NodeMaven sells residential proxies from $5.00 per GB pay-as-you-go, and its lowest rate, $2.20 per GB, needs a 1,000 GB monthly plan at $2,200 a month. QuantumProxies Residential Basic is $1.00 per GB and $0.80 at 1 TB, bought once with no subscription: a fifth of the entry price, and well under half at volume.
QuantumProxies costs less per gigabyte at every size NodeMaven publishes, pay-as-you-go and monthly. At 100 GB the gap is at least three to one; at 1 TB our rate needs a single purchase, NodeMaven's a monthly plan.
| What you actually pay | QuantumProxies Residential Basic | NodeMaven |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price per GB | $1.00 / GB | $5.00 / GB |
| Minimum to start | $5 (5 GB, no subscription) | $10 (2 GB, pay-as-you-go, smallest size) |
| Pay-as-you-go without a plan | Yes | Yes |
| Cheapest advertised rate | $0.80 / GB | $2.20 / GB |
| What that cheapest rate requires | A 1 TB purchase ($800). No monthly contract. | a 1,000 GB monthly plan ($2,200 a month) |
Competitor prices verified 2026-09-08. NodeMaven figures are advertised prices for residential proxies from its public pricing page, recorded in our residential proxy pricing index on the verification date shown above; we read the page again on 28 October 2026 and the prices were unchanged. QuantumProxies figures are from our live plan catalogue. All prices in USD, excluding VAT.
NodeMaven publishes a rate for every plan size, pay-as-you-go and monthly. This is each published size next to our rate for the same volume, followed by the connection terms both providers list.
| What each provider publishes | QuantumProxies Residential Basic | NodeMaven |
|---|---|---|
| Rate at 2 GB | $1.00 / GB | $5.00 / GB pay-as-you-go, $4.25 monthly |
| Rate at 20 GB | $1.00 / GB | $4.50 / GB pay-as-you-go, $3.75 monthly |
| Rate at 100 GB | $1.00 / GB | $3.45 / GB pay-as-you-go, $3.00 monthly |
| Rate at 1,000 GB | $0.80 / GB, bought once | $2.45 / GB pay-as-you-go, $2.20 monthly |
| Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 |
| Concurrent sessions | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Authentication | Username and password, or IP whitelist | Username and password, or IP whitelist |
NodeMaven column read from its pricing and residential proxy pages on 28 October 2026, where the prices are shown as a 20% reduction on its list prices; the provider is named here, not linked. QuantumProxies column from our Residential Basic page and live plan catalogue. Published terms, not an independent test.
Switching away from NodeMaven usually means shortlisting three or four providers, not one. This is the rest of our pricing index: every residential provider we track, the rate a new account pays, the cheapest rate each one advertises, and what that cheapest rate costs to unlock. We name them and we do not link to them — the index itself records a source page for every figure, so any of it can be checked without taking our word for it.
| Provider | Pay-as-you-go per GB | Cheapest advertised rate | Minimum to start |
|---|---|---|---|
| QuantumProxies — Residential Basic | $1.00 | $0.80 | $5 minimum, no subscription |
| DataImpulse | $1.00 | $0.80 | $5 (5 GB); $0.8/GB from 1 TB, custom pricing from 5 TB |
| PacketStream | $1.00 | $1.00 | $50 minimum purchase, no subscription, balance never expires (single flat rate) |
| Webshare | $3.50 | $1.40 | monthly plan, no PAYG top-up (1 GB plan at $3.50/GB); $1.40 tier requires a 3,000 GB/mo plan |
| Proxy-Seller | $3.50 | $2.20 | $220/mo (100 GB plan) for $2.20/GB; page advertises 'From $1.30/GB' for custom/enterprise volumes via sales ('save up to 30% on large projects') |
| Decodo | $4.00 | $2.00 | $11.25/mo (3 GB at $3.75/GB); $2.00 tier requires the 1,000 GB/mo enterprise plan |
| SOAX | $5.00 | $0.85 | none (Sandbox $0/mo at $5.00/GB); $0.85 tier requires the $3,000/mo Enterprise plan |
| ProxyEmpire | $7.00 | $3.00 | none (PAYG 1 GB); $3.00/GB list ($1.50 with EMPIRE50) requires the 1,000 GB Enterprise plan at $3,000/mo list ($1,500 promo); custom 5 TB+ 'From $0.75/GB' |
| IPRoyal | $7.35 | $1.75 | none; $1.75/GB only on subscription from 10 TB (PAYG bulk is $1.84/GB from 10 TB) |
| Bright Data | $8.00 | $2.50 | none (PAYG) / $1,999-mo (798 GB plan) for $2.50 tier |
| Oxylabs | No pay-as-you-go rate | $2.50 | no PAYG; $30/mo (5 GB Starter at $6/GB); $2.50 tier requires $2,500/mo (1 TB Corporate) |
Competitor prices verified 2026-09-08. Sorted by pay-as-you-go rate, lowest first. That is an arithmetic order, not a ranking: providers publishing no pay-as-you-go rate appear last, and nothing here scores quality, success rate or support. Figures are advertised list prices taken from each provider's own public pricing page on the verification date shown above, in USD, excluding VAT.
NodeMaven sells residential and mobile proxies by the gigabyte, pay-as-you-go or on monthly plans, and markets itself on IP quality filtering. Its pricing page publishes a rate for every plan size, which makes the comparison simple: at every size it lists, a residential gigabyte costs more there than here.
Read on 28 October 2026: pay-as-you-go runs from $5.00 per GB at 2 GB, through $4.50 at 20 GB and $3.45 at 100 GB, to $2.45 at 1,000 GB. Monthly plans run from $4.25 per GB at 2 GB to $2.20 at 1,000 GB, which is $2,200 a month. Residential Basic is $1.00 per GB on every plan up to 100 GB, $0.90 at 500 GB and $0.80 at 1 TB.
NodeMaven's lowest published residential rate belongs to its 1,000 GB monthly plan. Our lowest rate, $0.80 per GB, is a single 1 TB purchase at $800: the same volume for $1,400 less, with no monthly renewal attached.
On the connection terms both providers publish, the two match: rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, username-and-password or IP whitelist authentication, and unlimited concurrent sessions. Residential Basic adds targeting by country, state, city and ASN at the same $1.00 rate.
Proxyway's review, updated in October 2026, scores NodeMaven 8.6 out of 10 but puts price first among its drawbacks, finding it more expensive than mainstream alternatives. It also found the residential pool about average in size, some slow connections, and a quality filter that applies only to sticky sessions and lowered the measured IP risk only slightly. Trust My IP's October 2026 review also names price as the main weakness and reports some of its residential ranges on Spamhaus blocklists. These are third-party accounts, not our tests; each one is linked in the sources below.
Real ISP-assigned residential addresses in 200+ countries, from Residential Basic's own pool, with rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, and country, state, city and ASN targeting with no per-location surcharge. Authentication is by username and password or IP whitelist, concurrent sessions are unlimited, and proxy strings come from the dashboard or the REST API.
The rate falls with the size of the plan and nothing recurs: $1.00 per GB up to 100 GB, $450 for 500 GB ($0.90 per GB) and $800 for 1 TB ($0.80 per GB). Each plan is a one-off purchase. Nothing renews, and nothing is charged again unless you buy again.
Card, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay are supported, along with Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, Monero and around 300 other cryptocurrencies. Crypto and account-balance payments carry no VAT, while card, PayPal and Stripe add 22%.
Switching is a connection string. Generate a Residential Basic proxy in the dashboard with the country, and optionally the state, city or ASN, plus a rotating or sticky session; then replace the NodeMaven host, port and credentials in your scraper, browser profile or tool. Send a sample of your real URLs through it before you move all of your traffic.
NodeMaven is an operating proxy provider. The points reviewers raise are about price and pool quality: Proxyway's October 2026 review finds it more expensive than mainstream alternatives, and Trust My IP reports some of its residential ranges on Spamhaus blocklists.
It works, but you pay for it: $5.00 per GB pay-as-you-go to start, and $2.20 at best, on a $2,200 monthly plan. QuantumProxies Residential Basic is $1.00 per GB, and $0.80 at 1 TB with no subscription.
On its pricing page, read on 28 October 2026: pay-as-you-go from $5.00 per GB at 2 GB to $2.45 at 1,000 GB, monthly plans from $4.25 per GB at 2 GB to $2.20 at 1,000 GB ($2,200 a month), and a $3.50 paid trial for 750 MB.
No. QuantumProxies Residential Basic is $1.00 per GB against NodeMaven's $5.00 pay-as-you-go, and $0.80 per GB at 1 TB against NodeMaven's $2.20 on a 1,000 GB monthly plan.
On the rates in our pricing index, NodeMaven's pay-as-you-go starts at $5.00 per GB and IPRoyal's at $7.35; at volume NodeMaven reaches $2.20 and IPRoyal $1.75 from 10 TB. Both are above QuantumProxies Residential Basic at $1.00 per GB, and $0.80 at 1 TB.
On price per gigabyte, QuantumProxies Residential Basic: $1.00 per GB with no subscription and $0.80 per GB at 1 TB, with country, state, city and ASN targeting. No provider in our pricing index publishes a lower pay-as-you-go rate; the table on this page lists them all.
Create an account, buy a Residential Basic plan and generate a proxy string in the dashboard with the country and session type you need. Replace the NodeMaven host, port and credentials in your tools with it; rotating and sticky sessions work the same way, so most setups only need the connection string changed.
For residential proxies, yes. It costs $1.00 per GB where NodeMaven charges $5.00 to start and $3.45 at 100 GB, and its lowest rate needs a single 1 TB purchase instead of a $2,200 monthly plan. The connection terms both providers publish match. Run your own targets through it before you decide.
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