Side by side
Shifter vs SOAX
The short answer
On residential, Shifter is the cheaper of the two at $0.75/GB against SOAX's $5.60/GB, a gap of about 87%.
Sign-up
Just an email
ID required
Pay with
Card, crypto
Card
Free trial
None
$1.99 for 3 days
IPs (their number)
31 million
155 million
Countries
130
190
Won't work for
Nothing we know of
Ticketing
Warnings
None
None
Shifter against SOAX, product by product
Residentialcompared above
$0.75/GBon Popular (200 GB), $149/mo, read 12 Augfrom $50/mo on Starter (50 GB), 4 plans
$5.60/GBon Starter, $49/mo, read 3 Augfrom $49/mo on Starter, 3 plans
Fixed ISP
—priced per IP addressfrom $42/mo on Starter (25 IPs), 4 plans
Does not sell this
Mobile
Does not sell this
$8.25/GBon Mobile Starter, $99/mo, read 3 Augfrom $99/mo on Mobile Starter, 1 plan
Choose Shifter if
the rate is lower, $0.75/GB against $5.60, and sign-up is just an email where SOAX wants identity documents first.
Choose SOAX if
you read an ID check as a signal rather than a hurdle, which SOAX asks for and Shifter does not, and the country list is wider, 190 against 130.
Questions
Does Shifter or SOAX ask for ID?
Shifter needs just an email to open an account and SOAX needs id required.
Which is cheaper, Shifter or SOAX?
Shifter, at $0.75 per GB against SOAX's $5.60 per GB, both residential rates read from the providers' own pages and dated above.
Which has more addresses, Shifter or SOAX?
SOAX, on their own numbers: 155 million, 190 countries against Shifter's 31 million.
Neither of these?
We don't pick a winner, the numbers are the same ones on each provider's page, checked 9 days ago.