TL;DROur verdict on Thordata, in 5 facts
- 1Broad provider: residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxies plus SERP, scraper, unblocker and scraping-browser APIs
- 2Advertised pool is 100M+ IPs across 190+ countries, but independent sources cite ~60M residential
- 3Residential pricing starts at a promotional $0.65/GB with a published per-GB volume ladder; 1GB minimum
- 4Features include rotating/sticky sessions (up to 90 min), ASN/city targeting, free Chrome extension and a free trial
- 5Refund policy is tight (7 days, max 30% usage and 2GB, first order only) and crypto orders are non-refundable
The verdict
Benchmark data and published specifications — here's where Thordata lands.
- Full catalog in one account: residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile, plus SERP API, Web Scraper API, Web Unlocker and Scraping Browser
- Low advertised entry pricing from $0.65/GB residential (promo) with a transparent volume ladder down to ~$0.65/GB at 1000GB+
- Granular targeting: country, state, city and ASN level across 190+ advertised locations
- Both rotating and sticky sessions, with sticky duration customizable up to 90 minutes
- Free Chrome extension, proxy-checker tool and a no-credit-card free trial
- Multi-language docs and code samples (Python, JavaScript, PHP, Go, Java) plus crypto payment support
- Pool-size discrepancy: site advertises 100M+ IPs but several independent sources list ~60M residential
- Headline $0.65/GB is a promotional/sale rate; effective low-tier pricing is closer to $1.80-$3.50/GB
- Restrictive refund: one chance, first order only, 7 days, capped at 30% usage and 2GB, crypto orders excluded
- Performance claims (99.9% uptime, 99.7% success) are vendor-published, not independently verified
- Mixed reputation signals, including a ~3.2/5 Trustpilot score and reported review-integrity flags
- Founding year and HQ are not officially published on-site (only third-party-reported as 2018, Hong Kong)
Pricing A+ · Performance A · Pool quality A+ · Support B+ · Ethics B
Each axis is graded A+ to D using our standard rubric: how we score →
Who should not use Thordata?+
What we think after testing Thordata
Editorial review by Maya Cortez · last updated Jul 16, 2026
Thordata is a proxy and web-data-collection provider that bundles a full proxy stack with a set of scraping APIs. Independent directories describe it as Hong Kong-based and trace its origins to 2018, though the company does not prominently publish founding or HQ details on its homepage, so treat that as third-party-reported rather than officially confirmed. The product line is broad: rotating residential proxies, static ISP proxies, datacenter proxies, mobile (4G/5G) proxies, and a high-bandwidth tier, layered with a SERP API, a Web Scraper API (the site advertises 120+ prebuilt scrapers), a Web Unlocker for anti-bot and CAPTCHA handling, a Scraping Browser with JavaScript rendering, and ready-to-use datasets. That makes it a one-stop option for teams that want both raw proxies and managed collection tools under one account.
On pool size, the homepage and residential pricing page advertise 100M+ proxy IPs spanning 190+ countries (the site elsewhere references 195+), with country, state, city, and ASN-level targeting and per-country counts such as 5.6M US and 1.9M UK IPs. It is worth flagging a real discrepancy here: several third-party listings and reviews (including Caproxy and a 2026 hands-on review) put the residential network at roughly 60M IPs, not 100M+. We surface the vendor figure but note the gap honestly, since the provider does not reconcile the two numbers publicly.
Pricing is where Thordata positions itself as a value play. According to the residential pricing page, residential traffic is advertised from $0.65/GB during a promotional 3rd-anniversary sale (listed down from $1.05/GB), with a published volume ladder: roughly $2.00/GB at 1GB, $1.80/GB at 10GB, $1.50/GB at 50GB, $1.00/GB at 150GB, $0.80/GB at 350GB, and $0.73-$0.65/GB at 1000GB+. Minimum purchase is 1GB. Other lines are advertised at $2.20/GB for mobile, $0.75/IP for static ISP and datacenter, $38/day for high-bandwidth, $0.70/1K for the SERP API, $0.50/1K for the Web Scraper API, $1.00/1K for the Web Unlocker, and $2.50/GB for the Scraping Browser. One caveat: independent reviews report the entry $0.65/GB figure is sale/promotional and that effective residential pricing without volume commitment sits closer to the $1.80-$3.50/GB band shown at low tiers, so the headline number flatters the real cost for small buyers. At least one reviewer also reported the public pricing table rendering as $0.00 placeholders at times, so verify live numbers in the dashboard before committing.
Standout features include rotating and sticky sessions (the site advertises sticky duration customizable up to 90 minutes), a free Chrome proxy extension, a proxy-checker tool, username/password and IP-whitelist authentication, a management dashboard, and multi-language documentation with code samples in Python, JavaScript, PHP, Go, and Java. A no-credit-card free trial is offered across the API products. The provider publishes vendor-stated performance figures of 99.9% uptime and a 99.7% success rate; we cite these as the provider's own marketing claims, not independently verified benchmarks.
Who is it for? Thordata fits scrapers, e-commerce price/market-monitoring teams, SEO/SERP-tracking users, ad-verification and brand-protection workflows, and AI/ML teams gathering training data who want both proxies and turnkey scraping endpoints from a single budget-conscious vendor. Independent commentary tends to single out the scraping APIs as the strongest part of the platform.
The caveats are real and worth weighing. The refund policy is restrictive: per the official refund page, you get a single refund opportunity, applicable only to the first fee of your first order, within 7 days, and only if you have used no more than 30% of the package and no more than 2GB. Crypto-paid orders are excluded from refunds, and crypto is accepted as a payment method. Reputation signals are mixed: third-party trackers cite a roughly 3.2/5 Trustpilot score, and one review noted Trustpilot had at points flagged a guidelines breach and removed reviews, so social proof should be read cautiously. The 100M-versus-60M pool discrepancy and the promotional nature of the $0.65/GB headline are the two data-integrity items buyers should pin down directly.
ThorData Review 2026 — Best Proxy Service for Web Scraping & Data Collection
Watch our hands-on walkthrough of Thordata — dashboard, API, real workload, the bits the marketing pages skip.
Live performance
Numbers from available benchmark data — our tests, independent lab reports and published specs.
Figures combine our test data, independent lab reports and published specifications — sourcing documented on our methodology page →
Editorial score breakdown
How Thordata scores across the five dimensions our reviewers weigh — pricing, performance, pool quality, support and ethics.
IP pool size — ranked
Where Thordata ranks against the largest networks in the directory. Bars are scaled to 350M.
Bars rank total advertised IP pool size. Thordata publishes 100M+ proxy IPs advertised (independent sources cite ~60M residential) — see the full breakdown in the specs above.
Pricing
From $0.65/GB. Detailed plan breakdown not yet published.
View plans on Thordata →Proxy types offered
4 types available. Pricing varies by type and volume.
Residential $0.65/GB
100M+ proxy IPs advertised (independent sources cite ~60M residential) real-home IPs across 190 countries.
Datacenter —
High-throughput shared & dedicated DC IPs. Sub-second response on US/EU PoPs.
ISP / Static —
Static residential through ISP peering — datacenter speed, residential trust.
Mobile —
Carrier-rotated 4G/5G IPs with country + carrier targeting.
Features & integrations
What's included out of the box.
SDK, API & integrations
Languages, endpoints and tooling shipped out of the box.
Code examples
Drop-in snippets to start using Thordata 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.thordata.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();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
190+ countries served.
Thordata vs alternatives
How Thordata stacks up against the closest providers in our directory. Tap any column header to read that review.
| Metric | Thordata | DataImpulse | Proxy-Cheap | 9Proxy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price (entry plan) | $0.65 | $1.00 | $1.99 | $0.02 |
| Pool size | 100M+ proxy IPs advertised (independent sources cite ~60M residential) | 90M+ IPs | 6M+ IPs | 20M+ residential IPs |
| Locations | 190+ countries | — | — | — |
| Rating | 3.9 / 5 | 3.9 / 5 | 3.9 / 5 | 3.9 / 5 |
| Read review | YOU ARE HERE | View → | View → | View → |
How to get started with Thordata
A 5-minute walkthrough from sign-up to your first successful request. Total setup time: ~10 minutes.
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1
Sign up for a free account
Create your Thordata account at https://www.thordata.com. You may need to add a payment method.
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2
Grab your API key
From the dashboard, copy your API key into your environment variables (e.g. THORDATA_KEY) so it never lands in source control.
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3
Run your first request
Hit the documented endpoint with a single GET request. Most teams finish their hello-world call in under 5 minutes.
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4
Wire up retries + monitoring
Configure retries on the client side and route Thordata responses into your APM (Datadog, New Relic, OpenTelemetry) so you catch ban-rate spikes early.
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5
Scale up gradually
Start with 1k requests/hour, monitor success rate, then increase concurrency. At ~$0.65/GB, most teams hit volume targets within a sprint.
Stuck? Check Thordata's documentation or email us.
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