Proxy provider reviews, scored from measurements
Most proxy reviews rank providers on impressions and affiliate rates. Ours are scored from a test every network receives identically, so the numbers behind each verdict can be checked, including the ones that do not flatter us.
Shifter Review
The widest network spread and the lowest rate we measured, on a pool within 10% of the deepest.
Bright Data Review
The most complete proxy platform on the market, priced for buyers with a procurement department.
Oxylabs Review
A large, very reliable network at a price that only works above a terabyte a month.
Decodo Review
The mid-market all-rounder: deep, reliable and self-serve, priced above the value end.
SOAX Review
Precise targeting, let down by uneven reliability and one of the steepest price ladders.
IPRoyal Review
Dependable, with traffic that never expires, but roughly half the pool of the leaders.
Webshare Review
The deepest pool we have measured, cheaply sold, with the slowest responses in the series.
Massive Review
Quick, consistent and well engineered, on a mid-sized pool priced at the top of the market.
Infatica Review
A deep pool behind a gateway that refuses plain HTTP, priced for enterprise volume.
Proxy-Seller Review
Deep, quick and reliable, held back by a flat ladder and one account per country.
NodeMaven Review
The filtering pitch is coherent; the filtered pool measured small, slow and unreliable.
Evomi Review
A clean, consistent network attached to the smallest pool in the series.
DataImpulse Review
The value pick: flat $1 per GB, no subscription, and a mid-sized pool to match.
ProxyEmpire Review
Cheap and quick when it answers, but a third of our requests never came back.
FleetProxy Review
Not a separate network from ProxyEmpire: same gateway addresses, same port, and 57% of the same exit IPs on the same day.
Proxy Cheap Review
A flat rate near the top of the market, on a gateway that answered barely a tenth of an ordinary plain HTTP test.
Byteful Review
Well spread and fairly priced, with the least consistent completion of any working network.
How these scores are built
Six of the eight criteria come from our own measurements: live IP count, network spread, success rate, response time, published price per GB and country coverage, each normalised across every network we have tested. Features and transparency are judged, and together carry only a tenth of the total. Shifter sells proxies too, which is why the method is published and the scores are calculated rather than awarded.
Test any of them against Shifter
Every number we publish comes from a test you can run yourself. Start with your own targets and countries.