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Both are well-respected residential proxy providers. 922 S5 wins on price, payment flexibility and no-expiry IPs. Smartproxy wins on bandwidth-heavy scraping with built-in scraper API.
Smartproxy charges by bandwidth — pay for GB consumed. 922 S5 charges by IP — pay for sessions / IP slots. This single difference changes which is cheaper for your use case.
If you scrape millions of small JSON responses (eBay listings, Walmart product data), bandwidth is the constraint → Smartproxy. If you run many account farms (Amazon sellers, TikTok Shops, sneaker bots, social media), IPs are the constraint → 922 S5.
Smartproxy $75/mo minimum. 922 S5 $36 one-time. Math wins over 12 months.
Pay per IP, not per GB. Better for sessions / account farming.
Buy once, use for months. No 'use it or lose it' subscription pressure.
USDT, BTC, ETH, TRX, LTC, XMR. Smartproxy is card + PayPal.
Sign up with username. Smartproxy requires email + sometimes phone verification.
Pay crypto → access in 5 min. Same speed as Smartproxy with card payment.
| Feature | 922 S5 | Smartproxy |
|---|---|---|
| Minimum order | $36 one-time | $75/mo |
| Pricing model | Pay-per-IP | Pay-per-GB |
| Residential pool | 350M+ | 65M+ |
| Countries | 200+ | 195+ |
| No-expiry IPs | Yes | No (monthly reset) |
| Crypto payments | Yes (6 networks) | No |
| Best for | Accounts, e-commerce, sneakers | Bandwidth-heavy scraping |
| Free trial | No, $36 starter | 3-day money back |
| API + Tools | BYO + SOCKS5 | BYO + SOCKS5 + Web Scraping API |
Same plans, same prices. Pay once, never expires.
Yes. Smartproxy starts at $75/mo with $5/GB residential pricing. 922 S5 starts at $36 one-time for 150 IPs ($0.24/IP) with no recurring fees. For most users it's 50–80% cheaper over 12 months.
Smartproxy uses bandwidth-based pricing — popular for high-volume scraping where requests are small. 922 S5 uses IP-based pricing — popular for account farming, e-commerce, social media where session count matters more than bandwidth.
922 S5. Sneaker bots need fresh IPs per checkout attempt — counted per IP, not per GB. Pay $0.05–$0.24 per IP works out cheaper than $5/GB when you do 1000s of small requests per drop.
Depends on volume. For 100GB+/mo bandwidth, Smartproxy or Bright Data are more cost-effective. For <50GB/mo with many sessions, 922 S5 is cheaper.
Yes. SOCKS5 endpoint format is similar. Replace `gate.smartproxy.com:7000` with 922 S5 credentials in your script — done.
Pay once for IPs that never expire. $36 / 150 IPs to start.
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