Cheap Proxies

Name: Cheap Proxies
Brand: PapaProxy.net
Availability: InStock

Why are datacenter proxies cheaper?

Cheap proxies aren't "bad" proxies — they're datacenter proxies. A datacenter address costs the provider far less than a residential IP leased from end users, which is where the price gap comes from — not from lower-quality hardware. The second factor is volume: fixed server costs are spread across hundreds of addresses, so the per-IP price drops as the package grows. Exact pricing for your volume is in the calculator above.

The cheapest IPv4 proxy packages for high-volume automation, bulk checks, SEO monitoring, and web scraping sell for one reason: when you need hundreds of addresses and your use case doesn't require residential-level trust, paying extra for it is wasted budget. Speed isn't cut — a low-cost package uses the same connection as an expensive one.

What you trade for the lower price — and what you don't — is covered in the FAQ below.

Product specs at a glance

IP pool100,000+ IPv4

ProtocolsHTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5

Bandwidthunlimited

Speedup to 500 Mbps per proxy

Uptime99.9%

IP whitelistingup to five source IPs included

Username/passwordoptional, in addition to IP whitelisting

List refreshesup to three free refreshes per month

Minimum order100 IPs; 1 IP for dedicated proxies

Deliveryautomatically after payment

Refund24-hour money-back guarantee

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Which proxies should you choose?

Free proxy lists versus paid proxies — an honest comparison, with a free list available on this page.

	Free listspublic proxies from open sources	This page PapaProxy.net proxiesdatacenter IPv4
Uptime	Unpredictableproxies often go offline within hours	99.9% annual uptimeinfrastructure under round-the-clock monitoring
Speed	Lowoften shared by many users	Up to 500 Mbpsper proxy
Who else uses the IP	Unknown; potentially many users at once	Only you with dedicated proxies, or up to five customers over time with proxy packagespackage assignments are never concurrent
IP cleanliness	Often listed in abuse or spam databases	Pool reputation is monitored3 free list refreshes per month
Data security	Unknown operatorunencrypted traffic may be inspected or modified	Known providerIP whitelisting with optional username/password authentication
Support	None	Live chat and ticket support
Price	$0	$from $0.07 per IP/month
	See the free list	Buy now

Connect in 60 seconds

Copy the example for your stack, or paste it into your AI coding assistant for help adapting it to your project.

# HTTP or HTTPS proxy
curl -x http://login:password@IP:port https://example.com

# SOCKS5
curl --socks5-hostname IP:port \
  --proxy-user login:password \
  https://example.com

import requests

proxy = "http://login:password@IP:port"  # your proxy from the Dashboard

r = requests.get(
    "https://example.com",
    proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
)
print(r.status_code)

import { ProxyAgent } from "undici";

const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent("http://login:password@IP:port");
const res = await fetch("https://example.com", { dispatcher });
console.log(res.status);

$ch = curl_init("https://example.com");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "IP:port");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, "login:password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);

Fill in the credentials from your Dashboard. If you use IP whitelisting, you don't need a username or password.

Export in any format

Choose a standard format or create a custom one with any field order and delimiter your software requires.

IP:port login:password@IP:port {scheme}{ip}{port}{login}{password} — builder

HTTP HTTPS SOCKS4 SOCKS5 HTTP/2 ✓

See the FAQ for the ports used by each protocol.

Setup guides for browsers and antidetect tools

PapaProxy API

You can automate purchases, renewals, whitelist changes, and proxy list exports. Create an API key in your Dashboard in a couple of clicks.

Create a key in your Dashboard

MCP server for AI agents

Claude, Cursor, and other agents buy proxies, renew plans, and export updated proxy lists through an access token you create in your Dashboard. See how it works.

Works with

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Free proxy list for testing your setup

Updated 2 days ago · New proxies added hourly · 24,120 proxies currently listed

These are not PapaProxy.net trial proxies. They are public proxies collected from open sources and are intended only for testing your software. You can also try PapaProxy.net proxies free with a 20-IP, 60-minute trial. No credit card is required.

IP	Country	Port	Protocol
45.80.111.118	DE	80	HTTP
45.80.111.172	DE	80	HTTP
45.80.111.159	DE	80	HTTP
45.80.111.34	DE	80	HTTP
45.80.111.102	DE	80	HTTP
45.80.111.58	DE	80	HTTP
45.80.111.126	DE	80	HTTP
45.80.111.51	DE	80	HTTP
45.80.111.167	DE	80	HTTP
45.80.111.128	DE	80	HTTP

IP:port format—one proxy per line

Reviews

A few service metrics—and feedback from our customers.

27,000+

proxy packages sold since 2019

60%

of customers upgrade their plan after the first month

100,000+ IPs

in our own pool across 22 locations

I am happy with everything at the moment. A big plus is the ability to use the free version. I was very happy with the great benefits of the free version which I was able to try out for free and then, if I do like it, start using it.

RV Robin Veith November 2024

Prompt service, as well as a large number of different tariff plans. Can subscribe to several packages at the same time to use them via API.

MF Mark Fergus April 2025

The proxy is good, works for a long time, their accounts are not banned. They offer a free support team that enables them to offer their services in real time and makes them available quickly and easily.

RG Robert Goldman November 2025

The customer support is great. Prices for proxies are quite fair and their packages are stable and fast. I recommend this great service to everyone.

SV Stefan Vogel February 2025

Frequently asked questions

Can't find your answer? Message us in live chat — real humans reply.

How can the price be this low — what's the catch?

The catch is the IP type, and it's upfront. A datacenter IP is rented from a host; a residential IP means buying bandwidth from real end users — the cost difference is an order of magnitude. Volume does the rest: low rates only apply to packages — from 100 IPs, server costs are spread out and the per-IP price drops to cents. You give up residential-level trust and get price, speed, and unlimited bandwidth in return. For hundreds of routine tasks that's the right tradeoff; for strict anti-fraud it isn't — covered in the last question.

What's the difference between a $0.07 package IP and a $3.50 dedicated proxy?

IP exclusivity. A dedicated proxy is reserved exclusively for you — you're the only customer using it. Budget datacenter proxies from packages use the shared model: up to 5 customers per IP, and the cost is split among them. In practice: accounts and anything where a specific IP's history matters — dedicated proxies (the cheapest private proxies here start at $3.50 for a single IP); high-volume tasks where IPs are disposable — packages.

Do cheap SOCKS5 proxies cost more than a cheap HTTP proxy?

At some providers, yes — SOCKS5 gets sold as a premium tier. Nothing in the infrastructure justifies that: the protocols differ in the handshake, not in what they cost to run, and both ride the same server and uplink. Here one price covers every IP, and each address answers over HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5 — pick the protocol in your software, not on the pricing page. If a seller charges separately per protocol, you're paying for a label. The one legitimate protocol surcharge is UDP support, which is a plan add-on rather than a SOCKS5 feature you should expect by default.

Does cheap mean slow?

No — price and speed aren't tied here. Low-cost proxies come from the IP type and package volume, not a throttled connection: up to 500 Mbps per proxy in any package, whether you're paying $19 or $1,900. Slow proxies are the free-list kind, where one server's bandwidth is shared among hundreds of strangers.

Every provider claims to be the best cheap proxy service. What should I actually check?

The tradeoffs a provider publishes, not the superlatives. Four things separate a working budget service from a burned list with a checkout page: a disclosed sharing model (how many customers per IP — if it's not stated, assume the worst), bandwidth terms in writing (unlimited with a fair use policy beats a cheap plan with a data cap you find out about mid-scrape), a way to test before committing (a free trial, plus a refund window after payment — here it's 24 hours), and published uptime. Then run your own hour-long test against your actual target website — a cheap plan that fails there is expensive at any price.

Where shouldn't you cut costs on proxies?

On use cases where anti-fraud checks the network type. Mass sign-ups, payment services, and platforms with strict scoring block datacenter ranges as a class — a cheap package there costs more in recreated accounts than you saved. For those tasks, use ISP proxies: residential-level trust with datacenter speed. Everything else — web scraping, monitoring, checks, SEO — runs fine on packages.