3.50 | No free trial |
| Infatica | 7 days for $4.00 | Then $4 a GB pay as you go |
| Proxyrack | 3 days for $5 | 3-day money-back |
| Proxy-Cheap | 7 days for $1.99 | Static and datacenter only |
| Oxylabs | $5.00 credit | Once, on registration |
| PacketStream | Credits on request | Amount at its discretion |
| Webshare | 10 proxies, 1 GB a month | Free plan, no trial period |
| SOAX | Sandbox | No credits included |
| DataImpulse | None | 7-day refund policy |
Each company's pricing, product, FAQ or terms page, read from our server on October 22, 2026; ASocks, Rayobyte, Live Proxies and PacketStream's credit terms as read on October 13, 2026
Sizes and days come from the companies' own words. Evomi, Bright Data, ASocks and Rayobyte name no trial size on the pages we read. ProxyEmpire named 150 MB on October 13, and its page on October 22 shows the $1.97 price without a size. Proxy-Cheap's 7-day trial covers static residential and datacenter IPv4. Its rotating residential is pay as you go.
Free trials that become a plan
Decodo's FAQ is the clearest. Its trial gives "100 MB for 3 days". Then, in its words, "your chosen plan will activate automatically, and you can cancel anytime before then". It adds that "a 14-day money-back option doesn't apply with a 3-day free trial". Evomi works the same way. Its trial "continues at the plan price unless you cancel inside the trial window". Its monthly plan reads free trial, then $49 a month. ASocks' terms of October 6, 2026 also bill the selected plan after its 3 days.
So a free trial at these companies is the first days of a subscription. Write down the end date when you start, and cancel before it if the test fails.
Bright Data's pricing page carries free-trial buttons on every plan. Its FAQ notes that "traffic used during your trial will be listed on your dashboard but will not be counted towards your bill". Rayobyte offered a free trial "on every self-serve product, with no credit card" when we read it on October 13. Live Proxies listed a free trial on its business line only.
Paid trials, and what they buy
ProxyEmpire sells a $1.97 trial for residential and mobile proxies. Its pricing page says the trial "doesn't convert into a subscription by itself". NodeMaven has no free trial; it sells "a $3.50 trial that includes 750 MB of bandwidth". Infatica charges $4.00 for 7 days. Proxyrack charges $5 for 3 days of Unlimited Residential and offers a "3-Day Money-Back Guarantee on every plan". Proxy-Cheap charges $1.99 for a 7-day trial on its static and datacenter IPs.
How far does a test allowance go? ProxyEmpire estimates that a product page uses 2 to 4 MB with images blocked, so "1 GB covers roughly 250 to 500 pages". On that figure:
Product pages a test allowance covers at 2 to 4 MB a page
| Allowance | Size | Pages |
|---|---|---|
| Decodo, free | 100 MB | 25 to 50 |
| NodeMaven, $3.50 | 750 MB | 187 to 375 |
| One gigabyte | 1 GB | 250 to 500 |
Allowances from each company's page, the 2 to 4 MB estimate from ProxyEmpire's pricing page, October 22, 2026; our arithmetic
A page that loads images or scripts uses more. A 100 MB trial suits a quick check of one site. A few hundred pages need a full gigabyte.
Credits and free plans
Oxylabs gives "every new account" a "one-time $5.00 welcome credit on registration", usable on its residential pool. PacketStream reviews trial requests one by one; on our October 13 reading its FAQ said "approval and credit amount are discretionary". Webshare's free plan gives 10 proxies with up to 1 GB of traffic a month, for as long as you like. Its FAQ adds that there is "No trial period".
Bright Data matches "your first deposit dollar for dollar, up to $500", and its pay-as-you-go page shows a coupon that halves the list price. SOAX answers its own FAQ plainly: "Is there a free trial? No." Its Sandbox "has no subscription fee and includes no credits."
Refund windows
A refund window protects a first purchase when there is no trial. The windows differ widely, and so do their conditions.
Read the conditions with the number. Evomi caps a no-questions refund at 10% of your data allowance or 1 GB, whichever is smaller. Webshare refunds within 2 days only when a rotating residential plan has used under 0.1 GB. PacketStream refunds the remaining balance within 24 hours, and Decodo's 14 days do not apply once you take its trial.
What other lists get wrong
- Caproxy's list of 15 trials (updated September 25, 2026) says that "Soax also offers a $1.99 trial". SOAX's own FAQ answers "No" to a free trial. The list also describes a $5 Bright Data credit after linking a card; Bright Data's page shows a deposit match.
- OkeyProxy lists Oxylabs with a "7-day free trial for businesses". Oxylabs' FAQ offers a one-time $5.00 credit. OkeyProxy puts its own trial first and shows no test results.
- IPBurger (January 2025) asks whether free trials are "Going Extinct?" and argues for money-back windows. It names no company's current terms.
- NodeMaven's article covers its own $3.50 trial and no other company.
- NaProxy's guide defines a trial and names no company, size or price.
What should you test in your first gigabyte?
Spend the allowance on one question: does this pool work on your target this week? A gigabyte is enough for a fair answer if you plan it:
- Use your real target and tool. A test on a different site tells you little about yours.
- Spread the requests over a few hours. Send a few hundred page requests, at the pace you will run.
- Count real pages. A block or challenge page can come back with status 200, so check the content.
- Note the megabytes per page. Your dashboard shows the usage; divide it by the pages you got.
- Check the exits. Run a sample through our proxy checker for country and network type.
- Test what you will use. Hold a sticky session if you log in, and try SOCKS5 if your tool needs it.
About 110 people a month search for a SOCKS5 residential proxy free trial, and support differs by plan. A test tells you nothing about volume over weeks or support on a bad day. The first paid month answers those, so the size of that first paid step matters as much as the test.
Does HProxy offer a free trial?
No. We offer no free trial on any product. The smallest start is a top-up of $3 in crypto, or $10 by card, Alipay, QRIS or Pix, and the balance never expires. Our residential proxies sell from one gigabyte: Residential Lite costs $0.50 per GB, down to $0.44 per GB at 2,000 GB+. Premium adds city and ISP targeting and sticky sessions of up to 24 hours. It costs $1.49 per GB, down to $1.00 per GB at 1,000 GB+. Every rate is on our residential pricing page.
What protects a first purchase is our refund policy. Within 14 days, unspent top-ups and residential bandwidth with no GB routed can be refunded. Bandwidth already routed and products already activated stay paid, as our refund policy sets out. So top up a little, test one gigabyte, and keep the rest of the balance for when the test passes.
What we could not find out
- No trial taken. We took no trial and bought nothing, so speed and success rates stay untested, ours included.
- Older readings. ASocks, Rayobyte, Live Proxies and PacketStream's credit terms come from our October 13 reading; their pages returned no terms on October 22.
- Unstated sizes. Evomi, Bright Data, ASocks and Rayobyte state no trial size, and ProxyEmpire's page no longer shows one.
- Check by December 22, 2026. Trial offers change often, so these terms need another reading by then.
Sources
- The pricing, product, FAQ or terms pages of Decodo, Oxylabs, SOAX, Bright Data, Webshare, ProxyEmpire, NodeMaven, Infatica, Evomi, Proxyrack, Proxy-Cheap, DataImpulse and PacketStream, read from our server on October 22, 2026.
- Rayobyte and Live Proxies pricing and product pages, and ASocks' terms of service of October 6, 2026, read on October 13, 2026.
- Articles about proxy trials by Caproxy, OkeyProxy, IPBurger, NodeMaven and NaProxy, read on October 13, 2026.
- Search counts from Google Keyword Planner, worldwide, October 22, 2026.
- HProxy's refund policy and residential product data, read October 22, 2026; prices from our live price data at build time.
