The 9Proxy alternative for mobile, static subnets and proxies without an app

9Proxy is a residential proxy shop and nothing else, which is a strength more than a limit. Its documentation describes two residential proxy models, one sold by the IP and one by the gigabyte, and it also sells bundle plans that combine IPs and bandwidth. The per-gigabyte side reaches real residential IPs from more than 90 countries.

The two models behave differently enough that it helps to treat them as two products. The per-IP plan runs through its desktop app for Windows, macOS or Linux, which forwards each IP to a local port. The per-gigabyte plan works like most residential networks, ours included: a host, a port, and a username that carries the targeting.

ResiFactory sells a wider spread with less depth on any one line: rotating residential bandwidth on Essential and Premium, mobile bandwidth on real phones, static ISP addresses, and Mac servers. Three of those four have no counterpart at 9Proxy, and that is the core of our case.

This is 9Proxy's headline product and the reason most people find it. Its pricing page advertises residential proxies from $0.018 per IP. You buy a balance of addresses, and one is spent only when you forward it to a port in the app.

What you get for that is generous. Once forwarded, an address stays online for several hours up to about 24 hours, varying from IP to IP, with unlimited traffic while an IP is active. If your work moves a lot of data through one address, that is a very good deal, and nothing we sell matches it. Our pools are metered by the gigabyte: Essential is $1.50/GB and Premium is $3.00/GB.

The trade is control over timing. An address goes away when the residential device behind it does, so its lifetime is set by someone else's connection. 9Proxy offers an Auto Rotation setting that swaps the IP on a port at an interval you choose, using a new IP from your balance each time, which keeps fresh addresses coming at a cost.

The other trade is the app. Every per-IP proxy reaches your tools as a local port on the machine running 9Proxy's software. On a desktop that is easy. On a fleet of servers or inside containers, it is one more piece of infrastructure to look after.

Here we sell the same kind of thing, and the comparison is closer. On 9Proxy's bandwidth plan, sessions are rotating per request, or sticky for a session length set in minutes in the username. Targeting is by country, state, city and ISP or ASN, set in the username, and authentication is by a sub-user's username and password, or IP whitelisting. That is a capable setup.

Ours is similar in shape: targeting lives in the username, every request can take a fresh exit, and a sticky session holds for up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential). Country, US state and ASN work on every pool; city is part of Premium and Mobile. We publish the longest hold for each pool, Premium and Mobile included. The 9Proxy page we read sets the length in minutes but states no ceiling, so ask before you build a long multi-step flow on one.

Validity is the larger difference. 9Proxy's regular bandwidth is valid for 180 days, or without limit on Enterprise. Enterprise adds a team of up to 5 members sharing bandwidth that never expires, unlocked automatically by topping up to a qualifying bandwidth package. If you buy in bulk and want one balance shared across several people, that is a real feature.

Our line on expiry is simpler. A ResiFactory wallet has no expiry date under normal circumstances, on any pool and at any size from $0.50, with the exceptions set out in the Terms.

We cannot put a price row here: 9Proxy's per-gigabyte rates are drawn in the browser, not served in the page text. Check its pricing page against our pricing on the day you buy.

On the per-IP plan, 9Proxy filters by country, state, city, ZIP code or ISP. ZIP code is finer than anything we sell, and if your work genuinely needs postcode-level placement, that is a point for them.

9Proxy is also candid about placement: it relies on the IPinfo and IP2Location databases and says other lookup services may disagree. That is true of every residential network, ours included. Check which database your target trusts before you blame the proxy.

Our targeting sits in the credential. Country, US state and ASN work on every pool, so you can test one carrier or one network on purpose, and Premium and Mobile add city. The API reference has the syntax.

This is the part of the comparison where price stops mattering, because there is nothing on the other side to price. 9Proxy's catalogue is two residential proxy models, one sold by the IP and one by the gigabyte.

Mobile first. 9Proxy ships ProxyHub, an app for running its proxies on phones and controlling several phones from a desktop. That puts its residential proxies on your handsets; it is not a pool of phones on carrier networks. ResiFactory Mobile is $3.00/GB, on real phones across 150 countries, and it is the pool to use when a target checks the network type. See mobile proxies.

Static subnets second. Our ISP product includes a whole /24 at $255 a month, and each subnet goes to exactly one customer, so the reputation of those addresses is yours alone. They are sold in restock windows, members first and then everyone. See ISP proxies for how a restock works.

Macs third. We rent Mac servers from $32 a day or $160 a month. The table below is read live from our catalogue, so it shows stock and price as of this page load, and builds that are out of stock are marked rather than hidden.

9Proxy takes cryptocurrency, local payment methods, credit card, Google Pay, Alipay and its own wallet, and adds an extra 5% IP bonus on orders paid in cryptocurrency. That is a wider spread than ours, and in some regions the local options will matter more than any price here.

The wallet is well thought out. 9Proxy describes a prepaid wallet whose balance never expires, with an optional Auto Renew that buys more IPs or gigabytes below a threshold. Ours is prepaid and does not expire under normal circumstances either, but we keep one wallet per pool and never buy on your behalf. If you want automatic top-ups, theirs does that and ours does not.

Our refunds are requests within 14 days of a top-up, under the refund policy. 9Proxy's refund page is drawn in the browser and we could not read it as text, so we make no claim about it.

Support is chat on both sides. 9Proxy lists email, live chat on its site, and Telegram; we run Discord tickets and email, answered by the people who run the network.

If your work is residential traffic and nothing else, especially heavy traffic through each address, 9Proxy's per-IP plan is cheaper than anything we sell. Add ZIP code targeting and more ways to pay, and it is a strong product for that job.

The case for us is everything around it: mobile proxies on real carrier networks, static subnets owned by one customer, and Mac servers, none of which 9Proxy offers. Our proxies are plain credentials with no app in the path, and our wallet does not expire at any size.

So: if residential bandwidth at the lowest unit cost is the whole job, buy from 9Proxy. If you need a phone, a block, a machine, or a proxy that works on any box without a client, come here.

9Proxy is discussed on the usual review sites and forums. We quote none of their scores: a copied figure is a claim we cannot keep current.

Judge us on the network instead. Every ResiFactory price here is read live, every 9Proxy fact links to its source, and the trust page lists what we can prove rather than what we claim.