Shard Proxies

Shard Proxies, operating publicly under the proxyshard.com brand, is a multi-product proxy provider that has carved out a niche selling residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile IPs to scrapers, affiliate marketers, crypto traders, and multi-account operators who want cheap entry pricing without committing to a monthly subscription. The pitch is breadth: rather than specializing in one IP type like Webshare (datacenter) or Soax (residential and mobile), Shard Proxies tries to be a one-stop shop with a flat per-GB or per-day price across the catalog.

On the network side, Shard Proxies advertises a residential pool of roughly 50M+ real home ISP addresses across 160+ countries, with the largest concentrations sitting in Germany, Romania, and the United States. The product covers the four standard categories — rotating residential, ISP (static residential), datacenter, and 4G/5G mobile — with country, region, city, and ASN-level targeting on the residential plan. SOCKS5, HTTP(S), and UDP are all supported, sticky sessions can be held for up to 24 hours, and the dashboard exposes rotation rules and connection limits up to around 5,000 concurrent threads. Datacenter throughput is marketed at up to 10 Gbps for bulk scraping workloads.

Pricing is where Shard Proxies tries to differentiate. Residential traffic starts at around $2/GB on pay-as-you-go with no monthly minimum, and there is a residential unlimited plan at roughly $30/day for teams running sustained high-volume jobs. Datacenter proxies are listed from around $1.2 per IP per month, ISP proxies from $2 per IP per month, and mobile proxies from $4/day. There is no free trial in the public-facing pages at the time of writing, and refund terms are not clearly documented — that is the kind of thing you should clarify with their sales team before topping up a large balance.

Standout features worth calling out: the unlimited daily plans on residential and mobile are unusual at this price point and make Shard Proxies attractive for media buyers and affiliate teams burning through bandwidth, the UDP support is genuinely useful for gaming and certain anti-detect setups, and the support team has a reputation in independent reviews for answering technical questions without canned replies. The fingerprint switching on mobile is also a nice touch for account farming workflows.

Shard Proxies sits firmly in the budget-to-mid tier. If you are running enterprise-scale e-commerce scraping where success rate and SLA matter more than dollars per gigabyte, BrightData, Oxylabs, or Decodo are still safer picks. But if you are an affiliate marketer, a small scraping shop, a crypto trader rotating wallets, or a multi-account operator who wants a la carte pricing across residential, ISP, mobile, and datacenter from one dashboard, Shard Proxies is a credible cheaper alternative to the big names — particularly attractive against Smartproxy or IPRoyal on raw $/GB.

The honest trade-offs: Shard Proxies is a relatively young brand without the multi-year track record of Tier 1 providers, public information on the IP sourcing model (peer SDK, ISP partnerships, etc.) is thin, and pool freshness in long-tail countries outside the top 10 markets is unverified. The dashboard is functional but not as polished as Webshare or Decodo, and there is no published SLA or uptime guarantee. Test on a small top-up before committing serious budget, and benchmark success rate on your actual target sites rather than trusting the marketing numbers.