Evidence and methodology
Every recorded fact should let you check what the provider published and when it was read.
Sources, dates and unknowns
Product facts come from official provider product, pricing, location or documentation pages. A fact keeps its source URL and observation date. The observation date is the date the evidence was read, not the launch date or a promise that the fact is still current. Provider review dates and individual fact dates can differ.
We do not fill gaps from competitor reviews, testimonials, generic navigation, a company address or another product's capabilities. “Not on record” means the checked evidence did not establish the fact; it does not mean the capability is unsupported. Location arrays can be partial verified lists. Country totals and example connection strings are not location lists.
How prices are read
Each entry price retains the published currency, billing unit, source and date. Headline “from” prices, starter packages, volume thresholds, billing periods and other recorded conditions must remain distinguishable. We do not convert currencies or apply unrecorded coupons. A rate explicitly quoted per 1,000 units may be normalized per unit; credits are not assumed to equal requests.
A missing billing period is labeled “billing period not on record.” A displayed price is neither a checkout quote nor a promise for the country or target on a filter page. For example, a location may be available on a different geographic price tier. Review the provider's exact plan and current terms before purchasing. Failed retrievals and indexed-copy limitations are not silently promoted to live verification.
What the views establish
Lists show partners first, then every other provider alphabetically, without scores or “best” verdicts. Some legacy URLs retain “best” in their address; that is not a verdict. A use-case or country view needs at least three distinct providers with matching sourced product records. Thinner legacy entries redirect to a relevant built view.
Advertising a target is not evidence that the target accepts the provider. These are provider claims, not compatibility, anonymity, availability or performance tests. Scraping APIs and proxy networks remain different product categories.
Affiliate disclosure and link attributes
Some provider links may earn a commission. They use an internal /go/ address and rel="sponsored nofollow noopener". Commercial targets are kept outside public data and generated pages. A commercial relationship never changes a recorded fact or whether a provider is included; it does change the order, as described under partner order.
Partner order
ProxySP has a commercial relationship, such as an affiliate or sponsorship agreement, with some providers. Those providers are marked Partner, and provider lists show them first, in an order ProxySP chooses; every other provider follows alphabetically. The order is not a verdict on quality, price or performance, and there are no scores. A partner's facts are read, dated and shown exactly like every other provider's, and a gap still reads “not on record”.
Links directly to a provider's official evidence page are non-affiliate source links and use rel="nofollow noopener". They open separately so you can compare the record with its source. A source link is not an endorsement.
How a cost is shown
The calculator and every check summary use one of six readings of a published tier. The figures in these examples are synthetic, not a provider's offer.
- Rate and recorded quantity. A tier published at $2.00 per GB for 50 GB shows a total of $100, labelled as the published rate multiplied by the recorded quantity. The multiplication is exact decimal arithmetic.
- Published package. A 50 GB package published at $100 shows $100 as published. It is not divided into a per-GB rate.
- Price per billing period. A plan published at $20 a month and billed monthly shows $20 for one month. A monthly rate on a 12-month plan, or a plan billed annually, stays a rate: the longer term is not multiplied out.
- Rate and your quantity. A flat rate of $2.00 per GB published as pay as you go, or with a recorded minimum order, multiplied by the 30 GB you enter shows $60; below the minimum no total is shown. A tier that publishes a quantity range, such as 100–999 IPs at $1.00 per IP, multiplies its rate by a quantity you enter inside that range only, and never when the rate is a "starting at" price. A quantity that two published ranges both cover, or a fraction of an IP, is not calculated.
- Plan fee. A tier sold on a plan with its own fee, such as $50 a month that includes 50 prepaid credits, shows the fee as the charge for one billing period. Usage at the plan's rates is charged against what the fee includes; usage beyond that needs top-ups, which the figure leaves out.
- Rate only. A rate of $1.50 per GB with no recorded quantity shows no total. ProxySP does not borrow another tier's quantity.
No reading converts currencies, annualises a billing period, applies a coupon or adds tax. Taxes, discounts, checkout charges and billing rounding are not confirmed by any recorded tier. A tier whose recorded figures cannot be used, such as a negative amount or a zero quantity, is shown as not calculated rather than as a number.
Not on record, not supported and conflicting
Three different things. Not on record means the checked official pages did not establish the fact; it is an unknown. A fact is recorded as unsupported only where an official page says so. When two official price lists for the same plan disagree, the plan stays unpriced instead of ProxySP choosing one, and a list that asks for a value never matches a provider by combining two of its products.
Which date is which
A read date is when the official page was read. A change date on record changes is when a changed value entered the record, which can be later than the change on the provider's site. An event date appears only on a historical status page, and only when a source states it. A check summary also states the time it was made, by your browser's clock; that time says nothing about how current the facts are.
Check summaries
Provider profiles, the comparison and the calculator can turn the facts you are looking at into a plain-text check summary: the provider, product and tier, each fact with its source and read date, what is not on record, questions to ask, and these limitations. It is made in your browser from the records already in the page. It does not contain anything you typed, any proxy endpoint or credential, any affiliate address or any free-text note. Its record fingerprint (sha256 of the published provider record) lets you see later whether the record has changed; it is not a signature and does not prove who made a file.
Corrections
The contact page prepares a correction note in your browser, naming the record, what is wrong and the official page to re-read. A report does not change a record by itself: a fact changes only after the official page is read again, and the change then appears in the provider's history.
Inspect provider records or browse the evidence views. See privacy for the distinction between browser-only input processing and hosting logs.
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