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How to choose a provider, how the directory is ranked, and what the listings actually say — written here, not copied from a vendor.

Guides2026-07-285 min read

How to choose a proxy provider in 2026

Pool size is a vanity metric. Here is the shortlist of signals that actually predict whether your crawls will work.

Guides2026-07-276 min read

When the cheap option is genuinely fine, and when it will quietly waste your budget in retries.

Pricing2026-07-267 min read

Why per-GB pricing misleads, and how to compute the number that actually matters.

Pricing2026-07-258 min read

We put every published tier through the same maths. The ranking changes substantially.

Guides2026-07-216 min read

Session length, rotation policy and the header hygiene that makes them hold.

Guides2026-07-207 min read

Timezone, WebRTC and DNS mismatches are the most common causes of account linkage.

Industry2026-07-198 min read

The questions to ask, and what a good answer looks like.

Industry2026-07-189 min read

Four acquisitions, one shutdown, and what it means for pricing.

Industry2026-07-1710 min read

A directory that will not show its maths is an advertorial. Here is ours.

Guides2026-07-165 min read

Per-request, sticky and hybrid rotation, with the failure modes of each.

Guides2026-07-156 min read

They solve different problems. Most teams that need one do not need the other.

Pricing2026-07-147 min read

Six patterns that make a headline price look better than the bill.