residential proxies

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Solver APIs generate a payload for one specific exit IP, so the proxy stops being a loose choice and becomes a parameter. Session length, geo matching, concurrency, and how to read your own exit address correctly.

An honest Bright Data review: why the headline residential rate is double-gated behind a commitment and a promo, what a new account pays, and who it suits.

Decodo is Smartproxy under a new name. What the rebrand changed, what the proxies cost a new buyer, and which advertised headline rates you cannot actually buy.

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.

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.

HProxy vs Thordata on residential price and model: a cheaper flat rate at every normal volume, and the one thing Thordata does better than almost anyone.

An independent provider with never-expiring traffic and a wide catalog, reviewed on the gap between its advertised per-GB floor and what a new buyer pays.

An honest Oxylabs review: what the residential, mobile and ISP tiers really cost, why three pages quote three different starting prices, and who should skip it.

Proxies get sold as one product and used as a dozen. Here is what people genuinely buy them for, what breaks in each case, and which proxy type each one needs.

We checked what 16 residential proxy providers advertise against what they charge a new customer with no commitment. The median gap is 2.5x. The widest is 20x.

Residential proxies are resold consumer bandwidth. We checked what the apps buying that bandwidth pay per GB, against what providers charge for it.

SOAX prices residential and mobile proxies on two levers at once: your plan, and the countries you target. What that means for your bill, and who it suits.

DePIN proxy tokens like Grass and Nodepay are residential proxy networks with a crypto wrapper. The real funding, the token crashes, and what you actually sell.

Google's 2026 takedown named 13 proxy brands under IPIDEA: 922Proxy, PIA S5, IP2World and more, built on hijacked home devices. What it means for buyers.

IPIDEA runs IP2World, PIA S5 Proxy and a dozen storefronts on one pool through Hong Kong shells. Here is the shared infrastructure and how it was built.

HProxy vs Geonode on price: HProxy is the cheaper flat rate up to about 100 GB, and Geonode's tier rate dips below it only at large committed volume.

HProxy vs Massive on price and model: a much cheaper residential alternative at $0.44/GB, and where Massive's ethically sourced, AI-focused network is worth the premium.

HProxy vs NodeMaven on price, model and IP quality: a much cheaper NodeMaven alternative for residential proxies, and when NodeMaven's IP quality filter is worth the premium.