The Thordata alternative for static subnets, Mac servers and plain terms

Thordata's residential headline is from $0.65 per gigabyte on sale, against a $1.05 list price. Our rates are $1.50/GB for Essential and $3.00/GB for Premium. At the size where that headline applies, they are cheaper than both of our residential pools, and no amount of page copy changes that.

The pool behind the rate is large: 100M+ residential IPs across 190+ countries and regions. Their mobile headline is from $2.20 per gigabyte, the rate on the 500 GB package, against our $3.00/GB. If price per gigabyte at high volume is the line your finance team reads, Thordata is a strong buy.

Thordata sells residential as packages, and the price per gigabyte falls as the package grows. The ladder runs $2.00 per gigabyte on the 1 GB package, reaching $0.65 only on the 5,000 GB package at $3,250. In the middle it is $1.00 per gigabyte on the 150 GB package and $0.80 on the 350 GB package.

So the headline is real, but it is the rate for a very large prepaid block. A team testing a new target with a few gigabytes pays the top of the ladder, and the top of the ladder is above our Essential rate of $1.50/GB.

Our model is one published rate per pool. Top up from $0.50, in any amount of 0.1 to 1,000 GB, and the first gigabyte costs the same as the last. That is a worse deal than Thordata's at the very top and a better one at the bottom, and where your volume sits on that line is the honest way to decide.

Mobile follows the same pattern. The package headline is from $2.20 per gigabyte, the rate on the 500 GB package; without a package, Thordata offers pay-as-you-go from $5 per gigabyte with no minimum commitment. Ours is $3.00/GB at any size. See pricing for the full sheet.

On two of our product lines there is nothing on Thordata's side to compare.

Static ISP is the closer one. Thordata's static addresses are priced $1.50 per IP for a single static ISP address, falling to $0.75 per IP at 500 addresses or more, billed per IP for a 7-day or 30-day term, with no per-GB charge under fair-use terms. For anyone who needs five addresses for a week, that is the better product. It is not a subnet. We sell a whole /24 of 254 addresses at $255 a month, one customer per subnet, sold in restock windows, members first and then everyone. If your work needs a block that looks like one network and belongs to one buyer, a pile of single addresses is a different thing.

Location cuts the other way. Thordata lists 30+ available static ISP locations, and ours are US ranges today, international to follow. If you need static addresses in Europe or Asia today, they can sell them and we cannot.

Mac servers are ours alone. Thordata's catalogue is residential, mobile, static ISP and datacenter proxies, alongside scraping APIs, a scraping browser and datasets: broad, but with no machines in it. Ours start from $32 a day or $160 a month, and the shortest rental is a day rental from $32, 24 hours counted from when the Mac is ready. The Mac servers page lists every model.

Datacenter goes to them outright: from $0.75 per IP, dedicated or shared, and we do not sell datacenter at all.

We expected targeting to be an argument for us. Against Thordata it is not.

Their residential page offers country, state, city and continent targeting at no extra cost, with ASN listed too. Ours offers country, US state and ASN on every pool, with city on Premium and Mobile. A buyer who wants city targeting from us has to move up to Premium at $3.00/GB, while a Thordata buyer gets it on the base residential product.

If you run a campaign across several US metros, that difference is worth pricing properly: compare Thordata's package rate with our Premium rate, then test both on your own targets. The syntax for ours is in the API reference.

Thordata's residential pricing page advertises sticky sessions customisable up to 90 minutes. Its mobile product page describes the same IP held for 30 minutes when a session parameter is passed, while its mobile pricing page promises sticky sessions of up to 90 minutes. Both may be true for different setups, but a buyer building a multi-step flow should not have to reconcile two pages to learn how long an exit will hold.

Our rule is up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential), stated the same way on every surface we publish. On Premium and Mobile that is far longer than Thordata's figure; on Essential it is shorter, and if Essential's hold is too short for your flow, Premium is the pool to use.

On protocols, Thordata's residential pricing lists HTTP(S) on the residential plans, and its static ISP FAQ documents HTTP and HTTPS connections with username and password authentication. None of the pages we read mentions SOCKS5, so ask them before you build on it. Ours is HTTP on port 7777 on every pool and SOCKS5 on port 1080 on Premium, Mobile and ISP.

Thordata runs a compliance review for every new user, with a written use case and video identity verification when it judges one necessary. For a company buying under a contract, that is normal and arguably reassuring. For an individual researcher who wants to test a target this afternoon, it is friction. Our sign-up is Google, Apple, email, a passkey or Discord, with no identity check, and our acceptable use policy sets out what the network may not be used for.

Thordata's refund policy requires a request within 7 days of a first purchase, and only while use stays under 30% of the package and no more than 2 GB, and it allows one refund per customer, on the first fee of the first order. Ours are requests within 14 days of a top-up, handled under the refund policy. Read both before you prepay a large block, because a large block is exactly what the headline rate asks you to buy.

The published figures also shift between pages. The mobile product page describes 600K+ mobile IPs in 30+ countries and regions; the mobile pricing FAQ describes over 100 million mobile IPs spanning 190+ countries. Those are very different networks, and from outside we cannot tell which one a buyer gets.

Finally, the contract. Thordata's service agreement chooses Hong Kong law, with disputes sent to confidential arbitration at CIETAC, and the business is HK Hengsheng Runzhi Technology Co., Limited, with an address in Kowloon, Hong Kong. That is a legitimate setup, and worth knowing before you prepay. Our Terms and trust page say who we are.

If you buy residential traffic in large blocks, Thordata is cheaper than we are, and it includes city and state targeting that we keep for Premium. It also sells datacenter, single static IPs and non-US static locations that we do not. For a high-volume scraping budget it is a serious option.

The case for us sits elsewhere. We sell a whole static subnet to one customer, and Mac servers that Thordata does not offer at all. We hold sticky sessions on Premium and Mobile far longer than its published figure, we carry SOCKS5, we price residential the same at every size, and we state each rule once, without an identity review first.

So: buy from Thordata if volume and price are the job. Come here if you need a block, a machine, a long session, or terms you can read on one page.

We could not find an independent hands-on review of Thordata that we could verify and link on the day we checked, and we quote no review site's scores on any of these pages: 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.