SOAX has a genuine reputation for one thing above all others: knowing exactly where its IPs are. Country, region, city, ASN, carrier. If your work depends on appearing in one specific place rather than one specific country, SOAX is one of the few networks that does it cleanly, and that reputation is earned.
Its pricing is the part worth reading carefully before you buy, because it moves on two independent levers rather than one. We run a competing network, so treat this as an informed competitor's read rather than a neutral one. Every figure below was read off a soax.com page on 3 August 2026.
What SOAX actually sells
Two products, publicly. The proxies index lists residential and mobile, and the pricing table prices exactly those two networks. A datacenter page still exists and describes the product, but carries no price and links back to the pricing page. The ISP proxy URL returns a 404. If you came looking for SOAX ISP or static residential proxies, there is no public product to buy.
What you do get is scale and precision. SOAX advertises 155M+ IPs across 195+ locations, with targeting down to country, region, city and ASN or carrier level, plus session controls and a dashboard with a solid support reputation behind it.
One detail deserves early credit, because it runs against the grain of the market. SOAX does not price mobile separately. The pricing table lists the residential and mobile networks as included on every plan, right down to the free tier, with one set of per-GB rates covering both. Most vendors charge a large premium for mobile traffic. Getting it at no premium is genuinely unusual, and if you need mobile proxies alongside residential it can decide the comparison on its own.
How SOAX pricing works
Understanding the bill means holding two variables at once.
Lever one: the plan. SOAX bills in credits at a stated rate of one credit to one dollar, and every paid plan includes exactly as many credits as it costs.
| Plan | Monthly price | Included credits |
|---|---|---|
| Sandbox | Free | 0 |
| Builder | $200 | 200 |
| Team | $500 | 500 |
| Scale | $1,500 | 1,500 |
| Enterprise | $3,000 | 3,000 |
Read that table carefully, because the shape of it is the point. The plan fee is a prepayment rather than a bundle with a data allowance attached. Paying $200 buys $200 of credits, and the plan's real function is to set the per-GB rate at which those credits drain. Moving up the ladder does not get you more credits per dollar, it gets you a cheaper rate to spend them at.
Lever two: the geography. SOAX sorts countries into three rate bands. Tier 1 covers roughly 26 developed nations including the US, UK, Western Europe and Australia. Tier 2 covers around 75 emerging markets. Tier 3 covers 150+ developing nations. On every plan, Tier 3 traffic costs roughly 40 percent of the Tier 1 rate for the same gigabyte. (The country counts come from SOAX's page as a summarised total rather than an itemised list, so read them as approximate. The tier structure and its rates are firm.)
The two levers multiply, so no single number describes what SOAX costs. It also means the cheapest published rate and the rate a typical Western-targeting customer pays are set by two different dials, and that is where the headline comes apart.
The $0.35 problem
SOAX's pricing page is headed "Predictable pricing for web access at scale", with the subheading: "No sales theatre. No pricing games. Just real infrastructure economics."
Under that subheading sits the number $0.35/GB, the lowest figure printed anywhere on the page. Reaching it requires both dials turned all the way: the $3,000 a month Enterprise plan and traffic restricted to Tier 3 countries. A buyer who needs US or UK IPs is excluded from that rate by geography, and no amount of additional spend changes it. The best published Tier 1 rate is $0.85/GB, and that too sits behind the $3,000 plan, quoted as "from $0.85" rather than as a fixed price.
Meanwhile, a new customer with no commitment, targeting Tier 1 countries, pays $5/GB. That is 14.3x the advertised headline, and it is the number most people reading a SOAX review will actually be charged.
Two gates on one price is the sharpest example of this pattern we found anywhere in the market, and the "no pricing games" line above it is what makes it worth writing down. Dishonest would be the wrong word. Every figure is published and every requirement is stated, so a buyer who reads the whole table will work it out. The trouble is that a headline exists to be read instead of the table, and this one describes a purchase a large share of SOAX's likely customers cannot make.
Our own pricing gets held to the same standard. HProxy residential is $0.50/GB flat for a single gigabyte, in any country, with no plan and no tier. A new SOAX customer targeting Tier 1 pays roughly ten times that. We advertise a lower figure too, $0.44/GB, and it carries a condition we will state rather than bury: it needs 2,000 GB+. On day one you pay $0.50, and a 50 GB month costs $25. There is no country tier on our side, so a US gigabyte and a Vietnamese gigabyte cost the same.
Where SOAX is genuinely strong
Targeting depth. This is the real product. Country, region, city, and ASN or carrier-level targeting, applied cleanly, is more surgical than most networks expose. Verifying ads in one metro, testing a carrier-gated signup flow, checking how a page renders to one ISP's customers: that granularity is what you are paying for, and it is worth paying for.
Mobile at no premium. Covered above, and worth repeating. One rate card for two networks, included on every plan, is genuinely generous in a market that usually treats mobile as a luxury tier.
Low entry friction. The free Sandbox plan requires no minimum purchase and includes both networks, and a one-time $1.99 trial adds 400 MB over three days. You can be running traffic without committing to anything.
Enterprise substance. The top plan buys more than a lower rate: postpaid overage billing, dedicated IP pools, a 365-day credit rollover on annual commitment, and a named customer success manager. Teams that need those will recognise the value.
Where it costs you
The no-commitment rate is the most expensive rate on the card. Sandbox is free to join, but usage on it bills at the highest per-GB figure SOAX publishes. The usual advice to start small and scale up works against you here, because starting small is precisely when the rate is worst.
Credits expire. Unused credits roll over for 60 days on monthly billing, extending to 365 days on an annual commitment. A project you pause for a quarter burns prepaid credit that you already paid for. If your work is seasonal or bursty, that clock is a real cost that never appears on the rate card.
Your bill is not predictable from the plan alone. Because credits drain at a rate set by geography, the same 200 credits buy roughly two and a half times as much data in Tier 3 as in Tier 1. Forecasting spend means forecasting your traffic mix, and a project whose target countries shift mid-quarter will see its effective per-GB cost move underneath it.
KYC is required. SOAX's own KYC and KYB policy makes identity verification a condition of paid access, with the checks depending on your entity type, intended use and jurisdiction. That is defensible, and some buyers will actively prefer it. For a solo developer who wants to scrape a price list this afternoon, it is a wall.
Narrow catalogue and pre-VAT pricing. No public ISP product, no priced datacenter product, and every plan price printed as "+ VAT".
Who should buy SOAX
Buy it if your job genuinely depends on granular geography. City, region, ASN or carrier targeting is the thing SOAX does better than most, and if you need it, paying for it is the correct decision. Do not let a cheaper competitor talk you out of capability your work actually requires.
Buy it if you need residential and mobile together, at volume, in one place. Getting both on a single rate card with no mobile premium is a genuine saving, and at the scale where the plan ladder starts paying for itself the numbers get respectable.
Buy it if your targets sit mainly in Tier 2 or Tier 3 geographies, where SOAX's rates are meaningfully lower than its Tier 1 pricing and the comparison tightens considerably.
Who should not
Skip it if you need US, UK or Western European IPs and you are not spending four figures a month. At $5/GB for a Tier 1 gigabyte with no commitment, you are paying about ten times what the same gigabyte costs at HProxy, for targeting precision that most scraping and monitoring work never uses.
Skip it if your usage is uneven. Credits with an expiry date punish a paused project, and a balance that simply waits for you is a better fit for seasonal work.
Skip it if a country selector is all you have ever needed. The commonest expensive mistake we see is a team buying a targeting platform for a job that only requires picking a country, then paying the platform's rate every month for the privilege. HProxy vs SOAX works through that decision in detail, and how much do proxies cost covers what the market actually charges once the headlines are stripped out.
Try it before you decide
Test both. SOAX's $1.99 trial gives you 400 MB over three days, enough to point it at a real target and watch the targeting behave. On our side the proxy checker and the live free proxy list cost nothing, and residential runs at $0.50/GB pay as you go with no plan, no credits and no expiry clock. Run the same job through both for an afternoon and the answer will be obvious, whichever way it goes. Our residential proxy price study has the wider market picture.