SOAX Review 2026 ✓

Key takeaways

The TL;DR. 6 headline facts about SOAX pulled from our test rig + their public documentation.

• ▸SOAX runs a 155M+ residential pool plus a dedicated 33M+ mobile 4G/5G network across 195 countries, with carrier-level ASN targeting (T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon, Vodafone, EE, O2) exposed on every paid plan — not gated behind an enterprise contract like Bright Data or Oxylabs.
• ▸Entry pricing starts at $4/GB on the $90/month Starter tier, drops to $3.60/GB on Business, and reaches $2.00/GB at high-volume commits — but there is no pay-as-you-go option and unused GB do NOT roll over to the next billing cycle.
• ▸Protocol breadth is unusually wide for a boutique vendor: HTTP(S), SOCKS5, UDP and QUIC are all supported, which makes SOAX one of the few sub-enterprise networks viable for HTTP/3 scraping, WebRTC fingerprint testing, and UDP-based game/voice workloads.
• ▸Sticky sessions are deterministic and tunable from 30 seconds up to roughly 1 hour, with sub-second IP rotation handled inside the same gateway — no separate 'unblocker' SKU required for hard targets like Instagram, TikTok or LinkedIn.
• ▸The unified credit wallet lets a single GB balance be spent across residential, mobile, US datacenter and the Web Data API, and the per-target success-rate dashboard exposes block rates per domain — measured 99.5% network-wide on supported targets.
• ▸Honest trade-offs: SOC 2 and ISO 27001 are still 'in progress' (not certified), the datacenter pool is US-only at roughly 300k IPs, residential coverage is thinner in Africa and LATAM than Bright Data's 150M+ network, and SOAX's Russian engineering lineage still triggers procurement reviews at some EU and US Fortune 500 buyers.

The verdict

Independent nightly benchmarks since March 2024 — here's where SOAX lands.

What we think after testing SOAX

Editorial review by Maya Cortez · last tested May 31, 2026

Setting up SOAX Residential Proxies

Watch our hands-on walkthrough of SOAX — dashboard, API, real workload, the bits the marketing pages skip.

Live performance

Numbers from our continuous test rig — same workloads, every month.

Targets tested: Google SERP US/UK/IN, Amazon US/UK/DE, Walmart, eBay, Cloudflare-fronted retailers. Concurrency: 200. Run nightly since Mar 2024. Full data in our methodology page →

Performance vs the market

How SOAX compares to the directory-wide average across our four standard target panels. = market average, bar fill = SOAX.

Sample size: 120+ providers with published benchmark data. Bars show this provider's measured rate; the vertical tick is the directory-wide average.

IP pool size — ranked

Where SOAX ranks against the largest networks in the directory. Bars are scaled to 226M.

Bars rank total advertised IP pool size. SOAX publishes 155M+ IPs — see the full breakdown in the specs above.

Pricing

Volume discounts apply across types. Prices in USD, parsed May 31, 2026.

Proxy types offered

3 types available. Pricing varies by type and volume.

Features & integrations

What's included out of the box.

Network & infrastructure

How the pool is built, refreshed and addressed.

SDK, API & integrations

Languages, endpoints and tooling shipped out of the box.

Code examples

Drop-in snippets to start using SOAX from your stack. Replace USER, PASS and the gateway with what you get from your dashboard.

# pip install requests
import requests

proxy = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
resp = requests.get(
    "https://httpbin.org/ip",
    proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
    timeout=10,
)
print(resp.json())

// npm install undici
import { fetch, ProxyAgent } from "undici";

const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent("http://USER:[email protected]:7777");
const resp = await fetch("https://httpbin.org/ip", { dispatcher });
console.log(await resp.json());

curl -x http://USER:[email protected]:7777 \
  https://httpbin.org/ip \
  --max-time 10

# scrapy-rotating-proxies works with any provider gateway
# settings.py:
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    "scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware": 400,
}
HTTP_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
HTTPS_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"

// npm install playwright
import { chromium } from "playwright";

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  proxy: {
    server: "http://gate.soax.com:7777",
    username: "USER",
    password: "PASS",
  },
});
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto("https://httpbin.org/ip");
console.log(await page.locator("body").innerText());
await browser.close();

Need more? SOAX's official docs have language-specific quickstarts and SDK references.

Use-case suitability

How well this provider performs by workload, scored 1–10 from our test rig.

Independent benchmarks

Last run 2026-05-06

Compliance & privacy

Auditable certifications, sourcing and data-handling posture.

Support & account

How they pick up the phone — and who answers.

Company & resources

Who builds and operates this product.

Key markets covered

195+ countries served. City & ASN targeting available.

SOAX vs alternatives

How SOAX stacks up against the closest providers in our directory. Tap any column header to read that review.

How to get started with SOAX

A 5-minute walkthrough from sign-up to your first successful request. Total setup time: ~10 minutes.

1. 1

   Create the account and fund the unified credit wallet

   Sign up at soax.com, verify business email, and pick a plan — Starter ($90/mo, 22.5 GB at $4/GB), Business ($400/mo at $3.60/GB) or Enterprise (custom, down to $2.00/GB). The credit you buy lands in a single 'GB wallet' that is shared across residential, 33M+ mobile, US datacenter and the Web Data API endpoints. There is no PAYG bucket and no rollover — any GB unused when the renewal date hits is forfeited, so size the plan to actual monthly burn, not peak.

2. 2

   Generate a gateway with carrier and ASN targeting

   In the dashboard, open 'Proxy Setup' and build a username string. SOAX supports geo targeting down to country, region, city and ASN — for mobile, that means you can pin to AS21928 (T-Mobile US), AS20057 (AT&T Mobility), AS22394 (Verizon Wireless), AS12302 (Vodafone UK), AS12576 (EE) or AS15897 (O2). Carrier targeting is exposed on every paid plan, not enterprise-only. Pick HTTP(S) on ports 5000/9000, SOCKS5 on 7000, or the QUIC/UDP listener on 9443 depending on protocol.

3. 3

   Tune sticky session length for the target

   Append a session parameter like `sessionid-xxxx-sessionlength-600` to lock an exit IP for 600 seconds. SOAX accepts any value from 30 seconds (good for high-rotation scraping of search SERPs) up to roughly 3600 seconds (~1 hour, the practical ceiling for stateful flows like checkout, Instagram DM automation or TikTok account warm-up). Rotation between sessions is sub-second; no separate unblocker product is needed, and no extra credit is charged for rotation events.

4. 4

   Wire QUIC or UDP traffic where it matters

   If you are scraping HTTP/3 sites, automating WebRTC checks, or routing game/voice traffic, point the client at the UDP listener instead of the HTTP gateway. SOAX is one of the few residential networks below the enterprise tier that publishes a working QUIC and raw UDP proxy — Bright Data exposes QUIC only on Enterprise, NodeMaven and Decodo do not advertise QUIC at all. This is the differentiator most worth A/B testing before signing the annual.

5. 5

   Monitor per-target success rates and rebalance

   Open the 'Statistics' tab and switch to the 'Per-target success rate' view. SOAX logs successful 2xx responses per destination domain, so you can see if Instagram is running at 99.2% but a niche e-commerce site is at 71% — and swap that subset to mobile carrier IPs or a different geo. Combined with the unified wallet, this lets you push hard targets to mobile (more expensive per GB in throughput terms) while keeping bulk SERP work on residential.

Stuck? Check SOAX's documentation or email us.

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