Proxmint

Who Proxmint fits and who should skip it

Proxmint is built around one billing model: you pay for traffic, never for an address. The whole catalog is rotating, and that tells you the target audience immediately. This is a tool for collecting data at volume and for checking what ads and prices look like from somewhere else.

The split inside the catalog is the useful part. Residential traffic is what you point at targets that fight back, because the exit address belongs to a home connection and the anti-bot has to decide whether to punish a real customer. The rotating datacenter pool is what you point at everything else, and "everything else" is a bigger share of real scraping work than most people admit.

Skip Proxmint entirely if you need one trusted address that stays yours for weeks. Account farms, marketplace logins, sneaker and ticket drops all need a static IP that does not rotate under you, and there is nothing static in this catalog: no ISP proxies, no dedicated datacenter IPs, no per-IP billing at all. Also skip it if your team pays for infrastructure with a corporate card, because crypto is the only way money gets in.

What it actually costs you

Residential traffic starts at $1.80/GB for a single gigabyte and the grid bottoms out at $1.25/GB. The number that matters is where discounting stops: the last real step lands at 500-600 GB, and ordering 1000 GB buys you no further cut per gigabyte.

Translate that into a month you can picture. At 120 GB of residential traffic you are paying roughly $173, and that is the figure to carry into every comparison below. Per-gigabyte prices read easily and mislead just as easily.

The grid above this text has every step. The chart shows the shape of it, and the shape is what you buy on: a steep early slope and a flat tail.

Mobile traffic opens at $4.50/GB, the rotating datacenter pool at $0.97/GB. That spread is almost a factor of five, and it is the single decision that will dominate your invoice. Mobile earns the premium only against targets that treat carrier addresses gently because hundreds of real subscribers sit behind the same IP, so banning it costs the site money. Against a target that does not check anything, the datacenter gigabyte does identical work.

There is also a premium residential pool, a curated slice of the same network that Proxmint sells at roughly five times the standard residential rate. Its one practical difference is targeting. Every pool can be narrowed below country level to a state, city, ZIP code or carrier, but on standard residential, mobile and datacenter that targeted traffic is counted double, while premium bills it at the plain rate. Even so, standard residential stays cheaper per delivered gigabyte, so premium only makes sense when the cleaner addresses themselves are the point.

Two things are not in the posted price. Crypto-only payment means you top up ahead of the work rather than paying after it, so cash flow planning is on you. The other side of it works in your favor: packs never expire, so a balance you do not burn this month is still there next month, and buying a bigger band for the lower rate carries no risk of losing the unused part.

Where Proxmint loses to the named competitors

The providers below sell the same product on the same unit, a rotating residential gigabyte, so the comparison is honest at the same volume bands.

At small and medium volume Proxmint sits at the bottom of this group next to Thordata. The picture flips as you scale: from the hundreds of gigabytes upward, Thordata and Geonix keep cutting while Proxmint has already gone flat, and at 1000 GB they are both well under it. That is the practical ceiling of this provider.

The grouped bars make the crossover obvious, and it is worth looking at before you commit to a monthly volume.

On mobile traffic the three are close enough that price alone should not decide it: Proxmint leads at small volume by cents and loses at large volume. Proxy Seller and Geonix sell mobile per port per month instead, which is a different product with a different risk profile, so their numbers do not belong in this table.

One product here has no counterpart in the group at all. None of the five competitors here has a rotating datacenter pool billed per gigabyte in our catalog: those that sell datacenter proxies rent addresses per IP per month. You cannot put $0.80/GB and a monthly IP rental into one column without lying to the reader, so compare them by task instead: rented IPs give you a fixed, known set of addresses, the traffic pool gives you churn and no commitment.

Here is where we part ways with the common advice. "Buy residential for everything, it is safer" is a line that sells expensive traffic. We think it is wrong on most jobs, and the mechanism is simple: a target that never inspects the exit ASN cannot tell a hosting address from a home one, so the residential premium buys you nothing at all. On that kind of job the datacenter gigabyte at $0.80 does the same work for a fraction of the cost.

The caveat is just as mechanical: the moment the target does inspect, your block rate climbs and retries eat the saving, which is why you test with one gigabyte before you buy a hundred.

What comes with the gigabyte, and what a test will cost you

Cheap traffic usually means a thin pool, and that is the first thing to check on a 2026 launch. Proxmint claims 90M+ addresses, which puts it above Proxy Seller, NodeMaven and Geonix and below Proxyscrape and Thordata. Read that as reassurance rather than proof: a headline pool says nothing about how many addresses are live in the country you need at the concurrency you run.

The cost of finding out is where Proxmint is genuinely weak. There is no free trial without a payment and no refund window. The closest thing to a trial is a bonus gigabyte of residential traffic added to the first top-up of $10 or more, so your first purchase is the test and the money does not come back if the pool disappoints.

Compare the two columns in the middle, not just the one. A paid trial with a refund window behind it risks less of your money than a free trial with no way back, and Proxmint has neither. The workaround is to buy the smallest band, burn it against your real target in a day, and only then size a monthly order. Because packs do not expire, nothing is lost if the test band runs for a while longer than planned.

Payment is the other hard edge. Crypto is the only rail, which is fine for solo operators and arbitrage teams that already hold stablecoins, and a blocker for anyone who needs an invoice and a card statement. If that is your constraint, our roundup of providers that accept crypto shows how unusual it is to accept nothing else.

What is behind a 2026 launch

Proxmint launched in 2026 and works under Indonesian law, so there is no multi-year track record to lean on. Its own terms are frank about the setup: the proxy network comes from an upstream supplier, and that supplier's acceptable use rules apply to your traffic on top of Proxmint's own. In practice that makes Proxmint a storefront and billing layer over a larger network, which explains both the big pool figure and the low price.

It also means your limits are partly set by someone you never signed with. Banks, payment services and government domains are refused on every pool unless the provider opens a site for a single account after a review, and only common web ports are reachable by default. Check the list of blocked sites on their side before you buy for a narrow target.

On the plus side, connection is ordinary: one gateway, HTTP and SOCKS5, login and password from the dashboard, rotation on every request or a sticky session of up to half an hour. A public status page shows how the gateway has been doing, which is more than many young providers publish.

Two scenarios with the numbers

Say you collect listings and catalog pages from sites with no serious bot defense, roughly 120 GB a month. On the rotating datacenter pool that band costs $0.80/GB, about $96 a month. The same traffic on residential runs $1.44/GB, about $173, and you would be paying that purely for a residential ASN that your target never looks at.

Second case: ad verification and genuinely hostile targets, 300 GB a month. At $1.33/GB that is $399 for the month, and residential is the only sane product for the job.

Check that figure against the alternatives before you top up. Thordata bills the same band at $0.80/GB, close to $240, while Proxyscrape asks $3.25/GB, near $975. On this one workload Proxmint is in the middle of its own comparison group, not at the front of it.

Verdict

Buy Proxmint if you pay for traffic rather than addresses, run somewhere between tens and a few hundred gigabytes a month, and crypto is not an obstacle. The rotating datacenter pool billed per gigabyte is the genuinely interesting part of the lineup, and residential at small to medium volume is priced near the floor of this group.

Do not buy it if you need a static IP for accounts, an invoice and a card payment, or any way to get your money back when a pool underperforms. On very large monthly volumes, check Thordata and Geonix first: that is where this grid runs out of discounts and theirs keep going.