CatProxies

Who CatProxies is for and who should look elsewhere

The natural buyer here is someone who moves steady volumes of rotating residential traffic and cares first about the invoice. Catalog scraping, price monitoring, SERP collection, ad verification: tasks where you burn tens or hundreds of gigabytes a month, need country coverage that does not run out, and can tolerate a pool that is not the biggest on the market. At 100-150 GB the rotating residential rate is $1.40/GB, and there are very few providers charging that little for a global residential network.

The second buyer is more specific: anyone whose traffic does not have to look residential at all. Dynamic IPv6 starts at $0.20/GB on 100-150 GB and drops to $0.07/GB at 5000 GB, which turns bulk requests against IPv6-friendly targets into a rounding error on the budget. If your targets accept IPv6 and do not fingerprint the address type harshly, this is the cheapest way to move data in this catalog by a wide margin. Our comparison of IPv4 and IPv6 covers when that assumption holds.

Look elsewhere in three situations. If you need a refund path, there is none: the free trial is the only pre-purchase check, and after payment the money stays spent. If you need datacenter IPs outside France, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, the datacenter side of the catalog simply does not reach that far. And if your work depends on mobile IPs in a narrow geography, the 44-country mobile list is wide for a young provider but thin next to networks built specifically around mobile carriers.

What it actually costs on real volume

Rotating residential entry is $2.50/GB for a single gigabyte, $2.00/GB at 5-8 GB, $1.80/GB at 10-13 GB. The curve then flattens quickly: $1.60/GB at 25-38 GB, $1.50/GB at 40-60 GB, $1.40/GB at 100-150 GB, $1.26/GB at 250-350 GB. In practice the useful jump happens between the entry tier and 25-38 GB, where the rate falls by $0.90 per gigabyte. Everything after that is fine tuning: going from 100-150 GB to 250-350 GB saves $0.14 per gigabyte, so tripling your commitment to chase the discount only pays if you were going to use the traffic anyway. A 300 GB month at $1.26/GB is $378; the same 300 GB bought as three separate 100 GB purchases at $1.40/GB is $420.

Static addresses are billed per IP per month and follow their own ladder: $4.00/IP for 1-5 addresses, $3.50/IP at 10, $3.20/IP at 20-50, $2.60/IP at 100. Both the ISP and static residential lines use the same numbers, so a 25-address multi-accounting set costs $80 a month and a 100-address set costs $260. The per-IP price only becomes interesting at the 100 mark, and small buyers pay a real premium for the convenience of ordering just a few.

Rotating mobile runs $4.50/GB at 1 GB, $4.20/GB at 5-8 GB, $4.00/GB at 10-13 GB, $3.80/GB at 25-38 GB, $3.60/GB at 40-60 GB, $3.40/GB at 100-150 GB and $2.80/GB at 250-350 GB. Unlimited residential is a separate animal at $2100-4750 for the plan, and rotating datacenter is sold as an unlimited package from $135. Dynamic IPv6 is the outlier of the whole price list: $0.20/GB at 100-150 GB, $0.16/GB at 250-350 GB, $0.14/GB at 500-600 GB, $0.11/GB at 1000 GB, $0.08/GB at 3000 GB and $0.07/GB at 5000 GB, with an unlimited option at $115-340.

One thing to settle before you pay: how long purchased traffic stays alive on your account. Ask support for the expiry rule on the tier you are buying, because on a $378 residential order the difference between traffic that rolls over and traffic that dies in 30 days is the whole discount.

The chart below compares the floor price of each provider's entire catalog, not the price of residential proxies. For CatProxies that floor is the dynamic IPv6 product, which is why the bar sits so far below everyone else.

Read it as a statement about the cheapest product in the catalog and nothing more. Residential traffic here costs an order of magnitude more than that bar, and the comparison that matters for scraping is the one in the next section.

Where CatProxies loses to Proxy Seller, NodeMaven, Webshare, Proxyscrape, ProxyShard and SotaProxy

These six are the right yardstick because they all sell rotating residential traffic on a comparable volume ladder, and between them they cover the whole price spread of the segment: the established sellers with big catalogs, the cheap-per-IP infrastructure players, and the two newest arrivals whose pricing is still aggressive. Same product, same volume steps, so the numbers line up directly.

Rotation Residential Proxies, $/GB

CatProxies is the lowest rate at all three steps, and the gap widens with volume: at 250-350 GB it is $0.74 per gigabyte under ProxyShard's flat rate and $2.74 under Webshare, which on a 300 GB month is $222 versus $822. ProxyShard is the closest competitor because its price never moves, which means it wins nothing on volume but also loses nothing at 1 GB.

ISP and Static Residential Proxies, $/IP per month

Static addresses are the weak spot. On a 25-address order CatProxies costs $80 a month against $52.50 at Webshare and $50 at ProxyShard, and even at 100 addresses it stays above both. The offsetting argument is the country list: CatProxies serves 24 countries on ISP and static residential, while ProxyShard covers 3 and Webshare 11, so if you need Romanian, Latvian or Czech addresses the cheaper options may not have them at all. See our ISP proxy rating for the full picture on that segment.

Rotation Mobile Proxies, $/GB

Mobile traffic is cheaper here at every step, though the margins are thin: $0.35 per gigabyte under NodeMaven at 100-150 GB works out to $35-52 saved on that volume. Proxyscrape sells mobile traffic in only 3 countries, so there the country list decides before the rate does. The rotating mobile section compares the segment more broadly.

CatProxies covers 5 countries on datacenter proxies, and that number is what can actually block a project. Compare that against 41 datacenter countries at Proxy Seller and 42 at Webshare before assuming the coverage is equivalent.

What you get besides the gigabyte, and what a test costs

The pool is 20M+ addresses. That is the same figure Proxy Seller reports, and below the 30M+ at NodeMaven, 80M+ at Webshare and ProxyShard, and 120M+ at Proxyscrape. Pool size matters when you hammer a small number of targets and need fresh exits: with a smaller network you cycle back to seen addresses sooner. This is the standing answer to "why not just take the cheapest gigabyte" applied to CatProxies itself, and the honest reading is that you are paying less per gigabyte partly because there are fewer IPs behind it. For broad geographic scraping with rotation on every request it rarely bites; for aggressive work against one hardened target it can.

Testing costs nothing up front and everything after. The free trial lets you check quality before paying, but with no money-back window, the first real order is final. Compare that with Proxy Seller, where a $1.99 trial is backed by a 24-hour refund, or Proxyscrape, where the free trial sits in front of a 72-hour window. Paying $1.99 to buy a refund right is cheaper insurance than a free trial with no exit. Practically: use the trial hard against your actual targets, and make your first paid order a small one rather than the tier with the best per-gigabyte rate.

Payment is where CatProxies quietly beats most of this group. Crypto, AliPay, Visa/Mastercard and YooMoney cover buyers in China and the CIS who cannot use a Western card. Webshare takes cards and wallets only, NodeMaven takes crypto and cards, SotaProxy takes crypto alone. If your payment method has been the blocker, that list is a stronger argument than any price row.

Reputation and what users say

CatProxies is two years into the market, and the conversation around it in scraping and affiliate communities reflects that: discussion focuses on price per gigabyte and on whether a provider this new keeps its rates once it has customers. The recurring theme in those threads is the same one this review lands on, that the residential rate is genuinely low for a global network and the reasonable question is what backs it.

The company also publishes its own technical material, including a long comparison of datacenter proxy providers that argues against inflated advertised IP counts and against paying a premium for dedicated datacenter addresses. It is a vendor's content and reads like one, but the positions it takes are consistent with how the catalog is priced: per-gigabyte and unlimited plans get pushed forward, per-IP datacenter products stay in the background with a five-country footprint. A provider that argues advertised pool numbers are often fiction while reporting a modest 20M+ of its own is at least being internally consistent, and that is worth more than a bigger headline figure.

Two real scenarios with the numbers

A price monitoring job that pulls 120 GB a month from retail catalogs across a dozen countries lands in the 100-150 GB tier at $1.40/GB, so $168 a month. The same job at Proxy Seller's $2.20/GB is $264, at SotaProxy's $2.63/GB it is $315.60, and at Webshare's $4.50/GB it is $540. Over a year the gap against Proxy Seller alone is $1,152, which is the sort of difference that justifies running the free trial properly before committing. If the targets turn out to be hostile enough that a 20M+ pool recycles too fast, that saving evaporates in retries, so measure success rate during the trial and not after the first invoice.

The second case splits by product. A multi-accounting setup on 25 static residential addresses costs $80 a month at $3.20/IP, which is more than Webshare or ProxyShard charge, and the reason to pay it is the 24-country list rather than the price. Our guide to proxies for multi-accounting covers how many addresses that kind of work usually needs. A bulk request job that tolerates IPv6, on the other hand, buys 1000 GB of dynamic IPv6 at $0.11/GB for $110, less than a single 100 GB residential purchase, and that is the strongest single number in this catalog.

Verdict

Buy CatProxies if rotating residential traffic is your main cost line, you work across many countries, and you pay by crypto, AliPay or YooMoney. On volumes from 25 GB upward the per-gigabyte rate is low enough that the annual saving against most alternatives runs into three or four figures, and the IPv6 product gives you a place to move any traffic that does not need to look residential. The rotating residential rating shows how that price sits against the wider market.

Skip it if you need a refund path, if your static-IP order is small enough that the per-IP premium hurts, if you need datacenter IPs outside those five countries, or if your target is hard enough that pool depth decides the job. The correct way in is the free trial run against your real targets, followed by a small first order rather than the biggest discount tier, because with no money-back window the first purchase is the last chance to change your mind.