ProxyEmpire Review
A versatile provider for small to mid-sized projects.
ProxyEmpire is one of those middle-of-the-pack options: not exactly cheap but also not quite premium. Its highlights include all major proxy types, rollover traffic, and features like ISP targeting.
Other than that, it’s hard to distinguish something unique about this provider. But that’s not necessarily bad; with a varied and balanced line-up, ProxyEmpire can be a strong pick for many use cases.
Is it, though? Let’s find out!
Rating 8.5 / 10
★★★★★ Rated 4.3 out of 5
Three-Minute Human Summary
- ProxyEmpire sells all major types of proxy servers, mostly in rotating pool formats. It mainly resells other providers and targets self-service users.
- The provider’s residential proxy network was one of the largest we’ve benchmarked, stable, and average in speed, with more latency in Asia. It supports city and ISP filters, shows how many IPs are online, but has no IP whitelisting or an easy way to manage sub-users.
- With a coupon code applied, ProxyEmpire’s residential proxies cost a similar amount to other mid-market providers like Decodo. You can top up packages manually or automatically, and the traffic never expires.
- The dashboard is comfortable. It includes a proxy setup widget with an integrated proxy checker, as well as several ways to monitor use. There’s team access for those who need it but no network status page.
- Overall, ProxyEmpire is a competitive option if you need large pool of rotating IPs without worrying that you’ll lose access after a month.
News about ProxyEmpire
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By Adam Dubois
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General Information
- Country: Bulgaria
- Founded: 2020
- Employees (LinkedIn): 5-10
- Proxy networks: Residential, mobile, datacenter, ISP
- Supporting tools: Chrome extension
- Price segment: Mid-market
- Starting price: $3.50
- Payment methods: Credit card, PayPal, wire transfer
- Trial: Paid ($1.97)
ProxyEmpire is a Bulgarian-registered company in business since 2020. It sells access to proxy servers, also teasing several web scraping APIs on the website.
The provider’s LinkedIn page suggests that it’s not a big company – but also not a one-man home operation. The fact that we can actually see real people behind it is reassuring when every second proxy vendor still operates incognito.
ProxyEmpire’s main customer seems to be solopreneurs and small to medium businesses. It frequents affiliate-oriented conferences but otherwise supports a wide range of use cases. Pricewise, we’d consider ProxyEmpire a mid-market provider like Decodo or IPRoyal, though at the time of writing it leaned toward more premium alternatives.
ProxyEmpire mentions ethical proxy sourcing throughout the website. The provider doesn’t acquire IPs in-house but rather resells multiple other providers. As such, we have no real way to verify its claims, but they’re at least supported by ProxyEmpire’s participation in the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative.
All in all, ProxyEmpire is a stable generalist proxy server provider built around self-service and ease of access.
ProxyEmpire Proxy Networks
ProxyEmpire offers all major proxy types: datacenter, static residential (ISP), residential, and two varieties of mobile proxy servers. Use the tabs to learn about their features, pricing, and performance in more detail.
🏠 Residential & Rotating Mobile Proxies
Residential proxies are ProxyEmpire’s main product. They’re acquired from real devices around the world.
ProxyEmpire’s rotating mobile proxy network runs on the same system, so it’s basically identical feature-wise. The only difference is that the pool contains fewer IPs (4M as opposed to 30M). We’ll cover both together.
- Advertised pool: 30M IPs
- Countries: 195+ with state, city, ISP targeting
- Rotation: Every request, sessions up to 120 min, as long as available
- Starts from: $3.50 for 1 GB. Rollover traffic, pay as you go available
- Advertised proxy pool
- Residential: 30 million IPs
- Mobile: 4 million IPs
- Countries: 195+
- Integration method: Gateway address (gateways in NL, East Coast US, SG)
- Filtering
- Random: ✅
- Country: ✅
- City: ✅
- ASN/ISP: ✅
- Other: State
- Rotation
- Every request: ✅
- Sticky sessions: ✅ (custom duration up to 120 min, as long as available)
- Session behavior: New IP after disconnect
- Protocols
- HTTP: ✅
- HTTPS: ✅
- SOCKS5: ✅
- Authentication
- Credentials: ✅
- IP whitelist: ❌
- Sub-users: ✅
- Concurrency: Unlimited threads & ports
- Traffic: Plan based
ProxyEmpire’s advertised proxy pool is rather small – some providers claim to control ten times more IPs. However, it supports flexible location filters, including city and ISP. You can combine all of them together.
The provider’s dashboard shows how many proxies were online in the last 24 hours. So we know that, for example, there were nearly 380k residential IP in the US and over 500k Brazilian IPs available.
Like most residential proxy networks, ProxyEmpire uses a gateway address to send your requests to the proxy server. The service offers good protocol support, as well as several rotation options. It’s also pretty much unlimited as long as you have traffic allowance.
The main omission is no IP whitelisting for authentication. And while you can create sub-users, the only way to manage them is through ProxyEmpire’s API.
- Model: Pay as you go, monthly subscription
- Format: Traffic
- Modifiers: ❌
- Top-ups: Manual or automatic
- Starting price
- Residential: $3.5 for 1 GB
- Mobile: $4.5 for 1 GB
- Trial: $1.97 for 100 MB
ProxyEmpire offers a subscription-based pricing model in theory. In practice, it’s actually much better: the traffic you buy never expires, even if you quit and resubscribe later. Otherwise, it adds up to your unused traffic allowance (if any) with every passing month.
Another welcome bonus is that you get all features for the base price, and there’s no need to unlock extra functionality. The public plans top out at 1 TB of data at $1,500.
Compared to mid-market alternatives like Decodo or IPRoyal, ProxyEmpire’s rates are very similar throughout the pricing range.
Standardized pricing comparison (residential proxies)
We last tested ProxyEmpire’s residential proxies in April 2026, for our annual proxy market report. We benchmarked the mobile proxy network in June 2025.
Pool size & composition
* IP2Location database, Usage type data point (ISP, ISP/MOB, MOB IPs)
** Combines Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands.
Top 10 countries in the Global pool
Comparison with other providers
ProxyEmpire actually had the third largest residential proxy pool among our tested providers. There should be enough IPs in all major countries and maybe even some of the more exotic destinations.
Infrastructure success rate
Requests: Same as the pool test
Target: Nearest server of a global CDN
Comparison with other providers
The infrastructure worked reliably, without any major periods of downtime or instability.
Infrastructure response time
Requests: 6 KB page size – same as the pool test, 2 MB page size – 5,000
Target: Nearest server of a global CDN
6 KB page size
2 MB page size
Comparison with other providers
6 KB page size, average response time
ProxyEmpire’s response time was decent overall: better in the US and Europe, worse in Asia. We would’ve liked a tighter spread; now, the worst performing 5% of the requests took a long time to complete, even with a page weighing 6 KB.
Pool size & composition
* IP2Location database, Usage type data point ( ISP/MOB, MOB IPs)
** Combines Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands.
Our tests found ProxyEmpire’s mobile pool to be decently large. Over 76k unique IPs in the US are nothing to scoff at, though India took the spotlight. These IPs were predominantly on mobile networks; the only questionable location was the US, where a database identified Comcast IPs as not mobile.
Infrastructure performance
Requests: Same as the pool test (140k to 280k)
Target: Nearest server of a global CDN (~6 KB page size)
The proxies had a very decent success rate, which shows that the infrastructure works well. But just like the residential proxy network, they were slow – especially outside of Europe. We’d expect the response time to be at least twice faster.
- Basic request: USERNAME:[email protected]:5000
- Using location filters: USERNAME-country-us-region-california-city-san+francisco-isp-at&t+internet:[email protected]:5000
- Establishing sticky sessions: USERNAME-sid-ID:[email protected]:5000
ProxyEmpire gives you one gateway address and port; you can customize access by adding parameters to the username. A session is represented by an ID, which you can freely assign or let ProxyEmpire generate one for you. A different ID equals a new session.
🏢 Datacenter Proxies
This product gives access to a pool of IPs from cloud hosting providers. It spans a large number of locations, especially for datacenter proxies.
- Formats: Pool with 210k IPs
- Countries: ~50 with country-level filtering
- Rotation: Every request, as long as available
- Starts from: $25 for 40 GB ($0.63/GB)
A full review isn’t available for this product yet. 🙁
🏠🏢 ISP (Static Residential) Proxies
These are server-based proxies associated with residential internet service providers. Note that ProxyEmpire charges for both traffic and IPs.
- Formats: Dedicated list
- Countries: 16 in four continents
- Rotation: Static
- Starts from: $2 for 1 IP + $20 for 7 GB ($22 in total)
A full review isn’t available for this product yet. 🙁
How to Use ProxyEmpire
This sections showcases ProxyEmpire’s registration procedure, dashboard, and avenues for support.
Registration
To register with ProxyEmpire, you’ll have to enter your name, email, password. Or, you can sign in with a Google account.
After confirming the registration via email, the dashboard will greet you with a second form. It asks to describe your use case, the products you’ll need, and your top three targets.
KYC and Usage Policies
There doesn’t seem to be a proactive KYC procedure. ProxyEmpire requires to activate the account with a paid trial, but you may just as well buy a plan.
We were told that customers encounter KYC when they want to access blocked domains or ports. The provider uses SumSub for verification, and it also requires explaining the need for forbidden resources.
The list of blocked websites includes financial, governmental, and other high-risk domains, such as PayPal, Stripe, banks, EA, and crypto. ProxyEmpire gives some examples but doesn’t provide the full list. In total, it includes around 8,000 domains with wildcards.
Dashboard
ProxyEmpire has a dashboard for working with its products. The dashboard is available in English, Russian, Bulgarian, Chinese, and Portuguese.
The dashboard includes all the necessary functionality. You’ll be able to buy a plan, set up proxy servers, view usage statistics, and get support.
The dashboard’s main page displays usage graphs for all proxy types, as well as statistics with online IPs in the last 24 hours. Otherwise, individual products are contained to their own tabs.
ProxyEmpire has a separate section for payment management with three pages:
- Subscriptions shows your active subscriptions. This is where you can buy a plan but also save billing details and view your receipts.
- Transactions lists all the money transfers you’ve made. It’s filterable by status and payment method.
- Top up lets you add more traffic to a package.
The provider also offers automated top-ups which trigged once your traffic allowance reaches a certain amount. They’re tucked away under settings. Just note that there’s no dashboard wallet, so each top-up will charge you separately.
One more interesting feature is the ability to transfer traffic between products. It worked with ProxyEmpire’s residential and static residential proxies when we last checked.
Platform access
ProxyEmpire has built some elaborate access tools for its dashboard. For one, there’s 2FA to protect the account. Then, you can see all active logged in sessions. Teams can collaborate by creating permissioned dashboard roles.
ProxyEmpire is also one of the rare proxy providers that allows deleting accounts through self-service.
Proxy access
The access to proxies themselves is more limited. The dashboard gives no way to change the assigned credentials or create sub-users. Considering that you can have only one plan active per product, this makes managing larger projects complicated.
Proxy setup is done with provided widgets. They let you set up filters and sessions and then generate lists in several formats, including code snippets in multiple programming languages. The widget features a proxy checker which is handy but checks only one IP at a time.
ProxyEmpire’s usage tracking functionality has been much improved over the past year, but it still trails behind the most advanced competitors.
The provider has several places to monitor use. The dashboard’s main page shows your traffic expenditure over the last 31 days, with latest activity, peak day, and daily average. The same information is available under individual products, together with a table showing your top domains.
In addition, ProxyEmpire has built an insights hub for more detailed analysis. The graphs there show your traffic spend per day and by product, top domains, and spending trends. The available timeframes are last seven, 30, 90, or 180 days.
You can export most of the graphs as .csv files.
Public API
ProxyEmpire has an API for managing access to its products programmatically. It’s barely documented, so you wouldn’t know about it unless you asked.
The API comes available for all customers. Its functionality includes managing sub-users, getting basic information about their traffic expenditure, and fetching available proxy filters.
Documentation
ProxyEmpire’s documentation comes in the form of a knowledge base. When we wrote this section, the two categories included 23 articles for all of the provider’s products.
The knowledge base was enough to answer basic queries, but it was by no means comprehensive or complete. We missed integration examples and technical details, such as how to use the SOCKS5 protocol.
In addition, ProxyEmpire runs a YouTube channel with around a dozen tutorials for popular software, mostly web browsers.
All in all, compared to competitors like IPRoyal or Decodo, there’s much room for improvement.
Hands-On Support
ProxyEmpire offers 24/7 support via live chat or email. Corporate and enterprise clients (so, those who buy 500 GB and more?) get a dedicated account manager.
We tried using the live chat during the morning in Europe. A reply came within a minute. The agent got confused by our question about open ports, mentioning proxy port numbers instead – one of them undocumented. They then double checked with a colleague and were able to provide a correct answer.
It wasn’t the best first impression, but we appreciate receiving live help so fast.
Conclusion
We’d like to reiterate the introduction: ProxyEmpire is a solid generalist provider.
It’s not cheap, nor the fastest, and the platform can be too limited for advanced use. On the other hand, you get many stable IPs, advanced targeting filters that can be combined together, and a good user experience.
If you think this trade-off is fair, go for it – you shouldn’t be disappointed.
ProxyEmpire Alternatives
Rating 9.3 / 10
★★★★★ Rated 4.7 out of 5
Decodo will give you most of the same products, more advanced management tools, and top-in-class proxies.
Rating 8.5 / 10
★★★★★ Rated 4.3 out of 5
IPRoyal is similar in many ways. The provider has fewer IPs, but they’re sourced in-house, faster, and offer the same non-expiring traffic.
Rating 8.7 / 10
★★★★★ Rated 4.4 out of 5
If you want something cheaper, Evomi’s residential proxy rates start from just $0.49. You can unlock advanced features by paying extra.
Adam Dubois
Proxy geek and developer.