ProxyRack

ProxyRack is a Hong Kong-headquartered proxy provider that has been operating since 2014, carving out a niche as one of the few credible vendors offering unmetered residential proxies billed by concurrent threads instead of gigabytes. That single pricing decision shapes everything about the product: ProxyRack is built for scrapers, SEO teams, and account managers who run continuous workloads and would rather pay a flat monthly fee than watch a bandwidth meter tick. Founded by Sam Cross, it sits in the budget-to-mid tier of the market alongside Webshare and IPRoyal rather than competing head-to-head with BrightData or Oxylabs on enterprise features.

The network spans residential, datacenter, ISP, and mobile proxy types, plus a home VPN product. ProxyRack publishes a pool of 2M+ residential IPs (some marketing pages cite 5M+ monthly rotating IPs) across 140+ countries, sourced through a peer network model. Country-level targeting is supported, though city-level granularity is more limited than what you get from BrightData or Decodo. Datacenter proxies include static USA IPs for tasks that need IP persistence, and both HTTP and SOCKS5 protocols are available across the lineup, along with UDP support on the datacenter side, which is unusual.

Pricing is where ProxyRack gets interesting. Premium (metered) residential bundles start around $49.95/month for 10 GB, which works out to roughly $5/GB at the entry tier and scales down toward $2.30/GB at the 1TB level. Volume Premium plans drop to roughly $1.10/GB at 100 GB and $0.90/GB at 200 GB on some published sheets. The flagship Unmetered Residential plans are billed per thread (port) instead — 100 threads is around $749.95/month, or roughly $7.50 per concurrent connection with no GB cap. Annual plans get 17% off. A 7-day (sometimes listed as 3-day) trial of all products is available for $13.95 rather than a free trial.

Standout features include the unmetered thread-based model itself, a web scraping API, an Android SDK, rotating and sticky port configurations with custom rotation timers, and sub-user management for team accounts. SOCKS5 support across residential and datacenter pools makes ProxyRack a reasonable fit for tools that prefer SOCKS over HTTP CONNECT. Trustpilot reviews average around 4.5 stars and support is generally described as responsive, though response times vary by plan.

ProxyRack is the right pick for a scraper running steady, high-concurrency workloads who knows their thread budget and wants to escape per-GB billing — particularly small-to-mid scraping shops, SEO agencies, and account-management operators. It is not the right pick if you need surgical city-level geo-targeting, the freshest possible residential pool for hard anti-bot targets (where BrightData or Oxylabs still lead), or a polished enterprise dashboard with SLAs. It is also not a sneaker-cop-first provider — there are mobile and ISP options, but ProxyRack is not marketed at that vertical the way Smartproxy or specialist sneaker proxy vendors are.

Limitations worth knowing up front: the trial is paid rather than free, refund policy is limited, the dashboard is functional rather than slick, and success rates on hard anti-bot targets (Cloudflare-protected ecommerce, sneaker sites, social platforms with aggressive JA3 fingerprinting) lag the top-tier networks. Pool freshness and the quality of any given country slice depend on peer availability, so test your specific geo before committing to an annual plan.