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Founded in 2018, Smartproxy is a company providing IP proxy services. The company's mission is to help customers carry out various activities on the Internet, including data capture, network testing, market research and online privacy protection, by providing highly professional, reliable, secure and customized proxy services.

Smartproxy's services are focused on enterprise customers and individual users, providing more than 10,000 IP addresses in more than 40 countries. Customers can choose different IP number, access speed and data traffic options based on their needs. The company provides support for a variety of protocols, including HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, to meet the needs of different customers.

The Smartproxy provides an intuitive and easy-to-use control panel to facilitate proxy server configuration, management, and monitoring. The company also offers 24/7 technical support services, including email and online chat, to ensure customers can resolve problems in a timely manner.

The Smartproxy service has a high degree of security, including IP whitelist, account and password authentication, to ensure customer data security. Meanwhile, the company also offers a variety of customized packages to meet the needs of different customers.

In short, Smartproxy is a company focused on providing highly professional, reliable, secure and customized IP proxy services. The company has become one of the leading agent service providers in the industry by offering multiple protocol support, an intuitive and easy-to-use control panel, 24/7 technical support services, and customized packages.

Basic introduction

PROS

• Fast and reliable proxies
• Great value
• Useful tools
• 24/7 customer service

CONS

• No mobile or ISP proxies
• Datacenter IPs lack locations

KEY FEATURES

• Proxy networks: Datacenter (rotating, dedicated), residential
• Web scrapers: 3 web scraping APIs, no-code scraper
• Locations: Worldwide
• Audience: SMBs to enterprises
• Extras: proxy management API, browser extension, anonymous browser
• Support: 24/7 via live chat or email
• Payment options: PayPal, credit card, Bitcoin
• Trial: 3-day refund

Smartproxy Proxy Networks

The main products of Smartproxy are static residential IP proxy and dynamic residential IP proxy. You can choose from static residential IP proxy or dynamic residential IP proxy. Both allow you to access large ip pools through gateway servers.

It is worth noting that smartProxy's static residential IP proxy is almost always of native IP quality.

Residential Proxies

A large pool of IPs from real people’s devices.

residential proxies is Smartproxy’s flagship service made for accessing strict websites. It comprises a pool of 40 million monthly IPs borrowed from real people’s devices. To give you some context, this is among the larger proxy networks on the market, at least looking at advertised numbers.

Features

The service supports granular filtering options: you can get IPs from any country, state, or city. The rotation options include not only every connection request but also 1, 10, and 30 minute thresholds. It’s convenient compared to services like PacketStream, where your only option for sticky sessions is to keep the same IP as long as it remains available.

As is often the case with residential proxies, the service is limited only by your traffic allowance. As long as you have some, you can make as many connection requests as you like. Missing are SOCKS5 support and ASN targeting, but these proxies should be more than enough for most tasks.

Pricing

Format: Pay as you go, monthly subscription Starting price: $2.17 for 1 GB

Model: Traffic allowance Upsells: More sub-users / whitelisted IPs

Smartproxy's residential agent used to have the lowest starting price of the three agent networks, now you can pay on demand. It's cheaper than providers like PacketStream, and it totally beats most high-end and mid-range alternatives.

As a result, these residential ip's are a viable option for smaller projects that require a quality address.

To avoid getting stuck between different pricing tiers, Smartproxy allows each plan to be topped up at the same per-GB rate. This is limited to 80% of the plan's value, at which point it makes sense to buy a larger plan.

Agents are also a solid choice for large projects. Smartproxy scales up to hundreds of gigabytes very competitively, and some advanced options can't even keep up with a terabyte of data.

Performance

Avg. success rate: 99.47% Factual pool size: Very large

Avg. response time: 0.61 s % of residential IPs: over 95%

The last time we tested Smartproxy's residential agents was in February 2023, when we conducted our annual Agency market study with results from the country Gateway in early spring.

They are among the best performers in terms of pool size, success rate and response time. In terms of overall performance, they are comparable to Bright Data and Oxylabs, which are top tier vendors.

Throughout the testing period, we received a large number of unique ip addresses using global gateways and country-specific pools. For example, 300,000 connection requests through the US gateway gave us over 160,000 addresses, while providers like IPRoyal or RSocks only had about 10,000 addresses. Even in places like Canada and Australia, we've managed to get over 18,000 ips, while many others have managed to scrape together a few thousand.

When testing the agent infrastructure, we successfully connected more than 99% of the time. Its response time is several times shorter than most of its mid-range and cheaper competitors.

The results translate well to real-world targets such as Google and Amazon: Smartproxy maintains a 96% success rate and has very fast response times.