Proxy Grove vs SOAX: Per-IP Unlimited or Pay-per-GB

Teams comparing Proxy Grove vs SOAX usually choose a billing meter first: allocated IPs with unlimited traffic on the plan, or a shared residential/mobile pool billed by gigabyte. This article is a buyer guide, not an affiliation, legal advice, or a side-by-side latency benchmark. Follow each target site’s terms and applicable law.

SOAX markets residential and mobile proxy networks with flexible targeting and a usage-based spend model common among mid-market providers. Proxy Grove sells Mobile, Residential, and Corporate Unlimited plans with self-serve checkout. If your workflow needs N known egress identities for a fixed window, the products overlap. If you need millions of rotating exits and think in GB, they diverge.

Proxy Grove published Unlimited pricing (proxygrove.com/pricing/): Residential from $2/IP/day, Corporate from $2/IP/day, Mobile from $4.50/IP/day; durations 1, 7, 30, or 90 days; HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5; sticky or rotating; traffic on those plans is not billed per GB (fair use still applies). Country targeting across 246 countries and regions.

What each product is built to do

SOAX’s public positioning emphasizes residential and mobile IPs, city and ASN-style targeting on many plans, and dashboard controls for session length. That shape fits catalog crawls, price checks, and jobs where you burn many addresses and accept a GB invoice.

Proxy Grove publishes three proxy SKUs plus Enterprise custom: Residential, Mobile 4G/5G, and Corporate. HTTP and SOCKS5 on published Unlimited plans. Sticky or rotating is a plan/endpoint setting. We do not sell a SERP API, dataset marketplace, or managed unlocker. Point your own Python, browser, or SEO tool at the endpoint.

How the money works

SOAX typically prices residential and mobile traffic in GB bands or pay-as-you-go rates that change with promotions and commitment. Treat any competitor blog’s “$X/GB” as a snapshot, not a contract. Re-open their pricing page before you budget.

Proxy Grove’s meter is IP × days. A sticky rank tracker with 4 residential IPs for 30 days is 4 × $2 × 30 = $120 on published Residential Unlimited, with traffic included on the plan. The same job on a GB meter depends entirely on how heavy the HTML and screenshots are. Light SERP HTML can favor GB. Heavy browser QA usually favors per-IP unlimited.

Worked examples (illustrative, not promises):

• Sticky SEO sampling, 6 residential IPs, 30 days, moderate HTML. Proxy Grove: 6 × $2 × 30 = $360. On SOAX, cost = GB used × your rate. If the job is 30 GB at $4/GB, that is $120; at 120 GB it is $480. Measure your real GB.
• Wide rotating crawl that needs a huge shared pool. A GB residential network is usually the better match. Allocated unlimited IPs are a poor fit if you truly need pool scale, not a handful of sticky identities.
• Mobile ad verification with long sessions and screenshots. Mobile GB burns fast. Proxy Grove Mobile from $4.50/IP/day can win when bytes are large and IP count is small.

Sessions, protocols, and tooling

Both vendors describe sticky and rotating sessions. On Proxy Grove, do not invent a second rotating URL in code—set mode on the plan, then use the endpoint in Requests, httpx, Playwright, or AdsPower. Protocol is HTTP or SOCKS5 on the same SKU family. For protocol trade-offs, read SOCKS5 vs HTTP. For rotating architecture, read rotating proxies for large-scale scraping.

Confirm city/ASN targeting on SOAX’s current dashboard for the SKU you buy. Proxy Grove markets country targeting on published plans and a country-level location library. If your SOP requires ZIP-level pinning every request, verify that capability on the vendor that advertises it; do not assume Proxy Grove matches every geo granularity claim.

When SOAX is the better fit

• You want a shared residential or mobile pool billed per GB.
• You need city / ASN targeting they advertise and you verified in-product.
• Your finance team already budgets GB and monthly top-ups.
• You run wide crawls where IP count must be huge and sticky identity is optional.

When Proxy Grove is the better fit

• You want N known IPs for sticky SEO, ad QA, localization, or storefront checks.
• Unlimited traffic on the plan matters because pages and media are heavy.
• You want HTTP and SOCKS5 on Mobile, Residential, or Corporate without assembling a platform.
• You want to start from $2/IP on published Residential/Corporate day plans.
• You already have scrapers or SEO tools and only need lawful egress.

You can use both

A common setup: SOAX (or another GB pool) for hostile high-volume collection; Proxy Grove IPs for human-paced sticky QA. That is matching meters to jobs, not a loyalty test.

Practical checklist

1. List workflows: sticky vs rotating, countries, estimated GB/month, IP count, HTTP vs SOCKS5.
2. Price the same workflow on both meters with current public rates.
3. Confirm session mode and protocol in each dashboard.
4. Confirm onboarding friction and KYC if any.
5. Confirm what you are not buying (APIs, unlockers, datasets).

SOAX is a trademark of its respective owner. Proxy Grove is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by SOAX. Names are used only to identify products being compared. Prefer Proxy Grove pricing and product pages for our live numbers.

Mobile lane comparison

If your RFP includes mobile ad verification, compare mobile SKUs explicitly. Proxy Grove Mobile Unlimited starts at $4.50/IP/day with traffic on the plan subject to fair use. SOAX mobile positioning is typically GB-oriented. Screenshot-heavy creatives often favor per-IP unlimited mobile; wide rotating mobile collection may favor GB. Measure bytes. See best mobile proxies 2026.