Finding a decent proxy service is harder than it seems these days. Proxy-Cheap was popular, but better options have emerged. And in many ways.
We've compiled ten real alternatives. Both market veterans and newcomers with interesting features. Each service was tested in practice, not just by website descriptions.
| Provider | Price per GB | Traffic | Min. payment | IP pool | Verification | Clean IPs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GonzoProxyus | from $2/GB | never expires | $13 | 20.6M | not required | 95% |
| Oxylabs | from $2.5/GB | — | — | 175M | required | 40% |
| SOAX | from $1.65/GB | 60 days | — | — | required | 37% |
| Webshare | from $1.4/GB | — | — | 80M | not required | 35% |
| ProxyEmpire | from $0.35/GB | rolls over | — | 175M | not required | 34% |
| NodeMaven | from $2.2/GB | rolls over | — | 30M | not required | 31% |
| Asocks | from $3/GB | expires | $3 | 7M | not required | 32% |
| AstroProxy | from $2/GB | 30 days | — | — | not required | 39% |
| MarsProxies | from $1.65/GB | — | — | 1M | not required | 36% |
| DataImpulse | from $0.45/GB | never expires | $1 | — | not required | 38% |
How We Selected Proxy-Cheap Competitors
As of 8 August 2026, Proxy-Cheap lists rotating residential at $5.99/GB. That is above half the market: Webshare starts residential at $1.4, Oxylabs at $2.5, ProxyEmpire at $0.35 at volume. The name stopped matching the price list, and that is the main reason people move.
We picked replacements on four things that actually move the invoice and the campaign result.
- Price per GB at your volume, not the headline one. Everyone has tiers: SOAX runs from $1.65 down to $0.25, DataImpulse from $1.6 at 25 GB to $0.45 at a terabyte. Compare on your own tier.
- Whether traffic expires. You buy 100 GB, spend 30, pause the campaign — the rest either waits for you or burns. We checked all ten: only we and DataImpulse keep it with no expiry date, NodeMaven and ProxyEmpire roll it over to the next period, SOAX credits live 60 days, and an AstroProxy port expires after a month. The rest do not publish a policy — so ask before you pay. Working in waves, this moves the invoice more than a few cents per gigabyte.
- Entry threshold. What it costs to test the pool on your own setup before committing budget.
- Address quality. Geo, carrier, IP history. A cheap gigabyte is worthless if accounts get banned on day two.
Ten services below, with prices taken from their own pricing pages on 8 August 2026. The order is not a ranking — the jobs differ.
1. GonzoProxy
Residential from a 20.6 million pool, entry at $13, $2/GB at volume. No documents at signup.
Traffic does not expire: gigabytes sit on the balance with no deadline. Buy 100 GB in January, spend 30, the rest waits until June. To be fair, we are not alone here — DataImpulse works the same way. The difference is that with them it comes bundled with the cheapest and therefore most mixed pool on the market.
Our own pool audit: 95% of addresses residential, 4% mobile, none flagged as proxy in the sample. Availability checks run against the targets our clients care about — Google Ads, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Amazon.
Weak spot: mobile currently covers Ukraine and Poland only. If you need mobile traffic in Brazil, this is not the place.
2. Oxylabs
Residential from $2.5/GB, a 175 million pool, 195 countries, trial available. Company documents required at signup.
Oxylabs used to be shorthand for expensive — pricing started at $8/GB. The list has been rewritten and at volume they now compete with the mid-market. If you compared them a couple of years ago and moved on, the maths is worth redoing.
What you get with the traffic: ready-made scrapers for specific platforms, an account manager, an SLA. What gets in the way for a media buyer: documents at signup and invoice-based payment.
3. SOAX
Tiers from $1.65 down to $0.25/GB depending on volume, trial available, documents required.
The strength is targeting: country, city, carrier, connection type. For social media work and local offers, that is exactly what you overpay for elsewhere.
The catch has not changed: the entry plan starts around a hundred dollars, so SOAX is rarely bought just to poke at. It is a purchase for a defined job with the maths already done.
4. Webshare
Rotating residential from $1.4/GB, an 80 million pool, static residential from $0.23 per address. No documents, and 10 free proxies to start.
The lowest residential price among the large providers. Webshare grew on datacenter proxies and still leads with them: 30 million addresses, per-proxy billing, a dashboard anyone can figure out.
What not to expect: carrier-level tuning and long stable sessions for farming. This is a tool for scraping and testing, not for warming accounts.
5. ProxyEmpire
From $0.35/GB at volume, a 175 million pool, 170 countries, trial available, no documents.
The most aggressive pricing here after DataImpulse. The claimed pool matches Oxylabs at a fraction of the price — which is a good moment to remember that pool size guarantees nothing on its own. What matters is how many addresses in your geo are alive and unburned.
The practical move: take the smallest package, run it on your own setup for a couple of days, and judge by ban rate rather than by the number in the deck.
6. NodeMaven
From $2.20/GB, a 30 million residential pool, 150 countries, up to 10% cashback on traffic. No documents.
NodeMaven sells filtering rather than volume: addresses are checked before they are handed out, and only those that pass enter rotation. They claim above 98% stability — their number, not ours — but the logic holds for account farming, where one banned profile costs more than several gigabytes.
Not built for mass scraping with hundreds of threads: the pool is too small for that.
7. Asocks
A 7 million pool, 150 countries, packages from $5, no documents.
The "need it now, no back and forth" niche: register, top up, work. Simple dashboard, support answers in a messenger.
Their pricing page returned a 502 error when we checked, so confirm the current tiers with them directly. We do not put numbers in the table that we could not open ourselves.
8. AstroProxy
From $2/GB for residential traffic, individual addresses from $0.1. No documents.
Long-standing and well known among Russian-speaking teams: local interface, support in messengers, familiar payment methods. For many that outweighs a few cents of difference.
On price AstroProxy now sits clearly below Proxy-Cheap, so as a like-for-like replacement it works. Check the geo coverage for your task — their country grid is uneven.
9. MarsProxies
From $1.65 to $3.49/GB, a pool of about 1 million addresses, 195 countries, no documents.
They grew on an audience buying sneakers and tickets, where milliseconds decide the outcome. Hence the focus on response time and session stability rather than pool size.
The pool is the smallest in this roundup. Fine for narrow, speed-critical tasks; not for broad scraping across rare geos.
10. DataImpulse
Tiers from $1.6/GB at 25 GB down to $0.45 at a terabyte, minimum payment from a dollar. Traffic does not expire, no documents.
The lowest price in this roundup and a direct competitor on billing mechanics — their gigabytes have no expiry either.
Price and pool diversity are linked. The cheaper the entry, the more spam traffic shares the same pool, and the faster addresses build a history. Test on your own platforms before moving live accounts over.
Comparison Table
The summary with prices, entry thresholds, pool sizes and document requirements sits at the top of this article. Below is what to take for a specific job.
- Facebook and Google Ads, working in waves. Look at traffic expiry first: between launches, expiring gigabytes add up to half the invoice. That points to us or DataImpulse.
- Farming and warming accounts. Address quality decides: NodeMaven with filtering at the gate, or us if you also need traffic that keeps.
- Large-scale scraping. Count the price at your volume and the thread ceiling: Webshare, ProxyEmpire, Oxylabs at volume.
- Local offers with precise geo. SOAX or us: city and carrier without paying extra for targeting.
- Testing an idea cheaply. DataImpulse from a dollar, Asocks from five, us from thirteen.
Contents
Each of these services solves its own tasks.
- Oxylabs for enterprise with big budgets.
- Webshare for simple tasks and learning.
- SOAX for medium business with focus on SMM.
But there's a problem that only one service solves. Traffic expires every month almost everywhere. You bought 100 GB, used 30, the rest disappeared. This is direct money loss.
- GonzoProxy works differently. Traffic sits on balance without expiration date. You bought in January, spent in June. Create as many proxies as you want for free, pay for gigabytes. The 1 proxy = 1 account scheme doesn't hit your budget.
P2P network from real devices gives IPs with natural history. Facebook, Google, TikTok don't distinguish such traffic from regular people's actions. For projects where account ban equals investment loss, this is critical.
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