Smartproxy Alternatives
Smartproxy is a major provider of rotating proxies. It’s long known as a hustler-friendly alternative to the big dogs: Bright Data and Oxylabs. Smartproxy’s amazing user experience, free apps, and premium performance make it a great value choice. But some may need more features (such as mobile IPs), a lower entry point, or unlimited traffic plans. Acknowledging this, we’ve prepared some competent Smartproxy alternatives for you to try out.
Oxylabs
Oxylabs is like a premium version of Smartproxy. It controls a significantly larger IP pool, and you can get specialized APIs that simplify web scraping.
- 102 million IP pool
- All proxy types
- Dedicated account manager
- All locales
- More expensive
- Limited self-service
- Starts from $180
Bright Data (Luminati)
Bright Data is another strong option with more features and powerful proxy management tools. It also sells proxy-based web scraping APIs and even complete data sets.
- All proxy types
- Powerful proxy manager
- More features and locales
- Pay as you go
- Markedly more expensive
- Technically complex
PacketStream
The options above are expensive. Let's go the other way. PacketStream offers some of the cheapest residential proxies on the market with rotation every request and sticky sessions.
- $1/GB
- Over 100 locales
- Pay as you go
- High success rate
- Small proxy pool
- $50 smallest deposit
- No city targeting
- Only residential IPs
IPRoyal
Like PacketStream, IPRoyal sells affordable residential proxies. They cost a few dollars more at the beginning but scale very well as buy more. You also get some more features.
- $3/GB or less
- Flexible rotation
- Over 100 locations
- Pay as you go
- Only 100,000 IPs
- Mediocre performance
- Throttles under load
Storm Proxies
Storm Proxies is another cheap Smartproxy alternative for web scraping. You get access to a pool of 200,000 datacenter & residential IPs without bandwidth limits.
- Affordable (from $14)
- Unlimited bandwidth
- Several rotation settings
- IPs constantly refreshed
- Few locations
- No country targeting
- Mediocre performance
- Limited threads