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Leaving StrongVPN: the numbers side by side

Weighing up StrongVPN? What is actually published, what it does not tell you, and how to settle the decision on your own target for a few dollars.

HProxy Team··6 min read
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Free proxies won't hold up here.

Shared datacenter IPs get flagged and dropped fast. When it has to hold, gaming, streaming, accounts, you need mobile and residential IPs that read as a real device, from $0.44/GB, pay as you go.

Residential proxies

We compete with StrongVPN, so treat every line below as coming from an interested party. What follows is the record we hold, the questions their marketing page does not answer, and a test you can run yourself that outranks this page and every other review.

First: StrongVPN is a VPN, and we are not

StrongVPN is a VPN. HProxy sells proxies. If what you want is an encrypted tunnel for all of your traffic, with an app that protects the whole device, buy a VPN and stop reading here. We would rather lose the click than take a customer who needed something else.

The difference in one line: a VPN routes everything through one encrypted tunnel and hides your traffic from the network you are on. A proxy routes one application or one request through a chosen address, gives you control over which address and which country, and does not encrypt anything by itself. A VPN is for privacy on a network you do not trust. A proxy is for controlling where a request appears to come from.

If you are switching away from StrongVPN because you kept hitting blocks while automating something, or because you needed a specific city or a stable address per session, that is a proxy problem and this page is for you. If you are switching because you want cheaper streaming or a better mobile app, it is not.

Everything we can stand behind

Their site is strongvpn.com.

We have no verified current rate for StrongVPN on file. Printing a guess would make this page worse than useless, so the price row below is empty and the reading list is not.

Check the reachable rate, the minimum, the expiry terms and the failure billing, and date your note. A price without those four attached is not a price.

The site, as it reads today

Their homepage title, read on 9 September 2026: "StrongVPN.com - Providing high speed, unthrottled bandwidth, multiple countries VPN accounts for over 100,000 users. Since 1995., StrongVPN". The one-paragraph pitch on their own page: "Enjoy true privacy and security online with StrongVPN. Providing high-speed encryption and customer satisfaction since 1995."

Also on the page, stated plainly:

They advertise 30 countries or locations. A refund or money-back term is mentioned. Their pricing page is titled "StrongVPN Plans, StrongVPN".

None of that is verified performance. It is what the vendor chose to publish, recorded with a date so you can see whether it still says the same thing.

Age, and why it matters here

The domain was registered on 7 March 2006, through CSC Corporate Domains, Inc, which makes it about 20 years old. The lookup behind those dates ran on 9 September 2026. As things stand the domain is held to 7 March 2027.

None of it predicts success rate. It is here because domain age and archive depth are free to check, and a provider whose public record starts last quarter deserves a smaller first order.

What people actually search about StrongVPN

Worldwide, the brand carries about 100 searches a month: 70 a month for a review of them, 20 a month for their pricing and 10 a month for an alternative to them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.

Monthly searches carrying the StrongVPN name, by what the searcher wants
Looking for a review
70 a month
Looking for the price
20 a month
Looking for an alternative
10 a month
Source: Google Keyword Planner, worldwide, read 9 September 2026. Terms counted: strongvpn review, strongvpn pricing, strongvpn alternative.

The largest share is people checking whether to trust it, which is the honest starting point for a page like this one.

The top bid on those terms reaches $15.98 a click. That is the market pricing its own customers, and it explains why almost every other result you found is an affiliate page.

What you still do not know after reading their site

The entry price is not the effective price

Rates in this market are quoted from the bottom of the table. The relevant question is which row you land on at your volume, and whether reaching a cheaper row costs more in commitment than it saves per unit.

What happens at the end of the month

This single term separates cheap providers from providers that look cheap. If a plan resets at month end, your effective rate is the plan price divided by what you actually used. Ours does not expire, which is easy to say and easy to verify in the terms.

What the lowest rate actually costs

Treat a required call with a salesperson as a cost. It delays the work, it usually arrives with an annual term attached, and it exists because the published price is negotiable in one direction only.

The two of us, on the questions that matter

Here are the comparisons that survive contact with a real workload:

Question to askStrongVPNHProxy
Entry priceNot verified by us, read their pageFrom $0.44/GB, pay as you go
Does unused balance expire?Their terms page answers thisNever
Minimum commitmentWorth confirming in writing before you commitNone
Identity checksRead their current termsCard orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested
TargetingWorth confirming in writing before you commitCountry, city and ISP
Free way to evaluateRead their current termsFree proxy list and proxy checker

Treat the right-hand column as a claim by an interested party, because it is one. Every line in it is checkable on our own pages and in our own terms.

What to do instead of reading more comparisons

The steps below take about ten minutes and settle the question properly.

  1. Fund both accounts with the least money each will accept, and note what that minimum was, because it is part of the comparison.
  2. Aim both at the page that matters to you rather than a test endpoint, and keep every other variable fixed.
  3. Record the success rate and the data consumed for the identical batch on each side.
  4. Check some of the addresses yourself for country, ASN and type before you trust the label on the plan.
  5. Keep the winner, and repeat the whole thing quarterly, because pools age.

Where else buyers look

If this one does not fit, these are the nearest comparable providers we have written up, each on the same terms as this page.

The disclaimer at the top stands at the bottom too. We are not the answer to "which VPN next". We are the answer to "I need requests to come from somewhere specific, reliably".

Where we fit

For completeness: residential from $0.44 per GB, city and ISP targeting included, no monthly minimum, and a balance that stays where you left it. We are a good fit for uneven workloads and a poor one for anybody who wants a signed enterprise agreement.

Frequently asked questions

Is a cheaper provider usually worse?
Not reliably. Price in this market reflects the supply model and the sales overhead as much as the network. What price does not tell you is the success rate on your target, and that is the figure that decides whether the cheaper option was cheap or expensive. Measure before assuming either way.
How is HProxy different?
The models differ more than the products do. HProxy is pay as you go from a balance you top up when you want, the balance does not expire, there is no subscription unless the optional discount suits you, and residential starts at $0.44 per GB with city and ISP targeting included. Whether that beats a tiered plan depends on your usage pattern, which a short test settles.
Do I have to talk to sales or sign a contract to switch?
Not with us. You can sign up, add funds and send traffic without a call, a minimum or a subscription. Whether another provider requires any of those is on their own pricing page and is worth reading, because a required commitment is part of the price even when it is not part of the rate.
How often should I re-test a provider?
Quarterly is a reasonable rhythm for most workloads, and immediately after a noticeable drop in success rate. Pools are rebuilt, suppliers change and detection improves, so a benchmark from last year describes a network that no longer exists.
Does a bigger pool mean better results?
No. Your job meets only the exits it draws, in the countries it needs, against one target's defences. Freshness and rotation policy move the outcome far more than the headline total, and pool totals across this market are counted generously and rarely audited.

Proxies that don't die mid-job

Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, verified by the same engine that runs tens of millions of checks. They read as a real device and hold up under load. Pay as you go, and your balance never expires. $0.44/GB is the 2,000 GB+ rate; a single gigabyte is $0.50/GB, with no minimum order.

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