Proxy-Cheap Review 2026: Cheap Residential and ISP Proxies, With Caveats

Why I looked at Proxy-Cheap

If you scrape prices, track search rankings, verify ads or run several social accounts, proxies quickly become a real line on your monthly bill. The big networks charge $3 to $8 per GB for residential traffic at small volumes. Proxy-Cheap's whole pitch is in its name: the same proxy types for noticeably less, starting with rotating residential traffic from $0.78/GB.

Cheap proxies have a reputation, though, and not always a good one. So I went through the pricing, the refund policy, the SLA and the terms, read what users report, and compared it with six better-known providers. Here's what I found.

What Proxy-Cheap actually is

Proxy-Cheap is a self-serve proxy provider. You top up a balance or pay per order, pick a proxy type, country and plan, and get an IP, port, username and password to use in your browser, scraper or anti-detect tool. Its copyright notice dates back to 2018, its terms are governed by Delaware law, and its Trustpilot contact address is in Lithuania.

It sells seven products: static residential (ISP) proxies on IPv4 and IPv6, rotating residential, datacenter IPv4 and IPv6, and static and rotating mobile. All of them support HTTP and SOCKS5, and you can mix types under one account.

What it isn't: a scraping platform. There's no web unblocker, SERP API or dataset product like the ones Oxylabs, Bright Data and Decodo sell. You get the proxies and do the rest yourself.

The features that stood out to me

Static residential (ISP) proxies for long sessions

This is the product most people seem to buy, and it's where Proxy-Cheap is strongest on price. A static residential IP is assigned by a real ISP but hosted in a datacenter, so it keeps the same address for as long as you renew while looking like a home connection. That suits logging into the same accounts every day, SEO tools and anything that breaks when your IP changes.

There are three plans. Basic is a shared IP (up to 3 users) with 1 GB a month. Dedicated gives you the IP alone with unlimited traffic at 100 Mbit/s and up to 100 threads. Premium is the same, but the IP has never been used as a proxy before. You choose the country and, in many places, the ISP. Static residential IPs are offered in 66 countries.

Rotating residential, priced per GB

For scraping at scale you want a fresh IP on every request, or a sticky one for a few minutes. Proxy-Cheap's rotating pool claims 50M+ residential IPs with user and password authentication, sticky or rotating sessions and 100 threads by default. You buy traffic from 3 GB, and the price falls from $1.50/GB to $1.20 at 4 GB and $0.78 at 51 GB.

Datacenter and IPv6 for raw speed

If your target sites don't block datacenter ranges, datacenter IPv4 from $1.49 a month and IPv6 from $0.15 are hard to beat on cost. IPv6 static residential (from $0.52) is a newer option for high-volume jobs on sites that accept IPv6.

Mobile proxies

Rotating mobile proxies route through real 3G, 4G and 5G carrier connections in 100+ countries for $5.99/GB, with no volume discount. Mobile IPs are the hardest for platforms to block, which is why they're popular for social media work. Static mobile IPs are sold per proxy, but the price on the site is confusing, so I'd check it at checkout (more on that below).

The dashboard and extras

In Khris Steven's dashboard walkthrough, ordering takes a few clicks, and a marketplace lets you hand-pick static IPs by country before you buy. There are Chrome and Firefox extensions, API documentation, a white-label reseller programme for WHMCS and a 25% referral scheme.

Where Proxy-Cheap falls short

• Refunds are narrow. You get a full refund on traffic plans only if you've used 20% or less, and only on your first purchase. Time-based plans have a 3-day window, and auto-renewals 24 hours. Crypto payments come back only if you close your account, and a full refund can get your account terminated. Several Trustpilot reviewers say they were refused or given account credit instead.
• No uptime guarantee. The SLA promises support response times (0–3 hours for urgent issues during business hours, up to 2 working days for minor ones) but no uptime percentage or service credits. Weekend live chat is one agent.
• Mixed reports on IP quality. The most common complaints are IPs that are slow, already blocked on big platforms, in the wrong location, or flagged as datacenter by IP-checking sites. Plenty of reviewers are happy, but 24% of the 750 Trustpilot reviews are one star.
• Targeting is basic. Static residential gives you country and ISP. There's no ZIP or ASN targeting on residential like the bigger networks offer, so it's a poor fit for hyper-local SEO or ad checks.
• Numbers don't line up. The site claims 155M+ IPs and 195+ countries on the homepage, 180+ locations on another page and 66 countries for static residential. The static mobile card says $3.50 a proxy while the text on the same page says from $15.21, and in June 2026 a reviewer was shown $42.21 a month. Plan names also differ (Dedicated on the cards, Standard in the page data).
• The ratings on its own site are self-published. The 4.5 and 4.9 star ratings in Proxy-Cheap's page code don't match Trustpilot's 2.7, so I'd give them little weight.

Proxy-Cheap pricing: what you'll actually pay

All prices are in US dollars, with no VAT added. Most payment methods add a fee at checkout. Paying from your Proxy-Cheap balance doesn't. I checked these on 27 October 2026:

1. Rotating residential: $1.50/GB from 3 GB (so a $4.50 minimum order), $1.20/GB from 4 GB, and $0.78/GB from 51 GB, which works out at about $40 for 51 GB.
2. Static residential (ISP): Basic $1.99 for a 7-day trial, then $2.71 a month. Dedicated $2.87 a month, $2.73 on 3 months or $2.44 on 12 months. Premium $7.99 a month, falling to $5.83 on 12 months.
3. Datacenter: IPv4 from $1.42 to $1.49 a month depending on plan, with a $1.13 trial week. IPv6 from $0.15 a month.
4. Mobile: rotating at $5.99/GB at every volume. For static mobile, check the price at checkout.

The site shows strike-through "70% off" prices next to these, but they're Proxy-Cheap's own list prices, so I'd compare against competitors instead. Rotating residential at $0.78/GB is less than half of what Decodo, IPRoyal or Oxylabs charge at a similar volume, and the 3 GB entry point is cheap enough to test with. Prices change often: in June 2026, Dedicated was $2.49 and Premium $7.49 a month. So check the checkout before you commit to a 12-month plan.

What other buyers are saying

Proxy-Cheap has 750 Trustpilot reviews averaging 2.7 out of 5. The scores are polarised: 64% five stars and 24% one star. Happy customers mention reliable ISP proxies, a good choice of countries, fair prices and support that sorted their issue. Unhappy ones describe IPs that didn't work on their target platform, location mismatches, refunds turned down and accounts suspended without a clear reason. The company replies to about half of the negative reviews.

On YouTube, Khris Steven's March 2025 review shows the live dashboard and the ordering flow. He uses only static residential IPs, for SEO and marketing work, and called it the cheapest provider he'd tried. Sanjay Creators' June 2026 tour is mostly a read-through of the pricing pages, but it's useful for showing how often prices move. I couldn't find an independent speed or success-rate benchmark from 2026.

My verdict

Proxy-Cheap is the right kind of cheap if you treat it like any budget provider: buy the smallest plan, test it on the exact sites you care about, and scale up only once it works. The static residential (ISP) IPs at around $2.50 a month and rotating residential at under $1/GB are excellent value when they work for your use case.

If a failed proxy would cost you more than the plan itself, or you need an uptime guarantee, ZIP targeting or a refund you can rely on, pay more for Decodo, Oxylabs or Bright Data. Everyone else should start with a 3 GB rotating plan or a $1.99 trial IP.

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