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Leaving Zalmos: the numbers side by side

Comparing a Zalmos alternative? The published numbers, the questions their pricing page leaves open, and a ten minute test that beats every review.

September 9, 2026 · 3 min read

Zdaye alternatives without a minimum spend

Looking past Zdaye? Match the units, find the expiry clause, then measure success rate on your own target. This page covers all three.

September 9, 2026 · 3 min read

ZenProxy alternatives on price, pool and commitment

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

September 9, 2026 · 5 min read

ZenRows Pricing: What a Request Costs Once JavaScript Is On

ZenRows bills 1 credit for a plain request and 25 for a rendered one behind premium proxies. We converted every plan into money per thousand real requests.

September 9, 2026 · 9 min read

Zeus Proxy alternatives: what to check before you switch

Comparing a Zeus Proxy alternative? The published numbers, the questions their pricing page leaves open, and a ten minute test that beats every review.

September 9, 2026 · 3 min read

Leaving Zingproxy: the numbers side by side

Comparing a Zingproxy alternative? The published numbers, the questions their pricing page leaves open, and a ten minute test that beats every review.

September 9, 2026 · 4 min read

Ziny alternatives without a minimum spend

Comparing a Ziny alternative? The published numbers, the questions their pricing page leaves open, and a ten minute test that beats every review.

September 9, 2026 · 4 min read

Zyte Pricing: The Headline Rate Is One Cell in a Grid

Zyte advertises from $0.06 per 1,000 responses and publishes rates up to $16.08. We read the grid on 9 September 2026 and worked out what sets your cell.

September 9, 2026 · 9 min read

Captcha Solving Services Compared: The Break-Even Nobody Publishes

Six captcha solving services, every published price converted to dollars per 1,000 solves. Half the market does not sell by the solve at all.

September 8, 2026 · 8 min read

Best Residential Proxies 2026: A Market Map From Inside the Market

The best residential proxies of 2026, mapped by what you are optimizing for: price, enterprise tooling, targeting depth, and terms, with our measured reviews.

September 1, 2026 · 4 min read

PlainProxies Alternative: Compare the Numbers Before You Top Up

Weighing a PlainProxies alternative? The advertised numbers side by side, what each pricing model really costs, and a ten-minute test that beats any review.

September 1, 2026 · 4 min read

White Label vs Affiliate vs API: Which Proxy Reselling Model Fits You

The three ways to make money from proxy demand ask three different things of you and pay three different ways. A decision guide keyed to what you have today: an audience, a product, or a codebase.

August 25, 2026 · 4 min read

Do Proxies or VPNs Get You Cheaper Flights? We Tested the Myth

Do proxies or VPNs actually get cheaper flights? We tested the location-switching myth against the evidence: what the data shows, when point-of-sale pricing is real, and what proxies are actually for.

August 24, 2026 · 5 min read

Smartproxy Alternatives in 2026: The Rebrand, and What to Buy Instead

Smartproxy no longer exists under that name: it rebranded to Decodo in 2025. Where the product went, what the rebrand quietly changed, and how to re-shop residential proxies properly.

August 23, 2026 · 4 min read

HProxy vs Froxy: A Sale That Says When It Ends (2026)

HProxy vs Froxy on residential price, plans and the HEATWAVE sale: the one thing Froxy publishes that almost nobody in this market does, and what changes on 1 September 2026.

August 11, 2026 · 9 min read

HProxy vs IPFoxy: Gigabytes With a Deadline (2026)

IPFoxy's residential runs from $5.99/GB down to $1.99/GB, but the cheap rate needs $1,999 up front and every package carries a validity window. What that clock costs a workload that pauses.

August 11, 2026 · 9 min read

HProxy vs MarsProxies: Per Gigabyte vs Per Day (2026)

HProxy vs MarsProxies on residential price, the advertised $3.49/GB we could not find a tier behind, and the per-IP, per-day model MarsProxies sells everything else on.

August 11, 2026 · 9 min read

HProxy vs MobileHop: The Hour and the Day (2026)

MobileHop rents one thing, a dedicated 5G modem, at $8.00 for a day or $5.00 for an hour. Why the smaller price is the worse rate, and which jobs a rented modem beats bandwidth by the gigabyte.

August 11, 2026 · 7 min read

HProxy vs ProxyRack: The Rate and the Plan (2026)

ProxyRack publishes one of the lowest residential rates in this market, and reaching it means buying a 100 GB plan every month. What 5, 20, 100 and 300 GB actually cost on each side, worked out.

August 11, 2026 · 8 min read

Scraping API Costs Run 50x Apart, and the Plan You Buy Is Not Why

Four scraping APIs, converted to one number: dollars per 1,000 requests. The range runs from $0.0749 to $3.75, and on one vendor both ends of a 25x spread sit inside the same $30 plan.

August 11, 2026 · 10 min read

Correcting Our Own Price Data: Four Errors We Found Re-Checking 20 Vendors

We re-verified all 20 residential proxy vendors we track against their own pricing pages on 10 August 2026, one week after the first capture. Four of our records were wrong, and one of them was wrong in the direction that suited us.

August 10, 2026 · 9 min read

The Permanent Sale: 8 of 20 Proxy Vendors Are Discounting and Only 1 Says When It Ends

We re-read the residential pricing page of 20 proxy vendors on 10 August 2026. Eight were running a discount. One of the eight published an end date.

August 10, 2026 · 11 min read

HProxy vs IPBurger: An Honest Comparison (2026)

IPBurger sells residential in monthly buckets rather than metered bandwidth, and its cheapest published rate is still far above ours. When a small predictable bill is worth it, and when it is not.

August 3, 2026 · 5 min read

HProxy vs Shifter: An Honest Comparison (2026)

HProxy vs Shifter on price, model and sourcing history. Shifter sells monthly plans with no pay as you go, and its advertised ISP rate exists on no published tier.

August 3, 2026 · 5 min read

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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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Honest guides and comparisons on proxies, scraping and staying unblocked, from the team that runs the network.

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