Live Proxies Review

Live Proxies has been in the proxy business since 2020, providing its services to both users and businesses around the world. The company evolved over the years, constantly adding more types of services and features.

For instance, in 2022, Live Servers were a new addition, and a year after that, static residential and rotation mobile IPs were added to the list. These days, the company now offers more than 10 million IPs in 55 locations, and is still going strong.

Plans and Pricing

Live Proxies has two different types of proxies for individual users: rotating residential and rotating mobile. On top of that, there is a B2B option for enterprises.

The vendor offers custom pricing, but you can also pick from numerous predetermined metered plans that supply you with fixed IPs, bandwidth, and duration. To give you an example, the cheapest rotating residential plan starts at $70, which gets you 200 IPs and 4GB for 30 days. From there on, the plans increase in duration, IPs, and bandwidth. So, for instance, 350 IPs, 4GB, and 45 days will cost you $95.

You can select the location as well, including the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France, Ireland, Israel, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden, and Türkiye. For custom pricing in the US, you can filter down to a state, although it seems most (if not all) state-based rotating residential proxies are currently sold out.

Similarly, rotating mobile proxies (which are only available in the US, Canada, and the UK) are also listed as “sold out” at the moment.

We do want to point out that Live Proxies doesn’t offer static residential proxies anymore. These proxies are listed as ‘permanently unavailable’ and we have confirmation from the company’s support team that there are no plans to launch static proxies again.

That being said, Live Proxies also has unmetered rotating residential plans that are obviously costlier. The cheapest plan starts at $130, giving you 25 IPs for 30 days.

Businesses have the option of going with enterprise proxies and choosing one of the six available choices. The first one starts at $2,000 monthly and provides 2TB, which translates to $2 per GB. Higher-tier plans increase the bandwidth, bumping up the cost of 25 TB to $25,000 monthly ($0.80 per GB).

Generally speaking, the entire pricing structure is simple for both users and businesses. Everybody gets the same features (which we’ll cover next), though the pricing is a bit more on the expensive side compared to the competition.

Features

Regardless of the plan choice, all non-enterprise customers get the same bag of goodies, including over 10 million IPs across 55 countries, an average response time of 1.15 seconds, 24/7 support, unused data rollover, unlimited requests, and more.

With such a package, Live Proxies has several use cases: web scraping, unrestricted eCommerce, brand protection, SEO and SERP, sneaker proxies, ad verification, social media performance, gaming, and travel aggregation, to name a few.

Rotating residential IPs

As their name suggests, rotating residential IPs regularly change. They automatically switch your connection to a different proxy IP address at specific times, which can be once an hour or every time you start a new browsing session.

Because of the persistent IP changing, rotating proxies make it much harder for websites to track what you’re doing online. If you are trying to gather data from a travel site that blocks scrapers, using these proxies helps you stay under the radar. Since the IP keeps switching, the website sees what very much looks like a stream of different users instead of one person trying to access too much information.

That being said, Live Proxies stands out in this regard because the company uses real residential IP addresses obtained from legitimate sources. People around the world agree to share their connections with the network in exchange for rewards. This allows customers to use those real-world IP addresses to get past website blocks and collect the data they need.

It’s worth noting that rotating proxies are slower and more pricier than static ones. Constant IP switching is more costly, in addition to increasing the chances of connection lag.

Rotating mobile IPs

Similar to standard rotating proxies, rotating mobile proxies use real IP addresses from phones and tablets instead of computers. This means you can easily handle several social media accounts at once without worrying about getting blocked.

Rotating mobile proxies have a unique advantage over their residential counterparts. Due to mobile IPs being shared by many users, websites and social media platforms are hesitant to ban a mobile IP. If they were to ban one, they might end up accidentally cutting off hundreds of real people in that area from using their accounts. Because of this, mobile proxies are much less likely to be blocked, making them a better choice for accessing websites with higher levels of security and restrictions.

Naturally, this superpower-like ability also makes rotating mobile proxies more expensive, compared to rotating residential ones.

However, Live Proxies’ rotating mobile proxies are currently unavailable, or rather, they have sold out at the time of writing.

B2B

For businesses, Live Proxies offers an all-in-one plan designed for enterprises. Besides access to a network of more than 10 million IP addresses spanning 55 countries, companies get team collaboration, advanced targeting, full API access, dedicated support, 98% uptime for consistent performance, and more for a single monthly fee.

This plan is perfect for businesses with heavy data needs, like price comparison websites that frequently scrape data from many different places online.

Ease of Use

We didn’t run into any problems while testing Live Proxies. The design is rather user-friendly, with the menus clearly listed on the left, and your main information on the right. The site uses a clean white background with blue highlights to make information easy to find, so even if you are a tech newbie, you will figure it out quickly.

Customer Support

You can find helpful information on the Live Proxies website in their knowledge base, which covers the most common questions. If you need extra help, you can send in a support ticket or join their official Discord channel to ask for assistance. Unfortunately, there’s no phone support or live chat feature on their site.

After our inquiry about static residential proxies via support ticket, we got a speedy response in under 4 hours, which was short but right to the point.

The Competition

Live Proxies works just as well as most other proxies we’ve tested, offering great speed and solid performance. The main downside is that the provider’s network is smaller than some of the top-tier competition. While the company offers 10 million IPs in 55 countries, big names like Oxylabs and Bright Data provide much larger networks, with the former offering over 175 million IPs and the latter over 400 million IPs. Both competitors cover 195 countries.

Final Verdict

Going from our previous review to today, Live Proxies remains one of the better options in the industry when fast and reliable performance is paramount. Its speed makes it a great choice for businesses that need to handle large-scale data scraping and improve search rankings. That same level of performance puts Live Proxies into worthy consideration as an option for ad verification, where timing is critical. Individual users also have plenty to look forward to, as the service is highly suitable if you need a quick connection to download a geo-locked file, play video games, access websites from other countries, or just browse your social media accounts.

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