What Infatica offers: own supply and a full platform
Infatica, operating since around 2019 and registered in Singapore, is unusual among proxy vendors in that it also runs the supply side as a separate business. Its peer-to-business SDK is sold to app and extension developers, who embed it and are paid a share based on how many of their users opt in to sharing idle bandwidth. The proxy network is the downstream product of that SDK business rather than something bought wholesale from a broker.
That vertical integration is the reason Infatica leans so hard on compliance in its marketing. It holds ISO 27001, 27701, 20000-1 and 22301 certifications, publishes its consent and opt-out model in detail, and requires identity verification — government document plus selfie — before a purchase completes. If your procurement team asks who owns the IP supply chain and can produce an audit trail, Infatica has a genuinely good answer, and that is a real product feature, not a marketing line.
The catalogue has widened well beyond proxies. Alongside residential, IPv6 residential, static ISP, mobile, and shared and dedicated datacentre IPs, Infatica sells a Web Scraper API, a SERP scraper, an AI-search data API, a no-code scraping platform, and pre-collected datasets for sites like LinkedIn, Amazon and Indeed. Independent testing generally rates its response times and block rates well; its competitive position is quality of supply and breadth of tooling rather than raw pool count.
Infatica vs Nefo: four differences that matter
Comparing feature grids is not much use here — both providers do country, state, city and ASN targeting, both do HTTP and SOCKS5, both do per-request rotation. The differences that change how you work are structural, and there are about four of them.
Infatica is a platform you adopt; Nefo is a component you plug in. If you want scraping handled for you, or a dataset delivered rather than collected, Nefo does not offer a managed scraper or datasets; it mainly sells network access, with Marketplace APIs as a separate product rather than a full scraping platform.
- Commitment shape: Infatica is subscription-led, with plans that auto-renew when traffic runs out and no mid-plan top-up. Nefo has no renewal date at all — you buy a bandwidth block and top up when you choose.
- Session ceiling: Infatica's sticky sessions run in timed steps up to roughly an hour. Nefo holds a sticky IP from 1 minute to 24 hours per credential.
- Mobile billing: Infatica sells mobile IPs from a metered pool, priced per GB. Nefo rents a 4G/5G port on a real carrier modem by time — hours up to 30 days — with one live IP on it that you keep or change on demand.
- Entry size: Infatica's monthly residential tiers are aimed at teams with steady volume, and the trial is paid. Nefo's smallest plan is 5GB.
- Scope: Infatica also sells datacentre, static ISP and IPv6 residential proxies plus scraper APIs and datasets. Nefo also sells static residential ISP IPs (24 countries, rented for 7 to 360 days), datacenter proxies, fixed-address static IP proxies, IP Vault for keeping a residential or mobile IP, servers, and Marketplace APIs, but not IPv6 residential, managed scraping APIs or datasets.
Sticky session length and mobile proxy billing
The hour-long sticky ceiling is the difference engineers notice first. For distributed collection it is irrelevant — you want per-request rotation anyway. It starts to bite on long multi-step flows: an account that stays signed in across a working session, a checkout path with a slow verification step, a QA run against a regional storefront that takes several hours. On Infatica you handle that by rebuilding session state after rotation. On Nefo you set the sticky window to match the job, up to 24 hours, and the credential holds the IP.
The mobile products are not really the same category. Infatica's mobile proxies behave like its residential ones — a rotating pool you draw from, billed by the gigabyte. Nefo's are carrier-grade ports rented to you: one live 4G/5G IP per port, rotated when you ask for it, with US state and carrier targeting, rented per duration rather than per GB. If your work is bandwidth-light but needs one IP held steadily, time-based billing is usually cheaper and more predictable. If it is bandwidth-heavy and you do not care which mobile IP you get, per-GB is the better fit and Infatica's model wins.
How Nefo billing works: prepaid with no renewal
Nefo is a prepaid model with no subscription mechanics. You buy a bandwidth block starting at 5GB, generate as many proxy credentials as you like at no cost, and only traffic through those credentials draws down the balance. Flexible plans are non-expiring, so unused bandwidth stays in the account rather than resetting at a billing date. Per-GB rates fall as the block size goes up, which is the one place the two providers work the same way.
For teams with genuinely lumpy demand — a quarterly pricing study, a seasonal ad-verification push, a client project that ends — that removes the awkward part of a subscription: paying for a month you barely used, or hitting an auto-renewal you did not plan for. For steady, high, month-after-month consumption the calculus is different, and a negotiated subscription rate will often beat prepaid.
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, authenticated with username and password or an IP allowlist
- 227 countries, with state or region and city targeting in most of them
- ASN/ISP targeting paired with a country, for a specific cable, fibre or mobile carrier
- Rotating (new IP per request) or sticky (1 minute to 24 hours), set per credential
- Usage visible in the dashboard, exportable as CSV
- Credential generation is free; only traffic consumes bandwidth
How to test Nefo alongside Infatica
The sensible sequence is to run both. Buy the smallest Nefo block, point one job at it, and compare against the same job on Infatica for a week. Because there is no renewal date on the Nefo side, the test costs what it costs and nothing more; you are not committing to a month to find out.
Two integration details are worth checking before you start. First, authentication: Nefo supports username and password or an IP allowlist on every protocol, so if your stack currently authenticates to Infatica by IP whitelist, you can add the same IPs to the Nefo allowlist. Second, session syntax: Infatica pins a session by appending a session token to the endpoint, whereas Nefo's targeting and sticky duration are configured when the credential is generated. Practically, that means one credential per job profile instead of one endpoint with parameters — a small refactor in most codebases, and easier to audit afterwards.
Compare on the targets you actually care about, not on aggregate benchmarks. Success rates on residential networks vary far more by destination site and country than they do by provider average, and a week of real traffic against your own targets will tell you more than any published test.
When you should stay with Infatica
There is a clear set of requirements where switching would be a downgrade, and it is worth being direct about them. Infatica's breadth in managed scraping and datasets and its compliance posture are the things Nefo does not attempt to match.
Conversely, Nefo suits smaller or intermittent buyers, teams that want to start at 5GB rather than commit monthly, work that needs sticky sessions measured in hours, and anyone who wants a mobile IP held on a time-rented port rather than metered from a pool. Plenty of teams end up using both: Infatica for the scraping platform, Nefo for residential bursts, mobile ports, static residential ISP IPs, datacenter traffic, fixed-address static IPs, or IP Vault when you want to keep a residential or mobile IP.
- You need IPv6 residential IPs, or static ISP in a country outside Nefo's 24 — Nefo sells static residential ISP IPs, datacenter proxies and fixed-address alternatives, but not IPv6 residential
- You want scraping done for you: Web Scraper API, SERP API or delivered datasets
- Your procurement or security review requires ISO 27001/27701 certification from the vendor itself
- You need ZIP-code-level targeting, which Infatica supports and Nefo does not
- You consume high, predictable residential volume every month and can negotiate against it
Frequently asked questions
For the residential and mobile proxy portion, yes. Nefo is prepaid from 5 GB with no auto-renewal, holds sticky sessions up to 24 hours and rents 4G/5G ports by time. Infatica remains stronger for scraper APIs, datasets, ZIP-code targeting and vendor-held ISO certifications.
Mostly. Host, port and protocol swap cleanly for HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5. Nefo accepts username and password or an IP allowlist, so IP-whitelist setups can carry over, and targeting and sticky duration are set when you generate the credential rather than passed in the endpoint string.
On Nefo's flexible plans it is non-expiring and stays until used, with no auto-renewal. Infatica's monthly plans renew automatically when traffic runs out and unused allowance does not carry over, though its pay-as-you-go option does roll over. Check your Infatica renewal date before moving traffic.
Yes. Sticky sessions are set per credential from 1 minute up to 24 hours, which covers long logins, multi-step checkouts and extended QA runs. Infatica's sticky sessions run in timed steps up to roughly 60 minutes, which suits most scraping but not a full working day.
No. Infatica meters mobile traffic per GB from a rotating pool. Nefo rents a 4G/5G port on a real carrier modem, from hours to 30 days, with one live IP you keep or change on demand and US state and carrier targeting. See mobile proxies.
No. Nefo sells network access: residential bandwidth, mobile ports, datacenter proxies, static IPs and IP Vault, plus servers and Marketplace APIs. There is no managed scraping API, SERP product or dataset. The two providers can run side by side if you need both.