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Evomi’s performant proxy pools, polished brand image, and competitive prices make it a strong option for your next small to mid scale project.
Nowadays, there’s no shortage of proxy providers. But we’ll always find a place for companies with their own proxy network. And that’s exactly what Evomi claims to offer.
Couple this with some competent brand building (Swiss company, ethics, clear communication), and maybe we’re looking at a winner for individual and small business use? Or perhaps it’s all smoke and mirrors, especially considering how young the provider still is?
Let’s find out! We had a chance to benchmark all three of Evomi’s proxy networks. These are our impressions.
General Information
- Country: Switzerland
- Founded: 2024
- Proxy networks: Datacenter, residential, mobile
- Supporting tools: ❌
- Price range: Lower mid-range
- Starting price: $0.70
- Payment methods: Credit card, PayPal (pay as you go only: Google Pay, wire transfer, cryptocurrency, local payments through PayPro)
- Trial: Trial & money-back guarantee
Evomi is one of the newer companies in the market. It sells access to multiple proxy networks, with plans to launch web scraper APIs in the future. The provider is located in Switzerland, and its website makes sure that you’re well aware of this fact.
Despite being around for less than a year (at the time we were writing this review), Evomi has already done a lot of groundwork to present itself as a serious business. The website radiates solidity, there’s company information – even a phone number! – SLAs, and a page for ethical proxy sourcing practices. You can find most employees on LinkedIn.
Evomi has also had the time to do some brand building: startups can apply to get free traffic using the provider’s Startup Program. In addition, Evomi is a member of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative, which advocates for responsible businesses practices in the industry.
As such, the company tries to be transparent about how it acquires proxies. A good part (even datacenter IPs) is sourced via Earn.fm, a bandwidth sharing application. The rest are likely resold. Having an in-house proxy network is a strong value proposition if the provider manages to flesh it out well.
While Evomi itself is new, the people behind it have been around for a while. They claim to have been selling proxies for more than six years. Specifically, we found links to InfiniteProxies, which was established in 2019. After bringing this up, we were told that the projects may have been but were no longer related.
All in all, Evomi creates the impression of a solid company, even if some efforts (like the AI-generated image of an idyllic looking Swiss landscape) go a tad too far.
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Evomi Proxy Networks
Evomi sells access to three proxy networks: datacenter, residential, and mobile. Each gives you access to a large pool of IPs with rotation and traffic-based pricing.
- Datacenter proxies are Evomi’s entry-level product for targets that are less likely to block based on IP reputation.
- Residential proxies are best suited for protected websites behind Cloudflare, DataDome, and other anti-bot systems.
- Mobile proxies can be used with mobile-first websites, apps, or targets with the strictest protection.
Pool Size & Coverage
Over 100 countries for all proxy types.
Evomi doesn’t really mention how many proxies it controls. You could try to gauge the numbers by visiting the website’s location pages: for example, the one for US proxies advertises nearly 10 million IPs. But this isn’t really convenient, and from our experience, such pages are rarely updated.
All three products have broad location coverage, especially the datacenter proxy network. However, these proxies too are likely sourced through Evomi’s bandwidth sharing app, so their availability is hard to predict. As a result, the datacenter IPs are best suited for web scraping and similar tasks.
The location filtering options depend on the product. In any case, they’re more or less in line with industry standards. Maybe only city-level targeting is missing from the mobile network.
Features
Unconventional pool filters for residential proxies.
- Rotation: Every request, 1-120 mins, long sessions
- Traffic: Plan based
- Concurrency: Unlimited threads & ports
- Other (residential only): Ad blocking, pool modes
Evomi’s proxies rotate by default. The interval can be every connection request, which is convenient for web scraping. Or, you can create a session with an option to specify its lifetime between one and 120 minutes. The provider also offers an option to establish a hard session, which holds onto the same IP for as long as it remains online.
The number of ports and threads isn’t limited, so you can scrape to your heart’s content.
Evomi’s residential proxies offer several additional options. For one, you can choose to block ads, which should save traffic. There are also pool modes to optimize the proxies for speed or quality.
Such features aren’t encountered often, though lately more providers have been adding additional ways to interact with their proxy networks.
Integration & Use
Limited SOCKS5, only username:password authentication.
- Connection method: Gateway address
- Format: USERNAME:PASSWORD_country-US_session-ID_lifetime-36@dcp.evomi.com:2000
- Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5
- Authentication: Credentials
All three proxy networks give you a backconnect gateway address that connects you to the proxy pool. The address itself doesn’t change, while filters and sticky sessions are added to the password. The port number generally remains the same as well – the only time you have to modify it is when you choose a different connection protocol.
Speaking of protocols, Evomi supports all three: HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5. The latter accepts only TCP traffic at this time.
If your software doesn’t have username and password authentication, you’ll be out of luck: IP whitelisting isn’t available. There are ways around this – but they require jumping through extra hoops, which we’d prefer to avoid.
Pricing Plans
Pay-as-you-go available.
Evomi charges for traffic use. You can buy some using a one-off payment or subscribe for better rates. The difference is small at first but increases significantly with scale.
Following the recent trend, the residential and mobile proxies cost the same. Evomi’s datacenter product, on the other hand, is up to ten times cheaper per gigabyte.
Compared to others, Evomi’s residential proxies cost below most mid-market alternatives like Smartproxy and SOAX. The mobile plans are especially affordable throughout the pricing range.
If, for some reason, you find the proxies insufficient for your needs, Evomi has a money-back guarantee. It applies if you’ve used less than 1 GB or 10% of your plan’s allowance.
Performance Benchmarks
Decently sized and impressively performant proxy networks.
We last tested Evomi’s residential proxies in October 2024.
#1: Pool size & composition
- Requests: Global pool – 1.2M, 21 days; country pools – 560k, 14 days; Australia – 140k, 7 days
- Residential percentage: IP2Location database, Usage type data point (ISP, ISP/MOB, MOB IPs)
* Combines Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands.
Evomi had a respectable number of residential IPs in all our tested locations, managing to beat a number of more established providers. Furthermore, most of them were indeed from residential internet service providers.
#2: Infrastructure performance
- Parameters: Same as the pool test
- Target: Nearest server of a global CDN (<10 KB)
- Our server locations: DE for Global & European pools, US for American & Brazil pools, Singapore for Indian & Australian pools
Evomi’s residential infrastructure performed well: it was on the higher end both in terms of success rate and response time. This is taking into account the partial outage that affected the network for several days – without it, the results would be even better.
We last tested Evomi’s mobile proxies in October 2024.
#1: Pool size & composition
- Requests: 280k, 14 days; Australia – 140k, 7 days
- Mobile percentage: IP2Location database, Usage type data point (ISP/MOB, MOB IPs)
* Combines Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands.
Though not the largest, Evomi’s mobile network should be enough for some serious web scraping. However, you may not have a great experience when applying precise filters (such as city or ASN). What’s more, IP2Location identified around a third of US and UK IPs as belonging to landline or other non-mobile networks.
#2: Infrastructure performance
- Parameters: Same as the pool test
- Target: Nearest server of a global CDN (<10 KB)
- Our server locations: DE for Global & European pools, US for American & Brazil pools, Singapore for Indian & Australian pools
Infrastructure performance is an area where Evomi’s mobile proxies really excelled. They had the fewest errors and among the fastest response times out of all the providers we had tested. In fact, these proxies often performed even better than Evomi’s residential network. Color us impressed.
We last tested Evomi’s datacenter proxies in October 2024.
#1: Infrastructure performance (rotating proxies)
- Requests: 70,000
- Proxy location: US
- Target: Nearest server of a global CDN (<10 KB)
- Our computer’s location: US
We found over 16,000 IPs in the US, which is a lot for datacenter proxies. They worked well the majority of the time, failing only once in a while. The response time was also respectable, though some competitors (most notably – Bright Data) were up to twice faster in our tests.
#2: Download speed
- IPs tested: 10
- Proxy location: US
- Target: Hetzner’s 100MB Ashburn benchmark
- Our computer’s location: US
Evomi’s datacenter proxies had very low throughput, and the slowest tested IPs would be barely usable in a real world setting. As such, we can’t recommend them for traffic-intensive tasks like streaming.
How to Use Evomi
Registration
To register, you’ll need to enter your full name, email address, and password. Alternatively, there’s an option to sign up with a Google login.
While Evomi doesn’t ask for KYC information during registration, you may still have to complete the KYC procedure later on. This depends on whether Evomi notices suspicious behavior. The verifier is Stripe – it will ask for a photo ID and selfie.
Dashboard
Evomi has a dashboard for managing subscription, interacting with its products, tracking usage, and getting help.
The dashboard is clean, well-designed, and available in four languages: English, Russian, Chinese, and German.
We have few gripes about it. Well, maybe the main page could be more useful – now, it only serves to sell products, whether you have them already or not.
Evomi’s dashboard lets you add payment information (card or PayPal), manage subscriptions, and download automatically generated invoices from Stripe. Subscriptions renew automatically, and it’s possible to buy extra traffic at the plan’s rate.
There seems to be no wallet functionality at the time, which unfortunately means that each action will require making a new transaction.
There’s a proxy generator widget. It lets you choose various configurations (protocol, filtering and rotation parameters, a pool mode), and then spits out a list of entry points in several formats. The widget is simple to work with.
Having said that, you can’t really change a username by yourself or even pick a custom password – the system generates it upon request. Regular customers also don’t get access to sub-users, which complicates work with proxies in a team setting.
Evomi’s usage statistics are separated by product. You get two graphs – one for traffic, the second for requests made – which can be filtered for today, last 3, 7, 14, or 30 days. There’s also a table for statistics by domain, though it only shows aggregated requests made in the last 12 hours.
All in all, Evomi’s usage information is basic but competent. It may not always be fast to load, but that’s because the data is fetched live.
For more general information, the provider has a network status page that shows uptime statistics and outages for the last 180 days.
API Access
Evomi has a management API, but it’s only available to resellers that buy at least 5 TB of data.
Documentation
Evomi has a documentation hub with information about each product and an FAQ to answer the main questions surrounding the service. Both are decently fleshed out.
At the end of October 2024, the integration instructions covered major operating systems and web scraping libraries. However, if wanted to pair the proxies with an antidetect browser or another third-party tool, you’d have to look elsewhere.
Hands-On Support
Evomi’s customer support works 24/7, with the main channel being live chat. Powered by Intercom, the chat also has ticketing functionality, though it’s not obvious at first sight.
Large customers get more options: a dedicated account manager available through phone and assistance via Slack.
We tested the live chat during daytime in Europe. The agent responded within a few minutes and gave competent responses to the questions we had. While limited, this interaction left us satisfied with the service.
Conclusion
That was our detailed evaluation of Evomi. Overall, the provider’s polished brand image, competitive prices, and solid proxy network performance left us with a very positive impression, especially compared to the many transient resellers out there.
At this point, Evomi still lacks the scale and features for enterprise use. However, it’s perfectly capable of powering many other tasks. This applies even more so if you’re looking to upgrade from entry-level providers like PacketStream, or if you need an alternative to mid-market vendors like SOAX or Rayobyte.
Evomi Alternatives
SOAX’s pricing is less flexible. But you’ll get more proxies and way more control over how they work.
Smartproxy is the mid-market choice to beat. Once again, for slightly more money, you’ll get more IPs and even better performance.
Dataimpulse offers the same three proxy networks with extremely affordable rates and non-expiring traffic.
Recommended for:
Individuals or small to medium businesses looking for rotating proxies.
