PyProxy

PyProxy is a Hong Kong-headquartered proxy provider that has carved out a niche as a mid-tier alternative to BrightData and Oxylabs, primarily for buyers who want residential and SOCKS5 IPs without enterprise-level commitments. Operated under the legal entity ROME BELDEN LIMITED, the brand has been around since 2016 but only began pushing its current product lineup from around 2022 onward. Today it pitches itself as a one-stop shop covering residential, datacenter, ISP, and S5 SOCKS5 pools, which makes it a reasonable fit for account managers, multi-accounting agencies, e-commerce scrapers, and SMB data teams who care more about per-IP economics than premium support SLAs.

The PyProxy network advertises 90M+ residential IPs across more than 190 to 200 countries, with city, ASN, state, and ZIP-level targeting on its rotating residential plan. Beyond residential, PyProxy sells a high-volume SOCKS5 product where you buy individual IPs and rotate them yourself, plus shared and dedicated ISP proxies (with session durations up to roughly 12 hours on shared ISP) and standard datacenter IPs. The IP source model leans on a peer/SDK-style residential supply chain similar to other Asia-based providers, which is normal for the segment but worth keeping in mind from a sourcing-quality and compliance perspective.

Pricing is where PyProxy is genuinely competitive. Rotating residential bandwidth starts around $0.77/GB on larger commits, with smaller pay-as-you-go entry tiers around $3.30/GB. The SOCKS5 by-IP product begins near $0.045 per IP, which is one of the cheapest unit prices in the market for individual residential SOCKS5 endpoints. There is also an Unlimited Residential daily plan from around $79/day for users who burn through huge bandwidth on a single project. PyProxy does not advertise a true free trial, and refund policy is widely reported as restrictive — that is the single most common complaint in third-party reviews.

The standout features are the SOCKS5 client (a dedicated S5 proxy manager popular among multi-accounting and sneaker-adjacent users), city/ZIP/ASN targeting on residential, and the unlimited bandwidth daily option that not many providers actually offer at this price point. Protocol support covers HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5, with sticky sessions, configurable rotation, and standard API access for credential generation. Integration with Playwright, Puppeteer, Scrapy, and most antidetect browsers (Multilogin, AdsPower, Undetectable, Dolphin) is straightforward via username:password or IP authentication.

PyProxy makes the most sense for solo operators, growth-hacking teams, and SMB data shops who want residential IPs at sub-$1/GB or want SOCKS5 IPs sold by the unit for account farming. If you are choosing between PyProxy and the obvious top tier (BrightData, Oxylabs, Decodo), this is the budget-leaning pick — not the one to bet a Fortune 500 contract on. It usually beats Webshare on residential breadth but loses to Decodo and IPRoyal on dashboard polish and support responsiveness.

The honest limitations: support is the recurring sore spot in user feedback, with reports of slow email replies, no live chat at lower tiers, and friction around refunds. Trustpilot has previously flagged the listing for review-compliance issues, so weight off-platform reviews carefully. Pool freshness on the cheapest tiers is uneven — fine for SEO, ad verification, and price scraping, but if you need bank-grade success rates on aggressively protected targets (Cloudflare Enterprise, Akamai Bot Manager, DataDome), the heavier-priced incumbents will still outperform. Verify current pricing on the PyProxy site before purchase, as plans and discounts shift frequently.