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Updated October 2026 · Prices verified 17 Oct 2026

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Infatica review (2026): careful vetting, unremarkable results

Infatica checks every customer’s ID before the first sale and answers chat around the clock. Its April 2026 test results and mid-market prices give few reasons to pick it over the alternatives.

Prices verified 17 Oct 2026

Infatica asks for a photo ID and a selfie, verified through Veriff, before you can buy anything1. Among the providers here only Bright Data is stricter. If your organisation wants a supplier that knows who all its customers are but Bright Data’s company-only rules exclude you, Infatica is the obvious alternative — and it’s our runner-up for strict compliance.

For most other buyers it’s hard to recommend. It isn’t cheap, it wasn’t fast in testing, and its pool leans away from the markets most buyers target.

Our verdict

A careful vendor with middling numbers. Hard to recommend over cheaper or faster options.

Best for

  • Buyers who want a vendor that verifies every customer
  • A paid 7-day trial before committing

Skip if

  • Consistent response times matter (7.80 s P95)
  • You need a pool weighted to the US or Western Europe
  • You want to avoid ID-and-selfie verification

Runner-up for: strict customer vetting and the deepest targeting. Picks are by use case, not a ranking.

On this page
  1. Pricing
  2. Targeting, protocols and sessions
  3. Sourcing, KYC and trust
  4. Independent performance evidence
  5. Pros and cons
  6. Who should pick it
  7. Alternatives

Infatica pricing (as of October 2026)

As of October 2026, from the Infatica pricing page, checked 17 Oct 2026. US dollars.

Infatica residential pricing
Option Price Per GB Note
Pay-as-you-go — $4.00
25 GB $96 / month $3.84
100 GB $360 / month $3.60
241 GB $700 / month $2.90
500 GB $1,350 / month $2.70
1,000 GB $2,600 / month $2.60
Trial $4 — 7 days
Pay-as-you-go
$4.00/GB2
Monthly plans
25 GB $96 ($3.84); 100 GB $360 ($3.60); 241 GB $700 ($2.90); 500 GB $1,350 ($2.70); 1,000 GB $2,600 ($2.60)2
Annual plans
20% cheaper, e.g. 12,000 GB for $24,960 ($2.08)2
Trial
$4 for 7 days2
Minimum
Not confirmed

Pay-as-you-go costs $4.00 per GB. Monthly plans run from 25 GB for $96 ($3.84/GB) through 100 GB for $360 ($3.60), 241 GB for $700 ($2.90) and 500 GB for $1,350 ($2.70) to 1,000 GB for $2,600 ($2.60). Annual plans are 20% cheaper, reaching $2.08/GB on a 12,000 GB plan2.

Those are mid-market prices. At 100 GB, Infatica’s $360 compares with $225 at Webshare, $200 pay-as-you-go at Rayobyte and $49 on Evomi’s plan3,4,5. At 1 TB, $2,600 is almost four times Rayobyte’s pay-as-you-go price4.

The $4, seven-day trial is the better feature2: cheap enough to run your own targets before committing, which, given the test results below, you should.

Targeting, protocols and sessions

Targeting
Country, city, ISP and ZIP2
Protocols
HTTP(S) and SOCKS52
Sticky sessions
Preset durations from 5 to 60 minutes1

Targeting covers country, city, ISP and ZIP, over HTTP(S) or SOCKS52. Sticky sessions use preset durations from 5 to 60 minutes1 — shorter than most mid-market rivals: Decodo and Oxylabs allow 24 hours6,7. For long logged-in flows, that ceiling is a real limit.

Sourcing, KYC and trust

KYC
Mandatory: ID and selfie via Veriff before the first purchase1
Pool
Claims 45M+ in 195+ countries (other pages say 40M+); Proxyway measured 2,130,875 unique IPs2,1
Support
24/7 chat1

The KYC is the headline: ID and selfie before the first purchase, and for some products verification is needed just to see the plans1. Support is available by chat 24/71.

The pool is less convincing. Infatica’s pages variously claim 40 million and 45 million-plus IPs in 195-plus countries2; Proxyway counted 2,130,875 unique IPs and noted the pool skews towards Russia, Brazil and China1. If your targets are mostly in the US or Western Europe, test coverage there during the trial.

Independent performance evidence

Latest third-party test: Proxyway, April 2026

Proxyway’s April 2026 test: 97.57% global success, a 1.64 s average and a 7.80 s 95th-percentile response for a 6 KB page, and 2,130,875 unique IPs. It noted the pool skews towards Russia, Brazil and China1.

The average response of 1.64 s was the second-slowest of the seven providers here in the April 2026 round, and the 95th-percentile response of 7.80 s means one request in twenty took nearly eight seconds; IPRoyal’s, by comparison, was 4.13 s1,8. Success, at 97.57%, was below Decodo, Oxylabs, SOAX, Webshare and Rayobyte, and above only IPRoyal9,7,10,11,12. Proxyway notes that the network scales well.

Third-party figures are snapshots from the stated date, on the tester’s targets and setup; see our methodology for how we use each source.

Pros and cons

Pros

  • Mandatory KYC (ID + selfie via Veriff) before the first purchase1
  • 24/7 chat1
  • $4 trial for 7 days2
  • Country, city, ISP and ZIP targeting2

Cons

  • 97.57% success, 1.64 s average and 7.80 s P95 (April 2026)1
  • Pool skews to Russia, Brazil and China1
  • $3.60/GB at 100 GB — above Webshare, Rayobyte and Evomi2
  • Pool-size claims vary across its own pages (40–45M+)

Who should pick Infatica — and who shouldn’t

Pick it if

  • You want a supplier that verifies every customer, and you don’t qualify for Bright Data.
  • Your targets are in countries where its pool is strong.
  • You value round-the-clock chat support.

Skip it if

  • Consistent response times matter — a 7.80 s P95 is a long tail.
  • You need long sessions; Decodo offers 24 hours and tested faster.
  • Price matters; Rayobyte also vets customers and is cheaper at most volumes.

Alternatives to Infatica

  • Bright Data review — even stricter KYC plus carrier targeting, at a higher price.
  • Rayobyte review — also verifies customers (SumSub), with cheaper pay-as-you-go.
  • Decodo review — faster and more consistent in the same April 2026 round.

For the full picture, see the best residential proxies by use case, the price-per-GB tables and our index of all eleven reviews.

Sources

  1. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Proxyway, Infatica review (residential tested April 2026). Third-party test.
  2. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Infatica, Pricing. Vendor page, checked 17 Oct 2026.
  3. ↑ Webshare, Residential proxy plans. Vendor page, checked 17 Oct 2026.
  4. a b Rayobyte, Pricing. Vendor page, checked 17 Oct 2026.
  5. ↑ Evomi, Pricing. Vendor page, checked 17 Oct 2026.
  6. ↑ Decodo, Help: Residential proxy session types. Vendor page, checked 17 Oct 2026.
  7. a b Proxyway, Oxylabs review (residential tested April 2026). Third-party test.
  8. ↑ Proxyway, IPRoyal review (residential tested April 2026). Third-party test.
  9. ↑ Proxyway, Decodo review (residential tested April 2026). Third-party test.
  10. ↑ Proxyway, SOAX review (residential tested April 2026). Third-party test.
  11. ↑ Proxyway, Webshare review (residential tested April 2026). Third-party test.
  12. ↑ Proxyway, Rayobyte review (residential tested April 2026). Third-party test.