The NodeMaven alternative for buyers who do not buy a terabyte a month

NodeMaven sells residential and mobile two ways. Monthly plans run $4.25 per GB at 2 GB, stepping down to $3.00 at 100 GB and $2.20 at 1,000 GB. Pay as you go runs $5.00 per GB at 2 GB, stepping down to $3.45 at 100 GB and $2.45 at 1,000 GB. Past the top tier there is custom pricing above 1,000 GB a month.

Our rates do not step. Essential is $1.50/GB, Premium is $3.00/GB and Mobile is $3.00/GB, whether you top up a fraction of a gigabyte or a terabyte.

Put the two side by side and the answer depends on volume. On a small monthly plan, NodeMaven costs more than either of our residential pools. Partway up their ladder their monthly rate meets our Premium and Mobile rate, and at the top it is clearly below it. Our Essential rate sits under every tier they publish.

That is a fair fight, not a knockout. A heavy buyer on a monthly plan who needs city targeting can pay less per gigabyte at NodeMaven than on our Premium pool. A light or uneven buyer pays less here, with no plan to commit to. Our full sheet is on pricing.

Proxyway's review, linked below, concludes that NodeMaven costs more than alternatives such as Decodo or Webshare. NodeMaven's answer is its filter, which we come to below.

This is the most distinctive part of NodeMaven's model. It sells one traffic balance shared by residential and mobile proxies, and it sells mobile proxies at the same price as residential. You buy gigabytes once and spend them on either network.

The network behind it is 30M+ residential IPs and 295K mobile IPs across 190+ countries. That is wider country coverage than ours: our residential and mobile pools cover 150 countries.

We split the other way. Essential, Premium and Mobile are separate pools with separate wallets and separate prices, and Convert moves value between wallets when your work changes. Mobile at $3.00/GB is real phones on carrier networks, priced as its own product rather than folded into residential.

Which is better depends on how you buy. One balance is simpler if your work flips between residential and mobile from week to week. Separate pools make more sense if most of your traffic is plain residential, because Essential at $1.50/GB costs less than any rate on their shared ladder, and you are not paying a mobile price for residential work.

NodeMaven offers country, region, city, ZIP code and ISP targeting, set in the dashboard, with rotation on every request, or a sticky session of up to 24 hours. It supports HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, over IPv4 or IPv6, and authenticates with login credentials or IP whitelisting.

That is a strong set, and on ZIP and ISP-name targeting it goes further than we do. Every ResiFactory pool takes a country, a US state and a network (ASN) in the username, and Premium and Mobile add city. If your campaign is built on postcodes, NodeMaven is the better tool.

On our Premium and Mobile pools a sticky session holds for up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential). NodeMaven publishes one figure for its whole shared pool; ours is stated per pool, so you know which pool a long flow belongs on before you build it.

On protocols we are narrower. HTTP runs on port 7777 on every pool, and SOCKS5 on port 1080 on Premium, Mobile and ISP. Essential is HTTP only, so if your tool needs SOCKS5 on the cheapest pool, NodeMaven has it and we do not. See residential proxies for the username syntax.

NodeMaven's static line is priced per IP, at $5.00 for one IP for 30 days, falling to $2.60 per IP at 2,500 IPs. The headline figure, from $2.33 per IP per 30 days, is what its 90-day plan at 2,500 IPs or more, $7.00 per IP, comes to each month.

Each IP comes with unlimited traffic, HTTP and SOCKS5 with UDP support, and one IP swap per order. The line covers nine countries, among them the US, the UK, Germany, Brazil and Hong Kong, targeted by country, from a pool of 10K+ static residential IPs.

Ours is a different shape. We sell single IPs from $1.25 per IP a month (minimum 50 IPs), or a whole /24 for $255 a month, and each whole /24 goes to one customer. Our ISP stock is sold in restock windows, members first and then everyone, and coverage is US ranges today, international to follow.

Per address, a whole subnet from us works out well below their lowest published per-IP rate. But you have to want a block that big: our smallest ISP purchase is 50 single IPs. If you need five addresses, or an address in Germany or Brazil, NodeMaven sells it and we do not, and that belongs in their column. See ISP proxies for how a restock works.

NodeMaven's central claim is an IP quality filter that screens each residential and mobile IP before it is assigned. It is the reason it gives for charging more than budget pools. Proxyway, which published a hands-on review of NodeMaven, last updated in October 2026, is the most useful independent look at whether it works.

We do not advertise a per-assignment filter, and this page will not invent one. If reputation scores decide your work, test their filter on your own targets first.

They also offer cashback of up to 10% of used traffic, credited as bonus traffic, plus rollover of unused traffic into the next billing period. Our wallet has no cashback; it has no expiry date under normal circumstances, as our Terms set out, and one flat rate per pool.

And they ship an account API, an MCP server, and Python, Rust and Go SDKs. That is more developer tooling than we publish today; ours is the API reference and a username syntax that carries the targeting.

NodeMaven sells a paid trial of $3.50 for 750 MB, and no free trial. Our equivalent is 1 GB of Premium free when a new account links Google. Theirs is quick to start; ours costs nothing.

Their smallest monthly plan is $8.50 for 2 GB, and pay as you go is there at the higher rates above. Our smallest top-up is $0.50, and you can load 0.1 to 1,000 GB at a time into the pool you need.

Their terms reserve the right to ask for identity, business and use-case documents at any time, and to refuse or suspend an account, and state that refunds on crypto payments are paid in USDT only, whatever coin was used. Neither is unusual in this market, but both are worth reading before you load a large balance.

Our refunds are requests within 14 days of a top-up, under the refund policy. Cards go through Stripe, or you can pay with SOL.

If you buy residential or mobile a few gigabytes at a time, we are cheaper, and you do not need a plan to get the rate. Essential is $1.50/GB, Premium $3.00/GB and Mobile $3.00/GB, against $4.25 per GB at 2 GB, stepping down to $3.00 at 100 GB and $2.20 at 1,000 GB on NodeMaven's monthly ladder.

If you buy a terabyte a month, NodeMaven's top tier undercuts our Premium and Mobile rates, and its ZIP and ISP-name targeting, per-IP static line in several countries, cashback and SDKs are real advantages.

The case for us is the small or uneven buyer, the team that needs a whole subnet to itself, and anyone who wants a Mac server on the same account as their proxies. If that is you, start with a top-up from $0.50.

Proxyway published a hands-on review of NodeMaven, last updated in October 2026. It is the most detailed outside test of the quality filter we found, and it is worth reading in full rather than through our summary.

We quote no scores from review sites here. Our own record is on the trust page, and every price of ours on this page is read live.