Shifter
Unlimited-bandwidth backconnect ports
Crunch Score 73See the breakdown
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- Pool size
- 31M+
- Countries
- 150
- Uptime (claimed)
- 99.3%
- Response (claimed)
- 1.4s
- From
- $125/mo
- Free trial
- No
- Founded
- 2012
The unlimited-bandwidth model wins for huge tolerant crawls.
Editorial rating 3.7/5 · last reviewed 2026-07-01
Shifter sells backconnect ports with unlimited bandwidth rather than metered traffic — unusual economics that suit very heavy, latency-tolerant crawls.
Pros
- Unlimited bandwidth per port
- Large pool
- Long-running provider
Cons
- Shared backconnect ports
- Port-based model confuses newcomers
How the score is built
8 editorial criteria
Rated by our editors against published criteria. It is an opinion with its weights shown — not a performance test.
Crunch Score 73Full methodology
| Signal | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 3.4 | 21% | Editorial rating of reliability, based on the provider's published success-rate figures, SLA terms and reader reports. |
| Weight 21% ·Editorial rating of reliability, based on the provider's published success-rate figures, SLA terms and reader reports. | |||
| Value for money | 3.6 | 17% | Value for money across every published plan tier. |
| Weight 17% ·Value for money across every published plan tier. | |||
| Speed | 4.0 | 14% | Editorial rating of speed, based on the provider's published performance figures and reader reports. |
| Weight 14% ·Editorial rating of speed, based on the provider's published performance figures and reader reports. | |||
| Trust & transparency | 3.7 | 14% | Sourcing transparency, logging policy, KYC friction and published audits. |
| Weight 14% ·Sourcing transparency, logging policy, KYC friction and published audits. | |||
| Location targeting | 3.5 | 10% | Country, city and ASN targeting options, as listed in the provider's documentation. |
| Weight 10% ·Country, city and ASN targeting options, as listed in the provider's documentation. | |||
| Pool size | 3.8 | 10% | Pool size and subnet/ASN diversity, as published by the provider. |
| Weight 10% ·Pool size and subnet/ASN diversity, as published by the provider. | |||
| Docs & API | 3.4 | 7% | API and documentation quality, rated by our editors against a fixed rubric. |
| Weight 7% ·API and documentation quality, rated by our editors against a fixed rubric. | |||
| Support | 3.9 | 7% | Support channels and hours the provider offers, and how readers describe their support experience. |
| Weight 7% ·Support channels and hours the provider offers, and how readers describe their support experience. | |||
Pricing, normalised
What it actually costs at your volume
Rate per month
$125.00
Total for 12 months
$1,500
Tier applied
Starter
The advertised rate is $60.00, but at 12 months you pay $125.00 — 2.1× the headline. That gap is why we normalise every tier.
| Tier | From | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | 1 months | $125.00 |
| Growth | 50 months | $102.50 |
| Scale | 500 months | $81.25 |
| Enterprise | 5,000 months | $60.00 |
3-day trial. 14-day refund window.
What you can buy
| Type | From | Pool |
|---|---|---|
| Residential | $125/mo | 31M+ |
26 of 37 features listed
commercial
- Supported: Bandwidth caps
- Supported: Crypto pay
- Supported: Free trials
- Supported: Pay-as-you-go
- Not supported: Price / GB
- Not supported: Refund policy
- Supported: SLA credits
coverage
- Supported: ASN diversity
- Not supported: City targeting
- Supported: Geo coverage
- Supported: Pool size
- Supported: Subnet spread
performance
- Supported: CAPTCHA handling
- Supported: Dedicated IPs
- Not supported: Published speed figures
- Supported: Success-rate SLA
- Supported: Unblocker product
- Supported: Unlimited concurrency
- Supported: Uptime SLA
protocol
- Supported: Custom headers
- Not supported: HTTP/2
- Supported: IPv6
- Not supported: Rotation
- Supported: SOCKS5
- Supported: Sticky sessions
- Supported: Whitelist auth
support
- Supported: API access
- Not supported: Dashboards
- Not supported: Public documentation
- Supported: Sub-user seats
- Supported: Support SLA
- Not supported: Usage alerts
trust
- Supported: Ethical sourcing
- Not supported: IP reputation filtering
- Not supported: KYC verification
- Supported: Logs policy
- Supported: Public status page
Reader reviews
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About Shifter
Is Shifter worth it?
The unlimited-bandwidth model wins for huge tolerant crawls.
Does Shifter offer a free trial?
No. Shifter does not currently offer a free trial, though refund windows may apply.
How many countries does Shifter cover?
150 countries at the time of our last review.