AstroProxy

AstroProxy (often listed simply as "Astro") is a mid-tier proxy infrastructure provider that has carved a niche between the budget end of the market (Webshare, PYProxy) and the expensive enterprise giants (BrightData, Oxylabs). Founded in 2018 and operating out of astroproxy.com, the company sells residential, mobile (4G/5G), and datacenter proxies under one dashboard, with KYC/AML-compliant peer sourcing for the residential pool. Their pitch is straightforward: bandwidth-billed, no monthly minimums, and a control panel that lets you flip a single port between HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 without paying extra.

The residential pool sits at around 50M+ IPs across 100+ countries, with city-level and ISP-level targeting available from the dashboard. Independent testing from Proxyway has put residential success rates around 99% against a generic test target and roughly 95% across the eleven popular sites in their benchmark — solid, though not market-leading. The catch is geographic distribution: AstroProxy is strongest in Europe, while the US pool is comparatively thin (Proxyway noted around 30k US IPs in their last run), which matters if your scraping is heavily US-skewed. Mobile proxies are sold as real 4G/5G carrier IPs with on-demand IP rotation as fast as every 30 seconds via API or the web UI.

Pricing is per-GB, pay-as-you-go, and aggressive. Residential starts at $3.65/GB on the smallest packets (the homepage advertises a $0.10/GB headline rate once you hit volume tiers and apply discounts of up to 45%), and mobile starts around $0.15/GB at scale. There is no fixed monthly subscription required — you buy traffic packets from 100MB upward, and the dashboard simply burns bandwidth from your balance. AstroProxy runs a $3 free trial credit instead of a hard refund policy, which is consistent with how most bandwidth-based providers handle evaluation.

On the product side, the standout features are the unified dashboard (all proxy types managed from one panel), per-port protocol choice between HTTPS and SOCKS5 at no surcharge, configurable sticky sessions, and a fairly clean REST API for rotating IPs and reading usage stats. Support is genuinely a strength reviewers call out repeatedly — chat and messenger access to actual humans who understand proxies rather than scripted tier-1 agents, with response windows roughly 10 AM to 2 AM UTC+4. That matters when a scraper goes down at 3 AM your time and you need an ASN swap, not a canned reply.

AstroProxy is the right pick for indie scrapers, small agencies, multi-account operators, and SEO/ad-verification teams who want SOCKS5 support and pay-as-you-go billing without committing to a four-figure monthly contract. It is also a reasonable mobile-proxy choice for anyone running social media automation or sneaker-adjacent workflows on a budget. It is NOT the right pick if your use case is heavy US-only residential scraping at massive volume, where the thinner US pool will hurt success rates compared to BrightData or Decodo, or if you need formal SLAs and enterprise procurement paperwork.

Limitations to know before you buy: third-party reviewers consistently flag that AstroProxy's residential proxies are not the fastest in the market, US pool size is comparatively small versus the tier-1 providers, and there is no traditional money-back guarantee — the $3 trial credit is the evaluation mechanism. Verify current per-GB pricing on the live pricing page before committing, as AstroProxy adjusts tiers and discounts frequently.