ProxyShard vs Rayobyte
ProxyShard
proxyshard.com
Rayobyte
rayobyte.comSide by side
| Figure | ProxyShard | Rayobyte |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $1.20/mo | $0.23/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 9 | 32 |
| Spec score · Residential Proxy Services | 7.9 (#46) | 9.3 (#4) |
| Spec score · Datacenter Proxy Services | 7.7 (#20) | 8.4 (#6) |
| Integrations | ProxyShard says its proxies connect with browsers, scrapers, SEO tools, and automation applications. | Rayobyte's browser integration documentation lists Playwright, Puppeteer, Scrapy, and OpenClaw, and says Selenium is not supported. |
| Protocols | The service supports HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, and UDP connections. | Proxy documentation supports HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 and SOCKS5-hostname connections; residential service can also carry UDP, HTTP/3 and STUN when enabled. |
| Support | The SLA lists weekday support hours of Monday to Friday, GMT+3, 10:00–22:00, and says urgent inquiries are addressed 24/7. | Rayobyte offers support tickets, email support and live chat, while TechRadar noted that phone technical support was unavailable. |
| What it does | ProxyShard sells residential, datacenter, ISP, and mobile proxies for browsing, scraping, automation, SEO, ad verification, and data collection. | Rayobyte provides residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxies, a Scraping API, Web Unblocker and hosted or self-hosted stealth Chromium browsers for web data collection. |
Plans
ProxyShard
- Standard Residential$2 a month
- Premium Residential$3 a month
- Unlimited Residential$30 a month
- Residential PremiumFree
- Residential StandardFree
- Datacenter$1.20 a month
- ISP$2 a month
- Mobile$10, paid once
- Residential Unlimited$30, paid once
Rayobyte
- Rotating Data Center Starter$0.30 a month
- Rotating Data Center Personal$0.28 a month
- Rotating Data Center Business$0.25 a month
- Rotating Data Center Corporate$0.23 a month
- Rotating Data Center EnterprisePrice not published
- ISP Rotating Starter$3.75 a month
- ISP Rotating Personal$3.50 a month
- ISP Rotating Consumer$3.25 a month
- ISP Rotating Professional$3 a month
- Rotating Data Center IPs — Corporate$0.23, paid once
In their own words
ProxyShard
ProxyShard has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Rayobyte
Rayobyte offers proxy services and web scraping products for collecting public web data. Its products include a Web Scraping API, Web Unblocker and a self-hosted Chromium browser, with API, web and self-hosted access. The company names e-commerce data extraction, AI development, ad verification and SERP data analysis as high-volume use cases. Its Web Scraping API includes proxy and browser management, JavaScript rendering, and charges only for successful scrapes. Residential proxies offer city, region or country targeting, sticky sessions, and unlimited threads and sessions. Rayobyte says residential IP partners consent to participation, can limit how connections are used or opt out, and are compensated. Browser integrations include Playwright, Puppeteer, Scrapy and OpenClaw; Selenium is not supported. Proxy authentication can use username and password or IP whitelisting where available. Rayobyte lists a free plan and a free trial. Rotating Data Center Starter costs $0.30 per month for 1-50 GB traffic; prices vary by product and traffic tier. Static residential proxy use is capped at 200 GB.