You can settle this yourself for less than the price of lunch. That is the argument of this page, and the sections before the test exist to tell you what to measure once you start.
SmartDNSProxy on the record
The company behind the name sits at smartdnsproxy.com.
A price is missing here on purpose. We have not captured a sourced rate for SmartDNSProxy 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 the registration record shows
The domain was registered on 15 May 2013, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 13 years old. That record was read from the registry on 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 20 snapshots of the site, the earliest from November 2013. The registry shows it renewed to 15 May 2029.
Age is not quality. A long registration does not make a network good, and a new one does not make it bad. What it does rule out is the shortest-lived pattern in this market, which is a site that appears, sells, and is gone inside a year.
Where the interest in SmartDNSProxy goes
Google reports 180 searches a month worldwide across the terms carrying this brand: 70 a month for their pricing, 70 a month for a review of them and 40 a month for an alternative to them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
Most of that demand is people trying to work out what it costs. That is what this page is written for, and it is why the sections above lead with what is published rather than with a verdict.
The top bid on those terms reaches $5.77 a click. That is the market pricing its own customers, and it explains why almost every other result you found is an affiliate page.
Where published figures stop being useful
Ten million addresses, and none of them yours
The number that matters is how many usable exits you can reach in the one country your job needs, this week. A pool total averages that away, which is why two providers with similar totals produce opposite results on the same site.
The entry price is not the effective price
Divide what you spent in a month by what you actually used, and you have the only rate worth quoting. It usually sits well above the figure on the homepage, because tiers, minimums and unused allocation all sit between the two.
Threads, not gigabytes, are often the ceiling
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.
A comparison that admits what it cannot say
The table answers what we can answer and marks what we cannot:
| Question to ask | SmartDNSProxy | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Check the current terms, this one moves | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Read their current terms | None |
| Identity checks | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Read their current terms | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
Two notes on that table. The rows we left for you to check are not evasions: those terms change, and printing a stale figure is exactly the failure this page is trying to avoid. And no table can hold the number that should decide your purchase, which is the success rate on your own target.
A test worth more than this comparison
Do this once and you will never need a comparison page for this decision again.
- Start with the smallest purchase each vendor allows, so the test costs less than the decision it replaces.
- Use your own scraper and your own target. A benchmark against a neutral site measures nothing you will experience.
- Measure what came back correctly and what it consumed, then divide the spend by the successes.
- Push a sample of exit addresses through an independent checker and confirm the country and connection type are what was advertised.
- Keep whichever pool won on your job. Re-run this whenever success rate drops or the bill moves.
Others in this market
Nearest alternatives by product shape rather than by who pays us, since nobody does:
- Hexproxies alternatives
- HexProxy alternatives
- Hide alternatives
- Hideipvpn alternatives
- Hidemium alternatives
- Hidemy alternatives
Where HProxy sits in that test
Our own lane is easy to state. Residential starts at $0.44 per GB, the balance is topped up when you want and does not expire, there is no subscription unless the optional discount suits you, and city and ISP targeting are included rather than sold separately. If the test above puts us second on your target, buy the winner.
