{"id":6088,"date":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/?p=6088"},"modified":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T14:47:43","slug":"microleaves-vs-stormproxies-vs-proxyrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/royadata.io\/blog\/microleaves-vs-stormproxies-vs-proxyrack\/","title":{"rendered":"Shifter (Microleaves) vs. Stormproxies vs. Proxyrack (2023 Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Are you looking to make a choice between Shifter, Stormproxies, and Proxyrack? In the article below, we would be looking at the difference between the 3 residential proxy providers with unlimited bandwidth support.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The majority of the proxies in the residential proxy market are priced based on consumable bandwidth and depending on the project, you require proxies for, you could exhaust the bandwidth in no time \u2013 and that would mean a disconnection until you pay again.<\/p>\n

There is a small set of providers that allow users to enjoy unlimited bandwidth<\/a>, which means that bandwidth is not metered, and your subscription remains active until the validity period elapses. The popular unmetered bandwidth residential proxy providers are Shifter<\/a>, Stormproxies<\/a>, and Proxyrack<\/a>. We would be discussing the difference between the 3 providers.<\/p>\n

At the end of the article, you should know how the 3 providers differ in the aspect of IP pool, pricing, performance, IP rotation, location coverage, and geo-targeting. We would also be providing you a final verdict on which provider to choose based on different criteria. This should help you make a better buying decision. Before going into the differences between the 3 in detail, let take a look at an overview of the 3 providers and a table to skim through.<\/p>\n\n

<\/span>Overview of Shifter, Stormproxies, and Proxyrack<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The trio (Shifter, Stormproxies, and Proxyrack) made unlimited bandwidth usage possible in the residential proxy market<\/a> \u2013 without these 3, you can only get that in the datacenter market.<\/p>\n

Shifter has been the oldest provider among them and has been around for close to a decade now under a different brand known as Microleaves<\/a> before rebranding into Shifter.io.<\/p>\n

Stormproxies, on its part, is a cheap provider that focuses on the provision of specialized proxies for special use cases such as social media automation, sneaker copping, ticket scalping, and online gaming. Its features are quite basic and simple, but it proxies work.<\/p>\n

For Proxyrack, it has a unique proposition whereby it allows users to enjoy not only unlimited bandwidth but also as many proxy endpoints as they want. All the 3 providers are backconnect proxies<\/a> that rotate IP addresses they assign to users, and they all can be said to be affordable even though their pricing is not the same.<\/p>\n

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Provider<\/strong><\/td>\nProxy Pool Size<\/strong><\/td>\nCountries Supported<\/strong><\/td>\nGeo-targeted Options<\/strong><\/td>\nRequest Success Rate<\/strong><\/td>\nMinimum Package Pricing<\/strong><\/td>\nIP Protocol Supported<\/strong><\/td>\nHigh Rotating proxies<\/strong><\/td>\nSession Proxies<\/strong><\/td>\nEase of Use<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Shifter<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n31+ million<\/td>\n130+ countries<\/td>\nCountry\/ city<\/td>\n86%<\/td>\n$249.99 for 10 ports<\/td>\nHTTPS + SOCKS<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n5 min \u2013 10 min<\/td>\nEasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Stormproxies<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n40K+<\/td>\nUS and EU only<\/td>\nCountry (US and EU)<\/td>\n70%<\/td>\n$50 for 5 ports<\/td>\nHTTPS<\/td>\nNo<\/td>\n5 min<\/td>\nEasiest to use<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Proxyrack<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n2+ million<\/td>\n100+ countries<\/td>\nCountry<\/td>\n83%<\/td>\n$80 for 100 threads<\/td>\nHTTPS + SOCKS<\/td>\nYes<\/td>\nUnspecified<\/td>\nEasy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n

<\/span>IP Pool Size and Source<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

One of the factors that residential proxy users look into is the number of IPs a provider has in its pool. This is important as having a small pool will means IP addresses would be repeated even when IP is rotated because the number of IPs is small.<\/p>\n

Having a larger pool would mean more available IP addresses, and the chances of repeating IP are lower. Let take a look at the 3 providers in this regard.<\/p>\n