ABCProxy

ABCProxy is a Chinese-founded proxy vendor that has carved out a niche as the cheap-and-cheerful alternative to Bright Data, Oxylabs, and Decodo. Launched in 2018, the company markets a residential pool of 200M+ peer-sourced IPs, a SOCKS5 (S5) reseller product priced per IP, and supporting datacenter and mobile networks. The pitch is straightforward: pay a fraction of what tier-one vendors charge, accept a slightly rougher buying experience, and get usable IPs for scraping, ad verification, multi-accounting, and sneaker copping.

On paper the network is broad. ABCProxy claims 200M+ residential IPs across 190+ countries, a 700K+ datacenter pool, and roughly 10M mobile IPs across 160+ locations and 700+ ASNs. Country and city-level targeting is available on the residential plan, and the SOCKS5 product exposes individual IPs you can hold for the lifetime of the session rather than rotate on every request. Static residential (ISP-style) and unlimited-bandwidth residential SKUs round out the catalog. As with most peer-network vendors, real performance varies sharply by country — US, UK, and DE pools are deep, while smaller markets thin out fast.

Pricing is where ABCProxy genuinely separates itself. Rotating residential traffic starts around $0.77/GB on the larger commitments, with smaller packs sitting in the $3–$4/GB range. The SOCKS5 product is sold per IP from roughly $0.03–$0.045 per IP, which is one of the lowest entry points in the industry. Static residential begins near $5/month per IP, and an unlimited residential plan runs about $79/day for heavy scraping workloads. There is no free trial — ABCProxy expects you to start on a small paid pack to evaluate — and refund policies are handled case-by-case rather than published as a blanket guarantee.

Product-wise the standouts are the S5 desktop client, the Chrome extension, and the dashboard's per-country IP filter. The S5 client lets you pin specific IPs, forward them to local ports, and rotate by ASN or city — useful for account farms and sneaker setups. HTTPS and SOCKS5 are both supported, sticky sessions go up to roughly 30 minutes on rotating residential, and the API plays cleanly with Scrapy, Playwright, Puppeteer, and Multilogin / AdsPower-style antidetect browsers. Documentation is thinner than what you get from Bright Data or Oxylabs, and the dashboard's translations occasionally read as machine-generated, but the core flows work.

Honest read on who should buy ABCProxy: scrapers, growth teams, and multi-account operators who care more about $/GB than enterprise SLAs. It is a sensible step up from Webshare or PYProxy when you outgrow datacenter IPs but cannot stomach Decodo or Oxylabs pricing. It is not the right pick for regulated enterprise workloads, contractually guaranteed compliance, or buyers who need 24/7 named account management. Trustpilot sentiment is mixed — the brand was flagged by Trustpilot for review-guideline issues and a meaningful share of public reviews are negative around billing disputes and IP quality in smaller geos.

The trade-offs to know up front: pool freshness in tail countries is inconsistent, support replies are workable in business hours but slower on weekends, and the marketing language sometimes overstates uptime ("99.99%") in a way the real-world success rate doesn't always match for anti-bot-heavy targets. Treat ABCProxy as a strong value pick, test it on your actual target sites before committing to a large prepaid balance, and keep a fallback provider configured for the geos where the pool runs thin.