ScrapeOpsProxy Cheap
Proxy Cheap is a global proxy provider offering residential, mobile, and datacenter proxy networks for web intelligence and anonymity.
Summary
Proxy Cheap provides a global network of rotating residential, static residential, mobile, and datacenter proxies. Developers can access these via HTTP or SOCKS5 protocols using username and password authentication. The service supports geotargeting by country, region, and city across 180 locations. You can configure rotating sessions per request or maintain sticky sessions for up to 30 minutes.
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Proxy Cheap User Reviews
Proxy Cheap offers a comprehensive range of web scraping and data collection products, from proxies to data sets and data APIs.
User Review Summary
Reviewers report conflicting experiences with customer support, with some praising the speed and helpfulness of agents while others criticize long wait times and the practice of closing chats prematurely. Users frequently complain about poor proxy quality, citing inconsistent geolocations, frequent disconnections, and IPs that are already banned or flagged. While some customers appreciate the low latency and smooth authorization, others report difficulties obtaining full refunds for defective services and issues with UI navigation.
Trustscore 2.7 | 747 reviews
Terrible proxies
Terrible proxies, even worse customer support
Absolutely awful experience. Paid for dedicated ISP proxies, but they constantly trigger CAPTCHAs and anti-bot checks. Support is a complete joke. Waited over an hour for a response, with just ONE person ahead of me for 40 minutes. Seriously, what kind of customer service is this? Save your money and go elsewhere.
Their proxies are shit
Their proxies are shit.
You buy a premium IP with 0 fraud score (for an extra fee) and get a public IP with 70 score.
And the cherry on the top is they don't even want to give you a refund, Scammers.
Defective, blacklisted proxy delivered — support and leadership refuse to fix or refund
I am sharing my experience with Proxy-Cheap (proxy-cheap.com) regarding a US Static Residential proxy purchase, purely as a factual consumer review.
Upon provisioning, the IP assigned to my account was immediately detected and flagged across standard fraud-scoring databases (such as IPQS/MaxMind) as a public/commercial proxy rather than genuine residential bandwidth. Because of this high-risk classification, standard services and websites rejected connection requests right away, rendering the proxy unusable for its intended purpose.
I reached out to customer support to request either a clean replacement IP or a standard refund, as the product delivered did not match the advertised service level. Support declined to assist, citing strict internal policy restrictions.
Following this, I directly escalated the matter via email to Alex, the CEO and founder of Proxy-Cheap. I provided evidence showing that the IP was actively flagged as fraudulent/high-risk upon delivery. Despite receiving this context, leadership also declined to issue a replacement or refund, leaving the issue entirely unresolved.
I am posting this to advise potential users to thoroughly test or verify proxy health immediately upon purchase, as customer service and executive leadership may not offer remedies or refunds if an IP is delivered in a blacklisted state.
Proxy-Cheap
Ideal Use Cases
Proxy-Cheap is a global proxy provider offering rotating residential, mobile, and datacenter IP networks for web intelligence and anonymity.
Ideal Use Cases
- E-commerce & price monitoring: scraping retail sites for pricing information and product listings
- Social media data: managing multiple accounts via a vast global IP address pool
- Travel & hotel pricing: gathering flight options and fares through aggregation proxies
- Market research & review monitoring: conducting undetectable competitor research using rotating IPs
Poor Use Cases
- JavaScript-heavy sites & SPAs: product documentation focuses on proxy routing, not headless rendering
- Real-time, low-latency lookups: residential and mobile connections have inherent network latency
- Screenshots & visual monitoring: no documented native API for capturing page renders
- Large-scale crawling: bandwidth-based pricing makes high-volume media scraping expensive
Performance
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Features
| Feature | API Credit | Description |
|---|---|---|
Sticky SessionsNNID | - | Long Session ID (NNID) holds one exit IP for up to 30 min. Leave State/City on Random; reconnect when the session ends. |
Geotargeting
Rotating Residential geotargeting is set in the dashboard credentials generator (country, plus region/state and city where available), and every location is served at the same per-GB bandwidth price. Proxy-Cheap documents no premium or surcharged countries.
| Standard Countries No extra cost | |
|---|---|
| United States | Switzerland |
| United Kingdom | Japan |
| Singapore | Canada |
| Brazil | France |
| Germany | India |
| Turkey | Thailand |
| Australia | Pakistan |
| … and many more countries | |
Proxy-Cheap Plans
3 GB+
- 3 GB included
- $4.5 per month
- 100 concurrent connections
4 GB+
- 4 GB included
- $4.8 per month
- 100 concurrent connections
51 GB+
- 51 GB included
- $39.78 per month
- 100 concurrent connections
Integrating Proxy-Cheap
Proxy-Cheap Rotating Residential is a proxy gateway, not a request API: you point any HTTP client at the gateway host:port (proxy-us.proxy-cheap.com:5959 for the US pool, proxy-eu.proxy-cheap.com:5959 for the EU pool) and authenticate with the proxy username and password generated in the dashboard. Rotating Residential supports username/password authentication only (no IP whitelist), over HTTP and, where available, SOCKS5.
curl -x proxy-us.proxy-cheap.com:5959 -U <your-proxycheap-username>:<your-proxycheap-password> https://api.ipify.org
import requestsproxy_user = "<your-proxycheap-username>"proxy_pass = "<your-proxycheap-password>"proxy_host = "proxy-us.proxy-cheap.com:5959"proxy = "http://%s:%s@%s" % (proxy_user, proxy_pass, proxy_host)proxies = {"http": proxy, "https": proxy}resp = requests.get("https://api.ipify.org", proxies=proxies, timeout=15)print(resp.text)
Examples