The Byteful alternative for small residential buys, subnets and Macs

Byteful is operated by Ping Technology Labs LTD from Manchester, England. Its catalogue is rotating residential and mobile bandwidth by the gigabyte, and static residential and datacenter proxies by the IP, with monthly, quarterly and annual billing on the per-IP products. It is a broader proxy catalogue than ours on the datacenter side and a narrower one on everything that is not a proxy.

The residential network is large: 35M+ residential IPs in 195+ countries. The mobile network is 6M+ mobile IPs across 1000+ carriers. Those are the vendor's own figures, and we have no way to audit them from outside, but a test on your own targets will tell you more about what you are actually given than any headline count.

ResiFactory sells three things: rotating residential and mobile bandwidth by the gigabyte, static ISP proxies, and Mac servers by the day or the month. The overlap with Byteful is the bandwidth. That is where most of this page lives.

Byteful's residential ladder starts at $3.25 per GB on a 10 GB pack, $3 at 25 GB and $2.75 at 100 GB. Further up, it charges $2.50 per GB from 250 GB, and the advertised headline is as low as $1.75 per GB, its price-table rate from 5,000 GB.

Our residential rates are $1.50/GB for Essential and $3.00/GB for Premium, at any size. Essential is below every rung of their ladder, including the bottom one. Premium is a little below their smallest pack, level with their second rung, and above everything after that.

That makes the decision fairly mechanical. If you buy a few gigabytes at a time, or you would rather not commit to a pack, we are the cheaper residential provider, and Essential is cheaper by a wide margin. If you buy hundreds of gigabytes a month and need the features of a premium pool, Byteful's ladder will beat our Premium rate, and we would rather tell you that than have you find it on an invoice.

Two things are worth weighing beside the rate. Byteful offers 10% off quarterly and 20% off annual plans, with volume discounts of up to 64%, which rewards a long commitment. We sell a prepaid wallet with no plan at all. See pricing for our sheet, read live.

Byteful's mobile pricing follows the same ladder. It starts at $4.25 per GB on a 10 GB pack, falling to $3.45 at 100 GB, reaches $2.80 per GB from 500 GB, and goes as low as $2.25 per GB, its price-table rate from 5,000 GB.

Ours is $3.00/GB at every size, on real phones on carrier networks. That is cheaper than every pack on their regular price tab, and more expensive than their larger enterprise packs. If you buy mobile by the terabyte, they win this line, plainly.

Their mobile plans list country, region, city or ISP targeting on every residential and mobile plan, and unlimited concurrent sessions. Ours carries country, US state, city and ASN on Mobile. On features, the mobile products are close; the difference is the price curve.

This is where the catalogues stop overlapping and start complementing each other.

Byteful sells 150K+ static residential IPs on 300+ ISP subnets, in 15+ countries, priced at $3 per IP a month for 10 IPs, falling to $2.75 each at 100. You can buy ten addresses, or a hundred, in several countries. It offers no in-term replacements for static residential proxies, so an address that goes bad mid-term stays on your bill.

We sell a whole US /24 to one customer at $255 a month, 254 usable addresses with nobody else on the range. If you need a block that looks like one tenant's network, that is the product. If you need ten IPs in Germany, it is not, and Byteful is the better shop.

Their datacenter line is $2 per IP a month for 10 IPs, falling to $1.60 each at 100. We do not sell datacenter proxies, so there is nothing to compare.

Byteful lists sticky sessions up to 24 hours on its residential and mobile plans. Ours is up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential): Premium and Mobile match their hold, and Essential does not, which is the trade for Essential's price.

Targeting is close. They offer country, region, city or ISP targeting on every residential and mobile plan. We offer country, US state and ASN on every pool and city on Premium and Mobile, all carried in the username.

They support HTTP and SOCKS5 on every product, and authentication by username and password, or IP whitelisting. HTTP runs on port 7777 on every pool of ours, and SOCKS5 on port 1080 on Premium, Mobile and ISP. If your stack needs SOCKS5 on the cheapest residential tier, that is a point for them.

For teams, their dashboard has proxy users with their own credentials, usage tracking and residential bandwidth limits. If several people share one balance, that is worth a look.

Their product pages advertise a 1 GB residential free trial for Google sign-ups. Their pricing FAQ, on the same site, says it offers no free trial, suggesting a 1 GB or single-IP order instead. Ask them which applies before you plan around it. Ours is simpler: 1 GB of Premium free when a new account links Google.

Byteful's refund policy allows refunds requested within 24 hours of purchase, with no more than 2 GB or 25% of the allocation used, once per customer. Ours takes requests within 14 days of a top-up.

Byteful sells residential bandwidth that never expires, even if you cancel or pause your subscription, and our wallet has no expiry date under normal circumstances, as our Terms set out. Neither of us uses expiry to trap a balance.

Payment at Byteful is cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay, and crypto including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Monero. Ours is cards through Stripe or SOL. Support there is tickets, email, Telegram and Discord, staffed around the clock; ours is Discord tickets and email, answered by the people who run the network.

At volume, Byteful is cheaper than our Premium and Mobile pools. On residential, its larger packs undercut our Premium rate, though never our Essential rate; on mobile, its larger packs undercut ours outright. It also sells datacenter IPs and small packs of static IPs in several countries, and we sell neither. If you buy by the terabyte, or you want ten static addresses outside the US, buy from them.

If you buy in smaller amounts, the order reverses. Essential is below their whole residential ladder, Premium is below their smallest pack, and our mobile rate is below all three of their regular packs. You pay into a wallet with no plan to size, and you get a longer refund window.

And if you need a whole /24 to yourself, or a Mac server beside your proxies, there is no comparison to run: those are ours, and Byteful does not sell them.

Proxyway published a hands-on review, last updated in October 2026, that gave Byteful its Newcomer of the Year award for 2026. We quote no scores from it or anywhere else; a copied figure is a claim we cannot keep current.

We would rather you judged us on the network than on a badge. Our prices on this page are read live, every Byteful fact links to its source, and the trust page lists what we can prove.