SOAX alternatives
10 proxy providers ranked against SOAX on published price and features. Evomi comes first. Each entry shows where it beats SOAX and where it falls short.
Ranking
Evomi advertises the lowest base residential rate in this comparison ($0.49/GB on a subscription) and lets you add filters such as fraud score or minimum uptime as paid upgrades.
Verified November 4, 2026
Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) sells self-service proxies with pay-as-you-go traffic and one of the widest product ranges of the mid-market: residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter.
Verified November 4, 2026
Bright Data advertises the largest residential network on the market (400M IPs) and the broadest toolbox, including an open-source Proxy Manager. It targets business users and runs KYC for sensitive use cases.
Verified November 4, 2026
Thordata is a newer provider advertising 100M+ residential IPs from $0.65/GB, plus ISP proxies, mobile proxies, datacenter IPs and a Web Scraper API.
Verified November 4, 2026
DataImpulse sells pay-as-you-go residential traffic at $1/GB (down to $0.80/GB at 1 TB) with no expiry, plus a pricier premium tier.
Verified November 4, 2026
Oxylabs is an enterprise-oriented provider with a 175M-IP residential pool, ISP and datacenter proxies, and a large scraping API line-up.
Verified November 4, 2026
Byteful (formerly Ping Proxies) has a mid-sized residential pool, a transparent dashboard showing IP availability per location, and a traffic-optimization engine that routes non-essential requests through datacenter IPs.
Verified November 4, 2026
Rayobyte is a long-standing datacenter specialist that also sells residential and ISP proxies, with non-expiring packages that scale down in price.
Verified November 4, 2026
Webshare is best known for cheap datacenter and ISP proxies with a fully self-service, customizable subscription. Its residential network was added later and has grown quickly.
Verified November 4, 2026
NodeMaven focuses on IP quality: residential IPs are screened against several databases and can be filtered by quality, speed and pool size before use.
Verified November 4, 2026
Scores are computed from published pricing and specifications (price 35%, reach 20%, features 20%, support 10%, trial 15% for proxies). They do not include performance benchmarks. Read the methodology. Some links are affiliate links; they never change the ranking.
Detail
9.0 / 10
$49 / 100 GB ($0.49/GB)
Evomi advertises the lowest base residential rate in this comparison ($0.49/GB on a subscription) and lets you add filters such as fraud score or minimum uptime as paid upgrades.
Better than SOAX on
Falls short of SOAX on
7.3 / 10
$4 / 1 GB
Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) sells self-service proxies with pay-as-you-go traffic and one of the widest product ranges of the mid-market: residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter.
Better than SOAX on
Falls short of SOAX on
7.2 / 10
$8 / 1 GB (list price)
Bright Data advertises the largest residential network on the market (400M IPs) and the broadest toolbox, including an open-source Proxy Manager. It targets business users and runs KYC for sensitive use cases.
Better than SOAX on
Falls short of SOAX on
7.1 / 10
from $0.65 / GB (headline price)
Thordata is a newer provider advertising 100M+ residential IPs from $0.65/GB, plus ISP proxies, mobile proxies, datacenter IPs and a Web Scraper API.
Better than SOAX on
Falls short of SOAX on
7.0 / 10
$5 starter / $50 / 50 GB ($1/GB)
DataImpulse sells pay-as-you-go residential traffic at $1/GB (down to $0.80/GB at 1 TB) with no expiry, plus a pricier premium tier.
Better than SOAX on
Falls short of SOAX on
6.5 / 10
$30 / 5 GB ($6/GB)
Oxylabs is an enterprise-oriented provider with a 175M-IP residential pool, ISP and datacenter proxies, and a large scraping API line-up.
Better than SOAX on
Falls short of SOAX on
6.5 / 10
$3.25 / 1 GB
Byteful (formerly Ping Proxies) has a mid-sized residential pool, a transparent dashboard showing IP availability per location, and a traffic-optimization engine that routes non-essential requests through datacenter IPs.
Better than SOAX on
Falls short of SOAX on
6.4 / 10
$4 / 1 GB
Rayobyte is a long-standing datacenter specialist that also sells residential and ISP proxies, with non-expiring packages that scale down in price.
Better than SOAX on
Falls short of SOAX on
6.3 / 10
$3.50 / 1 GB
Webshare is best known for cheap datacenter and ISP proxies with a fully self-service, customizable subscription. Its residential network was added later and has grown quickly.
Better than SOAX on
Falls short of SOAX on
5.8 / 10
$8.50 / 2 GB ($4.25/GB)
NodeMaven focuses on IP quality: residential IPs are screened against several databases and can be filtered by quality, speed and pool size before use.
Strengths
Falls short of SOAX on
FAQ
Evomi ranks first among the 10 tools compared with SOAX, with a data score of 9.0/10. The ranking uses published prices and features, not performance tests, so pick the tool whose strengths match your workload.
Yes. Evomi, Decodo, Bright Data, Byteful, Webshare offer a free trial. Limits change often, so confirm quotas on the vendor's site.
Evomi has the lowest verified entry price in this comparison ($49 / 100 GB ($0.49/GB)). Entry price is only the starting point: check what is included at the volume you need.
Points buyers raise about SOAX: Support is not 24/7; Three-tier country pricing complicates budgeting. None of these is a deal-breaker for every team, but they are the usual reasons to compare.
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