CheapProxy

CheapProxy (commonly referred to as Proxy-Cheap, the brand operating proxy-cheap.com) is a price-led proxy marketplace built for buyers who care more about $/GB and $/IP than premium-tier brand names. The provider stocks the full menu — rotating residential, static residential/ISP, datacenter IPv4 and IPv6, plus rotating and static mobile — and positions itself as the affordable alternative to Bright Data, Oxylabs and Decodo. It is squarely aimed at freelancers, growth marketers, sneaker copping enthusiasts, indie scrapers and small agencies that need working IPs without committing to four-figure monthly retainers.

The CheapProxy residential pool is advertised at roughly 7M+ rotating residential IPs with coverage in 127+ countries, complemented by mobile and ISP inventory. City and ASN targeting is available on residential and mobile, and the provider supports both rotating and sticky session modes. Protocols include HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 (with UDP support on SOCKS5), which makes the network workable for everything from browser automation to game traffic. Static residential (ISP) IPs are sold per-IP rather than per-GB, which is what gives CheapProxy one of its biggest pricing edges over per-GB-only competitors.

Pricing is where CheapProxy genuinely earns its name. Datacenter IPv6 starts around $0.15 per IP per month, static residential ISP IPs land in the low single digits, and rotating residential is sold per-GB with pay-as-you-go credits that do not expire. There is a $1.99 / 7-day trial entry point on certain products, and the provider accepts Visa, Mastercard, Amex, PayPal, Alipay and crypto via Coingate. Refunds exist but are conditional — buyers report mixed experiences, so treat the trial as your real testing window rather than expecting a frictionless money-back.

Standout features are the pay-as-you-go credit model (residential GB never expires), a self-serve dashboard with usage analytics, a browser extension for Chrome and Firefox, and SOCKS5 sticky sessions. The API is straightforward enough for Scrapy, Playwright, Puppeteer and n8n integrations, and CheapProxy publishes example snippets for most common stacks. Support is 24/7 via live chat — response times are generally fast, though refund-related tickets are where most user friction shows up in public reviews.

CheapProxy makes sense if you are price-sensitive, doing moderate-volume scraping, ad verification, social media management, sneaker copping or running multi-account setups where the cost per IP matters more than absolute top-tier IP quality. It is not the right pick if you are running enterprise-grade scraping at tens of TB per month, need contractual SLAs, or are going after the hardest anti-bot targets (Cloudflare Enterprise, PerimeterX on tier-1 retail) where Bright Data, Oxylabs or Decodo's premium pools have a measurable success-rate edge. On the price/quality curve, CheapProxy sits firmly in the value tier — cheaper than the big four, more capable than fly-by-night resellers.

A few honest limitations to know up front: the residential pool, while large, has occasional fraud-score and geolocation mismatch complaints (IPs flagged as proxy by IPQS or showing a different country than requested), and refund policy enforcement is stricter than the marketing copy suggests. Pool freshness on smaller countries can also be inconsistent. Test on your specific target sites during the trial before committing volume — CheapProxy rewards buyers who actually validate before they scale.