The Massive alternative for prepaid residential, carrier mobile and whole subnets

The short description is a residential network with an API company built on top. The network is more than 1,000,000 opted-in residential computers and devices in more than 195 countries, recruited through an SDK that app developers embed. The products on top are a Web Access API of residential proxies, Web Render and Web Search APIs, US ISP proxies and an MCP server.

The AI framing is not marketing paint. A rendering endpoint that returns markdown, a search endpoint that returns structured results and an MCP server are the pieces an agent team would otherwise build or buy from three vendors. If that is your stack, Massive has assembled it and we have not.

ResiFactory is the narrower shop: rotating residential and mobile bandwidth by the gigabyte, static ISP proxies, and Mac servers. No rendering, no search, no SDK. So the comparison only makes sense where the catalogues overlap, which is residential bandwidth, ISP addresses and the terms they are sold on.

Massive's residential bandwidth is sold in four monthly plans. The entry point is $80 for 10 GB on the Starter plan, or $8 per GB, and the largest self-serve plan is $490 for 100 GB on the Pro plan, or $4.9 per GB. Above that sits Residential Enterprise from $3.2 per GB, through their sales team.

Ours is a prepaid rate per pool: Essential is $1.50/GB and Premium is $3.00/GB, loaded in any amount from $0.50. On the published numbers today, both of our residential rates sit below every self-serve plan they list.

The rollover is the part they deserve credit for. On Massive, unused bandwidth rolls over to the next month, so a plan is not use-it-or-lose-it. Our wallet does the same job differently: no monthly reset at all, and no expiry under normal circumstances under our Terms.

The real difference is commitment. A plan is a monthly charge you size in advance; a wallet is a balance you top up when it runs low. Steady, predictable traffic suits their plan. Traffic that comes in bursts, or a buyer still finding out how much they need, suits the wallet. See pricing for our live sheet.

Mobile at Massive is a mobile device type on the residential network, with no separate mobile plan. You add a device type to the username and the request goes out through a phone in their residential network, at the residential price. That is a useful option, and it costs nothing extra.

Our Mobile is a separate pool: $3.00/GB, real phones attached to carrier networks in 150 countries, with US state and city targeting. It is priced on its own because it is supplied on its own.

The question to ask either of us is the network, not the device. A phone on home Wi-Fi exits through a home broadband line. Massive's docs describe a device type, so if your target checks for a carrier network, ask them how often a mobile request answers on one. Ours is built so that it does. See mobile proxies.

This is where Massive is stronger, and we will say it plainly. Their residential network takes country, state or region, city, ZIP code and geohash targeting, plus ASN targeting, with up to five ASNs in one request, on every plan. We take country, US state and ASN on every pool and city on Premium and Mobile, and we have no ZIP or geohash option at all.

Sessions are closer. Massive's docs set a sticky session at 15 minutes by default, settable up to 1440 minutes, on a fixed TTL that later requests do not extend, while its Web Access page says a session holds up to 12 minutes on the same egress device. The two pages disagree, so test the length you need before you build on it; the docs are the more detailed source.

Our rule is up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential). A long session belongs on Premium or Mobile, and Essential is for rotation and short holds, so price Premium against Massive, not Essential, for a flow that must stay on one address.

Protocols are a draw on paper. Massive runs HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 on its residential network. We run HTTP on port 7777 on every pool and SOCKS5 on port 1080 on Premium, Mobile and ISP.

Massive's ISP plans are $30 for 10 IPs, $100 for 50 and $180 for 100, or $1.8 per IP. Coverage is US only, with other regions and city targeting sent to the residential network, and they offer sticky sessions with no fixed time cap while you reuse the session id. For a few dozen US addresses with a lot of throughput, that is a tidy product at a fair price.

Ours is a different unit. A /24 is $255 a month, with 254 usable addresses, and each subnet goes to exactly one customer. Nobody else is spending the reputation of those addresses. Our ISP stock is sold in restock windows, members first and then everyone, and the region is US ranges today, international to follow.

If you need ten addresses, buy from Massive; we sell nothing that small. If you need a block that looks like a network of its own, held month after month, a whole subnet is the right unit. See ISP proxies for how a restock works.

Massive is open about its limits, which we respect. Its blocked-destinations page lists banks, payment processors, card networks and cryptocurrency services, blocked at the network layer, along with adult, gambling and weapons categories. Its usage rules allow ports 80 and 443 only, with UDP not allowed.

Those limits follow from the consent model: the exit is someone's own device. Some legitimate work, such as monitoring a payments page or testing mail on a non-standard port, hits that wall, though Massive offers a KYC review for some exceptions. Read their list against your targets first, and if one is on it, ask us in a ticket whether ours can reach it.

Massive sells no machines. Its catalogue is a Web Access API of residential proxies, Web Render and Web Search APIs, US ISP proxies and an MCP server, and none of it is a computer you can log in to.

We rent Mac servers from $32 a day or $160 a month, and a day rental from $32, 24 hours counted from when the Mac is ready. The table below is read live from our catalogue, so it shows stock and price at the moment you loaded the page.

Massive's startup programme is generous: 1TB a month free for 3 months for eligible startups, with no payment method and no automatic billing afterwards. If you qualify, that beats anything we offer for free. Our way in is 1 GB of Premium free when a new account links Google.

Payment there is credit card, US bank account and Cash App through Stripe, per Proxyway's review. Ours is Visa, Mastercard and Amex through Stripe, or SOL, with refund requests within 14 days of a top-up under the refund policy.

Support scales with the plan: email support on Starter and Builder, 24/7 Slack support on Scaler and Pro, and a dedicated account manager on Pro. Ours is Discord tickets and email on every balance, answered by the people who run the network.

If you are building an AI product that needs rendered pages, search results and an MCP server from one vendor, with a compliance file a security team will sign, Massive is the better buy. Its rollover is a real kindness to steady buyers, and its location targeting goes further than ours.

If you want residential bandwidth at a lower published rate without committing to a monthly plan, a mobile pool built on carrier networks, a whole /24 to yourself or a Mac by the day, those are ours to sell and not theirs.

The honest test is to put both on your own targets. Their startup programme and our 1 GB of Premium free when a new account links Google both make that cheap, so do it before you decide.

Proxyway published a hands-on review of Massive. Read it in full rather than through our summary; we quote none of its scores, because a copied figure is a claim we cannot keep current.

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