What Swiftproxy sells: rotating, static ISP and unlimited
Swiftproxy, operated by Mescent Network Inc., Limited in Hong Kong, is a residential proxy specialist rather than a general proxy shop. Its published product line is essentially three ways of buying access to the same residential estate: rotating residential billed by the gigabyte, static residential (ISP) addresses billed per IP per month with unlimited traffic on them, and an unlimited residential tier metered on bandwidth rather than volume, sold on quote. Datacentre proxies, mobile 4G/5G ports and a managed scraping or unblocking API are not products it lists.
The plumbing is conventional and does the job. HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 are both supported, credentials can be created as username and password pairs or pulled as a generated proxy list via API with IP whitelisting, rotating and sticky modes are both available, geo-targeting spans a wide country list with city-level targeting advertised, and residential traffic is described as non-expiring. A free trial exists, so the pool can be tested before money moves.
Their static residential range is the genuinely distinctive part. It is sold per address rather than per gigabyte, it names specific consumer carriers as sources, and it deliberately covers a much narrower country list than the rotating pool. If your work depends on holding one ISP address for weeks at a time, that is a considered product and not an afterthought.
- Rotating residential — pay-as-you-go by the gigabyte, non-expiring traffic
- Static residential (ISP) — per address per month, unlimited traffic, narrower country coverage
- Unlimited residential — bandwidth-metered, unlimited concurrency, quote-based
- HTTP(S) and SOCKS5; user/password credentials or API-generated list with IP whitelisting
Where Nefo differs from Swiftproxy
The overlap between the two is large, and it is worth saying so plainly. Both sell rotating residential over HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, both offer rotating and sticky modes, both cover a comparable spread of countries, and both describe residential traffic as non-expiring. "Non-expiring bandwidth" is therefore not a reason to switch — Swiftproxy already does that.
The real differences are narrower than a comparison table would suggest, and they are mostly about what is published in the specification and what sits alongside residential in the catalogue.
- Mobile: Nefo sells 4G/5G ports on real carrier modems with one live carrier IP per port, changeable on demand, rented per duration from hours up to 30 days. Swiftproxy lists no mobile product.
- ASN/ISP targeting: Nefo lets you pin a rotating residential credential to a named network operator inside a chosen country. Swiftproxy advertises country and city targeting; ASN selection is not part of its published rotating spec.
- Session ceiling: Nefo states sticky sessions from 1 minute up to 24 hours, configurable per credential. Swiftproxy offers sticky mode without publishing a maximum hold time.
- US granularity: Nefo targets US state and city, with region and city level in selected other countries such as the UK, Canada, Germany and France.
- Entry size: Nefo's smallest plan is 5GB ($4.50), so the first purchase can be small enough to be a genuine test rather than a commitment.
How buying and running Nefo proxies works
Nefo is prepaid. You buy a bandwidth balance — 5GB ($0.90/GB) at the low end, larger volumes at a lower per-gigabyte rate — and it stays in the account until traffic consumes it on the flexible, non-expiring plans. Generating credentials costs nothing; only data passing through them draws down the balance. That means you can create a separate credential per project, per country or per protocol without worrying about a per-seat or per-endpoint charge, and read usage back in the dashboard.
Each credential is configured at creation time: country from a list of 195 or more, US state and city where needed, an ASN paired with a country if you want a specific carrier's addresses, protocol as HTTP, HTTPS or SOCKS5, and session behaviour as either rotating (a new IP per request) or sticky (the same IP held between one minute and 24 hours). All protocols authenticate with a username and password.
Mobile is priced on a different axis and should be reasoned about separately. A mobile plan rents a 4G/5G port on a real carrier modem for a period — hours through to 30 days — rather than metering gigabytes, and gives you one live carrier IP on that port which you can rotate on demand, with US state and carrier targeting available.
When to stay with Swiftproxy
If your workload is built on long-lived static ISP addresses, check coverage before moving. Nefo sells static residential ISP IPs in 24 countries, from $1.76 for 7 days to $39.17 for 360 days, dedicated, with a 100 GB per IP per 30 days fair-use limit. Swiftproxy's static range includes unlimited traffic and a narrower country list than its rotating pool, so account-management work and long-running logged-in sessions are where those terms matter most.
The same applies to unmetered work. If you have negotiated an unlimited-bandwidth arrangement, or your traffic is heavy and unpredictable enough that per-gigabyte billing makes budgeting unpleasant, a metered provider is a step backwards regardless of the rate. Nefo bills residential per gigabyte with no unlimited tier.
There is also an integration detail worth checking. If your tooling consumes a whitelisted, IP-authenticated proxy list generated over API, Nefo accepts an IP allowlist as well as username and password on every protocol, so the pattern carries over. Check how your tooling builds its proxy list, and use the REST API for proxies and usage if you need to automate it.
How to test Nefo alongside Swiftproxy
Both providers speak standard proxy protocols, so there is no reason to switch in one move. The sensible approach is to buy a small Nefo balance, point a duplicate of one real job at it, and compare against the same job running on Swiftproxy over the same period. Synthetic benchmarks against a generic IP-echo endpoint tell you very little; success rate against your actual targets is the only number that matters.
Run the comparison for at least a few days. Residential pool quality varies by country, by time of day and by target site, and a single afternoon's results are noise. Keep the Swiftproxy account funded throughout — since both providers' residential balances are non-expiring, holding a small reserve on each costs nothing but keeps a fallback available.
- Rebuild one targeting username per country you use, matching your current Swiftproxy geo-targeting
- Keep IP allowlisting, or switch to username and password in your client config
- Match session behaviour deliberately: rotating for distributed collection, sticky with an explicit hold time for multi-step flows
- Compare success rate, retry count and gigabytes burned per thousand successful requests — not raw latency
- If mobile is the reason you are looking, test a single 4G/5G port for a short rental before sizing anything
Swiftproxy or Nefo: who each suits
Swiftproxy suits teams whose requirements sit inside residential and stay there, particularly those who need static ISP addresses held for months, or who want an unlimited-concurrency arrangement negotiated once and then left alone. Buying rotating, static and unlimited from the same vendor with one dashboard and one invoice is a real operational advantage if you use all three.
Nefo suits teams who want to start small and stay metered, who need a specific carrier's addresses via ASN targeting or US city-level precision, or who need residential and 4G/5G mobile ports on real carrier modems side by side without a second vendor relationship. If you need unlimited traffic on a static ISP address, compare terms first: Nefo's static ISP IPs carry a 100 GB per IP per 30 days fair-use limit.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. Static residential ISP IPs are dedicated, cover 24 countries, and cost $1.76 for 7 days up to $39.17 for 360 days, with a 100 GB per IP per 30 days fair-use limit. Swiftproxy's static range includes unlimited traffic and a narrower country list, so compare coverage and terms for your use.
Both publish per-gigabyte residential rates in a broadly similar band, so headline rate is a poor basis. Nefo runs from $0.90/GB at 5 GB to $0.53/GB at 10 TB, and the smallest plan makes a low-cost trial easy. Cost per thousand successful requests on your targets decides it. See pricing.
Yes, and it is the recommended approach. Both are standard HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 proxies, so a copy of an existing job can point at Nefo with a configuration change. Both balances are non-expiring, so a small reserve with each costs nothing and gives you a fallback.
Nefo accepts an IP allowlist as well as username and password, over HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, so the authentication pattern carries over. Check how your tooling generates its proxy list; the REST API covers proxies and usage. Credentials are free to create.
Yes. A residential proxy can be pinned to an ASN paired with a country, from 14,252 ISPs/ASNs, so traffic exits through a named cable, fiber or mobile operator. US targeting also goes to state and city, with 22,417 cities available. This is not part of Swiftproxy's published rotating residential specification.
No. Bandwidth stays on your balance until used, which matches how Swiftproxy describes its residential traffic. Mobile proxies work differently: a dedicated 4G/5G port is rented by duration, from 7 to 30 days on the Economy plan, rather than drawn from a bandwidth balance. See mobile proxies.