Smartproxy vs. Luminati: Performance & Feature Comparison

This one is an interesting comparison – you see, Smartproxy is relatively new in the proxy provider market, and Luminati is an old wolf in this field. However, in our best residential proxy provider list, Smartproxy takes place as the third best residential proxy provider, whereas Luminati comes in fourth.

How did this happen? Let’s take a look at this comparison we made of Luminati and Smartproxy and find out.

Smartproxy 8.7 vs Luminati 8.5

If we go through the comparison table, you will see that Smartproxy has over 10 million residential proxies – that’s a lot less than Luminati which has 35 million. Smartproxy’s Country number is also a bit smaller (195). Yet, we mentioned this before, even if Luminati claims to have 223 country’s – this number is highly unlikely, especially because there are 195 countries in the world. So Smartproxy seems to be the realistic one.

When it comes to the number of users, Smartproxy has a limited number, whereas for Luminati it depends, as if you add a session parameter to your username with a randomly generated ID, you will be able to use that IP until you use the same ID (or if that IP is available).

Luminati also is better with the filtering section – it has location, proxy type, and ASN/ Provider/ Carrier filtering. Smartproxy has only location.

Smartproxy has HTTP and HTTPS protocols, and Luminati has both of those as well as SOCKS5. Everything else looks similar between Luminati and Smartproxy, except Smartproxy does not support tickets.

Having said all this, we gave Smartproxy 8.7 and Luminati an 8.5. How come? Well, you can see their functionalities in their full reviews (Smartproxy, Luminati), but we made it a little easier for you to see why with a comparison down below.

Smartproxy vs. Luminati: Performance Comparison

In the table above you can clearly see that Smartproxy has a better overall look to it. It has much less blocked IPs and a smaller amount of timeouts. However, it is very clear that Luminati has little to no connection errors.

Comparing Smartproxy and Luminati to Other Proxy Providers

As you can see, Smartproxy not only wins in nearly every category over Luminati, it also goes over the industry’s average.

Requests to the Most Popular Targets

Now, let’s take a closer look at the success rates.

In most cases, Luminati is a little bit better than Smartproxy, however when it comes to Google, Wayfair, and Yandex – Smartproxy wins by a significant number, making it better than Luminati. Smartproxy also goes over the industry’s average in every single case.

Performance by Concurrent Connections

During the concurrent connection test, we gradually increased the number of concurrent connections and put the proxies on a huge load.

Here you can clearly see that Smartproxy does a better job than Luminati, as when we increased the concurrent sessions, Smartproxy remained almost the same. Luminati went down from the very beginning and continued to drop very slightly till the end.

Speed

Both did well compared to the industry’s average, however, Smartproxy was quicker by almost 2 seconds. And in the proxy world, that can mean a lot, especially if you’re using such proxies for copping sneakers.

Pricing

Smartproxy has clear seven pricing plans that show what will you get – and they are also relatively cheap – especially if you compare the quality to value ratio.

Luminati has a lot messier pricing plan, where you need to choose from different plans by country and by plan depending on the amount of data you require. And the biggest drawback? The cheapest plan costs $500 a month. That’s steep.

Why Smartproxy is Better Than Luminati?

Luminati has a lot of benefits, but when you go into detail, you’ll see that Smartproxy is better than Luminati, being faster, cheaper, and more reliable.