> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://roundproxies.com/blog/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The 8 best Geonode alternatives in 2026 - URL: https://roundproxies.com/blog/best-geonode-alternatives/ - Published: 2026-10-03T10:33:49.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-03T11:06:14.000Z - Description: Geonode alternatives compared on live per-GB price, pool depth, and mobile IPs. Test script included. - Author: Marius Bernard - Tags: Best Alternatives, Provider Comparison, #dated-6ac0d55e56ce240001268a3d Geonode is now cheaper than nearly every provider people recommend as its replacement. Its residential plans start at $0.79/GB and fall to $0.27/GB, while most Geonode alternatives lists ranking this month still quote its old $3/GB rate. That makes price a weak reason to switch. The good reasons are narrower: a thin pool in your country, mobile IPs Geonode doesn't sell, or a crawl calendar so lumpy that monthly plans waste money. So every pick below fills one specific gap. If you want the wider field instead, our ranking of [the best residential proxy providers](https://roundproxies.com/blog/best-residential-proxies/) covers it. Full disclosure: Roundproxies publishes this blog, and I ranked us first. Geonode still beats our residential rate by a wide margin; we're first because we close the most of its gaps in one account. Run the test script below on us like anyone else. I checked every price here against the vendor's own pricing page, or against independent trackers dated within the last 90 days, during the last week of September 2026. ## The best Geonode alternatives The best Geonode alternatives in 2026 are Roundproxies for filling every gap in one account, Decodo for a fast self-serve swap, Oxylabs and Bright Data for large or hardened crawls, SOAX for mobile IPs, IPRoyal and DataImpulse for non-expiring traffic, and Webshare for a free tier. - Roundproxies for filling every Geonode gap in one account - Decodo for the fastest self-serve swap - Oxylabs for large crawls - Bright Data for hardened targets - SOAX for mobile proxies - IPRoyal for sticky sessions that last up to 7 days - DataImpulse for pay-as-you-go traffic with no subscription - Webshare for a permanent free plan and cheap datacenter IPs ## What is Geonode? Geonode is a Singapore-based proxy provider selling rotating residential, static ISP, and datacenter proxies, plus an unlimited residential plan with a flat monthly price. It also sells its own scraping APIs and an MCP server, which is where much of its recent product work has gone. On the proxy side, you pick a country and session type, paste a gateway URL into your code, and choose rotation or sticky sessions of up to 24 hours. Targeting reaches state, city, ASN, and OS where live IPs exist. Protocols are HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, and UDP. Residential starts at $7.92 for 10 GB and steps down 20 tiers to $0.27/GB at 100 TB. ISP proxies start at $1.25/IP; datacenter at $0.14/GB. ## Why look for a Geonode alternative? Most people leave Geonode for coverage or product gaps, since its prices already sit near the bottom of the market. - **Pool depth in smaller markets.** Geonode's product page claims 7.5M+ IPs active monthly and tells you to test niche geographies first. Its comparison pages say 2.5 million. - **No mobile proxies.** The lineup is residential, ISP, datacenter, and unlimited residential. Mobile-first targets need a second vendor. - **Bandwidth that dies when you cancel.** Unused GB roll over only while you stay subscribed, and the $5 trial (10 GB, 3 days) renews into a paid plan. - **Sourcing you can't see.** Geonode says it runs its own network. [Google's threat intelligence team reported in July 2026](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/google-continued-disruption-residential-proxy-networks) that shrinking operators quietly resell competitors' capacity, so test that claim. - **Payment options.** No PayPal; cards, crypto, Alipay, and wire only. That stalls some procurement teams. ## What makes a good Geonode alternative? ****How We Pick and Test What We Recommend** Every roundup you see on Roundproxies is put together by real people who live and breathe proxies, tools, and software. We don't just skim the surface, we roll up our sleeves and spend serious time digging into each product, putting it through real-world use, and measuring it against clear standards that actually matter for the category. No shortcuts, no guesswork. For more information on how we chose software, apps and tools, feel free to read the full article of [how we pick the tools we recommend on Roundproxies blog](https://roundproxies.com/blog/pick-apps/). A good Geonode alternative gives you something Geonode doesn't, at a price you can justify. I judged each on five things: - **Live IPs in your target country.** Advertised pools count every address a network has ever seen. What limits a crawl is how many exits answer in your country today, which takes ten minutes to measure. - **A product Geonode doesn't sell.** Mobile IPs, sessions past 24 hours, a permanent free tier, or paperwork procurement will sign. Matching Geonode feature for feature means paying several times more for the same thing. - **Billing that matches your traffic curve.** Monthly allowances punish bursty crawls; pay-as-you-go punishes steady ones. Check whether unused traffic expires. - **Targeting and session control.** City and ASN targeting, plus sticky sessions long enough for your login flow. Geonode's 24 hours is the bar. - **Sourcing you can get in writing.** A named channel (paid bandwidth app, disclosed SDK, or ISP contracts) and a third-party audit. Resellers can't answer this. I left out scraping APIs and web unblockers, including the ones these vendors sell, because this blog's position is that you run and control your own scraper. NetNut is out as well, after the FBI seized its domains in July 2026\. [Our NetNut alternatives write-up](https://claude.ai/blog/best-netnut-alternatives/) covers what happened. For this update I pulled every rate from pricing pages or dated trackers, then wrote the pool test below so you can measure live coverage yourself. ## Geonode alternatives at a glance | Provider | Best for | Standout feature | Pricing | | ------------ | ------------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------- | | Roundproxies | Every gap in one account | Non-expiring residential, mobile, ISP, and PayPal | From $3.50/GB; ISP from $1/IP | | Decodo | Fast self-serve swap | 115M+ advertised IPs, ZIP and ASN targeting, 3-day free trial | From $3.75/GB; $2/GB at 1 TB | | Oxylabs | Large crawls | 175M+ advertised IPs behind one gateway | From $6/GB (5 GB); $2.50/GB at 1 TB | | Bright Data | Hardened targets | ZIP and ASN targeting across residential, ISP, and mobile | $8/GB PAYG list; plans from $499/mo | | SOAX | Mobile proxies | Mobile traffic billed at the residential rate | From $3.60/GB (25 GB plan) | | IPRoyal | Long sticky sessions | Sessions up to 7 days, traffic never expires | $7.35/GB at 1 GB; $1.75/GB at 10 TB | | DataImpulse | Pay-as-you-go | $1/GB with no subscription and no expiry | $1/GB; $0.80/GB at 1 TB | | Webshare | Free tier | 10 free proxies and 1 GB a month, permanently | Free; datacenter from $2.99/mo | ## Is there a cheaper alternative to Geonode? For residential bandwidth on a subscription, mostly no. Geonode's $0.79/GB entry rate and $0.27/GB floor undercut every provider on this list. The exception is billing shape. DataImpulse charges $1/GB with no subscription or expiry, so if you'd cancel Geonode between projects, it can cost less per gigabyte used. | Provider | Entry residential rate | Best published rate | Billing | Mobile proxies | | ------------ | ---------------------------- | --------------------- | --------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------ | | Geonode | $0.79/GB (10 GB plan) | $0.27/GB (100 TB) | Monthly; unused GB roll over until you cancel | No | | DataImpulse | $1/GB (5 GB) | $0.80/GB (1 TB) | Pay-as-you-go, never expires | From $2/GB | | Roundproxies | $3.50/GB (1 GB, 50% off) | $1.58/GB (1 TB) | One-time purchase, never expires | $80/IP/mo, unlimited bandwidth | | Decodo | $3.75/GB (3 GB); $4 PAYG | $2/GB (1 TB) | Monthly plans or wallet PAYG | From $2.25/GB | | SOAX | $3.60/GB (25 GB) | About $2/GB (700 GB+) | Monthly plans | Same rate as residential | | Oxylabs | $6/GB (5 GB); $8 PAYG | $2.50/GB (1 TB) | Monthly plans; PAYG capped at 50 GB/mo | From $7.50/GB | | IPRoyal | $7.35/GB (1 GB PAYG) | $1.75/GB (10 TB) | Pay-as-you-go, never expires | From $10.11/day | | Bright Data | $8/GB PAYG list; $4 on promo | $2.50/GB (promo tier) | PAYG or monthly; KYC for residential | $8/GB PAYG | | Webshare | Free: 10 proxies, 1 GB/mo | Promotion-dependent | Monthly plans | No | Geonode's unlimited residential plan starts at $1,800/month. Against its own metered tiers ($1,323 for 3 TB, $2,160 for 5 TB), it only pays off above roughly 4 TB. ## The 8 best Geonode alternatives, reviewed ### 1\. Best Geonode alternative for filling every gap in one account: Roundproxies ![Roundproxies](https://roundproxies.com/blog/content/images/2026/10/Roundproxies-data-1.webp) **Pros** - Residential traffic is a one-time purchase that never expires - Mobile, ISP, datacenter, and residential on one account, and PayPal is accepted - Free trial on every proxy type, mobile included **Cons** - $3.50/GB at 1 GB and $1.58/GB at 1 TB, several times Geonode's rate even with the current 50% discount - Sticky sessions cap at 30 minutes, against Geonode's 24 hours - Pool figures are self-reported, and our own pages don't agree on them Yes, this is our product, and I put it first. Read this section with as much suspicion as that deserves, then run the pool test below on us before you believe any of it. It's first because it closes more of Geonode's gaps at once than anyone else here. Geonode sells no mobile proxies, takes no PayPal, and lets unused GB lapse when you cancel. Roundproxies covers all three. Residential traffic is sold as a one-time purchase that never expires, and leftover GB carry into your next top-up. That's the advantage DataImpulse and IPRoyal sell, with mobile and static ISP IPs on the same login. Mobile plans are flat-rate with unlimited bandwidth: $400/month for 5 IPs, with a free 3-day trial on one. Against SOAX's $3.60/GB, that's cheaper once each IP moves more than about 22 GB a month. ISP proxies run from $14/month for 10 IPs to $300 for 300, with unlimited bandwidth. Geonode starts at $1.25/IP, so we only undercut it from 200 IPs up. That said, residential bulk bandwidth is where we lose. At $2.38/GB for 100 GB we cost almost four times Geonode's $0.65/GB, and 30-minute sessions won't hold a day-long login. Keep that traffic on Geonode if the pool test says it's fine. The pool claim needs the same scepticism. Our product data says 180M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries, other pages on this site say 119M+, nothing is independently audited, and we publish no third-party sourcing certification. Ask support in writing where the IPs come from before committing volume. Who it's still right for: teams that want mobile, ISP, and non-expiring residential under one bill and one dashboard, and who'll verify the pool themselves. **Roundproxies pricing:** Residential from $3.50 for 1 GB to $1,575 for 1 TB ($1.58/GB), one-time and non-expiring, with the current 50% discount applied. ISP from $14/month for 10 IPs, mobile from $400/month for 5 IPs, and datacenter from $6/month for 10 IPs. Free trials on every type. ### 2\. Best Geonode alternative for a fast self-serve swap: Decodo ![Decodo ex. Smartproxy](https://roundproxies.com/blog/content/images/2026/10/Smartproxy--Decodo--2-1.webp) **Pros** - 115M+ advertised residential IPs with ZIP and ASN targeting - Self-serve signup with a 3-day free trial - Residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile on one account **Cons** - About 4.7 times Geonode's entry rate ($3.75/GB against $0.79/GB) - Monthly allowances expire, and every price excludes VAT Decodo, formerly Smartproxy, is the quickest self-serve swap if Geonode's pool is thin where you scrape. It advertises 115M+ residential IPs across 195+ locations, and every plan includes targeting from continent down to ZIP code and ASN at no extra cost. Very little changes in your code: a new host, port, and credentials. Keep those in environment variables and you can run both providers side by side for a week. Pricing is published at every tier with no sales call: $3.75/GB on the 3 GB plan, $2.75/GB at 100 GB, and $2/GB at 1 TB. Pay-as-you-go is $4/GB, drawn from a prepaid wallet. Before committing, run the pool test below against Decodo and Geonode in your most important country, same day, same request count. That said, you're paying several times Geonode's rate for the same kind of bandwidth. If Geonode already covers your countries, stay put unless the test shows a gap. **Decodo pricing:** From $11.25/month for 3 GB ($3.75/GB), down to $2,000/month for 1 TB ($2/GB). Pay-as-you-go is $4/GB. Prices exclude VAT, and there's a 3-day free trial. ### 3\. Best Geonode alternative for large crawls: Oxylabs ![Oxylabs](https://roundproxies.com/blog/content/images/2026/10/Oxylabs-1.webp) **Pros** - 175M+ advertised residential IPs across 195 countries - Per-GB rate drops to $2.50 on the 1 TB plan - Mobile proxies on the same account **Cons** - Small plans are expensive ($6/GB on the 5 GB Starter) - Pay-as-you-go is $8/GB, capped at 50 GB a month, with no refunds Oxylabs is the pick when volume is the problem. If you're pulling hundreds of gigabytes a month from one country, a pool advertised at 175M+ residential IPs gives rotation more room before exits start repeating. The plan ladder rewards commitment. Starter is 5 GB for $30, Basic is 20 GB for $100, Advanced is 125 GB for $500, and Corporate is 1 TB for $2,500. Oxylabs also sells mobile proxies from $30 for 4 GB, covering the one type Geonode lacks without a second vendor. That said, the small end of the ladder is poor value, and testing through pay-as-you-go costs real money at $8/GB. Below about 100 GB a month, Decodo, or Geonode itself, is the better buy. **Oxylabs pricing:** From $30/month for 5 GB ($6/GB) to $2,500/month for 1 TB ($2.50/GB). Pay-as-you-go is $8/GB, 1 to 50 GB per month. ### 4\. Best Geonode alternative for hardened targets: Bright Data ![BrightData](https://roundproxies.com/blog/content/images/2026/10/BrightData-1.webp) **Pros** - Country, state, city, ZIP, and ASN targeting - Residential, ISP, datacenter, and mobile pools under one login - Recurring promotions that halve pay-as-you-go pricing **Cons** - $8/GB list pay-as-you-go, the highest list rate on this page - New residential zones require a human-reviewed KYC check Bright Data is where I'd point a crawler whose target scores IP reputation at the ASN level. It advertises a residential pool of 400M+ IPs, and its targeting goes down to ZIP code and ASN. The pricing usually looks worse than it is. The list rate is $8/GB pay-as-you-go, but a 50% promotion has run through much of 2026, putting pay-as-you-go at $4/GB and the $499 plan at about $3.50/GB. That said, the KYC gate is real. Since July 2026, new residential zones need a human review, a registered company, and a corporate email domain, and solo applicants get turned down. Datacenter and ISP proxies stay self-serve. Who it's still right for: a funded company scraping hardened retail or travel targets, where a higher success rate pays for the price gap. A freelancer with a Gmail address should go to Decodo instead. **Bright Data pricing:** $8/GB pay-as-you-go at list price, or $4/GB during the recurring 50% promotion. Monthly plans start at $499\. Datacenter starts at $0.60/GB. ### 5\. Best Geonode alternative for mobile proxies: SOAX ![SOAX](https://roundproxies.com/blog/content/images/2026/10/SOAX-2-1.webp) **Pros** - Mobile traffic billed at the same per-GB rate as residential - Country, region, city, ISP, and ASN targeting - $1.99 paid trial **Cons** - Entry plan is $90/month, a bigger first bill than anyone else here - Independent price reports disagree, so confirm the rate at checkout SOAX fills the gap Geonode leaves open: mobile proxies. Its mobile pool, advertised at 33M+ IPs, bills at the same per-GB rate as its residential traffic, which is unusual in a market where carrier IPs usually cost extra. Carriers put thousands of phones behind shared addresses, so blocking one mobile IP risks blocking real customers. App APIs and social platforms tend to tolerate them longer. Plans start at $90/month for 25 GB ($3.60/GB) and fall to about $2/GB around 700 GB. One subscription covers residential and mobile, so you can mix the two without splitting the budget in advance. That said, SOAX is the hardest provider here to price. Trackers I checked this year quote its entry tier anywhere from $3.60 to $6.60/GB, so treat my numbers as a starting point and trust the checkout page. Who it's still right for: anyone whose Geonode setup works everywhere except mobile-first targets. Keep Geonode for bulk residential and add SOAX for mobile; our [mobile proxy roundup](https://roundproxies.com/blog/best-mobile-proxy/) covers the other options. **SOAX pricing:** From $90/month for 25 GB ($3.60/GB) on the Starter plan, down to about $2/GB at 700 GB and above. Mobile uses the same rates. The trial costs $1.99. ### 6\. Best Geonode alternative for long sticky sessions: IPRoyal ![IPRoyal](https://roundproxies.com/blog/content/images/2026/10/IPRoyal-1.webp) **Pros** - Sticky residential sessions of up to 7 days - Residential traffic never expires - Mobile, ISP, and datacenter proxies on the same account **Cons** - $7.35/GB for 1 GB, over nine times Geonode's entry rate - The advertised $1.75/GB rate starts at a 10 TB purchase IPRoyal solves one problem well: sessions that need to outlive Geonode's 24-hour sticky window. Its residential sessions can hold an IP for up to 7 days, which suits logged-in scrapers and multi-day monitoring on a single identity. Its other advantage is billing. Suppose you refresh a catalog once a quarter and burn 80 GB in two days; with IPRoyal you buy the 80 GB once, and whatever's left waits for the next run. That said, the per-GB math hurts at small volume: $7.35/GB for 1 GB pay-as-you-go, $5.25/GB for 10 GB on subscription, and $1.75/GB only from 10 TB. A residential IP can also drop before day 7 when the device behind it goes offline. I'd use IPRoyal for the handful of sessions that need a stable identity and leave bulk rotation on Geonode. Our [Decodo vs IPRoyal comparison](https://roundproxies.com/blog/decodo-vs-iproyal/) goes deeper if those two are your shortlist. **IPRoyal pricing:** Residential from $7.35/GB for 1 GB pay-as-you-go, or $7/GB on subscription, down to $1.75/GB at 10 TB. Mobile from $10.11/day, ISP from $1.80/proxy, and datacenter from $1.39/proxy. ### 7\. Best Geonode alternative for pay-as-you-go: DataImpulse ![](https://roundproxies.com/blog/content/images/2026/10/Dataimpulse-1.png) **Pros** - $1/GB with no subscription - Purchased traffic never expires - City, ZIP, and ASN targeting on residential **Cons** - Rotating pools only, with no static ISP product or dedicated IP lists - The rate stays flat until 1 TB, so it stops looking cheap at scale DataImpulse is the closest thing to Geonode's pricing without a subscription. Residential traffic costs $1/GB whether you buy 5 GB or 50 GB, and none of it expires. That changes the math for intermittent work, since Geonode's unused GB only survive while you stay subscribed. It advertises 90M+ IPs across 195 countries. A benchmark published in August 2026 by Shifter, a competitor, counted 86,976 live DataImpulse IPs in the US and 7,786 in Germany, so check thinner markets before you prepay. That said, at 1 TB the price only drops to $0.80/GB, while Geonode's 1 TB plan works out to $0.50/GB. Heavy, steady traffic belongs on a subscription. Who it's still right for: small teams with irregular crawls who hate renewal dates. **DataImpulse pricing:** Residential at $1/GB (5 GB for $5 as a new-user intro, 50 GB for $50), or $0.80/GB on the 1 TB plan. Datacenter from $0.50/GB and mobile from $2/GB. Traffic never expires. ### 8\. Best Geonode alternative for a free plan: Webshare ![Webshare](https://roundproxies.com/blog/content/images/2026/10/Webshare-1.png) **Pros** - 10 free proxies and 1 GB a month, with no card and no expiry - Datacenter IPs from $2.99/month for 100 - Per-proxy configuration in a self-serve dashboard **Cons** - No mobile proxies - The free and cheapest tiers are datacenter IPs, which hardened targets block on sight Webshare earns its spot with the one thing Geonode doesn't offer: a permanent free plan. You get 10 proxies and 1 GB of bandwidth a month, forever, with no credit card. Geonode's free proxy list is a different animal: public proxies run by nobody you know. Webshare's free tier gives you authenticated proxies on infrastructure it operates. Paid datacenter plans start at $2.99/month for 100 proxies and fall to about $0.018 per proxy at 60,000\. For unprotected targets like docs sites or public data portals, that beats paying anyone per GB. That said, Webshare's residential pricing swings with promotions; I've seen it quoted anywhere from $1.40 to $7/GB this year. Datacenter ASNs also score badly with Cloudflare-class defenses, so this won't carry hardened targets. Who it's still right for: developers prototyping a scraper, and anyone whose targets don't check IP reputation. **Webshare pricing:** Free for 10 proxies and 1 GB/month. Datacenter from $2.99/month for 100 proxies, down to $0.0179/proxy at 60,000\. Rotating residential is billed per GB at promotion-dependent rates. ## How to test a Geonode alternative before you switch Sample 300 exits from each provider in the same country, then compare success rate, latency, unique IPs, network spread, and overlap with a same-day Geonode sample. A run costs a few megabytes and ten minutes. It catches what pool sizes hide: a network that's huge globally and thin in your country. It's our general guide to [testing proxies](https://roundproxies.com/blog/test-proxies/), narrowed to a vendor comparison. You need Python 3.9+ and `pip install httpx`. ### Step 1: sample exits through each gateway The first half of `sample.py` sends one request to an IP echo service and records the exit IP and latency. Set `PROXY_URL` to the provider's rotating endpoint, with country targeting on. ```python import asyncio, json, os, sys, time import httpx PROXY = os.environ["PROXY_URL"] # rotating gateway URL, country targeting included N, CONCURRENCY = 300, 20 async def probe(client, sem): async with sem: t0 = time.perf_counter() try: r = await client.get("https://api.ipify.org?format=json") return {"ip": r.json()["ip"], "ok": r.status_code == 200, "ms": (time.perf_counter() - t0) * 1000} except (httpx.HTTPError, ValueError, KeyError): return {"ip": None, "ok": False, "ms": None} # count it, don't retry ``` Failures are recorded rather than retried, because a retry loop would hide exactly the flakiness you're measuring. The second half runs 300 probes, 20 at a time, and writes the results to a JSON file. ```python async def main(out_path): limits = httpx.Limits(max_keepalive_connections=0) # new connection, new exit async with httpx.AsyncClient(proxy=PROXY, timeout=15, limits=limits) as client: sem = asyncio.Semaphore(CONCURRENCY) rows = await asyncio.gather(*(probe(client, sem) for _ in range(N))) json.dump(rows, open(out_path, "w")) asyncio.run(main(sys.argv[1])) ``` The `max_keepalive_connections=0` line matters most. Many gateways assign an exit per connection, so a pooled client reuses one IP and makes a deep pool look shallow. The `proxy=` argument needs httpx 0.26 or newer. The [httpx proxy docs](https://www.python-httpx.org/advanced/proxies/) cover SOCKS5 if your provider prefers it. ### Step 2: map exit IPs to their networks Unique IPs alone mislead, because 300 addresses from one hosting company is still one network. This function maps them all through [Team Cymru's free IP-to-ASN service](https://www.team-cymru.com/ip-asn-mapping) in one bulk query. ```python import json, socket, statistics, sys from collections import Counter def asn_lookup(ips): """Map IPs to (ASN, AS name) using Team Cymru's bulk whois on TCP 43.""" query = "begin\nnoheader\n" + "\n".join(ips) + "\nend\n" with socket.create_connection(("whois.cymru.com", 43), timeout=30) as s: s.sendall(query.encode()) s.shutdown(socket.SHUT_WR) # tell the server we're done sending data = b"" while chunk := s.recv(4096): data += chunk result = {} for line in data.decode(errors="ignore").splitlines(): parts = [p.strip() for p in line.split("|")] if len(parts) == 3 and parts[0].isdigit(): # "AS | IP | AS name" result[parts[1]] = (parts[0], parts[2]) return result ``` Send one bulk query per run, never one connection per IP. Team Cymru null-routes clients that hammer its whois server, and asks you to keep bulk runs to a few thousand addresses. ### Step 3: print the comparison The report function goes in `pooltest.py` below `asn_lookup`. It prints success rate, latency percentiles, spread, top networks, and overlap with your Geonode sample. ```python HOSTING_HINTS = ("HOSTING", "CLOUD", "DATACENTER", "DATA CENTER", "SERVER", "VPS", "OVH", "HETZNER", "AMAZON", "DIGITALOCEAN", "LEASEWEB", "M247") def load(path): with open(path) as f: rows = json.load(f) return rows, [r for r in rows if r["ok"]] def report(path, baseline=None): rows, ok = load(path) if not ok: sys.exit(f"{path}: no successful requests; check credentials and country") ips, lat = {r["ip"] for r in ok}, sorted(r["ms"] for r in ok) asns = asn_lookup(sorted(ips)) hosting = sum(any(h in n.upper() for h in HOSTING_HINTS) for _, n in asns.values()) print(f"success {len(ok)}/{len(rows)}, p50 {statistics.median(lat):.0f} ms, " f"p95 {lat[int(len(lat) * 0.95) - 1]:.0f} ms") print(f"spread {len(ips)} IPs, {len({i.rsplit('.', 1)[0] for i in ips})} /24s, " f"{len({a for a, _ in asns.values()})} ASNs, {hosting} hosting-like") ``` The hosting count is a name heuristic, not a verdict. A match on "CLOUD" or "SERVER" means look that network up by hand before you draw conclusions. The last block prints the top five networks and the overlap with your baseline file. ```python for (asn, name), n in Counter(asns.values()).most_common(5): print(f" AS{asn:<8}{n:>4} {name[:45]}") if baseline: shared = ips & {r["ip"] for r in load(baseline)[1]} print(f"overlap {len(shared)} IPs shared with {baseline}") if __name__ == "__main__": report(sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2] if len(sys.argv) > 2 else None) ``` Run the sampler once per provider, then compare each one against Geonode. ```bash PROXY_URL="http://USER:PASS@GEONODE_GATEWAY:PORT" python sample.py geonode.json PROXY_URL="http://USER:PASS@OTHER_GATEWAY:PORT" python sample.py other.json python pooltest.py other.json geonode.json ``` ### Reading the results On a rotating gateway, unique IPs should land close to successful requests. If 300 requests return 40 IPs, rotation is sticky or the pool is shallow in that country. For residential, the top networks should be consumer ISPs (Comcast, Charter, AT&T, and Verizon in the US), with a hosting-like count near zero. Two independent networks should share few IPs, if any. Double-digit overlap in 300 exits is worth an email to sales asking who owns the network. A `407 Proxy Authentication Required` means wrong credentials or a gateway set to IP whitelisting. The same IP on every request means a session ID in the username, or keep-alive still on. Timeouts clustered in one country usually mean a thin pool. Rerun at a different hour first, since residential supply follows local daytime. ## Other Geonode alternatives to consider - Evomi is a budget residential option at $0.49/GB on its 100 GB plan, for small teams whose targets don't fight back. - NodeMaven filters exits by IP quality and offers 24-hour sticky sessions with traffic rollover, for account work where a clean IP matters more than price. - Proxy-Cheap sells rotating residential from $2.99/GB alongside static residential and mobile proxies, for buyers who want ISP and mobile IPs from one budget vendor. ## Which Geonode alternative should you use? Pick the provider that fills the specific gap you have, and keep Geonode for everything it already does well. If you want Geonode's missing pieces (mobile, PayPal, traffic that never expires) on one bill, start with Roundproxies. If Geonode thins out in one country and you want the quickest swap, move that country to Decodo. Pushing hundreds of gigabytes a month? Test Oxylabs. If the target fights back and you can clear KYC, use Bright Data. Mobile IPs, add SOAX. One identity for days, IPRoyal. Hate subscriptions? DataImpulse. Prototyping on zero budget? Webshare's free tier. If price is your only complaint, you may already be on the cheapest option. Pick what fits this quarter's workload; switching later is one config change. ## FAQ ### Does Geonode have a free plan? No, Geonode has no permanent free plan. Its $5 trial (10 GB for 3 days) renews into a paid plan unless you cancel. Roundproxies has free trials on every proxy type, and Webshare's free tier never expires. ### Which Geonode alternative has the largest IP pool? Bright Data advertises the largest pool here at 400M+ IPs, then Roundproxies at 180M+ (self-reported), Oxylabs at 175M+, and Decodo at 115M+. Those counts include every address ever seen, so measure live IPs in your country. ### Does Geonode sell mobile proxies? No. As of September 2026, Geonode sells residential, ISP, datacenter, and unlimited residential proxies only. Every pick here except Webshare sells mobile, and SOAX bills it at its residential rate. ### How can I keep the same IP longer than 24 hours? Use IPRoyal's sticky sessions, which hold a residential IP for up to 7 days, or static ISP proxies that never rotate. Geonode itself sells ISP proxies from $1.25/IP. ### Do I have to rewrite my scraper to switch from Geonode? Usually not. Most providers accept a standard proxy URL, so you change the host, port, and credentials. Session and country parameters use each vendor's own username syntax, so check its docs. ## Wrapping up Geonode is cheap enough that the best reason to leave is a gap it can't fill: a thin country, mobile IPs, multi-day sessions, or billing that suits a lumpy calendar. Run the pool test in your country before you pay anyone for volume. If you're still comparing, [our residential proxy ranking](https://roundproxies.com/blog/best-residential-proxies/) covers the wider field.