NodeMaven vs SOAX: Quality, Pricing and Proxy Features Compared

It depends entirely on your volume, because the two price on different logic. SOAX now sells plan-based access: a free Sandbox tier bills at $5.00/GB, Builder costs $200 per month at $3.00/GB, Team costs $500 at $2.20/GB and Scale costs $1,500 at $1.50/GB. NodeMaven charges per gigabyte with no monthly platform fee, from roughly $4.25/GB at entry down to $2.20/GB at a terabyte.

For anyone spending under about $200 a month, NodeMaven is cheaper because SOAX's low per-gigabyte rates are locked behind substantial monthly commitments. With AFFMAVEN35 applied NodeMaven's entry rate falls to roughly $2.76/GB, which beats SOAX's Builder tier while requiring no minimum spend at all. Above roughly $500 a month, SOAX's Team and Scale tiers become genuinely competitive, and its Tier 2 and Tier 3 country pricing goes lower still.

NodeMaven, for most buyers, and the reason is packaging rather than capability. Both support country, region, city and ISP targeting. SOAX adds ASN and ZIP targeting, but only on its Scale plan and above — which starts at $1,500 per month. NodeMaven includes ZIP-level targeting on every plan at no surcharge, including the 2 GB entry tier.

SOAX also excludes the state of Texas from both its residential and datacenter pools for regulatory reasons, which is an unusual gap in a major US market. If ZIP-level precision matters and you are not spending four figures monthly, NodeMaven gives you more targeting for less money.

SOAX, on the independent evidence. Proxyway's April 2025 benchmark recorded 99.73% infrastructure success globally at 0.90 seconds, and on real protected targets SOAX managed 90.27% combined — 94.50% on Amazon, 94.80% on Instagram and 81.50% on Google. NodeMaven's equivalent combined figure was 78.35%, dragged down by a 52.52% result against Google.

SOAX also ships a Web Data API that handles rotation, retries, JavaScript rendering and anti-bot bypass, plus SERP and e-commerce scraper endpoints. NodeMaven has no scraping API of any kind, so you build the whole stack yourself. For scraping at volume this is not close.

NodeMaven, decisively, and it comes down to one number: SOAX caps sticky sessions at 60 minutes. NodeMaven holds sessions far longer — its documentation claims up to 24 hours or 7 days depending on which page you read, and independent testing found 38.2% of sessions ran beyond 25 minutes.

An hour is simply too short for serious account work. Add NodeMaven's static ISP proxies, which hold one dedicated IP for a full 30 or 90 days with unlimited traffic, and the gap widens further — especially since SOAX discontinued its own ISP product in late 2025.

Apparently not. Independent reporting indicates SOAX discontinued its US ISP proxy pool in late 2025, and its ISP product URL no longer resolves. Some third-party pricing pages still list ISP tiers, and SOAX's own comparison page — whose data is dated October 2024 — still mentions the product, so the picture is muddled. We could not confirm an active ISP product as of August 2026.

If static residential IPs are what you need, this effectively removes SOAX from consideration. NodeMaven sells them from $2.99 per IP across seven countries, or roughly $1.79 with AFFMAVEN40 applied.

Yes, and it is mandatory. SOAX's KYC/KYB policy, effective 1 June 2026, requires identity verification before any paid service can be activated. It collects identity and contact details for the account owner, business registration and entity details, tax identification, and beneficial ownership information, with ID documents where applicable. Re-verification can be triggered later by ownership changes, unusual activity or a change of payment method, and the policy states that termination for verification failure carries no refund right.

NodeMaven operates no apparent KYC process and accepts more than ten cryptocurrencies. For individuals, freelancers and privacy-focused buyers, this is often the single deciding factor.

SOAX advertises 155M+ residential and 33M+ mobile IPs against NodeMaven's 30M+ residential and roughly 250,000–295,000 mobile. On advertised figures SOAX is far larger, particularly on mobile.

Measured figures narrow the gap considerably. Proxyway observed 752,416 unique SOAX IPs over 21 days against 878,883 for NodeMaven on comparable global runs — so NodeMaven actually returned more unique addresses in that test. Proxyway was blunt about the marketing number, saying of the 155M claim that it “sounds way too big to be true.” Treat both vendors' pool claims sceptically; SOAX's mobile pool advantage, however, is real and substantial.

Different mechanisms, and NodeMaven's is the more transparent. NodeMaven screens each residential and mobile IP against fraud-score and reputation databases before assigning it, and independent sampling of 1,000 US IPs showed average Scamalytics scores falling from 10.94 unfiltered to 4.4 with the filter on medium. SOAX has no equivalent pre-assignment filter, though its measured pool authenticity is excellent at 97–99% genuine residential.

The important caveat is that NodeMaven's filter only works with sticky sessions. Neither provider discloses concrete IP sourcing — Proxyway called SOAX's lack of disclosure “concerning” and made a similar observation about NodeMaven.

On scale, SOAX: 33M+ mobile IPs against NodeMaven's few hundred thousand, and one unified rate covering residential and mobile on the same plan. That is a genuinely useful commercial structure for workflows that interleave the two.

Two caveats. Multiple SOAX reviewers report mobile sessions dropping within 30 to 60 seconds, and independent measurement found its Brazilian mobile pool extremely thin at 4,881 unique IPs. NodeMaven bundles mobile into the same allowance as residential at no extra cost, so the marginal cost of testing it is zero. Benchmark both against your own platforms before committing.

Neither is certified, which surprises people. SOAX states it is actively pursuing SOC 2 and ISO 27001 but holds neither as of mid-2026, though it claims GDPR and CCPA compliance and partners with the World Ethical Data Forum. NodeMaven publishes no certification either.

SOAX is nonetheless the easier sell to a procurement team: it is a UK-registered company, SOAX LTD, with a formal published KYC/KYB policy and clearer legal documentation. If your security review demands actual ISO 27001, neither qualifies — Decodo is the provider in this category that holds it.

Six that matter. The 60-minute sticky session cap rules out long-session account work. Mandatory KYC/KYB blocks individuals and privacy-focused buyers. Its datacenter pool is US-only and excludes Texas. Meaningful plans start at $200 per month with no pay-as-you-go option, so small buyers pay $5.00/GB on the Sandbox tier. It supports no sub-users or team roles, complicating multi-seat use. And ASN plus ZIP targeting is gated behind the $1,500 Scale plan.

Add the apparently discontinued ISP product and a Google success rate of 81.50%, and the gaps are real — though its residential infrastructure performance remains genuinely strong.

Choose SOAX if you scrape at volume, need scraping APIs, want a large mobile pool billed at one unified rate, are spending $500 a month or more, and can complete business verification. Choose NodeMaven if you manage accounts or antidetect browser profiles, need sessions longer than an hour, want static ISP IPs, need ZIP-level targeting without a $1,500 plan, want to avoid KYC, or are spending under $200 a month.

The single fastest way to decide: if your workflow depends on holding one IP for more than 60 minutes, SOAX cannot do it and NodeMaven can.