Proxy-Cheap

Proxy-Cheap is a Vilnius, Lithuania-based proxy provider that has been operating since 2018, and the name is not marketing fluff — the entire pitch is undercutting the per-GB and per-IP prices of larger competitors like Bright Data, Oxylabs and Smartproxy/Decodo. The catalog covers seven distinct proxy products under one dashboard: rotating residential, static residential (ISP) IPv4 and IPv6, rotating mobile, static mobile, datacenter IPv4 and datacenter IPv6. That breadth at the low end of the market is unusual, and it is the main reason Proxy-Cheap keeps showing up in "cheap proxies" comparison lists.

On the network side, marketing material across third-party reviews cites a residential pool in the 7M to 85M IP range depending on the source and the year, plus around 1M static residential (ISP) IPs and a smaller mobile footprint sourced from 3G/4G carriers. Country coverage is broad on paper — the homepage highlights roughly a dozen headline locations (US, UK, Singapore, Brazil, Germany, Turkey, Australia, India, Pakistan, Thailand, Canada) with an "all locations" option, while third-party write-ups reference 130+ to 180+ countries in total. City-level targeting is available on residential plans for the bigger markets, but expect coverage gaps in smaller countries and ASN-level targeting that is far less granular than what Bright Data or Oxylabs expose.

Pricing is where Proxy-Cheap actually earns its name. Rotating residential traffic starts around $4.99/GB on entry plans and drops on larger commitments, rotating mobile starts around $5.99/GB, static datacenter IPv4 can be had from roughly $1.49/month per IP, datacenter IPv6 from around $0.15/month, and static residential ISP IPs sit near $2.29/month with a $1.99 seven-day trial. Static mobile IPs are the premium product at roughly $7+ per proxy. Plans are pay-as-you-go on the rotating side and per-IP subscription on the static side, with no hard monthly minimum. Refunds are handled case-by-case rather than as a blanket money-back guarantee.

Feature-wise, the dashboard supports both HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5, sticky sessions on residential, unlimited bandwidth on the static IP products, usage analytics, and Chrome/Firefox browser extensions for quick IP swapping. There are no first-party Playwright or Scrapy SDKs, but the proxies plug into any standard scraper via the gateway endpoint with user:pass auth, and they work cleanly with anti-detect browsers like Multilogin, GoLogin and AdsPower. Customer support is 24/7 chat and is widely cited as one of the provider's stronger points for a budget vendor. Payment options are generous for a small player — Visa, Mastercard, Amex, PayPal, Alipay and crypto via CoinGate.

Where Proxy-Cheap fits is the low-to-mid end of the buying curve: freelance scrapers, indie SEO operators, multi-account managers, small affiliate teams, and developers prototyping a data pipeline before committing to a six-figure Bright Data contract. If you need 50TB/month, audit-grade compliance documentation, or a dedicated account manager, this is not the provider — go to Oxylabs, Bright Data or Decodo. If you are spending $50–$500/month and the cost of residential bandwidth at Decodo or Webshare is starting to sting, Proxy-Cheap is a legitimate alternative worth trialing on a small workload first.

The honest trade-offs are worth knowing up front. Reviewers consistently flag two issues: occasional geo-mismatches where requested-country IPs come back from a different region, and pool freshness inconsistencies on the static residential product — some users report IPs that work for hours or days then go dark. Success rates on heavily protected targets (Cloudflare-hardened sites, sneaker drops, large social networks) lag the premium providers, so anyone running mission-critical anti-bot work should benchmark before committing volume.