Guides for buyers of cheap proxies
Short, practical and checkable. Every price quoted comes from the live price list.
All guides
- How to buy cheap proxies without getting burnedA buyer’s checklist for cheap proxies: the pricing tricks, the quality signals and the five-minute tests that separate a bargain from a trap.
- Cheap proxies vs free proxiesFree proxy lists look like the cheapest option. Here is what they actually cost in failed requests, security risk and wasted hours, and when a paid plan wins.
- Per-GB or per-IP proxies: which is cheaper?A plain way to decide between metered residential proxies and per-IP datacenter or ISP plans, with worked prices from our own price list.
- How many GB of residential proxy traffic do you need?Estimate your residential proxy bandwidth before you buy: measure page weight, count requests, add retries, and turn gigabytes into dollars.
- Test a cheap proxy in ten minutesFive quick curl checks to verify any proxy: exit IP, country, speed, protocol and failure rate. Run them on a small order before you scale up.
- Residential vs datacenter vs ISP proxies: cost comparisonCompare the three proxy types by what they cost, how they behave and where each wins, using the real prices from our price list.
- Hidden costs in cheap proxy pricingExpiring bandwidth, renewal jumps, minimums, thread limits and add-on fees: the places cheap proxy price lists hide their real cost, and what to check.
- SOCKS5 vs HTTP proxiesSOCKS5 and HTTP proxies compared in plain terms: what each can carry, when the choice matters and when it does not, plus the curl syntax for both.
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