How We Review and Rate Proxy Providers

We compare 84 proxy providers on the things that decide a purchase: what a gigabyte or an IP address really costs, which countries you get, and how you can try the service before paying in full. This page explains where our data comes from and how it turns into ratings.

What we collect about every provider

  • Prices by proxy type. Every plan from the provider's own pricing page, split by type — rotating residential, static residential (ISP), mobile, datacenter — and brought to one unit: per GB, per IP or per port.
  • Country coverage by type. We keep a separate country list for each proxy type: a provider that sells residential IPs in 195 countries may offer mobile proxies in only a few.
  • Ways to test. Free trial, paid trial, refund window and its conditions.
  • Payment and access. Payment methods including crypto, identity checks (KYC), API and integrations with common tools.
  • Company details. Jurisdiction, launch year and pool size as stated by the provider.

How we keep prices current

Every night we check provider websites automatically. When a price or a plan changes, an editor verifies the change on the provider's site and updates our data. The date of the last update is shown at the top of every review and rating.

How ratings are ordered

A rating compares providers within one proxy type — never residential against datacenter, because a gigabyte and an IP address are not comparable. Within the type we look at five things:

  1. Price per unit at the same volume steps for everyone — a small, a working and a production volume — so a table never sets one provider's 1 GB against another's 1000 GB.
  2. Country coverage for this proxy type.
  3. How you can test: free access, a cheap paid trial or a refund window.
  4. Promo codes, where the advertised price only exists with one.
  5. Reader scores, which mostly screen out broken services rather than pick a winner.

Country and task ratings use the same data, narrowed to providers that actually sell addresses in that country or fit that task.

Hands-on checks

Where we have checked a provider ourselves — registration, support, payment, the trial, the dashboard, a refund — the review says so, and these results are kept apart from what the provider says about itself.

Where we have access to a provider's proxies, we also measure them ourselves: once a month we send 200 requests through them from our server in London (50 for static proxies, each of whose IPs we also check daily) and record the share of successful requests, the response time and the share of addresses that come from datacenter networks. The result is shown in the review with the month of the test; if the test access was given to us by the provider, the review says so.

Reader reviews

Any reader can leave a review with a score, pros and cons. Reader scores are shown separately from our own rating.

How the site makes money

Some links to providers are affiliate links: if you buy after following one, the provider may pay us a commission. Commissions do not affect the order of providers in our ratings — the order follows the criteria above. We also sell banner advertising through adv.caproxy.com; banners sit in separate ad slots and are not part of ratings or review text.

Who writes

Pages are written and updated by:

More about the project is on the About Us page.

Found an outdated price?

Write to hello@caproxy.com with the provider name and the page. We check it against the provider's site and correct the page.