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Bright Data Review: The Real Price Behind the Headline

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.

August 3, 2026 · 8 min read
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Decodo Review: The Smartproxy Rebrand, and What It Actually Costs

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.

August 3, 2026 · 8 min read
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IPRoyal Review: A Good Provider With an Expensive First Gigabyte

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.

August 3, 2026 · 9 min read
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Oxylabs Review: What the Proxies Actually Cost in 2026

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.

August 3, 2026 · 8 min read
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SOAX Review: Credits, Country Tiers, and the Real Price of Tier-1 Traffic

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.

August 3, 2026 · 8 min read
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Webshare Review: The Free Tier Is Real, and So Are the Limits

Webshare has a genuinely free plan and datacenter proxies sold per IP rather than per GB. What each product costs a new buyer, and where the limits sit.

August 3, 2026 · 7 min read
Free proxies

Free Proxy Site: The Cleanest Free Proxy Sites, Ranked (2026)

A free proxy site loads a blocked page in your browser, no install. We rank the cleanest ones (ProxySite, CroxyProxy, Hidester, Proxyium) and where they fail.

July 11, 2026 · 11 min read
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PIA Proxy Review: Does Private Internet Access Have a SOCKS5 Proxy?

The PIA proxy is a SOCKS5 endpoint bundled with every Private Internet Access VPN plan: what it is, how to switch it on, and where a dedicated pool beats it.

July 3, 2026 · 7 min read
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CroxyProxy Review 2026: Is It Safe, and What Are the Alternatives?

A CroxyProxy review with no affiliate spin: what the free web proxy is good at, where it fails (logins, scraping, speed), whether it's safe, and better alternatives.

July 2, 2026 · 5 min read
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HideMyAss Free Proxy Review: The Anonymity Myth

HideMyAss's free proxy hides your IP from websites, not from HMA. Here is the documented record, from the 2011 LulzSec case to what the proxy still logs.

July 2, 2026 · 6 min read
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Hidester Review: Does the Free Web Proxy Actually Hide You?

An honest Hidester review of the free web proxy: what it hides, the metadata its policy logs, its Hong Kong base, and when a dedicated proxy is smarter.

July 2, 2026 · 6 min read

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.

47M+ proxy checks run · 100+ countries · HTTP / HTTPS / SOCKS · re-checked every few minutes · no signup