| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Proxy and web data providers | Data platform | 2% | 11 of 92 | 57% | 7 | under 10 labels · led by Decodo at 41% |
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“Proxy-Cheap (Best Overall Budget Value)” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · first choice
“Proxy-Cheap is tailored for budget-sensitive users who need access to basic proxy types at the lowest possible prices.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · alternative
“Newer, uptime claims need verification” Grok 4.1 Fast · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · alternative
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Users reported high fraud scores (80%–89%), making these proxies useless for social media, e-commerce, or scraping” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Proxy and web data · negative prompt · hard negative
“Multiple reports of dedicated proxies getting blocked by Cloudflare within a month, IPs detected as VPNs” MiniMax M2.5 · Proxy and web data · negative prompt · hard negative
“Low-Tier/Ultra-Cheap Providers (e.g., Proxy-Cheap) ... Proxies frequently blacklisted in databases” Kimi K2 · Proxy and web data · negative prompt · hard negative
“Very tightest budgets \u2013 only if you need a handful of IPs and can accept lower success rates.” MiniMax M2.5 · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · soft negative
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 15 of the 15 answers that named Proxy-Cheap and are not a share of its labels.
Fifty-nine of the sixty-seven domain citations in answers naming Proxy-Cheap came from somebody else's page.
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 162 | 0 | 2024-09-27 | ||
| Comparison | 47 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 11 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 5 | undated |
Every page proxy-cheap.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. Read October 5, 2026.
An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.
Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.
What Proxy-Cheap's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: proxy-cheap.com, proxy-cheap.com/use-cases/seo-utility, proxy-cheap.com/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.
Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Proxy-Cheap's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Proxy-Cheap, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.
A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Proxy-Cheap by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows: