Nsocks review

I picked Nsocks up the way I look at most mid-size proxy shops: I had two jobs running at once and one vendor was not going to cover both. A scraping pipeline that wants a fresh residential IP per request, and a set of browser profiles that need to look like they have not moved for months. Nsocks sells both shapes as separate products instead of blending them into one pool, which is usually the first thing I check. I have not run traffic through it myself, so nothing below is a measurement of mine. It is what the provider publishes, what third-party records show, and what those two things mean if you are choosing a plan.

What it is best for

If your work sits in one of these buckets, the product line maps onto it fairly cleanly:

• Rotating residential traffic metered by the gigabyte
• Sticky sessions for account and profile work
• Country and city-level targeting
• Anti-detect browser stacks
• Automation driven from Playwright or Selenium

What I liked

The clearest thing is the split. Rotating residential, static residential, static datacenter, ISP and unlimited are separate lines with separate billing logic rather than one pool with a rotation toggle. When a scraping run starts failing, the first question is always whether the exit went stale or the target changed behaviour, and having static and rotating sold as distinct products makes that easier to reason about and easier to budget for.

Targeting goes deeper than country. Third-party records list country, city, ISP and ASN targeting, while the provider's own page commits to country and city-level regions. ISP and ASN selection is what makes a residential pool usable against sites that score on the network rather than only on geography.

Payments are wide: debit and credit card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, crypto transfer, Alipay, WeChat Pay, UPI and local rails. For a buyer outside the US and Western Europe that list is often the deciding factor, not pool size.

The dashboard is a real dashboard rather than a key list. Traffic statistics are called out as a strength in third-party reporting, which matters when you are billed per gigabyte and need to know where the gigabytes go.

The site runs in English, German, Russian, Portuguese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indonesian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

What I didn't

No free trial, and that is the provider's own position rather than a gap in my notes. There is no way to measure the pool against your own targets before you pay. For a commodity where quality varies by target, that is the most annoying item on the list.

Refunds are the second. The provider states plainly that it does not support refunds on products sold. Third-party records conflict slightly here, listing a refund policy as present while describing it as strict. Either way, do not buy planning to reverse it.

The provider's own home page carries two different pool figures, 80M+ residential IPs and 90M+ IPs in 190+ country and city-level regions. Those are not the same number, and it is worth asking support which one applies to the product you are buying.

Third-party records put the founding date at 26 August 2024, with the domain registered back in October 2021. For a vendor you might hand long-running account work to, that is a short operating history.

The products

Seven lines, in three billing shapes.

• Rotating Residential Proxies — billed per GB, with starter packs from 10 GB up to 500 GB.
• Residential Proxies and Mobile proxies — the pool the provider describes as 80M+ real-user IPs, sourced from mobile and residential connections.
• Static Residential Proxies — per IP, fixed monthly cost, unlimited bandwidth but capped at 20 Mbps per IP. That cap is the number to think about before you put heavy transfers on a static address.
• Static Datacenter Proxies and Datacenter Proxies — per IP, fixed monthly, with unlimited bandwidth and sessions.
• ISP Proxies / Long-Acting ISP Proxies — the middle option: metered by GB, cheaper at scale, and sticky in a way rotating residential is not.
• Unlimited Proxies — bought by time rather than volume, from 1 day up to 60.

Protocols are SOCKS5, HTTP and HTTPS across the range, and rotation is available.

How to get started

There is no trial, so the practical route is to start on the smallest residential pack, 10 GB, treat it as a paid test and watch the dashboard traffic stats while it burns down. Decide first which billing shape you actually need: per GB if your volume is bursty, per IP if you need addresses that stay put, by time if you are pushing a lot of traffic through a small number of endpoints. The personal dashboard is where segments and traffic figures live, and the provider lists two contact addresses for account matters.

Integrations

The list is aimed at people running profiles rather than single scripts. Anti-detect browsers covered include Dolphin Anty, Multi Login, Octo Browser, MoreLogin, BitBrowser, Lauth Browser, Incogniton, AdsPower and Multilogin. On the automation side there is Playwright and Selenium, plus an API. That combination is the one I would want: a browser tool for manual and semi-manual account work, and a code path for anything scheduled. Because the same SOCKS5 and HTTP endpoints serve both, you are not maintaining two sets of credentials.

Usability

Rotation, protocols and targeting are the three settings that decide whether a pool is workable. Nsocks supports HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, offers rotation, and targets at country and city level according to its own page, with third-party records adding ISP and ASN. The provider claims 99.95% uptime, 90M+ IPs across 190+ country and city-level regions, and 3,500+ clients; those are the provider's numbers, not something I verified. The interface itself is available in nine languages and the dashboard carries traffic statistics, so day-to-day use is mostly a matter of reading counters and adjusting targets rather than fighting the control panel.

Pricing

Three billing shapes, and picking the wrong one is the main way to overspend here. Rotating residential is per GB, from a 10 GB starter up to 500 GB. Static residential and static datacenter are per IP on a fixed monthly charge, with unlimited bandwidth — the static residential line capped at 20 Mbps per IP, the datacenter line uncapped on bandwidth and sessions. Unlimited is sold by time, 1 day up to 60. Long-acting ISP sits between the two worlds, metered by GB but cheaper per unit at scale. The awkward part is estimating GB for residential work: the provider does not publish a per-request estimate, so your first month is guesswork that the dashboard corrects.

Customer service

Support runs through a 24/7 helpdesk via live chat and email, with separate addresses for general support and business enquiries. There is no phone line in the published channels. This matters more than usual with Nsocks, because the refund position is that products sold are not refunded. Support is effectively your only remedy if a plan turns out to be wrong for you, so open a chat before you buy rather than after.