Reviewed SOAX
SOAX is trading, and it sells two things: residential and mobile proxies, both at one rate per gigabyte. That rate moves on two levers at once, your plan and the country of the exit IP. On September 26, 2026, a US gigabyte cost $5.00 on the free Sandbox plan and $3.00 on the $200 Builder plan. Since June 1, 2026, SOAX verifies identity before any purchase, and its prepaid credits expire after 60 days. The like-for-like prices are in the alternatives table.
Who runs SOAX, who it is connected to and how it began: our SOAX company page.
Is SOAX legit? The record in one table
| what we read on September 26, 2026 | |
|---|---|
| website | soax.com answers normally |
| company | SOAX LTD, registered in England and Wales under number 11828506 |
| registered | February 15, 2019, per Companies House; its about page says 2020 |
| products | residential and mobile proxies, and scraping services |
| acquisitions | ProxyWow (May 22, 2025) and Rampage Proxies (May 27, 2025) |
| payment | cards; bank transfer for approved businesses |
| Trustpilot | 3.9 from 143 reviews, in a capture of March 2, 2026 |
It is a registered company with a public record. What deserves a careful read is how it charges.
SOAX pricing: the plan and the country both set the rate
Every paid plan is a monthly fee that buys the same number of credits, and SOAX says one credit is worth about $1 of usage. The fee buys a rate, not a fixed amount of data. Your traffic then burns credits at the rate of your plan and the geo tier of the exit IP.
| plan and monthly fee | tier 1, such as the US | tier 2, such as India | tier 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sandbox, free, no credits included | $5.00 a GB | $4.00 a GB | $2.00 a GB |
| Builder, $200 | $3.00 a GB | $2.25 a GB | $1.20 a GB |
| Team, $500 | $2.20 a GB | $1.65 a GB | $0.90 a GB |
| Scale, $1,500 | $1.50 a GB | $1.15 a GB | $0.60 a GB |
| Enterprise, $3,000 | from $0.85 a GB | from $0.55 a GB | from $0.35 a GB |
- Tier 1, such as the US
- Tier 2, such as India
- Tier 3
Source: the SOAX pricing page, read September 26, 2026. All fees exclude VAT, and the same rates apply to residential and mobile traffic.
Enterprise rates fall in volume bands within each tier and month. In tier 1 the first 5 TB costs $0.85 a GB, the next 10 TB $0.75, and anything beyond $0.50. In tier 3 the bands are $0.35, $0.30 and $0.25. So the lowest rate SOAX prints, $0.25, needs the $3,000 plan, 15 TB in one month and exit IPs in tier 3 countries. An annual Enterprise agreement can start at the lowest band, but it needs business verification and a 12-month commitment.
The pricing calculator on the same page shows a smaller case. For 100 GB through the United States it picks Builder: $300 in total, or $3.00 a gigabyte.
The fine print that decides the cost
Credits expire. Credits added on Sandbox or a monthly plan expire 60 days after they are added. On an annual plan they last 12 months. The terms add that expired credits "may not be recovered, reinstated, or refunded."
Usage stops at zero. Without postpaid billing, traffic stops when the credit balance runs out. Postpaid billing exists only for approved businesses.
Refunds are the exception. The pricing FAQ states that payments for plans, credits and overage "are generally non-refundable." If you cancel, the plan runs to the end of the period, "Unused time is not refunded", and the account drops to Sandbox. Credits already bought stay usable until they expire.
Identity comes first. Its KYC and KYB policy took effect on June 1, 2026. It says identity verification "is a condition of access to the paid Platform", completed before an organization can buy. SOAX may also check again later, for example after a change of payment method.
Payment is mostly cards. The pricing FAQ lists "most major credit and debit cards", and bank transfer for approved business accounts. Its billing policy adds that a payment provider may offer stablecoins. SOAX does not guarantee that option, and a crypto payment cannot be refunded to the paying wallet.
Traffic is counted generously. SOAX counts "data in both directions, including partial responses, retries, and interrupted connections." One gigabyte is one billion bytes. Its terms are governed by the law of England.
Targeting, sessions and protocols
Every plan targets by country, region, city and ISP name. Targeting by AS number and by ZIP code starts on the Scale plan, at $1,500 a month. The pool is claimed at "155+ million" residential IPs and "33+ Million" mobile IPs in 195+ locations. We did not measure either figure.
A SOAX session holds the same IP while requests keep coming, and it expires "after 60 seconds of inactivity". A timer can rotate the IP anywhere from every 10 seconds to once a week. Mobile sessions can hold an IP "for up to 60 minutes", by its mobile page. The proxies speak HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, and SOAX lists UDP and QUIC too. The Sandbox plan allows 4,000 concurrent connections per gateway.
SOAX customer support
Support is set by the plan, in a service level agreement that took effect on June 1, 2026. The free Sandbox plan gets basic support on "Reasonable efforts". Builder, Team and Scale get 24/7 support, and Enterprise adds a customer success manager.
| ticket severity | Builder, Team, Scale | Enterprise |
|---|---|---|
| P0, urgent | 4 hours | 1 hour |
| P1, high | 8 business hours | 4 business hours |
| P2 | next business day | 1 business day |
| P3 | 2 business days | 1 business day |
Business hours run from 07:00 to 19:00 UTC, Monday to Friday. The agreement says the targets "measure acknowledgement of a support request, not time-to-resolution." Its site also offers a live chat. On Trustpilot, a capture of March 2, 2026, showed a TrustScore of 3.9 from 143 reviews: 127 gave five stars and 12 gave one.
Where the IPs come from
SOAX says its residential network "is built on real IP addresses voluntarily shared by individuals", and calls the pool ethically sourced. Its own figures differ by page: "155+ million" residential IPs on the product page, "more than 191 million IPs" on the about page. Its 2025 purchases added two businesses: ProxyWow, "a provider of dedicated, static US ISP proxies", and Rampage Proxies, a tool that managed several proxy providers in one place.
How soax.com got here
| date | what the record shows |
|---|---|
| December 23, 2002 | soax.com is registered, long before this business |
| January 1, 2004 | the archive shows a default server page |
| January 10, 2014 | "This domain may be for sale" |
| February 15, 2019 | SOAX LTD is incorporated in England and Wales |
| June 13, 2020 | the first archived proxy page: "Residential Backconnect IPs Proxy", 8,564,325 active IPs, a free one-hour test |
| May 22 and 27, 2025 | SOAX announces it has acquired ProxyWow and Rampage Proxies |
| June 1, 2026 | new terms, a billing and refund policy, a KYC policy and a support agreement take effect |
| September 26, 2026 | residential and mobile only; ISP and datacenter pages answer 404 |
Sources: the Internet Archive, the domain registry, Companies House and the SOAX blog, read September 26, 2026.
SOAX alternatives for residential traffic
The fair comparison is a first gigabyte through the United States, the most common target, and the lowest rate each vendor prints. Every figure comes from the pricing page of each vendor, read on September 26, 2026.
| provider | first US gigabyte | lowest rate printed, and what it needs | unused traffic |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOAX | $5.00 on Sandbox, $3.00 on Builder at $200 a month | $0.50 in the US after 15 TB on Enterprise at $3,000 | credits expire after 60 days |
| Webshare | $3.50, 1 GB plan | $1.40, 3,000 GB at $4,200 a month | resets monthly |
| Rayobyte | $3.50, from 1 GB | $0.50, 5,000 GB or more by contact | kept on pay as you go |
| Evomi | $0.99, from 15 GB | $0.49, the 100 GB plan at $49 a month | kept on pay as you go |
| DataImpulse | $1.00, 5 GB for $5 | $0.80, 1 TB for $800 | kept |
| Bright Data | $8.00, or $4.00 with its coupon | $2.50, 798 GB at $1,999 a month | commitments do not roll over |
| HProxy Residential Lite, country targeting | $0.50/GB, from 1 GB | $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+ | kept, the balance never expires |
| HProxy Residential Premium, state, city and ISP targeting | $1.49/GB, from 1 GB | $1.00/GB at 1,000 GB+ | kept, the balance never expires |
HProxy Lite targets by country. Premium adds state, city and ISP targeting by AS number, from $1.49 per GB for a single gigabyte. Both are on our residential price table. The Bright Data page shows its prices rounded, and its price data holds $2.50 for the 798 GB plan. For residential zones opened after July 7, 2026, Bright Data also asks for a registered company, a company email and a KYC check by a person. Our residential proxy price study compares the advertised and the real price across the market.
Mobile deserves its own line, because SOAX charges it at the residential rate. Our mobile proxies cost $1.50 per GB, from 1 GB, with no plan. Rayobyte charges $1.25 a GB on a $250 monthly plan, and Evomi $3.98 pay as you go.
Where SOAX is the better buy
Mobile at the residential rate. Many vendors charge more for mobile traffic: Evomi, for one, charges $3.98 a GB for mobile against $0.99 for residential, pay as you go. SOAX charges the same rate for both, on every plan, including Sandbox. Our explainer on what a mobile proxy is covers when mobile is worth it.
Traffic outside the richest countries. Tier 3 traffic costs $2.00 a GB on Sandbox and $1.20 on Builder. If your targets sit in those countries, the geo tiers work in your favor.
Fine control. Region, city and ISP targeting come on every plan, ZIP codes from Scale. Timed rotation runs up to a week, and a session can be bound to one node. SOAX also lists UDP and QUIC.
A written support promise. SOAX publishes acknowledgment targets per severity and plan, with a named contact on Enterprise.
Where HProxy is the better fit
No identity check to start. SOAX verifies identity before the first purchase. Our KYC page states that we ask for no documents at sign-up or at an ordinary checkout, and ask when a payment looks wrong, when the law requires it, or in the other cases it lists.
Traffic that waits for you. SOAX credits expire after 60 days. Our residential balance never expires, with no plan and no fee to keep it alive.
ISP targeting at any size. SOAX targets AS numbers from the Scale plan at $1,500 a month. Our Premium pool targets an AS number together with a country, from the first gigabyte at $1.49 per GB. Our ISP targeting page lists the carriers.
Small budgets. A first US gigabyte costs $5.00 on the SOAX Sandbox plan, city and ISP name targeting included. Ours costs $0.50 per GB on Lite, which targets by country. Premium adds state, city and ISP targeting for $1.49 per GB. Both are pay as you go.
Room to change your mind. Our refund policy covers unspent balance and unrouted residential traffic for 14 days after purchase. SOAX states that payments are generally non-refundable.
Payment and products. We take cards, crypto (BTC, ETH, USDT and more), Alipay, QRIS and Pix, listed on our payment options page. We also sell static ISP and datacenter proxies, which SOAX does not sell today.
Both sides are laid out on the same terms in HProxy vs SOAX, and on the SOAX alternatives page. Our residential proxies page covers both of our pools.
Before you commit
Price your own country mix before you choose a SOAX plan, because the same $200 buys very different amounts of data in tier 1 and tier 3. Then run the same job through two providers and divide what you spent by the requests that came back correct. Our guide to what proxies cost, our free proxy list and our proxy checker help with the groundwork.
The limits of this record
We did not measure the SOAX network, so nothing here grades its speed or success rate. The pool sizes and the success rate it prints are its own claims.
SOAX rewrote its terms, billing policy, KYC policy and support agreement on June 1, 2026, and its rates have moved since August. The Trustpilot figures come from a capture of March 2, 2026, because the live page refused our request. This page is due for a check by December 26, 2026.
Sources
- SOAX, pricing page with its plan table, calculator and FAQ. Read September 26, 2026.
- SOAX, terms of use with the billing and refund policy, KYC and KYB policy, and service level agreement, all effective June 1, 2026. Read September 26, 2026.
- SOAX, residential and mobile product pages, proxy index, about page and developer documentation for residential proxies. Read September 26, 2026.
- SOAX blog, "SOAX acquires Rampage Proxies" (May 27, 2025), and the ProxyWow acquisition post (May 22, 2025, Internet Archive capture of November 8, 2025). Read September 26, 2026.
- Companies House, SOAX LTD, company number 11828506. Read September 26, 2026.
- Verisign, registry record for soax.com, and Internet Archive captures of soax.com from 2004, 2014 and 2020. Read September 26, 2026.
- Trustpilot, review page for soax.com, Internet Archive capture of March 2, 2026. Read September 26, 2026.
- Webshare, Rayobyte, Evomi, DataImpulse and Bright Data, residential pricing pages, and the Bright Data residential network access policy. Read September 26, 2026.
- HProxy, our own product catalog, price table, refund policy, KYC page and payment options.
