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Traditional proxy services often make you pay for each IP address even if you only need it for one website, but Proxies.com rents IPv4 proxies per website at extremely low prices - I’m talking as low as a few cents per proxy. That means you don’t have to pay full price for proxies that you don’t fully use and it makes sense; if you only need to crawl or monitor a single site, why pay extra?
Proxies.com also offers full dedicated IPv4 proxies (usable on any site) and an unlimited rotating IPv6 option. Today I’ll show you a break down of how each plan works, my experience with the service, and how you can save serious money like I did.
Proxies.com is an IP rental platform offering private proxy servers, but what makes them stand out is its pricing model and flexibility. They let you choose different types of proxy rentals depending on your needs, including…
These are your own static IP addresses that you can use on any and all websites without restriction. Each dedicated IPv4 costs $2 per month. It's like having a personal IP identity online, which is useful if you need stable access across many sites.
These are also private IPv4 addresses, but here you rent one specifically for use on a single website of your choice. The cost is only $0.10 per IP per site per month, so you pay just for the site you need.
IPv6 is the newer internet address system with an infinite supply of addresses, and Proxies.com uses this huge pool by offering IPv6 proxies that change to a new address on a schedule you set (for instance, every minute). Each port (which functions like one IPv6 proxy connection) is just $0.50 per month. Every time it rotates, you get a fresh IPv6 address that's never been used by anyone else before which is a godsend for heavy-duty web scraping or any application where you need a constant stream of new IPs.
The per-site IPv4 proxies at Proxies.com were what really stood out to me. With per-site rentals, you can allocate an IPv4 address exclusively to one website so if, like in my case, your project only involves scraping data from a single e-commerce store or accessing one particular service, you're not wasting resources on IPs for other sites.
Despite the low price, these proxies are still private - you won't be sharing the same IP with other people trying to use it on your chosen website. Proxies.com's system ensures the IP is reserved for you on that site, helping avoid cross-user interference or bans. From experience, using a dedicated IP for each target site can improve reliability, since sites are less likely to flag you if your proxy IP isn't simultaneously being used by others on the same site.
Let's say you manage multiple social media accounts across various platforms. In that case, you'd want a proxy that isn't tied down to a single website - that's where dedicated IPv4 proxies come in.
With a dedicated IP, you get full freedom: the same address will work on any website or service you need, with no built-in restrictions. I've found that having a few dedicated proxies in your toolbox is handy when your tasks are unpredictable or cover lots of sites. The trade-off is cost: they're significantly more expensive than the per-site IPs, but you're paying for versatility. If you need to jump from scraping an e-commerce site to logging into a gaming server API on the same day, one dedicated IP can handle it all. Proxies.com keeps these dedicated addresses private as well, so you’re the only one using them.
IPv6 has an almost infinitely large pool of addresses and Proxies.com makes the most of this by rotating your IPv6 proxy port to a new unique IP address each time. If you set your rotation interval one minute you'll end up cycling through 43,200 different IPv6 addresses in a month from a single port, all for just $0.50 a month!
This is huge for avoiding bans, since any anti-bot systems flag an IP after repeated requests.
Keep in mind that because these are IPv6 addresses, your target website or service needs to be IPv6-compatible.
My Experience With The Free Trial
Signing up for Proxies.com was really straightforward (just sign up with an email and password for free, no credit card info needed) and they also offer a free trial for new users, so you can get 1 IPv4 per-site proxy and 1 IPv6 proxy port to test out.
When testing my free IPv4 proxy, I chose a target website from a drop-down, and they instantly assigned me an IP address to use for that site. It performed just like any standard proxy, no complaints here and nothing new to note.
The IPv6 port trial was similarly simple, I got a port number and the server address, plugged it into my script, and I could manually trigger rotations to fetch fresh IPs. If you run into any confusion, their support and documentation cover the basics like how to authenticate to the proxy or use it in your software but the onboarding process gets you going fast, which is great when you’re on a deadline or working on a project.
Proxies.com delivers what it promises, so whether you're an SEO specialist, a developer, or a business needing to pull a lot of web data, the options they offer here can cover all of your needs. I personally plan to use the per-site proxies whenever I have a one-off scraping job on a single domain, so if you want to give it a try for yourself, take advantage of the free trial and see how it works for you!
