HydraProxy

HydraProxy is a mid-sized proxy provider that has carved out a niche in the pay-as-you-go segment, offering residential, US 4G/5G mobile, worldwide mobile, static mobile, and ISP proxies. Founded around 2019 and headquartered in Cyprus, the company is best known for two things: letting buyers start with as little as 1GB of residential bandwidth or a single day of mobile access, and running one of the larger US carrier-aggregated mobile networks (AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon) you can rent without an enterprise contract. It is positioned squarely at solo operators, growth-marketing freelancers, multi-account managers, and small scraping teams who want carrier-grade IPs without the BrightData or Oxylabs paperwork.

On the residential side, HydraProxy advertises a pool of roughly 5–7 million IPs spanning 100+ countries, with country, state, and city-level targeting available on the rotating endpoints. The mobile network is the more distinctive asset — over 200,000 US 4G/5G IPs that you can scope to a specific carrier or rotate across the multi-carrier pool. ISP proxies are sold on a per-IP, 30-day basis and use datacenter-hosted ISP routes for sticky long-lived sessions. All endpoints support HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5, with rotation modes of per-request, 5, 10, or 30-minute sticky sessions.

Pricing is HydraProxy's main hook. Residential traffic ladders from $4/GB on the Starter tier (1–50GB), down to $3.50/GB on Plus (50–250GB) and $3/GB on Agency (250GB–1TB), with custom enterprise quotes above 1TB. Mobile access is sold by the day instead of by the gigabyte — Standard plans run $2.95 for one day, $7.95 for three days, $15.95 for a week, and $59.95 for thirty days, with the Premium tier running roughly 30% higher. ISP proxies are $4/IP/month, dropping to $3.60 at 100+ IPs. There is no free trial, but a 24-hour refund window is documented, and there is no monthly minimum or lock-in — useful for buyers who only need proxies for a single launch or campaign.

Product-wise, HydraProxy's standout features are the unlimited-bandwidth mobile plans, the dedicated US carrier targeting (rare at this price), the dashboard's simplicity (most users report onboarding in under ten minutes), and the SOCKS5 support across all three product lines. Sticky session lengths up to 30 minutes work well for account-warming and ad-verification flows. The dashboard is not as polished as Decodo's or as deep as BrightData's Proxy Manager, but it handles the basics — endpoint generation, geo selection, sub-user creation — without friction. Trustpilot reviews skew positive (around 4.7/5), and 24/7 chat support is reportedly responsive, although reviewers note occasional pool freshness dips during peak hours.

HydraProxy makes sense if you are a sneaker bot user, a multi-account marketer running 10–100 profiles, an affiliate marketer needing US mobile IPs for ad checks, or a small scraping operator who wants to test residential traffic without committing $500/month to Oxylabs. It is less appropriate for high-volume enterprise scrapers (the pool is smaller than BrightData's 150M+), for buyers who need granular ASN-level targeting, or for teams that need a mature API for programmatic IP allocation. On the price-quality curve it sits in the budget-to-mid range — cheaper per GB than Oxylabs or BrightData, comparable to Decodo and IPRoyal on residential pricing, and notably cheaper than Bright Data on US mobile access.

A few honest trade-offs to know before purchasing: the residential pool, while broad, is smaller than the tier-one providers, so success rates on the hardest anti-bot targets (Akamai, DataDome, PerimeterX) can be inconsistent. There is no free trial, only a 24-hour refund. Documentation around integrations with Playwright, Puppeteer, and Scrapy is thinner than at larger competitors, and there is no native n8n node — you wire it up via standard HTTP/SOCKS5 credentials. Verify the current pricing and pool numbers on the HydraProxy website before purchase, as plan structures have shifted at least twice since 2023.