SOAX review (2026): a strong network sold on awkward terms

SOAX pricing (as of October 2026)

Model

Credits ($1 = 1 credit), charged per GB by exit-country tier¹

Sandbox

$5 / $4 / $2 per GB for Tier 1 / 2 / 3 countries¹

Plans (Tier 1 rate)

Builder $200/mo at $3.00; Team $500 at $2.20; Scale $1,500 at $1.50; Enterprise $3,000 from $0.85¹

Expiry

Credits expire 60 days after purchase¹

Free trial

None on the pricing page¹

How the credits work

On the pay-as-you-go Sandbox tier a gigabyte costs $5 in Tier-1 countries (the US, for example), $4 in Tier 2 and $2 in Tier 3. Monthly plans lower the Tier-1 rate: $3.00 on Builder ($200 a month), $2.20 on Team ($500), $1.50 on Scale ($1,500), and from $0.85 on Enterprise ($3,000)¹. Proxyway calls the tier pricing complex², and it is: the same budget buys very different volumes depending on where you send the traffic.

The 60-day clock

Credits expire 60 days after purchase¹. That’s more forgiving than a monthly plan that resets, but much less than the never-expiring balances at PacketStream, IPRoyal or Evomi’s pay-as-you-go^3,4,5. If you buy the $200 Builder plan for a one-off job that uses $120 of credit, you lose the rest unless you use it within two months.

There’s no free trial on the pricing page¹, so the cheapest way to try SOAX is a small Sandbox purchase.

Targeting, protocols and sessions

Targeting

Country, city and ISP¹

Protocols

HTTP(S) and SOCKS5¹

Sticky sessions

Up to one week, per Proxyway; not confirmed on SOAX’s pricing page²

Targeting covers country, city and ISP, over HTTP(S) or SOCKS5¹. Proxyway singles out SOAX’s rotation controls as a strength and reports sticky sessions of up to a week²; we couldn’t confirm that maximum on SOAX’s own pricing page, so treat it as Proxyway’s figure.

The current site sells residential and mobile proxies only. If you also need datacenter or ISP proxies from the same vendor, look elsewhere.

Sourcing, KYC and trust

Pool claim

191M+ residential and mobile IPs combined¹

Measured pool

1,670,306 unique IPs over 21 days²

Support

Weekdays 7am–7pm UTC²

SOAX claims more than 191 million IPs, counting residential and mobile together¹; Proxyway’s 21-day sample found 1,670,306 unique residential IPs². We found no independent rating of its sourcing.

Support is the other weak point. Proxyway reports it has been cut back to weekdays, 7am to 7pm UTC². If a job breaks on a Saturday, you wait until Monday.

Independent performance evidence

In the April 2026 round, SOAX’s 99.78% success and 0.89 s average sat just behind Decodo (99.92%, 0.53 s) and Oxylabs (99.93%, 0.60 s), and close to Webshare’s 0.86 s average^6,7,8.

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

Who should pick SOAX — and who shouldn’t

Pick it if

• Much of your traffic exits from Tier-2 or Tier-3 countries, where rates fall to $4 and $2 on Sandbox.
• You use a steady volume every month, so 60-day credit expiry won’t bite.
• You want fine rotation controls and long sessions on a well-tested network.

Skip it if

• You buy occasionally — IPRoyal and PacketStream balances never expire.
• You need support at weekends; Decodo runs 24/7⁶.
• You want a free trial before paying.

Alternatives to SOAX

• Decodo review — similar measured results, faster average, pay-as-you-go for 12 months.
• IPRoyal review — long sessions on traffic that never expires.
• Evomi review — far cheaper per GB with non-expiring pay-as-you-go data.

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