The Best Mobile Proxies Pass This Checklist, and Here Is How Ours Scores
Search for the best mobile proxies and you get lists written by people paid per click, ranking providers they have never connected to. BetterProxies is a provider, so you should not take our ranking either. What you can take is a checklist: the five things a mobile proxy has to get right, how to test each one yourself in a few minutes, and where the usual shortcuts hide. After the checklist we put our own lines against it, in the same plain terms, with the prices written out and the things we will not claim stated as clearly as the things we will.
Prices, in one line each
Same line on every row. No setup fee, no traffic charge on top, no surprise at renewal.
| Plan | 4G LTE | 5G | Includes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hourly | $2 for the first 2 hours, then $2/hour | $3 for the first 2 hours, then $3/hour | Max 4 hours a purchase, no automatic renewal, and the hours count toward a day if you keep the line |
| 1 day | $5 | $7 | Daily 15 GB, unlimited rotation, both HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 |
| 7 days | $30 | $35 | Same line and address history all week |
| 30 days | $70 | $85 | Lowest price per day; auto-renew optional |
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What best should mean
A mobile proxy exists to make your traffic indistinguishable from a phone on a carrier network, and to do it reliably, for a price you understood before you paid. Everything else is decoration. So the best mobile proxy is the one where the SIM is real and yours, the speed figure is the one you will actually see, the IP changes when you decide and not otherwise, the location is the one on the label, and the invoice matches the price page.
Most of what goes wrong with mobile proxies goes wrong on one of those five points. Shared pools sold as dedicated. Speeds measured once, at three in the morning, and printed forever. Rotation that happens to you mid-session. Addresses that geolocate to the wrong state. Monthly prices that turn out to exclude bandwidth. The checklist below is simply those five failures turned into questions.
Check one: whose hardware, whose SIM, and who else is on it
Ask whether the line is a dedicated device or a slot in a pool. A pool means other customers used the address before you and will use it after you, and their behaviour becomes your reputation. A dedicated line means one modem, one SIM and one customer for the term. Then ask whether the provider owns and operates the hardware or rents it from a third party, because a provider who cannot touch the modem cannot fix it.
A related question is whether the IP changes on the carrier side or in the provider's software. If a rotation only moves you to a different device in a shared fleet, the address you receive may have been another customer's a minute earlier. On a dedicated line the modem reconnects to the carrier and the carrier issues the next address, so the history of the new address is the carrier's, not another buyer's.
On BetterProxies every line is a device in a rack we run: a 4G/5G USB modem by default, a cellular router if you need a line that stays up for months, or a real Android phone if your work looks at the device as well as the address. The SIM is on AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon, it is in the city on the label, and nobody shares it with you while the line is yours.
Check two: test it before you trust it
A ten-minute test tells you more than any review. Buy the shortest plan on offer and run the exit address through an IP lookup: the organisation should be a carrier, not a hosting company, and the city should match what you bought. Check the time zone the address resolves to. Run a speed test through the proxy at the hour you will actually work. Trigger a rotation and time how long the line is down and whether the new address is still in the same city. Then open a page that is picky about proxies and see whether it loads cleanly.
Write down what you saw. A line that passes all of it at two in the afternoon on a weekday is likely to pass at midnight too, but the point of the test is that you no longer have to take anyone's word for it, including ours. If a provider makes the shortest plan a month, or hides the refund terms, that is itself a result.
Finally, read the refund terms before you buy, because a provider confident in the line will let you walk away in the first day. Our lines can be tried by the hour for two dollars, the checker on our tools page shows the carrier and city of any line, and the first order carries a 24-hour refund if the line does not do what you bought it for.
Check three: 4G or 5G, and speed figures you will actually see
A 4G LTE line on a decent signal runs at 20 to 45 Mbps. That is enough for browsing, account work, scheduling tools and steady scraping, and it is what most people should buy first. A 5G line runs at 50 Mbps and up, which matters when you push video, render heavy pages or run many sessions through one address at once. Any provider quoting hundreds of megabits on a shared modem is quoting the modem's ceiling, not your share of it.
We publish the range, not the peak, and we do not slow a line that has been busy. The gap between the two tiers is two dollars a day, so when throughput is the point, take 5G and be done with it.
Check four: rotation you control, not rotation that happens to you
A good mobile proxy holds its address until you say otherwise, and changes it the instant you do. Ask how rotation is triggered and whether there is a limit on it. Ask whether an untouched line keeps its address for hours or gets rotated underneath you on the provider's schedule. Ask whether the new address stays in the same city on the same carrier or can land anywhere in the country.
On our lines rotation is unlimited and triggered by you: a dashboard button, a personal rotation link, the API, or a timer you set. Left alone, the line is a sticky session for as long as the carrier keeps the address assigned, typically hours. A rotation takes a few seconds and comes back on the same carrier in the same metro.
Check five: a price you can read in one line
The cleanest test of honesty is whether the price page and the invoice agree. Ask whether bandwidth is included or billed per gigabyte. Ask whether rotation costs extra. Ask what the renewal price is. Ask what happens at the end of a short plan: does it renew by itself or stop?
Here are ours. A 4G line is five dollars a day, thirty a week and seventy for thirty days; a 5G line is seven, thirty-five and eighty-five. Every plan includes 15 GB of traffic a day with no charge above it. Hourly is two dollars for the first two hours on 4G and three on 5G, then the same per extra hour up to four hours in one purchase, and it never renews on its own; keep the line a full day and the hours count toward the day price. Rotation, SOCKS5, UDP, IP whitelisting and moving a line between our cities are included. Payment is by card, PayPal, crypto, Zelle or wire, and the line is live the moment payment clears.
Where the lines are and how to move them
We run lines in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Miami, Boston and North Carolina, with the carriers on each rack listed on the city pages. You choose the metro at checkout. If the job changes, you move the line to another metro yourself from the dashboard, free, and the address changes to match in a couple of minutes. The checker on the tools page confirms the result, so the label and the lookup always agree.
What we will not claim
You will not find an uptime figure on this site, because a number without a measurement method is decoration. You will not find a star rating we wrote ourselves or a count of customers we cannot show you. What you will find is the range of speeds our lines actually deliver, the exact prices, a 24-hour refund on the first order, and a support team on email and Telegram around the clock that answers questions with sentences rather than links. If that is what best means to you, the plans are below.
Best mobile proxies: the questions worth asking
What makes a mobile proxy the best one?
Five things: a real SIM in hardware dedicated to you, a speed range you will actually see, rotation that only happens when you trigger it, an address that geolocates to the city on the label, and a price that matches the invoice. Anything a provider adds beyond those is nice to have; anything it drops from those is a defect.
How do I test a mobile proxy before relying on it?
Buy the shortest plan, look up the exit address and confirm the organisation is a carrier and the city is the one you bought. Check the time zone, run a speed test at your working hour, trigger a rotation and time it, and load a page that is strict about proxies. Our hourly plan exists for exactly this, and the tools page has the checker.
Dedicated line or shared pool, which is better?
Dedicated, for anything involving an account or a reputation. A pool hands you an address other customers used minutes ago, and their behaviour becomes your history. A dedicated line is one modem, one SIM and one customer for the term, so the only history on the address during your rental is yours.
Is 4G good enough or do I need 5G?
4G LTE at 20 to 45 Mbps is enough for browsing, account work and steady scraping, and it is where most people should start. 5G at 50 Mbps and up is for video, heavy pages and many parallel sessions on one line. The 5G tier costs two dollars more per day.
How does rotation work on your lines?
You trigger it, with no quota: a dashboard button, a personal rotation link, the API or a timer. Left alone, the line holds its address for as long as the carrier keeps it assigned, usually hours. A rotation takes a few seconds and the new address is on the same carrier in the same city.
What does it cost, all in?
4G is five dollars a day, thirty a week and seventy for thirty days; 5G is seven, thirty-five and eighty-five. By the hour it costs two dollars for the first two hours on 4G or three on 5G, the same for each extra hour up to four, and it never auto-renews. Rotation, 15 GB a day, SOCKS5 with UDP and moves between cities are included, and there is nothing billed on top.
Is there a trial?
The hourly plan is the trial: two dollars for two hours on 4G, and if you keep the line a full day the hours count toward the day price. Your first order is also covered by a 24-hour refund if the line does not do what you bought it for.
Why should I believe a provider's own checklist?
You should not have to. Every point on it is something you can verify yourself in ten minutes with an IP lookup, a speed test and a rotation, which is why we wrote it that way. If a line fails a check, the refund window is there.