SmartProxy Review: Real IP Addresses Worldwide, Free Tools for Work and an API for Parsing

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🌐A proxy is a consumable item on which a lot depends. For instance, if an SMM specialist uses low-quality proxies, their account may get blocked for suspicious activity. And if affiliate marketers use bad proxies, the costs for accounts can double or even triple.
Marketers, affiliate marketers, SEO specialists, SMM experts, and other users working online prefer to use residential or mobile proxies.
We have tested the proxies from SmartProxy. This is a reliable and proven supplier of IP addresses from over 195 locations. You can buy datacenter, mobile, or residential proxies, paying per IP per month or per GB.

Why Choose SmartProxy

SmartProxy offers datacenter, residential, and mobile proxies with a 14-day money-back guarantee and flexible pricing policy. You can literally choose a plan that suits you

without overpaying.

🔥SmartProxy advantages:

• Premium proxies with real IP addresses. All addresses are obtained through “white” methods and are not on blacklists;
• Multiple plans to choose from: residential proxies, ISP, mobile proxies, proxies for unblocking websites, etc. Prices starting from $8.5 per month;
• API access. If you are involved in parsing, then for just $50 a month you get proxies for parsing social networks, search results, marketplaces, and other purposes;
• 195+ locations to choose from;
• Over 65 million IP addresses;
• 99.99% average uptime for proxies from SmartProxy;
• 24/7 support;
• Own checkers for proxy verification;
• Convenient and intuitive personal account;
• Proxies are not in spam and blacklists;
• The possibility to choose proxies based on the amount of traffic used.

SmartProxy also has a money-back guarantee. Within 14 days, you can request a refund if you are not satisfied with the quality.

How to Use Proxies from SmartProxy

First, we register on the official SmartProxy website. To do this, click “Create account” at the top right:

Enter your email and password, or create an account through Google:

After the account is created, log in to the personal cabinet. On the main page:

• Proxies by category;
• Plan;
• Website unblocking;
• Parsing API.

On the left is the navigation menu for the personal cabinet. Here you can select different proxies, top up the balance, contact support.

👌🏻To purchase a proxy, select the type of proxy:

• Residential Proxies — these are proxies with IP addresses from real providers used by real people. Such proxies are perfect for working with social networks. Payment is made for the traffic used.
• Datacenter Proxies — these are datacenter proxies, inexpensive proxies suitable for parsing, for example. There is payment per IP or per GB. Not suitable for working with social networks.

We will purchase residential proxies. There are several plans available:

• 2 GB at the price of $7/GB;
• 8 GB at the price of $6.5/GB;
• 25 GB at the price of $6/GB;
• 50 GB at the price of $5.6/GB;
• 100 GB at the price of $5.2/GB.

You can also pay for each GB separately, in which case the cost will be $8.5 per GB.

Select a plan and click the “Activate PayG” button. Right after activating the proxy, information about how much traffic you have used will appear on the main page.

Next, go to “Proxy setup” and choose the type of authorization. There are two types here: by login and password, or by whitelist. For work in Dolphin{anty}, it’s better to choose authorization by login and password.

In the “Endpoint generator” we generate proxies for connection. Here, you can select:

• Authentication method — we choose by login and password;
• Location — this will determine your IP;
• ZIP Code — if you need IPs from a specific region;
• Session type;
• Connection protocol.

All proxies are provided in such a format that they can be conveniently added directly to Dolphin{anty}.

🟣Open Dolphin{anty} on your device and select “Proxy” → “Create proxy”:

In the window that opens, add the copied proxies from the SmartProxy website and click “Add”:

Check all proxies for validity to ensure that they are working correctly:

If everything is fine, “Active” will appear next to the proxies and you will be able to use them for your profiles in Dolphin{anty}:

Smart Fingerprint Checker from SmartProxy

All users who pay for access to proxies get the opportunity to work with the checker from the service. It’s an internal tool that allows you to ensure that the proxies are working correctly.
👀Simply go to the “Dashboard” tab, scroll down the page, and click “Check my IP”:

A tab will open displaying information about:

• your location;
• the browser you are using;
• your PC;
• other information.

This way you can check the purchased proxies and make sure they match what the service promised you:

Testing SmartProxy Proxies

We decided to test the IP addresses from SmartProxy for speed, correspondence to the specified geolocations, and the cleanliness of the IP addresses themselves in spam databases.
Therefore, we will create three profiles; for this, we go to “Browsers” → “Create Profiles” and create three different profiles with three different proxies:

Next to each profile, the IP addresses that you have chosen for work will be displayed:

⚡️We launch three profiles simultaneously and first thing we check is the speed of operation:

✅All three proxies that we took for the test have a stable working speed. By the way, when using one proxy for an hour, no service showed us a captcha to verify if we are human.
We also checked the received IPs for presence in spam databases: out of 65 lists, the IPs were not found in any.

How to replenish the balance in SmartProxy

To use proxies, you need to replenish your balance. To do this, go to the official SmartProxy website, click on the balance icon at the top right, and specify the amount to replenish.

Click “Add balance” and choose the payment method. You can replenish the balance:

• via credit cards;
• using PayPal;
• through Wire Transfer;
• using Google Pay.

The service does not charge you a fee, but the payment system may charge one. Immediately after replenishment, the funds will be credited to your balance.

You can track the history of all transactions in the “Transactions” section. If you choose “Plan transactions” your payments for proxies will be displayed there, and if you choose “Wallet transactions” you will be able to find the history of balance replenishments.

Summary

SmartProxy offers real IP addresses that can be used for various purposes. For example, you can use SmartProxy to access accounts for traffic arbitrage, manage social networks, bypass blocks, or boost engagement on websites.
😎 Thanks to a convenient plan grid, SmartProxy has proxies to suit every budget. And along with the free Dolphin{anty} plan, you can make your sessions on the Internet as anonymous as possible. Buy proxies from SmartProxy and download Dolphin{anty} for your work.