How to buy cheap proxies without getting burned

Read the price, then read what it is attached to

A headline price is a promise about one specific configuration. Find out the volume, the term, the traffic cap and the country it applies to. If the page will not tell you, the real price is higher.

• Is the rate per GB at one GB, or only at a large volume?
• Does the bandwidth expire, and when?
• What does renewal cost compared with the first order?
• Is there a minimum order or top-up?

Check the checkout, not the landing page

Add the product to the cart and watch for fees that appear late: setup charges, payment fees, taxes shown only at the end. The number you configure should be the number you pay.

Look for rules written down

Providers that publish an acceptable-use policy and a refund policy before purchase are easier to hold to them. A missing policy tends to surface as an account closed after payment.

Test small, then scale

Spend the minimum on the exact product you plan to scale, run your real workload for a day, and look at success rate, speed and what the meter says. Here the minimum top-up is $5, which is enough to run that test.