ProxyScrape review for scraping and data collection teams

ProxyScrape is a proxy provider from Belgium that sells residential, datacenter, ISP and mobile proxies, an unmetered residential product and a Google SERP API. It started as a free proxy list and checker, and those free tools are still on the site next to the paid lineup. This ProxyScrape review covers what each product does, what it costs today, what the terms say and where it falls short.

Who ProxyScrape is for

ProxyScrape is built for developers, SEO teams and data teams who run scraping, price monitoring, ad checks or rank tracking and need IPs in many countries. Its use case pages focus on market research, SERP data collection, security research and ecommerce data. If you only want a VPN for private browsing, skip it, because a proxy service is the wrong tool. Skip it too if your company needs a long refund window or a vendor with a large base of public reviews before it signs off a purchase.

The terms are strict about how the proxies are used. ProxyScrape can ask for a KYC form explaining which services you will access, says it runs a background check, and can close accounts used for illegal purposes without a refund. That is a sign of a normal business proxy service rather than one sold for abuse.

Proxy types and how the workflow goes

You buy a product from the pricing panel on each product page, pick bandwidth, IP count, location and duration, then manage it in the dashboard. The dashboard has a proxy list with country filters, a format picker (for example user:pass@host:port) and a download button, plus statistics, API keys and order history. You authenticate with a username and password or by whitelisting your IP.

Residential proxies

The vendor says its residential pool has 120M+ IPs worldwide. Plans include country and city targeting, OS, ASN and UDP targeting, rotating or sticky sessions, back-connect rotation and unlimited concurrent connections. ProxyScrape describes the pool as ethically sourced.

Datacenter proxies

Premium datacenter proxies are shared, with a pool of 1,000 to 40,000 proxies, 10 Gbps network speed and 9 global locations according to the product page. Dedicated datacenter proxies are private HTTP and SOCKS IPs with unlimited bandwidth under fair use and unlimited concurrent sessions, billed monthly.

ISP, mobile and unlimited residential

ISP proxies are static residential IPs priced per IP, with unlimited bandwidth, HTTP and SOCKS5 with TCP and UDP, and private access. Mobile proxies use 3G, 4G and 5G carrier IPs with automatic rotation. Unlimited residential proxies are unmetered: you pay for a dedicated server with a set speed (200 Mbps and up, to 1 Gbps), with 8M+ residential IPs in 180+ countries and servers in Falkenstein (Germany), Ashburn and Hillsboro (US). Unlimited Max goes beyond 1 Gbps with one server per 1 Gbps and is quoted by sales.

Google SERP API

The SERP API returns Google results as structured JSON with country, city and device targeting. One request is one SERP of up to 10 results, and the vendor claims sub-second responses and a 99.9% uptime SLA.

ProxyScrape pricing

Prices checked 31 Oct 2026, in US dollars, excluding VAT. Bulk discounts apply automatically as you move up the sliders.

A Halloween sale gave 20% off new purchases (capped at $200) until 31 Oct 2026. There is no lifetime deal on the maker's site.

What a typical job costs

Say you track prices on a few ecommerce sites and use about 100 GB of residential traffic a month. The 100 GB bundle costs $220 ($2.20 per GB) and lasts 30 days, so unused data is lost unless you pay the higher 90-day or non-expiry rate. A small SEO job that checks 3,000 keywords a day comes to about 90,000 SERP requests a month, which fits inside the $41 Starter tier of the SERP API. If you only need a handful of stable US IPs for logins or testing, 5 dedicated datacenter proxies cost $9.50 a month.

Refunds and renewal terms

The terms (effective 1 Sep 2026) say you waive the 14-day EU withdrawal right, with a limited 3-day refund only if you used under 1 GB of traffic, paid by card or PayPal, spent under $100 and had no other refund that month. "Unlimited" datacenter plans include 1 TB per $5 paid with a 10 TB minimum, then $5 per TB. Plans are for one end user, and reselling needs written consent. Belgian law applies.

What users say

Public rating data is thin. The ProxyScrape Proxy Manager extension has 5.0 from 6 ratings and 4,000 users on the Chrome Web Store (Oct 2026). That says something about the free extension and very little about the paid proxies, so treat reliability claims like "99.9% uptime" as the vendor's own figures.

Company, API and security facts

• Company: Thib BV, Brugstraat 18, 2812 Mechelen, Belgium.
• Founded: 2018 by Thibeau Maerevoet as a free proxy tool; incorporated in 2020 when paid services launched.
• Team: distributed across Belgium, Spain, Egypt and the Philippines. The vendor says it serves 30,000+ customers.
• Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with UDP on residential, ISP and unlimited plans.
• API: account API with scoped API keys, subaccounts, residential subusers and SERP API subusers; the free proxy list has a public API and a GitHub mirror updated every 5 minutes.
• Tools: free proxy checker, online checker, proxy filter and a Chrome extension that detects proxies on a page and connects your browser through them.
• Compliance: KYC can be required, and illegal use leads to account closure. ProxyScrape does not publish a SOC 2 report on its site.

What changed recently

The current terms took effect on 1 Sep 2026 and set out the 3-day refund rule and the datacenter fair use cap. In July 2026 ProxyScrape published a guide on the Google action against the NetNut residential network, using it to argue for ethically sourced residential IPs. The lineup now includes Unlimited Max for throughput above 1 Gbps and the Proxy Manager browser extension.

Limits and drawbacks

The refund rule is the biggest catch. With only 3 days and a 1 GB cap, you get one small window to see whether the proxies work on your targets. Bundles expire after 30 days by default, which punishes uneven usage. KYC can delay a first order. Some marketing copy on the blog, such as guides to proxies for high-demand product drops, sits closer to sneaker-bot territory than most business buyers will like. And outside its own site, there is little independent data on success rates or support quality.

ProxyScrape alternatives

• Oxylabs: pick it for enterprise scale, larger proxy pools and managed scraper APIs, if you can pay more per GB.
• Bright Data: pick it when you need a huge residential network plus ready-made datasets and compliance paperwork for procurement.
• Decodo: pick it for a mid-priced residential and datacenter service with a simple dashboard and scraping APIs.
• Webshare: pick it if you mostly need cheap datacenter proxies and a free starter plan for small tests.
• IPRoyal: pick it if you want non-expiring residential traffic as the default rather than a paid add-on.

Verdict

ProxyScrape is a sensible, clearly priced proxy service for developers and small data teams. Every product has a public price, the residential targeting options are solid, and the free proxy list, checker and extension are useful extras. The tight refund policy, expiring bundles and limited public reviews hold it back. I would pick ProxyScrape for a defined scraping or SERP tracking job with a known traffic budget, and look at Oxylabs or Bright Data for large, compliance-heavy projects.