What IPBurger sells: dedicated and static ISP IPs
IPBurger grew out of consumer-facing dedicated IP and VPN territory, and the catalogue still reflects that origin. Alongside a rotating residential pool and rotating mobile IPs, they sell private dedicated IPs, "fresh" never-used IPs, and static residential (ISP) proxies selectable by country and ASN. The unifying idea across most of the range is that you rent a specific, persistent address rather than a slice of a shared pool, and they were early enough in static residential that much of the market's vocabulary for it came from that corner.
That shapes who they serve well. If you run long-lived accounts on platforms that notice when an address changes — social profiles, marketplace seller accounts, ad accounts — a rotating pool is the wrong tool, and IPBurger's answer is direct: buy the address, keep it, keep the login attached to it. They ship a browser extension for binding sessions to IPs, and reviewers consistently single out IP cleanliness and support responsiveness rather than headline price.
Structurally, everything is a recurring subscription. Rotating residential and mobile plans come as monthly tiers with an included bandwidth allowance; static IPs bill monthly, quarterly or annually and auto-renew until cancelled. Money-back windows are short, so evaluation is time-boxed rather than open-ended. None of that is unusual for the category — it is simply a different commercial shape from prepaid metering, and it is the shape most people are actually comparing when they search for an alternative.
- Static residential (ISP) IPs chosen by country and ASN — a signature product, not an afterthought
- Private and fresh dedicated IPs for account creation and long-term account holding
- Rotating residential and rotating mobile pools alongside the dedicated range
- A browser extension and account-management tooling aimed at multi-account operators
- A consumer VPN sold from the same brand
How Nefo differs from IPBurger, and what it does not sell
The honest starting point: Nefo does sell static residential ISP proxies — dedicated to you for 7 to 360 days in 24 countries, from $1.76 for 7 days on its ISP proxies page — but it does not market never-used fresh IPs or a VPN. If your workload depends on one residential address staying yours for weeks, a static residential ISP IP is the direct equivalent; IP Vault or a static IP proxy fit when you need a kept residential/mobile IP or a fixed datacenter address. The nearest mobile-network equivalent is still a 4G/5G mobile port, which is a different network type with different behaviour.
What Nefo does is meter the rotating residential side differently. Bandwidth is bought as a prepaid balance starting at 5GB, and flexible plans are non-expiring — there is no renewal date, no monthly allowance that resets, and no cancellation step if you stop using it for a quarter. Generating credentials is free; only traffic through them draws down the balance, so a team can create separate credentials per project, per country or per client without any per-seat or per-IP arithmetic.
On raw capability the two overlap more than they diverge. Both cover 227 countries, both support HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 with username/password authentication (Nefo also supports an IP allowlist), and both do city and ASN/ISP targeting. The meaningful technical gap is session length: Nefo's sticky sessions are configurable from one minute up to 24 hours per credential, which is longer than what IPBurger documents for its rotating residential sessions. For multi-step flows that outlive a short window but do not need a permanent address, that window matters more than pool marketing does.
How Nefo credentials are configured
Credentials are generated in the dashboard rather than requested from an account manager. You pick the protocol, the geography and the session behaviour, and get a host, port, username and password back immediately. Nothing is provisioned per IP, so there is no waiting on stock in a given country and no per-IP line item to reconcile later.
Targeting resolves to country across the network, down to state or region and city in most countries. ASN/ISP targeting pairs a specific network operator with a country when a site's behaviour differs by carrier or cable provider. Session mode is set per credential: rotating gives a new IP on each request for distributed collection, sticky holds one IP for a configured duration for logins, carts and anything with steps.
- Prepaid balance from 5GB, non-expiring on flexible plans, topped up on demand
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with username/password or IP allowlist authentication
- 227 countries; state or region and city targeting in most of them
- ASN/ISP targeting paired with a country
- Rotating (new IP per request) or sticky (1 minute to 24 hours), set per credential
- Unlimited free credential generation; usage tracked per credential in the dashboard
Mobile proxies: IPBurger pool vs Nefo rented ports
Both providers sell mobile, but the unit is different, and this trips people up during migration. IPBurger's mobile offering is a rotating 4G/5G pool billed as monthly bandwidth, in the same shape as its residential plans. Nefo's mobile is a port on a real carrier modem rented by duration, from hours up to 30 days: one live 4G/5G IP sits on that port, you keep it or change it on demand, and you are not paying per gigabyte.
The practical consequence is which cost model fits your traffic. A time-rented port suits sustained, session-heavy work on one identity — app testing, account warm-up, anything where you want carrier IP behaviour without metering every request. A rotating mobile pool suits bursty work spread across many addresses. If you currently buy IPBurger mobile bandwidth mainly to hold a small number of long sessions, a duration-rented port is usually the closer analogue than Nefo's residential product is.
How to migrate from IPBurger to Nefo
Nothing about switching requires a decision up front, because there is no subscription to cancel on either side of the trial. Buy a small prepaid balance, generate credentials for the geographies you currently use, and run them against the same targets in parallel with your existing IPBurger setup. Compare block rates and latency on your own workload rather than on published success-rate figures, which every provider measures against its own target list.
Integration changes are small but not zero. Both providers encode targeting in the username string, so the credential format itself is familiar, but the parameter syntax and the endpoint hostname differ — anything that builds usernames programmatically needs its formatter updated, not rewritten. Protocol handling, proxy libraries and browser configuration stay as they are. The part worth budgeting time for is the accounts that are currently pinned to a dedicated IPBurger IP: those should not be moved onto rotating residential blindly, and are often the clearest reason to keep both providers or to map those accounts onto a Nefo static residential ISP IP, static IP, IP Vault address or time-rented mobile port instead of the shared pool.
- Start with a small prepaid balance rather than a plan change
- Recreate your existing geo targets as separate credentials, one per workload
- Run both providers side by side on identical targets before shifting volume
- Update username-parameter formatting and the endpoint host; leave protocol code alone
- Move dedicated-IP-pinned accounts only to an equivalent fixed-IP product — not straight onto a rotating pool
Which fits you: IPBurger dedicated IPs or Nefo metered proxies
Stay with IPBurger if the address is the product. Long-held social, marketplace or advertising accounts, workflows that need a never-used IP at signup, ASN-specific static residential for account infrastructure, or a single vendor covering both proxies and a VPN — those are the cases where a per-IP subscription is the right instrument. Nefo's static residential ISP IPs cover the per-account address, but it does not match the fresh-IP or VPN parts of the brief.
Nefo fits better when consumption is uneven and the identity is disposable. Price monitoring, SERP and ad verification checks, localised content research, and scraping that runs hard for two weeks and then idles are all poorly served by a monthly allowance that expires. Prepaid non-expiring bandwidth from 5GB means a quiet month costs nothing, an unexpectedly heavy one is a top-up rather than a tier upgrade, and long sticky sessions cover the multi-step flows that sit between "new IP every request" and "same IP forever".
Plenty of teams end up running both. Keeping a handful of static ISP IPs where identity persistence is non-negotiable, while metering the exploratory and bursty traffic separately, is usually cheaper and less brittle than forcing all of it through one billing model.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, in part. Nefo sells static residential ISP IPs: dedicated to you for 7 to 360 days in 24 countries, from $1.76 for 7 days and $3.51 for 30 days (see ISP proxies). It also sells static IP proxies and IP Vault addresses. It does not market never-used fresh IPs or a VPN, so check those requirements and your country before moving address-pinned accounts.
No. Nefo has no subscription to start or cancel. Buy a prepaid balance, from 5 GB, and test in parallel for a week or two on identical targets. Flexible plans do not expire, so an unfinished trial is not wasted.
On flexible plans it stays in the account until consumed, with no monthly reset or renewal date. That is the main difference from a subscription tier with a monthly allowance, and it matters most for seasonal or project-based traffic. See pricing.
Sticky sessions run from 1 minute up to 24 hours per credential, longer than the rotating-session window IPBurger documents for residential. Beyond 24 hours, the persistent options are a static IP proxy, an IP Vault address or a time-rented mobile port.
Minor ones. Both providers accept username and password with targeting in the username and support HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5. The endpoint hostname and parameter syntax differ, so code that builds credentials programmatically needs its formatter updated. Proxy libraries and browser setup stay the same.
Not across the board. A prepaid non-expiring balance costs less for uneven or low-volume traffic, because idle months cost nothing. A monthly IPBurger plan can win if you reliably use the full allowance. Compare fixed-IP needs against Nefo's static products, priced per address, not rotating bandwidth.