What Evomi does well
Evomi is operated by TeraShift GmbH from Ermatingen, Switzerland, and it leans on that: the positioning is built around Swiss jurisdiction, ethical sourcing and audited compliance rather than raw pool size. It is a self-serve product — sign up, top up, generate credentials, no sales call — but the catalogue behind it is broad enough to serve teams that would otherwise be negotiating with an enterprise vendor.
The technical depth is the part people underrate. Evomi's residential targeting goes past the usual country, region and city set into zipcode, ISP and ASN, plus filters most providers do not expose at all: fraud score, latency and minimum connection time. The protocol surface is unusually wide too, documenting HTTP3/QUIC and UDP alongside the standard set, with local DNS resolution. If you are tuning a scraper against a difficult target and want to select IPs by measured quality rather than geography alone, that is a genuine advantage.
Breadth matters as much as depth. Evomi sells residential in two quality tiers, plus mobile, datacentre, static residential addresses billed per IP, and a managed Scraper API charged per successful request. That covers most of the shapes a data team needs from one vendor and one invoice, which is a real reason to consolidate there rather than away from it.
- Swiss company with published ISO 27001 certification and EWDCI membership
- Five product lines, including static ISP addresses and a managed Scraper API
- Targeting filters beyond geography: fraud score, latency, minimum connection time, zipcode
- Protocol coverage documented for HTTP3/QUIC and UDP, plus local DNS resolution
- Self-serve signup with trial access, and both pay-as-you-go and subscription billing
- Public API and documentation with code samples for common languages
How Nefo differs from Evomi
Nefo is not a smaller copy of Evomi's catalogue. It now sells residential bandwidth, 4G/5G mobile ports on real carrier modems, datacenter proxies, static IP proxies, IP Vault addresses, servers, and marketplace APIs. It also sells static residential ISP IPs, dedicated and rented for 7 to 360 days in 24 countries. What it still does not sell is a managed scraping API. If part of your Evomi spend sits in that line, Nefo cannot absorb it, and that is worth establishing before evaluating anything else.
The difference that usually decides it is what happens to bandwidth you have paid for and not used. Nefo's flexible plans are prepaid and non-expiring: the balance sits in the account until traffic consumes it, and generating credentials costs nothing. Evomi supports both pay-as-you-go and monthly subscription plans, so the answer on their side depends on which you are actually on — check your own account rather than assume. Teams with lumpy, project-shaped workloads care about this a great deal; teams running steady daily volume tend not to care at all.
The other structural difference is pool tiering. Evomi splits residential into two quality tiers and asks you to choose between them. Nefo runs a single residential pool, so there is no tier decision to get wrong — simpler to reason about, but also one fewer lever to pull when a target starts blocking you.
Nefo residential proxies: what you get
Buying is prepaid and starts at 5GB ($0.90/GB), with the per-GB rate falling as volume rises. You generate credentials in the dashboard — as many as you want, at no cost — and each one is fixed to whatever targeting and session behaviour you set when you create it. Only traffic that actually passes through a credential consumes bandwidth.
What is not there, relative to Evomi: no selection by fraud score or latency, no minimum-connection-time filter, no QUIC or UDP transport. If your current Evomi setup depends on any of those, treat it as a hard blocker rather than a gap to work around.
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with username and password or IP allowlist authentication
- 227 countries, with state or region and city targeting in most of them
- ASN/ISP targeting paired with a country, to pin traffic to a specific carrier or cable network
- Rotating sessions issuing a new IP per request
- Sticky sessions holding the same IP from one minute up to around 24 hours
- Usage visible in the dashboard and exportable as CSV
Mobile proxies: Evomi per GB vs Nefo rented ports
This is the comparison most likely to be read wrong, because both providers use the word mobile. Evomi meters mobile proxies by the gigabyte from a shared mobile pool, which suits high-volume collection where you want carrier IPs but do not care which specific connection you are behind.
Nefo's mobile product is a port on a real carrier modem rented by duration — hours up to 30 days — rather than by data. One live rotating 4G/5G IP sits on that port; you hold it or change it on demand, with US state- and carrier-level targeting. That fits work where an IP needs to stay attached to one workflow rather than be drawn fresh from a pool each time. Neither shape is better than the other, and per-GB against per-day makes them close to impossible to compare on unit price, so compare them on whether you need one held IP or pooled bandwidth.
How to test Nefo alongside Evomi
There is no reason to switch in one move. Both providers authenticate with credentials against a host and port, so pointing a client at Nefo is a credential change, not a rewrite. The real work is in targeting syntax, which differs between vendors and has to be rebuilt rather than translated — particularly if your usernames are generated programmatically.
Because Nefo bandwidth does not expire, a test block that turns out not to suit you is not a wasted month; it stays in the account. That makes a parallel trial cheap enough that there is little argument for a hard cutover.
- Buy the smallest prepaid block and rebuild one job's targeting against Nefo credentials
- Run it alongside the same job on Evomi for several days against identical targets
- Compare block rate and response time on your own sites, not on published benchmarks
- Keep anything relying on the Scraper API on Evomi, and trial ISP workloads on a small Nefo order first
- Move the rest only if the measured numbers justify the change
When you should stay with Evomi
Stay with Evomi if any of these apply. Your procurement or security review needs a certificate on file: Evomi publishes ISO 27001 certification and EWDCI membership, and Nefo makes no equivalent certification claim, which settles it for a lot of regulated buyers. You use the Scraper API, which Nefo does not sell. You rely on the fraud-score, latency or connection-time filters. Or your volume is steady and predictable every month, in which case non-expiring bandwidth buys you nothing.
Nefo makes more sense when usage is irregular, when you want to start at 5GB rather than commit to a plan shape, when you need mobile ports on real carrier modems rather than metered mobile bandwidth, or when your targeting requirement is geography and ASN rather than measured IP quality. A fair number of teams end up running both: Evomi for the product lines Nefo does not have, Nefo for residential volume that would otherwise sit idle between projects, and sometimes for datacenter or static IP workloads where prepaid or per-address billing fits better.
Frequently asked questions
Yes for residential volume and mobile ports: prepaid bandwidth from 5 GB that does not expire, 227 countries, ASN targeting and sticky sessions up to about 24 hours. No if you need Evomi's ISO 27001 certificate, the Scraper API or fraud-score and latency filters.
The transport layer will. Both use a host, port and credentials (Nefo also accepts an IP allowlist) over HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5, so your client needs a credential change, not a rewrite. Targeting syntax differs and must be rebuilt. Allow an hour for a simple job, longer if usernames are built programmatically.
Nefo sells static residential ISP IPs: dedicated addresses in 24 countries, rented for 7 to 360 days from $1.76 for 7 days on the ISP proxies page. It has no managed scraping API. It also sells datacenter proxies, static IP proxies, IP Vault addresses and servers. Keep any Evomi spend on the Scraper API where it is, and check that your ISP countries are among Nefo's 24.
Nefo's flexible plans are prepaid and non-expiring, and credentials are free. Evomi supports pay-as-you-go and monthly subscriptions, so the answer on its side depends on your plan. Check your own Evomi account. Steady daily volume benefits little from non-expiring data.
Evomi meters mobile proxies per GB from a shared pool. Nefo rents a port on a real carrier modem by duration, from hours to 30 days, with one rotating 4G/5G IP you keep or change on demand and US state and carrier targeting. See mobile proxies.
No selection by fraud score or latency, no minimum-connection-time filter and no HTTP3/QUIC transport on residential, and no equivalent certification claim to Evomi's ISO 27001. If your setup depends on any of these, treat it as a hard blocker.