A HeroProxies alternative for teams that need more than residential

HeroProxies is a two-product residential shop. Its catalogue is two residential proxy products, and no mobile, ISP or server product, and there is no mobile line, no static or ISP line and no server line anywhere on it.

That is a real strategy, not an oversight. Residential bandwidth is the product most data teams actually buy, and a company that sells only that can put all of its engineering into one pool and one router. If your work is residential scraping, monitoring or verification, HeroProxies is aimed straight at you.

The cost of the focus shows up the moment you need a second kind of address. Nothing here is a criticism of their residential product; it is a statement about what a single-product catalogue can cover.

Everything below walks through the overlap first, then the parts of our catalogue that have no counterpart on theirs, and finishes with the places where they are the better buy.

HeroProxies prices in fixed bands: $0.89/GB from 25 to 100 GB, $0.79/GB to 500 GB, $0.75/GB to 999 GB and $0.70/GB from 1,000 GB. The direction is the one you would expect, and at the top end it is a competitive rate.

The number that decides whether you can try either of us is the floor. HeroProxies' smallest purchase is 25 GB, $22.25 at $0.89/GB. Ours is a prepaid wallet that starts at $0.50, and you spend it at your own pace rather than committing to a block up front.

So the honest split is this: for a large, steady residential bill, their volume rate is the stronger number and you should take it seriously. For a first test on your own targets, or a workload that comes in bursts, a wallet from $0.50 is the cheaper way in. See residential proxies for how metering works.

One more difference worth naming: HeroProxies sells in fixed bands, so the rate you get is the rate for that band. Our Essential and Premium pools are $1.50/GB and $3.00/GB, which buys a different pool, not just a different quantity.

HeroProxies offers country, state and city targeting on its main residential product. That is a genuinely useful spread, and it puts its entry product ahead of plenty of providers that stop at country.

Our targeting is set in the username rather than a dashboard toggle. Country, US state and ASN work on every pool. City is a Premium and Mobile feature, which means the cheapest way to city-level targeting with us is Premium at $3.00/GB.

If your project lives in one city and you want the cheapest route there, their entry rate does that job more cheaply than our Premium pool. If you need ASN selection as well, because the site you are testing cares which network you arrive on, every pool of ours takes it, Essential included; their list does not mention it.

HeroProxies has no mobile product. For a residential-only shop that is consistent, and it means there is nothing here to compare.

ResiFactory Mobile is $3.00/GB on real phones attached to carrier networks in 150 countries, with US state and city targeting. If a site checks the network type rather than the address alone, a residential IP is the wrong tool no matter how clean it is.

The usual failure looks like this: residential works everywhere until one target starts fingerprinting the connection, and then you are buying a mobile pool in a hurry. See mobile proxies if that is where you are.

HeroProxies sells no static or ISP product, so the whole static-ISP conversation happens somewhere else.

A ResiFactory /24 is $255 a month, billed monthly, and each subnet goes to one customer. Nobody else's traffic shares those addresses, which is the property that keeps a block usable over time.

Our smallest ISP purchase is 50 single IPs, so if you want a handful of static addresses, neither of us is the cheap answer today and you should look at a provider that sells small ISP packs. See ISP proxies for restock timing.

HeroProxies lists HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 on every product. That is one place where their packaging is simpler than ours.

We run HTTP on port 7777 across every pool, and SOCKS5 on port 1080 on Premium, Mobile and ISP. Essential is HTTP only.

If a tool in your stack speaks SOCKS5 and nothing else, HeroProxies gets you there at their entry rate. With us you either move to Premium at $3.00/GB or put an adapter in front of an HTTP proxy. It is a small difference on paper and an annoying one in a pipeline, so it belongs on the list.

HeroProxies states sticky sessions up to 24 hours on its pricing card, and up to 10 minutes in its features list. Both numbers are on their own pages, and they do not agree with each other. Its offer is otherwise coherent: unlimited concurrent sessions, one pool, one bill.

That matters more than it sounds. Sticky length is the difference between a session that survives a login flow and one that dies mid-flow. A published range is only useful if it is the range you actually get.

Our sticky rule is one sentence on every surface: up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential). Essential holds for the shorter end because of how that supply is sourced, and we publish that rather than rounding it up.

This is the section where a buyer should slow down, because the small print differs more than the prices do.

Expiry: HeroProxies' homepage says no bandwidth expiration. Its terms say bandwidth may expire after a validity period disclosed in the product flow or dashboard. Both statements are theirs, and the second is the one that applies to money you have already spent. Our wallet does not expire under normal circumstances, as our Terms set out.

Refunds: HeroProxies allows a refund request within 24 hours, with at most the lower of 20% or 1 GB used. Ours are requests within 14 days of a top-up, handled under the refund policy.

Company: no legal entity named, so there is no registered entity to look up if something goes wrong. ResiFactory is a US LLC, and the trust page lists what we can prove about the business.

Payment and support are ordinary on both sides. HeroProxies takes cards, Apple Pay, Google Pay and local methods, through Stripe, and offers Discord and email. We take cards through Stripe or SOL, and run Discord tickets and email.

One genuine advantage on their side: a free desktop proxy tester for Windows and macOS. If you want a desktop tool to sanity-check a batch of lines before you wire them into code, that is a useful free download and we do not ship an equivalent.

HeroProxies has no public documentation; its FAQ says credentials are generated in the dashboard, and its FAQ points at the dashboard for credentials. Sign-in is email or Discord.

Our credentials are generated in the dashboard too, but the syntax is public: country, US state, city, ASN and the sticky flag all go in the username, and the API reference documents each of them with examples.

If you are wiring an integration and you would rather read a reference than open a ticket, that difference is worth more than a few cents per gigabyte.

If your entire bill is residential bandwidth at volume, HeroProxies is a serious option and their published tiers can beat our Essential rate above a few hundred gigabytes. We are not going to pretend otherwise.

The decision turns on what else you need. Mobile phones, static subnets, Mac servers and a wallet small enough to test with all exist on our side and none of them exist on theirs. Their terms also carry an expiry clause that their homepage does not mention, and that is the detail a buyer finds out about late.

The overlap is one product wide. At the entry rate, our advantage is a $0.50 start against their 25 GB, $22.25 at $0.89/GB floor, and at the Premium rate it is city and SOCKS5 in the same pool. ASN selection comes at both rates.

There is no third-party review page to send you to. As of the date we checked, no Trustpilot page, so there is no independent score to weigh on either side of this comparison.

We would rather you judged us on the network. Every HeroProxies fact here links to the page we read it on, every price of ours is read live, and the trust page lists what we can prove rather than what we claim.