Shifter vs NodeMaven
Looking for a NodeMaven alternative? We counted the residential IPs each network had live and answering in five markets. Shifter led every one, by more than double in the largest and by around four times in the smallest, at 66% less per GB.
Vertraut von 50,000+ Kunden weltweit
A wider pool everywhere, at a third of the rate
Lowest published rate per GB from each provider. NodeMaven charges $4.50 per GB without a monthly plan.
| Monatliches Volumen | Shifter | NodeMaven | Sie sparen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go | Not offered | $4.50/GB no monthly plan | |
| 100 GB | $100 $1.00/GB | ~$220 ~$2.20/GB | 55% |
| Bester Tarif | $0.75/GB from 200 GB | $2.20/GB monthly plans | 66% |
Aktive IPs während des Tests
Distinct IPs each network had live and reachable at test time, not the size of its total network. Residential IPs rotate all day, so both providers serve far more addresses across 24 hours.
Jede Kennzahl, Land für Land
Pick a country to see the complete measurement, including the numbers that did not go our way.
| Kennzahl | Shifter | NodeMaven |
|---|---|---|
| Gesendete Anfragen | 250,000 | 250,000 |
| Aktive IPs während des Tests | 136,667 | 62,053 |
| Eindeutige Netzwerke (ASNs) | 1,606 | 1,002 |
| Eindeutige Städte | 5,813 | 4,662 |
| Durchschnittliche Latenz | 364 ms | 3,290 ms |
| Erfolgsrate | 99.8% | 67.7% |
Shifter served 2.2 times the live US IPs, 136,667 against 62,053, across 1,606 networks against 1,002, and answered in 364 ms against 3,290 ms. NodeMaven filters its pool for quality, which is a reasonable trade to offer, but the filtered pool measured less than half the size while a 100 GB month costs $220 against Shifter's $100.
How we measured this
Each request opened its own connection through the provider's rotating residential gateway and read the exit address back from an IP echo service. One connection per request means one fresh exit per request, so distinct addresses map directly to the reachable pool.
Both providers received identical volumes in each market, 250,000 requests in the United States, 100,000 in the United Kingdom, 80,000 in France, 70,000 in Canada and 60,000 in Germany, at the same concurrency of 1,000, the same 10 second timeout and the same target, tested from a single server one provider at a time.
NodeMaven returned between 53% and 68% of requests inside the timeout. Those timeouts are reported as measured. We did not run the isolation tests that would be needed to attribute a cause, so we do not offer one.
What these numbers mean
Every count on this page is the number of IPs that were live and reachable at the time of the test, not the size of either provider's network. Residential IPs rotate constantly as real devices come online and drop off, so across a full day both networks serve far more addresses than a single window can capture. What limits a crawl is how many respond at the same moment, which is what this measures.
Warum Shifter Residential-Proxys verwenden?
A larger live pool in all five markets
From 120% more in the United States to 305% more in France, measured in the same windows against the same target.
Wider network spread everywhere
1,606 US networks against 1,002, 148 French against 34, 276 German against 135. Anti-bot systems key on the network an address sits on, so spread does more than raw count.
Several times faster at the median
364 ms against 3,290 ms in the United States and 441 ms against 3,383 ms in the United Kingdom, on the same target from the same machine.
66% less per GB
$0.75 against $2.20, and NodeMaven charges $4.50 without a monthly plan.
Häufig gefragt FAQ-Fragen
Common questions about how we benchmarked NodeMaven.
Partly, and that is the trade they market: fewer addresses, screened for quality. Whether it is worth a quarter of the French or German pool at three times the price is a judgement for your own targets, which is why we publish the method so you can test it.
Rotate through a deeper pool
Between two and four times the live addresses across every market we measured, over a wider spread of networks, at a third of the cost per GB.