Comparison
ProxyHive vs Northgate Proxies
A long-running enterprise provider with a large residential pool, sold mainly through annual contracts and account managers. Below: the same specifications configured on both services, what each actually charges at the card form, and the places Northgate Proxies is the better choice.
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Configured price
Same specs, both configurators, side by side
Headline prices are not comparable — they are marketing. What is comparable is the total after you pick your geo, your session type and your billing period. That is what these show.
250 GB residential, rotating, US + EU
Same number, both lines. Locked for 12 months from purchase.
250 GB residential, rotating, US + EU
Up $0.55/GB (21%) between the configurator and the card form.
50 ISP IPs, US carriers, one month
Same number, both lines. Locked for 12 months from purchase.
50 ISP IPs, US carriers, one month
Up $1.50/IP (50%) between the configurator and the card form.
Across both configurations above
$402.50 less
Configure your own specification in the estimator below and compare it against Northgate Proxies’s configurator directly. We would rather you checked than took our word for it.
Feature by feature
ProxyHive and Northgate Proxies compared
Rows where they win are shown exactly as prominently as rows where we do.
| Feature | ProxyHive | Northgate Proxies |
|---|---|---|
| Smallest order | Advantage$10 top-up, 1 GB or 1 IP | No advantage25 IP minimum, annual commitment on residential |
| Price you configure vs. price you pay | AdvantageThe same number | No advantageCheckout adds geo and session surcharges |
| Traffic expiry | AdvantageNever expires | No advantage30 days |
| Rate lock | Advantage12 months from purchase | No advantageRepriced at renewal |
| Published success rates | AdvantagePer target, updated hourly, public | No advantageOn request, under NDA |
| Allowed-use policy | AdvantagePublished before you pay | No advantageIn the MSA after signature |
| Pool sizeTheir pool is larger. Neither figure is independently audited; ours is at least republished hourly. | No advantage41M+ residential IPs | Advantage70M+ residential IPs claimed |
| Time to first request | AdvantageMinutes, self-serve | No advantageSales call, then onboarding |
| Dedicated account manager | No advantageAbove $2k/month | AdvantageStandard on all plans |
| Protocol support | EvenHTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | EvenHTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 |
The other side
When you should pick Northgate Proxies instead
Every comparison page on this site has this section. A page that claims we win at everything is an advertisement, and you already know how much those are worth.
- A larger claimed residential pool, which matters if you need very deep coverage in a single small country.
- An account manager on every plan, not just the large ones.
- Procurement paperwork — MSAs, security questionnaires, invoicing terms — that big companies expect.
Check it yourself
Configure your actual specification
Then open their configurator in another tab and put in the same numbers. That comparison is the only one that costs you money.
Configure your plan
Whatever this says, that is what the card is charged. No specs surcharge, no geo add-on, no commitment.
Volume tiers
- 1 GB+$3.25/GB
- 25 GB+$2.90/GB
- 100 GB+$2.55/GB
- 250 GB+$2.20/GB
- 500 GB+$1.90/GB
You pay
$255.00
100 GB at $2.55/GB
Volume tier saves $70.00 against our entry rate.
Add 150 GB to reach $2.20/GB.
Traffic never expires. Rate locked 12 months.
No card for the trial. Cancel with a button, not an email.
Questions
Switching from Northgate Proxies
- Is ProxyHive cheaper than Northgate Proxies?
- For the configurations shown on this page, yes — and the gap is widest at checkout, because our configured price and our checkout price are the same number. Compare your own spec in the estimator before taking our word for it.
- Can I move an existing Northgate workload over?
- Yes. Both networks speak HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 with user-and-password auth, so the change is your endpoint and your credentials. Nothing else in your code has to move.
- What happens to traffic I have already bought?
- Ours does not expire, so there is no deadline to spend it. Traffic bought elsewhere follows that vendor’s expiry terms, which is worth checking before you stop using it.
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