Side by side

PacketStream vs Proxy-Seller

The short answer

On residential, PacketStream is the cheaper of the two at $1/GB against Proxy-Seller's $2.20/GB, a gap of about 55%. One thing to read before you decide: we carry a warning on PacketStream and none on Proxy-Seller.

PacketStream$1.00 /GBResidential

Proxy-Seller$2.20 /GBResidential

Sign-up

Just an email

Pay with

Card

Card, crypto, PayPal, Alipay

Free trial

None

IPs (their number)

7 million

18 million

Countries

190

100

Won't work for

Streaming

Nothing we know of

Warnings

Gets its IPs from paid volunteers

None

PacketStream against Proxy-Seller, product by product

Residentialcompared above

$1.00/GBon Residential Proxies, read 12 Aug1 plan

$2.20/GBon 100 GB, $220/mo, read 12 Augfrom $9/mo on 3 GB, 5 plans

Datacenter

Does not sell this

—priced per IP addressfrom $1.77/mo on Dedicated IPv4, 1 plan

Mobile

Does not sell this

—unlimited bandwidth, priced flatfrom $85/mo on 4G LTE, 1 plan

Choose PacketStream if

the rate is lower, $1/GB against $2.20, and the country list is wider, 190 against 100.

Choose Proxy-Seller if

we carry no warning on Proxy-Seller and one on PacketStream: gets its ips from paid volunteers, and your targets matter and PacketStream rules out streaming.

Questions

Does PacketStream or Proxy-Seller ask for ID?

Both ask for the same thing: just an email.

Which is cheaper, PacketStream or Proxy-Seller?

PacketStream, at $1 per GB against Proxy-Seller's $2.20 per GB, both residential rates read from the providers' own pages and dated above.

Which has more addresses, PacketStream or Proxy-Seller?

Proxy-Seller, on their own numbers: 18 million, 220 locations against PacketStream's 7 million, 190 countries.

Neither of these?

We don't pick a winner, the numbers are the same ones on each provider's page, checked yesterday.