Proxyon

Proxyon is a pay-as-you-go proxy provider that leans hard into one positioning: no contracts, no monthly minimums, no sales calls. Drop in a $5 deposit, top up when you run out, and walk away whenever you want. That model puts Proxyon squarely in the same lane as Webshare and Proxy-Cheap rather than the enterprise BrightData / Oxylabs tier, and it is clearly built for solo scrapers, indie SaaS founders, growth engineers and small data teams who hate getting locked into a $500/month minimum just to test a workflow.

The network covers the four standard product lines plus an IPv6 angle. Residential proxies are advertised at 100M+ IPs across 150+ countries with city-level targeting, rotating or sticky sessions, and both HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 on every plan. Datacenter and ISP proxies are sold per-IP rather than per-GB, mobile proxies are billed per-GB, and there is a separate IPv6 product split between static datacenter IPv6 and rotating IPv6 threads — that IPv6 line is rare at this price point and useful for niches like Craigslist, ticketing or sites that whitelist IPv6 ranges. Pool sourcing details (peer SDK vs. carrier deals vs. owned ASN) are not disclosed publicly, so heavy buyers should ask before committing volume.

Pricing as listed on the Proxyon site: residential at $1.75/GB, mobile at $4.50/GB, datacenter at $1.50/IP, ISP at $2.00/IP, IPv6 datacenter at $0.25/IP, and IPv6 rotating at $0.20/thread. The minimum deposit is $5, deposits are non-refundable, and new accounts get 100MB of residential bandwidth for free with no card required — that free 100MB is the de facto trial. Crypto is accepted alongside standard payment methods, which matters for buyers who want to stay off a card statement.

On the product side, Proxyon ships the basics competently rather than reinventing the dashboard. You get username:password auth or IP whitelist, unlimited concurrent connections on every tier, sticky and rotating session modes, and a public status page backing the 99.9% uptime claim. Code examples are published for Python, Node.js, PHP, Java, JavaScript, C/C++ and C#, so plugging Proxyon into Scrapy, Playwright, Puppeteer or a custom n8n node is straightforward — these are standard HTTP/SOCKS5 endpoints, not a proprietary scraping API. Support is human and runs through Discord, email and live chat, with the team explicitly positioning fast non-scripted replies as a differentiator versus larger vendors.

Proxyon is the right pick if you want a no-commitment proxy account you can fund with $5, run a one-off scraping job on, and forget about until the next project — particularly for residential or IPv6 work. It is also worth considering for indie devs and small agencies priced out of Oxylabs and BrightData but who find Webshare's residential pool too small or too aggressive on rotation. It is the wrong pick if you need a built-in scraping API with JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA-solving infrastructure, SERP/e-commerce unblockers, or a dedicated account manager — those are Oxylabs, BrightData and Decodo territory.

Limitations to know up front: Proxyon is a relatively new and smaller-scale brand compared to the listicle incumbents, so there is less independent third-party benchmarking on success rates against Cloudflare, DataDome and PerimeterX targets. The pool sourcing model and company ownership are not publicly disclosed, deposits are non-refundable, and there is no SLA-backed enterprise tier visible on the pricing page. For mission-critical scraping at scale, run the free 100MB on your real targets first and validate JA3 fingerprint behaviour and success rate before topping up beyond a small test deposit.