The Floppydata alternative for targeted mobile, whole subnets and Macs

Floppydata charges $1.00 per GB for rotating traffic. The fine print matters a little: traffic lasts 30 days on the $1.00 rate, while traffic bought at $1.50 per GB never expires. The rotating product takes orders from 19 GB, with wallet top-ups from $1, and larger buyers can ask for an individual discount offer on orders from 48 GB, through support.

Our rates are $1.50/GB on Essential, $3.00/GB on Premium and $3.00/GB on Mobile. Against their base rate, every one of our pools costs more per gigabyte. Their non-expiring rate narrows the gap with Essential; do that sum with both pages open today.

Where we come out ahead is the first purchase and the clock. Our wallet starts at $0.50 and does not expire under normal circumstances, as our Terms set out, so a small test or a slow month costs what it uses. Their floor is a full order, and their cheapest rate is the one with an expiry date on it.

If price per gigabyte is the only variable in your decision, buy from Floppydata. Our full rate sheet is on pricing.

This is the comparison we would lead with, and it is not about price. Their mobile pool is real mobile devices on 3G, 4G and 5G networks, paid from the same $1.00 per GB balance. Paying the residential rate for mobile traffic is a genuinely good deal, and we do not match it: our Mobile is $3.00/GB.

The difference is control. On mobile, Floppydata lets you choose the country and, where available, the city. Mobile IPs rotate on a set interval or on demand, with per-request rotation by arrangement with their team. That suits a country-level job well, and it is thin for anything that has to land in a particular US state, metro or network.

Our Mobile pool is real phones on carrier networks, and the username takes country, US state, city and ASN. When a target checks that a visitor is on a specific carrier in a specific place, the ASN selector is the part you are paying for. SOCKS5 runs on Mobile on port 1080.

If country is all you ever set, their mobile at the residential price is the better buy. If you have been fighting the wrong state or the wrong carrier, see mobile proxies.

Floppydata sells static residential IPs in bundles: 20 IPs for $49.00, 50 for $99.00 or 100 for $179.00, billed monthly. That is a sensible way to buy a handful of fixed addresses, and unlimited bandwidth on each one is a real advantage for heavy work.

We sell static ISP as single IPs from $1.25 per IP a month (minimum 50 IPs), or a whole /24 for $255 a month. A whole /24 goes to exactly one customer. Every address answers on HTTP and SOCKS5.

The point of a subnet is that the whole range is yours. Nobody else's traffic sits on the neighbouring addresses, so the block's reputation is yours to build and yours alone to lose.

The trade is size and timing. If you need twenty addresses, their smallest bundle is the better buy, and we have nothing that small. Our subnets are sold in restock windows, members first and then everyone, and coverage is US ranges today, international to follow. See ISP proxies for how a restock works.

Their catalogue is rotating residential, mobile and datacenter traffic, static residential and static datacenter IPs, a web scraper and a cloud browser. There is no Mac in it, and no remote machine of any kind beyond the cloud browser.

We rent Mac servers from $32 a day or $160 a month. The shortest rental is a day rental from $32, 24 hours counted from when the Mac is ready, so a short test costs a short test. Lines run at 1 or 2.5 Gbps, by build.

Their extras are worth weighing against this: a web scraper at $0.9 per 1,000 scrapes, and a cloud browser that is free for proxy users. If your work lives entirely in a browser you drive with Playwright or Puppeteer, that may be all you need. If you need macOS itself, Xcode, a native app or a desktop you can sign in to, a cloud browser is not a substitute.

Their rotation choices are a new IP per connection, a sticky session, or timed rotation every 5, 10, 15, 20 or 60 minutes. A sticky session there keeps the same IP while you use it, with the session ending after 10 minutes without traffic. That is clearly described.

The idle rule is the thing to plan around. A flow that pauses, waits on an email or sits on a page while someone reads it can lose its address in the gap, and the timed options stop where their list ends.

Our rule is up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential). Premium and Mobile hold a sticky exit for the full length; Essential's supply ends it sooner, and we print that cap on every page rather than in small type.

If your sessions are short, their per-connection rotation is all you need. If a sign-in or a payment flow has to survive a long pause on one address, Premium or Mobile is the pool to test.

On their rotating residential product, targeting is country first, then state, city or ASN, set in the username. The pool reaches 148 countries, 442 cities and 481 states and regions. All of that comes in the base rate, and at the low end it is broader than ours: our Essential takes country, US state and ASN, with city on Premium and Mobile.

So on residential targeting, the honest call is in their favour at the cheapest tier. We pull level on mobile, covered above.

Our pools cover 150 countries on residential and mobile. See residential proxies for the targeting syntax and the pool sizes.

Floppydata lists HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with UDP over SOCKS5 on its rotating product, and runs gateways in the US, Europe and Asia, with DNS picking the closest. UDP over SOCKS5 is uncommon, and if your stack needs it, that settles the question in their favour.

We run HTTP on port 7777 on every pool and SOCKS5 on port 1080 on Premium, Mobile and ISP. Essential is HTTP only, which is the gap to check before you move a SOCKS5 tool across.

They take card, PayPal and cryptocurrency. Their terms allow a refund of an unspent top-up requested within 7 calendar days, never for a crypto top-up, so read them in full before a large top-up.

We take Visa, Mastercard and Amex through Stripe, or SOL. Refund requests are taken within 14 days of a top-up under our refund policy, which is the longer window of the two.

They offer 24/7 human support and a Telegram community. We answer Discord tickets and email, and the people answering are the ones who run the network.

On price, Floppydata wins. Its base rate is below our Essential rate, its mobile traffic costs the same as its residential, its static bundles start smaller than anything we sell, its cheapest tier carries city and ASN targeting, and it supports UDP over SOCKS5. If your job is cheap rotating bandwidth with good targeting, buy from them.

Our case is the work their catalogue does not reach: mobile placed by US state, city and carrier, a whole subnet owned by one customer, a Mac server, and a sticky session on Premium and Mobile held for up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential). Add a wallet that starts at $0.50 and does not expire under normal circumstances, and a refund window of 14 days.

Test both on your own targets before you commit. Their entry order and our 1 GB of Premium free when a new account links Google make that cheap on either side.

Floppydata points readers to listings on G2, Capterra and Software Advice, cited on its residential page. We quote none of their scores here; a copied figure is a claim we cannot keep current, so read the listings themselves.

Our own record is on the trust page, and every price of ours on this page is read live rather than typed in.