A proxy provider is not a product you can evaluate from a screenshot. It is a network, and networks age. What was true about VPNGate a year ago may be wrong today, which is why the last section is a test rather than a verdict.
Before anything else, are you after a VPN?
We should be straight before you spend time here. VPNGate is a VPN and HProxy is a proxy network, and they solve different problems even though both change the address a site sees.
A VPN takes all of your device's traffic, encrypts it and pushes it down one tunnel. A proxy takes the traffic you point at it, one app or one request at a time, and sends it from an address you picked, with no encryption of its own.
The reason a proxy company has a page about a VPN is that a real share of people leaving one are leaving because they were trying to do something a VPN was never built for: run many requests, hold a session on one address, or appear in a specific city. If that is you, this page helps. If it is not, buy another VPN.
What we know about VPNGate, and what we do not
Their site is vpngate.net.
There is no price in this comparison because we do not have one we can date and attribute. What follows instead is the set of questions that decide the cost once you do read their page.
Take down four numbers and a date: reachable rate, minimum purchase, commitment for the floor rate, and expiry period. Anything less and you cannot compare them to anyone.
The site, as it reads today
Their homepage title, read on 9 September 2026: "VPN Gate - Public Free VPN Cloud by Univ of Tsukuba, Japan". Their own summary of the product runs: "Connect to 6000+ active VPN servers with L2TP/IPsec, OpenVPN, MS-SSTP or SSL-VPN protocol. Academic project by University of Tsukuba, free of charge."
The rest of what the page puts in writing:
They advertise 239 countries or locations. We found no separate pricing page linked from the homepage, which usually means the price arrives by quotation.
All of the above is their copy, not our finding. A dated quotation is the weakest kind of evidence that is still evidence.
How long VPNGate has been trading
The domain was registered on 19 July 2012, through Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd, which makes it about 14 years old. Checked against the registry on 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 1 snapshot of the site, the earliest from May 2009. The registration currently runs to 19 July 2026.
This proves nothing about the product. It is a cheap check against the one failure mode that costs buyers real money in this market, which is paying a provider that will not exist in six months.
What people actually search about VPNGate
Search volume around the name runs to 170 a month, split as 140 a month for an alternative to them and 30 a month for a review of them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
The biggest slice is people looking for a way out, so the useful thing to hand a reader is evidence rather than an opinion.
Advertisers bid up to $5.24 for one of those clicks, which is a useful proxy for what a customer in this market is worth and for how hard the results page is fought over.
What a pricing page leaves out
Why a cheap address is often a used one
Ask how many accounts can sit on one address at once. Where the answer is unlimited or unspecified, price the plan as shared regardless of what the product is called.
What a blocked response costs you
Some vendors bill every request, some bill only successful ones, and the difference is the whole comparison once a target starts blocking. A cheap rate with a fifty percent success rate is twice its advertised price.
Concurrency limits decide throughput
Bandwidth is rarely the constraint on a real workload. Concurrent connections, requests per second and per-session caps are, and they are frequently buried in the documentation rather than the pricing page.
The rows that decide it
Six questions, both answers, and an honest blank where we do not hold a current figure:
| Question to ask | VPNGate | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Their terms page answers this | Never |
| Minimum commitment | On their own terms page | None |
| Identity checks | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Read their current terms | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
The useful part of that table is the left column. Take those six questions to any provider in this market and the answers will sort them faster than any review.
What to do instead of reading more comparisons
The steps below take about ten minutes and settle the question properly.
- Put a few dollars on each account. Trials are fine for a first look, but paid traffic is what you will actually be buying.
- Run them against the site you actually care about, using the code you actually run, within the same hour.
- Record the success rate and the data consumed for the identical batch on each side.
- Check some of the addresses yourself for country, ASN and type before you trust the label on the plan.
- 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.
- Browse alternatives
- BrowserScan alternatives
- Buy Backlinks alternatives
- Buymobileproxy alternatives
- Buypersonalproxy alternatives
- ByteBenefit alternatives
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".
What we sell, stated plainly
Our position is narrow. Residential from $0.44 per GB, no subscription, no expiry on the balance, and a public record of what our free network actually does. A provider unwilling to be measured is telling you something, and so is one that asks to be.
