What IPFoxy sells
IPFoxy is a broad-catalogue proxy vendor. Under one login it sells rotating residential traffic, mobile proxies, dedicated residential (static ISP) IPs, datacenter IPv4 and datacenter IPv6 — priced per gigabyte for the rotating lines and per IP per month for the static ones. It markets itself as an enterprise-grade international provider with round-the-clock support and an uptime commitment, and it supports traffic distribution to sub-accounts, which matters if you run a team or an agency.
Two things make its character distinctive. First, its location marketing leans noticeably towards Asia-Pacific — Singapore, Japan, Thailand, India, South Korea and Vietnam sit alongside the usual US and UK entries, which is less common among Western-headquartered vendors. Second, it is positioned tightly around the anti-detect browser ecosystem, with named integrations for tools such as AdsPower, BitBrowser and DuoPlus, and its solution pages are organised by platform rather than by technique: TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Amazon, Etsy, eBay, Shopee. There is also a line of messaging about access to AI services.
Read together, that says the centre of gravity is multi-account operators, marketplace sellers and social media teams — people who need a stable identity per account across many platforms — rather than crawler teams pushing large volumes of rotating traffic at a handful of targets. That is a genuine strength, and it is the reason a lot of IPFoxy customers should not switch.
- Genuinely well suited: one static IP held per account, per platform, long term
- Genuinely well suited: buyers who want datacenter IPv4 or IPv6 from the same vendor
- Genuinely well suited: Asia-Pacific marketplace and social workflows
- Genuinely well suited: anti-detect browser stacks with a named integration
- Genuinely well suited: teams that need sub-account traffic allocation
Where Nefo is narrower than IPFoxy
Nefo is no longer just residential bandwidth and 4G/5G mobile ports on real carrier modems: it also sells datacenter proxies, static IP proxies, IP Vault long-term residential/mobile IPs, servers and Marketplace APIs. It also sells static residential ISP IPs: dedicated addresses in 24 countries, rented for 7 to 360 days from $1.76 for 7 days, with a 100 GB per IP per 30 days fair-use limit. If your setup depends on holding the same ISP-assigned residential IP on the same account for weeks or months, that is the product to compare; sticky-session configuration is not a substitute for it. IP Vault and fixed datacenter static IPs are further options.
A large share of IPFoxy's catalogue exists to serve per-account static identity on residential ISP lines, and Nefo now covers that need too. The remaining reasons to stay put are country coverage outside Nefo's 24 ISP countries, a named antidetect integration, or per-IP monthly pricing that suits many accounts with little traffic.
Where the two overlap is rotating residential traffic and mobile. That is the part of your spend worth comparing, and in practice it is often the part that is hardest to budget, because it scales with how much you collect rather than with how many accounts you hold.
IPFoxy subscriptions vs Nefo prepaid billing
IPFoxy's static products renew automatically each month per IP, with data included. Its rotating residential and mobile lines are metered by the gigabyte. That mix is convenient when your usage is steady, and awkward when it is not — you are carrying a recurring floor whether or not you collected anything that month.
Nefo has no subscription. You buy prepaid bandwidth starting at 5GB, and flexible plans are non-expiring: the balance stays in the account until traffic consumes it. Generating credentials is free, so you can create as many username/password pairs as your workflows need — separate credentials per project, per country, per session type — without paying for any of them. Only traffic through them draws down the balance.
Whichever way you go, check the validity window attached to any traffic package before you buy it. Across the whole industry this is where per-GB purchases most often surprise people: bandwidth bought for a seasonal project quietly expiring before the next season. Nefo's flexible plans are non-expiring; some promotional or subscription plans are monthly, and the expiry type is always shown on the plan itself.
- Spiky or seasonal collection: prepaid non-expiring bandwidth avoids paying through idle months
- Steady, predictable monthly volume: a subscription is often the cheaper shape
- Many accounts, little traffic: per-IP monthly pricing usually wins
- Little accounts, heavy traffic: per-GB with no floor usually wins
Mobile proxies: IPFoxy metered traffic vs Nefo rented ports
IPFoxy sells mobile as metered residential traffic — you pay by the gigabyte and draw IPs from a carrier pool. Nefo sells mobile as a port on a real carrier modem: one live 4G/5G IP on that port for the rental period, which you can keep or change on demand, with US state- and carrier-level targeting. It is rented by duration, from hours up to 30 days, not by gigabyte.
Neither model is better in the abstract. Metered mobile suits light, bursty checks spread across many carriers and locations, where you want a mobile IP occasionally and do not want to rent one continuously. A rented port suits the opposite case: one account or one device that needs to sit behind a single mobile IP for a sustained period, with rotation on your schedule rather than the pool's, and without watching a gigabyte counter while it runs.
If you currently spend meaningfully on IPFoxy mobile traffic, this is the comparison worth doing with real numbers. Work out what you actually consumed last month in gigabytes, then price the equivalent as a port rental for the same period. The answer flips depending on how continuous your usage is.
Targeting and session length: what to test
The published specifications are closer than the marketing suggests. Both vendors advertise coverage across roughly two hundred countries, both support HTTP and SOCKS5 with username/password authentication (Nefo also supports an IP allowlist), and both offer city-level targeting and sticky rotation. Specifically, Nefo covers 227 countries, targets state or region and city in most countries, allows ASN/ISP targeting paired with a country, and also sells datacenter proxies plus fixed static IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for buyers who need those product shapes. Sessions are rotating per request, or sticky from one minute up to 24 hours, configured per credential.
The two things worth testing side by side are the ASN/ISP pairing and the sticky ceiling, because those are where implementations diverge most in practice. An advertised sticky session that silently drops at ten minutes behaves very differently from one that holds for hours in a multi-step checkout flow.
What is not worth comparing is pool size. Both providers publish large IP counts, neither figure is externally verifiable, and neither predicts what matters to you: the success rate and the bytes-per-successful-request on your actual targets in your actual geographies. A pool that is enormous in aggregate can be thin in the one city you care about. Measure it rather than reading it.
How to migrate from IPFoxy to Nefo safely
Because both providers authenticate with username and password over HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5, moving a working scraper is usually a matter of changing the host, port and credential string. The parts that genuinely need re-testing are session handling — sticky session identifiers are expressed differently by every vendor — and any logic that assumes a particular rotation cadence. Anything doing a multi-step flow, a login or a checkout path should be re-verified rather than assumed.
The low-risk approach is to buy the smallest Nefo plan, generate a credential per target geography, and route a modest slice of live traffic — ten per cent is plenty — for a week against the same targets you already hit. Then compare success rate and bandwidth consumed per successful request, not headline per-GB price. A cheaper gigabyte that needs three retries is not cheaper.
You do not have to choose one vendor. Keeping IPFoxy for a specific anti-detect browser integration or ISP countries Nefo does not cover while running rotating residential, mobile ports on real carrier modems, datacenter proxies or static IPs through Nefo is a perfectly sensible end state. The two catalogues overlap more than this page once suggested, and the remaining differences are now mostly about exact product shape rather than basic availability.
- Move to Nefo if: rotating residential is your main cost and usage is uneven
- Move to Nefo if: you want bandwidth that does not expire between projects
- Move to Nefo if: you need one mobile IP held on a rented port rather than metered
- Move to Nefo if: you need ASN/ISP-level targeting or state and city precision
- Stay with IPFoxy if: your accounts depend on long-lived static residential ISP IPs in a country outside Nefo's 24
- Stay with IPFoxy if: your volume is steady and a monthly subscription prices better
- Stay with IPFoxy if: you rely on a specific anti-detect browser integration
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Nefo sells static residential ISP IPs (dedicated, 24 countries, rented for 7 to 360 days from $1.76 for 7 days; see ISP proxies), datacenter proxies, static IP proxies including IPv6, and IP Vault for keeping a residential or mobile IP longer. Confirm your country is among the 24 and that the 100 GB per IP per 30 days fair-use limit suits your accounts.
In most cases yes. Both support credentials over HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5 (Nefo also accepts an IP allowlist), so you usually change the host, port and credentials. Sticky sessions are the exception: each provider expresses session identifiers and durations differently, so re-test any flow that must keep the same IP.
Flexible plans are non-expiring. The balance stays until traffic uses it, with nothing to renew or cancel. Some promotional or subscription plans are monthly, and the expiry type is shown on the plan before you buy. See pricing.
Sticky sessions run from 1 minute up to about 24 hours per credential. For longer holds there are mobile ports that keep one IP for the rental period, IP Vault for a kept residential or mobile IP, and static IP proxies that never rotate.
We do not claim that. Neither side's published IP count can be verified from outside, and aggregate size says little about your target city. Run a week of real traffic and measure success rate and bandwidth per successful request. The smallest plan is 5 GB ($4.50).
5 GB for $4.50, prepaid and non-expiring on flexible plans. Credentials are free, so you can create separate ones per country, project and session type and pay only for traffic. That makes a side-by-side trial against IPFoxy cheap. See residential proxies.