Ping Proxies is now Byteful
If you arrived here because pingproxies.com redirected somewhere unfamiliar, that is expected. The company rebranded to Byteful in 2026 and the old domain now issues a permanent redirect to byteful.com. This was a rename, not a sale, a shutdown or an acquisition by an unrelated operator.
The practical impact on existing customers is close to zero, and the company has been clear about that: API keys continue to work, traffic is uninterrupted, and no migration is required. They have said the old domain will keep running until an eventual sunset, with notice given beforehand. The stated reason for the change is scope — the business is building data, scraping and agentic tooling beyond proxies, and a name ending in 'Proxies' had become too narrow for that roadmap.
The underlying entity is unchanged: a UK company registered in England and operating from Manchester, trading since 2020. So if the rebrand alone is what prompted you to look for an alternative, nothing has broken and you do not need to move. The reasons to evaluate another provider are the ordinary commercial ones, and they are covered below.
What Ping Proxies (Byteful) does well
Breadth is the honest headline. Byteful covers four product lines under one dashboard and one invoice: datacenter, static residential (ISP), rotating residential and mobile. Relatively few providers at their scale cover all four credibly. If your workload genuinely mixes types — datacenter for bulk fetches, ISP for long-lived logged-in accounts, residential for the hard targets — consolidating on one vendor is a real operational saving that a narrower provider cannot match.
The static IP side is the strongest part of the catalogue. ISP proxies are sold per IP address with unlimited bandwidth through each one, sourced across major consumer carrier networks and deliberately spread over mixed subnets so an entire block is less likely to be flagged as a unit. Assigned IPs stay with you indefinitely rather than being cycled, which matters a great deal if you are maintaining accounts that need a stable address for months.
It is also a platform built for teams that will integrate it rather than paste credentials into an off-the-shelf tool: a documented API, unlimited concurrent sessions, quarterly and annual billing discounts, and bespoke quotes once volume gets large. That combination is a reasonable fit for an established engineering team with predictable, budgeted throughput.
- You specifically need classic static residential (ISP) lines rather than a fixed datacenter IP or a kept residential/mobile IP
- You want one vendor and one invoice across several proxy types
- You maintain long-lived accounts that need the same IP for months at a time
- Your volume is predictable enough that an annual or committed rate beats pay-as-you-go
- You are interested in their wider scraping and agentic tooling roadmap
Where Nefo and Byteful differ
Nefo sells more than two things. Alongside residential bandwidth and 4G/5G mobile ports on real carrier modems, it also sells datacenter proxies, static datacenter IPs, static residential ISP IPs, and IP Vault for keeping a residential IP. It also sells static residential ISP IPs in 24 countries, so the remaining question is whether its country list, rental terms and per-IP fair-use limits match what you run on Byteful today.
It is also worth being straight about the overlap, because a comparison page that manufactures a gap is not useful to you. On rotating residential specifically, the two are closer than most vendor pages would admit: both bill per gigabyte, both hold residential balance that does not expire, both offer sticky sessions up to around 24 hours, both do ASN and carrier targeting, and both speak HTTP and SOCKS5. The rotating-residential capability sets are broadly comparable.
The structural difference is commitment shape rather than features. Nefo is a metered utility: prepaid credit starting at 5GB, no subscription cycle, no per-IP monthly line item, and credentials that cost nothing to create. Byteful's static products are per-IP subscriptions billed monthly, quarterly or annually. Which model is better depends entirely on how steady your volume is.
How Nefo residential proxies work
You buy bandwidth up front, generate as many credentials as you like at no cost, and consume the balance only as traffic actually passes through. Plans start at 5GB, the per-gigabyte rate improves as volume increases, and flexible plans are non-expiring — unused bandwidth stays on the account until it is used rather than resetting at the end of a billing month. You top up when you need to, not on a schedule.
Targeting and session control are set per credential rather than per plan, so a single balance can serve several different jobs with different requirements without any change to your billing arrangement.
- Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, all with username and password authentication
- Geography: 227 countries and territories, with US targeting down to state and city level
- Regional depth: region and city targeting in selected countries including the UK, Canada, Germany and France
- ASN / ISP targeting: pin traffic to a specific network operator, paired with a country
- Rotating sessions: a new IP on each request, for distributed collection
- Sticky sessions: hold one IP from 1 minute up to 24 hours, configurable per credential
- Usage visible in the dashboard with CSV export
Mobile proxies: ports by time vs per GB
Both providers sell mobile proxies, and this is where the two models diverge most sharply. Nefo's mobile product is a port on a real carrier modem rented for a duration — hours up to 30 days — rather than a metered pool billed by transfer. Each port carries one live rotating 4G/5G IP that you can keep or change on demand, with US state and carrier targeting, and tiers that differ by line speed and country coverage rather than by data cap.
The reasoning is that for most mobile work the binding constraint is exclusivity of the port and control over when the IP changes, not the number of gigabytes moved. If you are running a small number of long-lived mobile sessions, paying for the port and ignoring transfer entirely is usually the simpler mental model. If your mobile usage is bursty and spread across many short sessions, a metered pool may cost you less.
How to switch from Ping Proxies, and when to stay
Migration is a credentials change, not a code change. Both services are ordinary username-and-password proxies over HTTP or SOCKS5, so nothing in your scraper or browser automation needs rewriting. Generate a Nefo credential with the country, state or ASN and sticky duration that matches what you currently request from Byteful, point your existing configuration at the new endpoint, and leave your Byteful credential active while you compare.
Test on your own targets rather than on published specifications. Pool composition varies by site and by country, and a provider that performs well on one class of target can perform poorly on another. 5GB is enough to measure block rate, latency and whether sticky sessions survive your login flow end to end — which is the only comparison that actually predicts your results.
There is a straightforward case for staying put. If you rely on classic static ISP lines specifically, if consolidated billing across proxy types has real value to your finance process, or if you already hold a committed rate at volume, moving the residential slice of your traffic to save on per-gigabyte cost may not be worth the operational fragmentation. Run both and split by workload if the numbers justify it.
- Start with 5GB — enough to benchmark without committing
- Match your existing targeting: country, state or city, plus ASN where you use it
- Recreate sticky duration to match the session length your flow needs
- Run both providers in parallel on identical targets and compare block rates
- Keep your Byteful account for anything you do not want to move, such as long-held static ISP lines
Frequently asked questions
No. Ping Proxies rebranded to Byteful in 2026 and pingproxies.com redirects to byteful.com. The company has stated that API keys keep working, traffic is uninterrupted and no migration is needed, with notice before any eventual sunset of the old domain. The rebrand alone is not a reason to change provider.
On rotating residential the two are close: both bill per gigabyte, keep balances that do not expire, and offer sticky sessions of about 24 hours. The difference is commitment shape. Nefo starts at 5 GB with no subscription cycle, while Byteful's datacenter and ISP products are per-IP subscriptions billed monthly, quarterly or annually.
Yes to both. Static residential ISP IPs cover 24 countries from $1.76 for 7 days, and datacenter proxies start at $0.66 for 1 GB, with static datacenter IPs from $1.17 for 7 days. Compare country coverage and rental terms with Byteful before moving long-lived accounts.
In most cases. Nefo covers 227 countries and territories, 22,417 cities and 14,252 ISPs/ASNs, and sessions either rotate on every request or stay sticky from 1 minute to 24 hours. Test your exact ASN or city combination on a small balance first, since pool composition differs between providers.
They are billed differently. Nefo rents a dedicated 4G/5G port by duration, from $30 per 30 days on the Economy plan, with unlimited IP changes and no bandwidth meter; it also sells metered mobile proxies from $3.90/GB. Byteful sells mobile within its wider catalogue. Ports suit a few long-lived sessions.
Yes. Credentials use standard HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5 with username and password, so you can run both in parallel with only an endpoint change. Buy 5 GB, mirror your targeting and sticky settings, and compare block rate and latency. Credentials are free; only traffic costs.