Storm Proxies vs Shifter
Shifter sells its rotating residential proxies by the gigabyte today, and its unlimited-traffic product is ISP proxies priced per IP. Storm Proxies sells rotating residential ports at a flat monthly price with no data cap. Here’s what that means for your bill.
Pick Storm Proxies if…
- You want rotating residential IPs with no data cap: 1 port for $19/month, 5 ports for $50, and the bill stays the same however much you download.
- Your SEO software wants thousands of fresh datacenter IPs: 700,000+ rotating IPs behind one gateway, from $14/month.
- Your targets are in the USA or EU and you don’t need city or ASN targeting.
- You’d rather buy a small package first: our smallest package of each type has a 24-hour money-back guarantee.
Pick Shifter if…
- You need city, state or ASN targeting across 195+ countries from a 205M+ residential pool.
- You want SOCKS5 as well as HTTP(S). Storm Proxies sells HTTP(S) only.
- You need lots of parallel connections: Shifter lists unlimited concurrent connections on residential plans.
- You want ISP proxies tied to a chosen city and ISP, from $42/month for 25 IPs (listed price).
Storm Proxies vs Shifter: side by side
| Storm Proxies | Shifter | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat monthly price per port, thread or proxy | Residential: per GB on monthly plans. ISP proxies: per IP |
| Cheapest plan on the pricing page | $10/mo for 5 dedicated proxies; $19/mo for 1 residential port | Residential: $50/mo for 50 GB. ISP: $42/mo for 25 IPs (listed prices) |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited on every plan | Residential: the GB in your plan. ISP proxies: unlimited traffic |
| When the data runs out | It doesn’t. No data cap | Shifter’s billing docs say overage is billed from your wallet at the same per-GB rate |
| Residential pool | 20M+ IPs, USA or EU, new IP every 5 minutes | 205M+ IPs (Full Geo), plus 31M+ IP Country Geo and Non-Geo pools |
| Targeting | USA, EU (plus Worldwide on rotating datacenter) | Country, state, city and ASN in 195+ countries; ISP proxies in 120 countries |
| Concurrency | Set by the ports or threads you buy | Unlimited concurrent connections listed on residential plans |
| Protocols | HTTP(S) | HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 |
| Trial and refund | No trial. 24-hour money-back on the smallest package, first order | Free trial offered. Refund within 72 hours of first purchase if under 50% of plan traffic is used |
| Payment | Visa, Mastercard, Discover, Amex, PayPal | Cards, USDT or USDC, PayPal in some regions, wire for Enterprise |
Shifter facts are taken from Shifter’s own website and help pages, checked October 2026. Prices change, so check their site before you buy.
Looking for a Shifter alternative?
If you’re looking for unlimited backconnect proxies, Shifter’s current pricing pages may surprise you: residential plans come with a fixed number of gigabytes, and Shifter’s billing docs say extra traffic is charged from your wallet once the plan is used up. If your job grew and the overage line keeps growing with it, that’s usually the reason to look around.
Storm Proxies prices residential by the port. You rent residential ports by the month and push as much data through them as you need. The trade-off is real: Storm’s residential IPs are USA or EU with no city targeting, you get as many parallel connections as ports, and there is no SOCKS5.
400 GB of residential traffic a month
Take a rank tracker or price monitor that pulls about 400 GB a month through rotating residential IPs. That’s exactly the size of Shifter’s Growth plan, so here are both bills using today’s published prices.
The comparison isn’t one-to-one. Shifter’s plan comes with unlimited concurrent connections and city-level targeting. Storm’s 5-port plan gives you 5 ports, and each one hands out a new USA or EU IP every 5 minutes. If your crawler needs far more parallel sessions, you scale ports: 50 ports cost $300/month, about the same as the Shifter plan, and still have no data cap.
Where Shifter wins on price: small or country-specific jobs. Its Starter plan is $50/month for 50 GB, and its Non-Geo pool starts from $0.10 per GB, which is hard to beat if you move little data and don’t care where the IPs are.
For static IPs, both sides charge a flat price. Shifter’s ISP proxies cost $1.68 per IP on the 25-IP plan (listed price), each one kept in your chosen city and ISP. Storm’s private dedicated proxies are $2 per proxy, starting at 5 for $10/month, in Cheyenne, LA and NY.
Gigabytes vs ports: how each one bills you
Shifter sells residential traffic. Its pricing page lists monthly plans with included bandwidth: 50 GB for $50, 100 GB for $100, 200 GB for $149 and 400 GB for $299 (listed prices, shown as discounts off higher list prices). There are no ports to manage. You connect to one gateway, pick a country, city or ASN, and Shifter counts the gigabytes.
Storm sells connections. A residential port is a gateway that gives you a new IP every 5 minutes. You buy as many ports as you need parallel connections, from 1 port for $19 to 100 ports for $550, and none of them has a data limit. A slow month and a heavy month cost the same.
Neither model is wrong. Per GB rewards light, targeted use. Per port rewards heavy, steady use in the USA or EU.
Where Shifter is stronger
- Targeting. City, state and ASN targeting in 195+ countries. Storm offers USA or EU on residential.
- Pool size. Shifter lists 205M+ residential IPs on its Full Geo pool, against Storm’s 20M+.
- SOCKS5. Supported on Shifter’s residential and ISP plans. Storm is HTTP(S) only.
- Session control. Per-request rotation or sticky sessions from 1 to 30 minutes, plus API access and webhooks.
- More products. ISP proxies in 120 countries and scraping and SERP APIs from $44/month.
Where Storm Proxies is stronger
- No traffic meter. Every plan, residential included, has unlimited bandwidth. No wallet top-ups, no overage.
- Cheap rotating datacenter IPs. 10 threads for $14/month on a 700,000+ IP pool, with a new IP per request or sticky IPs for 3 or 15 minutes. Good for Scrapebox and GSA SER.
- A lower entry price for residential. 1 unlimited port costs $19/month.
- Ready-made packs for ticket sites, AIO Bot and social accounts.
- Simple setup. Whitelist your IP, paste the gateway into your tool, done.
Who each one is best for
High-volume scraping in the USA or EU
Storm. Flat residential ports or rotating datacenter threads keep the bill fixed while your data grows.
Local SEO and geo-specific data
Shifter. If you need results from a particular city or ISP, its targeting goes much deeper than Storm’s USA/EU choice.
Sneakers and tickets
Storm offers residential packs for AIO Bot and ticket sites at 20 ports for $160/month, plus private ticket proxies.
Account management
Each account wants one steady IP. Storm’s Instagram and Facebook proxies start at 5 for $15/month. Shifter’s ISP proxies are another option if you need a specific city.
Sources for Shifter facts (checked October 2026): Shifter residential pricing · Shifter ISP pricing · Residential docs · Billing, refunds and payment · ISP proxies. Storm Proxies facts come from our Residential proxies page and refund policy.
Storm Proxies vs Shifter: questions people ask
What’s the best Shifter alternative?
If you liked the idea of unlimited backconnect proxies and mostly work with USA or EU sites, Storm Proxies is a close match: rotating residential ports from $19/month and rotating datacenter threads from $14/month, all with unlimited bandwidth. If you need city or ASN targeting worldwide, stick with a per-GB provider that offers it.
Does Shifter offer unlimited bandwidth?
On ISP proxies, yes: Shifter lists unlimited traffic on every ISP plan, priced per IP. Its rotating residential plans include a set number of GB, and extra traffic is billed per GB. Storm Proxies includes unlimited bandwidth on every plan, residential too.
Is Storm Proxies cheaper than Shifter?
At high volume, usually. 400 GB of residential traffic is $299/month on Shifter’s Growth plan (listed price, checked October 2026) and $50/month on Storm’s 5-port plan. For small, targeted jobs, Shifter’s 50 GB plan at $50/month can be the better deal.
Can I target cities with Storm Proxies like I can with Shifter?
No. Storm residential IPs are USA or EU, and rotating datacenter IPs are USA, EU, USA+EU or Worldwide. Shifter offers country, state, city and ASN targeting.
Does Storm Proxies support SOCKS5?
No, only HTTP(S). Shifter supports both HTTP(S) and SOCKS5.
What’s the refund policy on each side?
Storm: 24-hour money-back on the smallest package of each proxy type, first order only. Shifter: within 72 hours of your first purchase, if less than half of the plan’s traffic is used.
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