ProxyScrape

ProxyScrape started life in 2018 as a free public proxy list aggregator and has since grown into a full-stack proxy vendor selling residential, datacenter, mobile, ISP, and a hosted Web Scraping API. Headquartered in Mechelen, Belgium and founded by Thibeau Maerevoet, it sits in the affordable-but-credible tier of the market — well below BrightData and Oxylabs on price, and roughly in line with Webshare and Decodo on positioning. Its core customer is the indie scraper, growth marketer, sneaker reseller, or small SaaS team that wants real paid proxies without committing to a four-figure monthly contract.

The network is unusually broad for a provider at this price point. ProxyScrape advertises a residential pool of around 55 million rotating IPs with country, state, and city-level targeting, plus a datacenter footprint of roughly 40,000 HTTP and SOCKS5 IPs across multiple regions. On top of that, it sells mobile 3G/4G/5G proxies for sneaker and social tasks, ISP (static residential) proxies for stable session-based work, and a managed scraping API for users who would rather pay per successful request than wrangle proxies themselves. Both HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 are supported on most product lines, with sticky and rotating session modes.

Pricing is where ProxyScrape genuinely earns attention. Residential proxies start around $1.15/GB on entry plans and settle in the $3.20-$3.65/GB range at lower volumes — comparable to Decodo and cheaper than BrightData. Datacenter proxies start at roughly $0.02-$0.025 per IP per month with unlimited bandwidth, which is one of the lowest unit prices in the category. There is also an unlimited residential plan priced by Mbps of connection speed (starting around $87/day) for teams that hate per-GB overage anxiety. A 7-day free trial of 100 shared datacenter proxies with 10 GB of bandwidth is available with no credit card, and paid plans carry a money-back guarantee window.

Feature-wise, the standouts are the proxy API and the legacy free proxy list. The API lets you pull fresh proxy lists filtered by protocol, country, timeout, and anonymity directly into Scrapy, Playwright, n8n, or any custom script — useful for teams building rotation logic in-house. The dashboard is functional rather than fancy, but it covers usage tracking, sub-user creation, and whitelisting. Customer support sits at roughly four stars on Trustpilot across 490+ reviews, with response speed generally praised; the lower-rated reviews tend to cluster around the cheapest datacenter tiers and geo-mismatched IPs.

ProxyScrape makes the most sense for solo developers, small agencies, sneaker copping setups, SEO and ad-verification teams, and bootstrapped SaaS that need real proxies but cannot stomach BrightData's pricing or sales cycle. Buyers who need guaranteed enterprise SLAs, dedicated account management, JA3/TLS fingerprint controls, or proprietary anti-bot bypass on the hardest targets (Cloudflare Turnstile, PerimeterX on tier-1 retail) will still be better served by Oxylabs, BrightData, or a specialist like ZenRows or Scrapfly. As a price/value pick at the mid-volume tier, though, ProxyScrape is one of the more honest options.

A few trade-offs to know before buying. The brand still carries some baggage from its free proxy list — those public proxies are unreliable and unsafe for anything serious, and reviewers occasionally conflate them with the paid product. Pool freshness on the residential side is decent but not BrightData-grade, and on hard anti-bot targets the success rate can lag premium providers. Country coverage on mobile and ISP products is narrower than the residential pool. Treat the paid plans as the real product and ignore the free lists for production work.