Free Proxy Trials and Free Plans

Every figure on this page is quoted for protected targets: Cloudflare, Akamai and DataDome, login walls, moderate rate limits and some JS rendering.

pages/month

Assuming an average page weight of 480 KB and counting every blocked response that a bandwidth plan still bills.

250,000 pages a month, repriced

Effective cost is the list price divided by the share of requests that come back with usable HTML.

01

Scrape.doBest value

Rotating proxy and scraping API behind a single endpoint

4.869 reviewsTrustpilot

Per successful requestJS renderingSticky sessionsTrial without card
Success rate97.8%estimate
Median latency3.4s
List price$0.11 per 1k
$0.11
per 1,000 delivered pages
No retry penalty
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$27.30 a month
02

Webshare

The cheapest headline number in the table

4.01,432 reviewsTrustpilot

Per GB or per IPTrial without card
Success rate71.2%estimate
Median latency1.5s
List price$0.15 / $0.35 per GB
$0.20
per 1,000 delivered pages
+40% paid on blocks
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$51.19 a month
03

Massive

Consent documentation is the strongest in the set

3.71 reviewTrustpilot

Per GB, blocks includedSticky sessions
Success rate92.1%estimate
Median latency4.7s
List price$1.21 / $2.90 per GB
$1.31
per 1,000 delivered pages
+9% paid on blocks
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$327.91 a month
04

ProxyShare

Residential Trial Plan, rotating proxy pool

3.59 reviewsTrustpilot

Per GBSticky sessions
Success rate93.8%estimate
Median latency4.3s
List price$1.25 / $3.00 per GB
$1.33
per 1,000 delivered pages
+7% paid on blocks
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$333.25 a month
05

ScraperAPI

Request in, HTML out, with credit multipliers for hard targets

4.542 reviewsTrustpilot

Per successful requestJS renderingSticky sessionsTrial without card
Success rate95.2%estimate
Median latency4.5s
List price$1.34 per 1k
$1.34
per 1,000 delivered pages
No retry penalty
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$334.43 a month
06

ScrapeOps Aggregator

Routes a single API across 20+ upstream vendors

4.410 reviewsTrustpilot

Per successful requestJS renderingTrial without cardFree plan
Success rate94.8%estimate
Median latency4.6s
List price$1.47 per 1k
$1.47
per 1,000 delivered pages
No retry penalty
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$368.55 a month
07

Crawlbase

Separate token types for plain and JS requests

4.013 reviewsTrustpilot

Per successful requestJS renderingSticky sessionsTrial without card
Success rate92.0%estimate
Median latency5.1s
List price$1.58 per 1k
$1.58
per 1,000 delivered pages
No retry penalty
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$395.85 a month
08

ScrapingAnt

Generous free tier, low concurrency ceilings

5.09 reviewsCapterra

Per successful requestJS renderingTrial without cardFree plan
Success rate92.9%estimate
Median latency5.4s
List price$1.73 per 1k
$1.73
per 1,000 delivered pages
No retry penalty
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$432.25 a month
09

Oxylabs

Enterprise network with negotiated contracts

4.0766 reviewsTrustpilot

Per GB, blocks includedSticky sessions
Success rate96.2%estimate
Median latency4.0s
List price$1.67 / $4.00 per GB
$1.73
per 1,000 delivered pages
+4% paid on blocks
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$433.02 a month
Code PRX20
10

Bright Data

The largest network on the market, priced like it

4.31,022 reviewsTrustpilot

Per GB, blocks includedSticky sessions
Success rate96.8%estimate
Median latency3.9s
List price$1.75 / $4.20 per GB
$1.81
per 1,000 delivered pages
+3% paid on blocks
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$451.85 a month
Code RESIGB50
11

Apify Super Proxy

Proxy layer inside a broader automation platform

4.8753 reviewsTrustpilot

Per successful requestJS renderingSticky sessionsTrial without card
Success rate92.4%estimate
Median latency5.5s
List price$1.87 per 1k
$1.87
per 1,000 delivered pages
No retry penalty
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$466.38 a month
12

Zyte API

Ban aware routing with automatic extraction add-ons

4.443 reviewsCapterra

Per successful requestJS renderingSticky sessionsFree plan
Success rate96.4%estimate
Median latency4.1s
List price$1.91 per 1k
$1.91
per 1,000 delivered pages
No retry penalty
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$477.75 a month
13

ZenRows

Scraping API with a separate anti-bot bypass flag

4.7103 reviewsCapterra

Per successful requestJS renderingSticky sessionsTrial without cardFree plan
Success rate94.6%estimate
Median latency4.8s
List price$1.97 per 1k
$1.97
per 1,000 delivered pages
No retry penalty
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$491.40 a month
14

Firecrawl

Crawl to markdown, aimed at language model pipelines

Per successful requestJS renderingTrial without card
Success rate91.2%estimate
Median latency5.9s
List price$2.27 per 1k
$2.27
per 1,000 delivered pages
No retry penalty
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$566.48 a month
15

ScrapingBee

Developer first API with rendering on by default

Per successful requestJS renderingTrial without card
Success rate94.1%estimate
Median latency5.2s
List price$2.68 per 1k
$2.68
per 1,000 delivered pages
No retry penalty
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$668.85 a month

What 1,000 successful pages costs

Same workload, ten cheapest providers in the current selection. The gap between a headline price and a delivered page widens sharply as targets get harder.

Scrape.do
$0.11
Webshare
$0.20
Massive
$1.31
ProxyShare
$1.33
ScraperAPI
$1.34
ScrapeOps Aggregator
$1.47
Crawlbase
$1.58
ScrapingAnt
$1.73
Oxylabs
$1.73
Bright Data
$1.81

Every provider on this page offers either a free plan or a free trial, and each card shows what you actually get: the monthly request or bandwidth allowance, and whether a credit card is required to start. That second detail matters more than it looks, since a trial that takes card details up front is a different commitment from one that does not.

Free tiers are for evaluation, not production. Allowances are small, concurrency is usually capped hard, and several providers reserve their better IP pools for paying accounts, which means trial performance can understate what the paid product does. Use the trial to verify that a provider can reach your specific targets, then price the paid tier properly before committing.

Getting the most out of a proxy trial

What is on this page

Every provider listed here offers either a permanent free tier or a free trial. Each card shows the allowance — requests or bandwidth — and whether a credit card is required to start, which is a more significant distinction than it appears. A trial that takes card details is a subscription you have to remember to cancel; one that does not is genuinely free to abandon.

What free tiers are not

They are not a production plan, and they are not a representative sample of the paid product.

Allowances are small, usually a few thousand requests or a few hundred megabytes. Concurrency is capped hard, so throughput during a trial tells you very little about throughput on a paid plan. And several providers reserve their better pools, their premium targeting and their higher-tier features for paying accounts, which means trial performance can understate what you would actually get.

That last point cuts both ways and is worth knowing before you draw conclusions from a disappointing trial.

Running a trial that answers something

Point it at the hardest target you actually need. This is the single most important rule and the one most often ignored. A trial against an easy site tells you nothing you did not already know, and the allowance is too small to waste on a question you can already answer.

Measure your own success rate over the sample rather than eyeballing it. Even a few thousand requests gives you a usable figure, and it is the only success-rate number in this market that is definitely about your workload.

Test the specific features your work depends on — city-level targeting, sticky sessions, whatever it is — rather than just the basic connection. Features are where the gap between the trial tier and the paid tier usually sits, and finding a restriction now is much cheaper than finding it in month two.

Keep notes per provider in the same format, so the comparison at the end is between numbers rather than impressions.

A word on "free proxy lists"

Publicly posted lists of free proxy IPs are an entirely different thing from what is on this page and should not be used for anything. They are unvetted, frequently logged, and a well-documented vector for intercepting traffic and credentials. Every provider listed here is a commercial service offering a free tier under a normal account.