How Cheapest Proxies compares for business teams
A side-by-side look at what marketing, SEO and e-commerce teams weigh up when they choose a proxy supplier: what it costs, how it is billed, what the contract asks of you and who answers when something breaks. We wrote this page ourselves, so read it as one supplier's view and check the details with every provider you shortlist.
Cost, billing and features in one table
The questions a purchasing lead tends to ask first: what you pay, how the invoice is built and what is included.
| Cheapest Proxies Our offer | Enterprise providers e.g. Bright Data, Oxylabs |
Low-cost & list sites free and bargain lists |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Residential, entry rate | from $3.99/GB | often $4–9/GB | $1–3/GB |
| Datacenter, entry rate | from $3.50/GB | $0.60–2/GB | varies |
| How you are billed | Per GB, as you go | Monthly plans / commits | Per GB / lists |
| Monthly commitment | none | plan or spend floor | low / none |
| Setup fee | none | sometimes | none |
| Order validity | 30 days, fixed | Renews monthly | varies |
| Datacenter / Residential / Mobile | partial | ||
| Residential Premium pool | |||
| HTTP, HTTPS & SOCKS5 | partial | ||
| Login or IP-whitelist access | partial | ||
| Buy and start without sales | often via sales | ||
| No traffic logs | varies | varies | |
| 24/7 human support | limited | ||
| 55+ countries | varies |
The two right-hand columns describe what providers in each group commonly advertise. They are generalisations, not quotes for any named company. Offers change often, so confirm current terms with a provider before you approve the spend.
What to check before your team commits to a provider
A low rate per GB is only part of what proxies cost a team. Score every provider on your shortlist, us included, against the six points below. For a longer walkthrough, read our guide to choosing a proxy.
Total cost, not the headline rate
Ask how the provider bills: per GB as you go, or a monthly plan with a spend floor. Check for setup fees, overage charges and plans that renew on their own. A low "from" price can still turn into a bigger invoice once commitments are counted.
A proxy type for each workflow
Price checks, ad reviews and account work rarely need the same kind of IP. Datacenter handles volume on open sites, residential gives location-accurate results and mobile covers phone-first platforms. Buying every type from one supplier keeps billing and setup in one place.
Coverage in the markets you serve
List the countries your clients or stores sell in, then confirm each one is covered and whether city targeting exists where you need it. The markets on your list matter more than a big headline country count.
Fit with the tools you already use
Rank trackers, browsers and monitoring software should connect over HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5. Look for both sign-in options: a username and password for staff who move between machines, and IP whitelisting for fixed office or server addresses.
Time to the first request
Can someone on your team buy and start the same day, or does every order go through a quote, a demo and a sales contact? Self-serve checkout with instant access stops small projects waiting on paperwork.
Support, contract terms and sourcing
Find out who answers when a campaign check fails at the weekend, whether you can leave without a notice period, and how residential and mobile IPs are sourced. Consent-based sourcing protects your brand as well as the people behind the IPs.
Per-GB billing or a subscription: the effect on your budget
How a provider bills shapes your month-end invoice more than the advertised rate does. These are the two models you will meet when you shop around, and the reason Cheapest Proxies bills per GB as you go.
Per GB, pay as you go (how we bill)
You buy the gigabytes a project needs and use them within a fixed 30-day window. Spend follows the work: a quiet month costs little, a busy one costs more, and you can top up for an extra campaign without reopening a contract.
- ✓No monthly commitment or spend floor
- ✓No setup fee, and auto-renew only if you switch it on
- ✓The per-GB rate is known before you order, so budgets are easy to plan
- ✓Suits seasonal campaigns, client pilots and one-off audits
Subscriptions with a committed spend
Many providers sell a monthly plan or a committed spend tier. That works for steady, high-volume programmes, but the risk sits with you: the full allowance is usually billed whether your team uses it or not.
- •A monthly minimum or spend commitment is common
- •Unused data may expire when the month ends
- •Bigger discounts tend to need bigger commitments
- •Works well when monthly volume is high and stable
What per-GB billing changes for a team
Team workloads move around. A product launch, a seasonal sale or a new client audit pushes data use up for a few weeks, then it drops back. Paying per GB lets the budget follow that curve instead of funding a peak allowance all year. No subscription runs in the background, and scaling down costs nothing. If your volume is large and the same every month, a committed plan elsewhere might work out slightly lower; for most teams, paying only for the gigabytes used keeps invoices cleaner and usually smaller. Model your own numbers in the proxy calculator.
Residential starting rates: a market snapshot
Approximate starting prices for residential proxies, taken from each provider's public pricing.
These are approximate starting rates from public price pages at the time of writing, and providers change them often. Currencies are shown as advertised. This comparison is written and published by our own team, so read it as our view rather than a neutral review, and check each provider's site before you decide.
What we charge per GB
Every pool has a published per-GB rate that you see before checkout, with no contract to sign. Each order stays valid for a fixed 30 days.
Datacenter
Bulk public-data jobs, such as catalogue and stock checks, on sites with light bot protection.
Learn moreResidential
Home-broadband IPs for local search results, ad checks and regional pricing.
Learn moreMobile
Carrier 4G/5G IPs for seeing apps and mobile sites the way phone users do.
Learn moreResidential Premium
Our premium residential tier, for sites where success rate matters more than cost.
Learn moreWhich proxy type suits which workflow
Many teams end up using more than one type. All four sit on the same account, so each workflow gets the IP it needs and routine checks don't run on premium rates.
Datacenter proxies
Bulk data runsAddresses from cloud and hosting networks. Quick and economical for large runs of public data, such as product catalogues and stock levels, on sites without strong bot protection.
Residential proxies
Local accuracyAddresses from home broadband lines, so pages load as a local visitor would see them. The usual pick for rank tracking, ad checks and regional price research.
Mobile proxies
Mobile-first platformsAddresses from 4G/5G mobile carriers, for reviewing mobile ad placements and checking how phone-first platforms present content to people on their phones.
Residential Premium
Hard-to-reach sitesA selected residential pool for difficult sites, when a higher success rate is worth more to the project than a lower price per GB.
Connecting the tools your team already uses
Proxies only help if they work with the software your staff rely on every day. These three settings decide that.
Protocols
Every pool accepts HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, which covers browsers, rank trackers, monitoring tools and most scripts without extra plugins.
SOCKS5 vs HTTPS →Rotating or sticky IPs
Use rotating IPs when each check stands alone, such as a batch of price lookups. Use a sticky session when one address must stay the same across a sequence of pages, such as a basket or checkout preview.
Rotating vs sticky →Access control
Give staff a username and password that work from any machine, or let your office and server addresses in through IP whitelisting. You can change the method at any time in the dashboard.
Proxy auth explained →New markets and new clients without a sales cycle
Wide country coverage and self-serve ordering mean a new market or a new client can be added on the day it is needed.
Countries available
Choose the country for each project in your dashboard. Our locations page lists every market we cover.
Access
Login details appear in your dashboard as soon as payment clears. There is no quote to request and no sales call to book first.
Setup
Create an account, choose a pool, pay and configure it yourself, at whatever time suits your team.
Help when a client deadline is close
A low rate is no help if nobody responds the day a client report is due. This is what stands behind the service.
Staffed support
Real people answer every day of the week, weekends and holidays included, both before you buy and after the invoice is paid.
Availability target
Our target is 99.9% network availability, so scheduled monitoring and reporting jobs keep running.
Terms your finance team will ask about
The terms decide how much risk your team carries. We keep ours short and readable.
Buy per order, sign nothing
Each order is paid up front and valid for a fixed 30 days. There is no agreement to sign, so you can stop buying whenever you like.
No spend floor
No minimum spend and no setup fee, and auto-renew stays off unless you turn it on for an order. Buy data when a project needs it and nothing in between.
Refund rules in writing
When a refund or a replacement applies is set out in plain language in our refund policy. Share it with your finance team before the first order.
IP sourcing and data retention
Two questions a compliance or legal reviewer is likely to ask before your team signs off on a supplier.
Sourced with consent
Residential and mobile IPs come from networks where the people sharing their connection have agreed to take part. That protects them, protects your brand and keeps the pool in good condition over time.
No logs of your traffic
We don't log the sites your team visits or the data you send through the network. We keep only what is needed to run the account and bill for usage.
Every account must use the service for legitimate work, collect only publicly available data, and stay within each site's terms of service and the law that applies to you.
Where marketing and commerce teams use it
Per-GB billing and four proxy types cover most day-to-day marketing and commerce work. Our industries pages go through each setup in more detail.
Market & competitor research
Collect public product, pricing and listing data with rotating sessions and the right pool for each site.
E-commerce price tracking
Watch competitor prices, promotions and stock levels in every region your store sells to.
Ad operations
Check that placements, creatives and landing pages appear correctly to users in each target location, on desktop and mobile.
SEO agencies
Report local rankings and map-pack results for each client market as a searcher there would see them.
Brand and trademark protection
Review marketplaces and listings in other countries to spot counterfeit goods and misuse of your trademarks.
Startups & small teams
Begin with a small order for a pilot, then buy more as the work grows. No contract either way.
More comparison and review sites
If you want more reading before you choose, these sites also list and compare proxy providers. Treat them as background rather than an independent verdict, and confirm current prices and terms with each provider before your team signs off.
What you get with Cheapest Proxies, in brief
Spend you can forecast
Rates start at $3.50/GB and you buy only the gigabytes a project needs. There is no subscription, no minimum spend and no overage bill waiting at month end.
No contract and no setup fee
Each order runs for a fixed 30 days. Top up when a campaign needs more data and stop when it ends; nothing ties your team in.
Four proxy types on one account
Datacenter, Residential, Mobile and Residential Premium in 55+ countries, managed from a single dashboard over HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5.
Access the moment you pay
Login details appear in your dashboard once payment clears. No sales call, no quote request and no onboarding queue.
A person on the other end, 24/7
Questions reach our support staff at any hour, weekends and public holidays included, before and after you buy.
Opt-in IP sources, unlogged traffic
Residential and mobile IPs come from people who agreed to share their connection, and the network keeps no record of your traffic.
When another supplier may fit your team better
We would rather lose a sale than sell a team the wrong setup. In these situations we suggest you look at other providers too.
You need a speciality we don't offer
Some projects rely on something specialised, such as a niche network type, a managed scraping platform or deep enterprise integrations. A provider built around that speciality will probably serve it better than our self-serve service.
Your volume is very large and flat
When a team uses a large, predictable amount of data every month, a committed plan elsewhere may carry volume discounts that undercut per-GB billing. Model it in our calculator first: if usage rises and falls, paying per GB usually still comes out lower.
Procurement needs enterprise paperwork
Some organisations must have a signed enterprise contract, custom SLAs, a dedicated account manager or specific compliance documents. If those are must-haves, a provider set up for enterprise procurement will be an easier fit.
You want a second opinion
The comparison and review sites listed above add context on the wider market, but none of them is the final word. Prices and terms change often, so check them on each provider's own site before you decide.
For most marketing and commerce teams, though, clear per-GB pricing and no lock-in matter more than enterprise extras, and that is the gap Cheapest Proxies was set up to fill.
Questions from buyers comparing suppliers
What purchasing leads and agency owners tend to ask before they move proxy spend to a new supplier.
What will our proxy spend look like next to a subscription?
Can we use the competitor prices here in a budget?
Are we tied to a contract, a minimum or automatic renewal?
Which proxy type should each of our workflows use?
Will our current tools connect, and how do staff log in?
How soon can we start, and which markets are covered?
Try it on one project first
Start with a small order for a single client or campaign. You pay only for the gigabytes used, and login details go live as soon as payment clears.
Need to check something first? Contact our team or read the FAQ.
