What Froxy is, and what it does well
Froxy is a self-serve proxy vendor aimed at working teams rather than at enterprise procurement. It sells residential, mobile and datacenter proxies alongside a set of speed-optimised tiers, and it has extended sideways into finished scraping products: a SERP scraper covering the major search engines and video platforms, and an e-commerce scraper that builds parsing rules in the interface rather than in code.
That breadth is the point of the product. If you are running mixed workloads — some residential scraping, some cheap datacenter volume, a recurring search-results job — Froxy lets you buy all of it under one login and one balance. The dashboard is generally well reviewed, the geo filters are granular down to city and ISP, and the company supports both credential and IP-whitelist authentication, which matters if your tooling cannot pass a username and password.
The recurring criticisms are the ordinary ones for a mid-market pool: speed varies between locations and times of day, and some users report sessions on hard targets dropping sooner than they expected. Neither is unusual, and neither is a reason on its own to move.
Froxy subscription vs prepaid bandwidth
Froxy is organised around a subscription month. You pick a tier, the traffic sits inside a billing cycle, and the well-liked rollover feature carries anything unused into the next period — provided you renew before the cycle expires. That condition is the part people trip over. Let a plan lapse, or reactivate it after the fact, and the accumulated balance does not come with you. It is a rational design; it just means your bandwidth is only as durable as your renewal discipline.
Nefo does not have a cycle. You buy a prepaid amount, starting at 5GB, and the bandwidth stays in the account until it is consumed. There is nothing to renew and nothing to time correctly. Generating credentials is free, so you can create as many as your workflow needs and only pay for the traffic that actually passes through them.
Which model is better depends entirely on how even your consumption is. Steady monthly usage suits a subscription and usually prices better at volume. Lumpy usage — a project in March, nothing in April, a large run in May — is where cycle-based billing quietly costs money.
- Froxy: monthly plan, unused traffic rolls forward if you renew on time
- Froxy: a short paid trial rather than a free one
- Nefo: prepaid from 5GB, no billing cycle, bandwidth does not expire
- Nefo: credential generation is free; only traffic is metered
- Even, predictable usage favours a subscription; intermittent usage favours prepaid
Sticky session length: Froxy rotation timer vs 24-hour window
Froxy's residential sessions are governed by a configurable rotation interval measured in seconds, with a documented ceiling of roughly an hour. For most scraping that is more than sufficient, and being able to dial the interval precisely is genuinely useful when you are tuning against a rate limiter.
Nefo approaches the same problem from the other end: rotating sessions give a new IP per request, and sticky sessions hold one IP from one minute up to around 24 hours, set per credential. The long end of that range is what matters if you are maintaining authenticated sessions, working through multi-step checkout flows, or running anything where an IP change mid-journey invalidates the work.
Everything else is close to parity. Both support HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. Both target by country, and both go below country level — Nefo down to state or region and city in most countries, plus ASN or ISP targeting paired with a country. If your targeting requirements are met by Froxy today, they will almost certainly be met here.
Mobile proxies: Froxy per GB vs Nefo rented ports
Both companies sell 4G/5G mobile, but the unit of purchase differs, and this is worth checking before you assume equivalence. Froxy's mobile is a rotating pool metered by gigabyte, in the same shape as its residential product.
Nefo's mobile is a port on a real carrier modem rented by duration — hours up to thirty days — rather than by traffic. One live rotating 4G/5G IP belongs to that port; you hold it or change it on demand, with US state- and carrier-level targeting. There is no per-gigabyte meter to watch.
The practical consequence: pooled per-GB mobile is cheaper for short bursts of light traffic, while a rented port is better when you need a stable carrier IP for a sustained period or when bandwidth consumption is heavy enough that per-GB metering becomes the dominant cost.
How to move from Froxy to Nefo
Migration is mostly a string change. Froxy encodes geo-targeting into the credential itself, using a delimited syntax in the password field against a single gateway host. Nefo generates a credential per configuration in the dashboard instead, so the targeting decision moves from your code into the panel and the resulting endpoint is a plain host, port, username and password.
That means the code path — proxy URL, auth, protocol — is unchanged. What you rewrite is wherever you were assembling those semicolon-delimited target strings dynamically. If you were switching countries programmatically per request, you generate the set of credentials you need up front and select between them.
One thing to plan for: Nefo authenticates by username and password or by IP allowlist. If any part of your stack currently relies on Froxy's IP-whitelist option because it cannot send credentials, add its IPs to the Nefo allowlist and test it before you migrate rather than after.
- Export the country, region, city and ISP combinations you currently use
- Generate one Nefo credential per combination — this costs nothing
- Set the session type per credential: rotating, or sticky with a chosen hold time
- Replace the encoded target string in your config with the generated credential
- Confirm every client can authenticate with username and password, or add its IP to the allowlist
- Start on a small prepaid amount and compare success rates on your own targets
When you should stay with Froxy
There are clear cases where switching would be a downgrade, and it is worth being direct about them. Froxy is the broader product, and breadth is a real feature when it removes vendors from your stack.
Nefo is the better fit in the opposite case: prepaid usage, uneven volumes, small starting commitments, and long sticky sessions. It also covers datacenter proxies, static IPs and longer-held IP options, and static residential ISP IPs, but it does not pretend to replace Froxy's scraper APIs.
- Stay with Froxy if you rely on scraper APIs that Nefo does not offer
- Stay if you use the SERP or e-commerce scraper APIs; a raw proxy pool does not replace a finished scraping product
- Stay if your consumption is steady, high and easily contained inside a monthly plan
- Consider Nefo if bandwidth expiry or renewal timing has cost you money
- Consider Nefo if you need sticky IPs held far longer than an hour
- Consider Nefo if you want to test with 5GB before committing to anything
Frequently asked questions
It depends on your usage. Froxy prices a monthly plan, while Nefo prices prepaid bandwidth from $0.90/GB on 5 GB to $0.53/GB at 10 TB. If you use most of a plan every month, a subscription can price well. If you leave traffic unused or lose rollover after a lapsed renewal, prepaid usually costs less. See pricing.
No. Flexible Nefo plans are non-expiring: bandwidth stays in the account until used, with nothing to renew. Some promotional or subscription plans may be monthly, and the expiry type is shown on the plan before you buy, so check it at checkout.
Yes. Each Nefo credential can authenticate by username and password or by IP allowlist, over HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5. If a tool in your stack cannot send credentials and depends on Froxy's IP-whitelist option, add its egress IP to the Nefo allowlist and test it before you migrate.
Not directly. Those are finished scraping products that return structured results, and Nefo sells the proxy layer underneath. If you run your own scraping code and use Froxy mainly as an IP source, the swap is straightforward. Otherwise you would build or buy the parsing layer separately.
Closely. Froxy targets country, region, city and ISP. Nefo targets 227 countries, state or region and city in most countries, and ASN or ISP within a country. The difference is where targeting lives: Froxy encodes it in the credential string, Nefo fixes it when you generate the credential.
Froxy uses a configurable rotation interval in seconds, documented up to roughly an hour. Nefo sticky sessions hold one IP from 1 minute up to around 24 hours per credential, and rotating credentials change IP on every request. The longer ceiling suits logged-in sessions and multi-step flows.