Trusted Proxies Review 2026: Real UK Proxy Infrastructure, and a 7-Day Refund That Skips Metered Plans

What Is Trusted Proxies?

Trusted Proxies is a business-to-business proxy service. You buy bandwidth or IP addresses from it, point your scraper, rank tracker or price monitor at them, and route your requests through them so the sites you are collecting from do not block you. The catalogue has three parts: rotating proxy servers billed by monthly bandwidth, shared datacenter proxies billed per IP, and dedicated datacenter proxies billed per IP. There is also a browser extension, GeoSet, that lets a person switch a Chrome or Firefox session between the proxies already on their account.

The company behind it is Appstractor Corporation (UK) Ltd. The Companies House record for company number 07250556 shows incorporation on 11 May 2010, status active, a registered office care of an accountant in London, and three SIC codes: 62012 business and domestic software development, 63110 data processing and hosting, and 63990 other information service activities. It traded as Trusted Web Services Limited from 2010 until 24 February 2015. The site footer repeats the England and Wales company number alongside VAT number GB108838986, and the Terms & Conditions give a trading address at 252 The Kinetic Centre, Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.

This matters for an American buyer, because everything runs through a UK entity. Prices are quoted in US dollars, but the terms treat a “business day” as one that is not a weekend or public holiday in either the UK or the US, and the only phone number the company currently publishes on its own site is a UK one (+44 20 3587 7774) rather than a US line. There is also no Better Business Bureau profile for the company or for either of its names — a search of the Bureau’s directory returns no matching business as of October 2026.

Two small mismatches recur through this review, because they turn up everywhere from the marketing copy to the refund terms. The operator’s own about page says the company “started in 2011” while Companies House says 2010; the site copyright line reads 2010-2026. The Terms & Conditions were last updated on 1 January 2024, but the privacy policy still carries a version date of 25 May 2018. None of this is sinister. It is the untidiness of a small software company that has been registered in the UK since 2010 and has bolted new products onto old paperwork, and it is worth knowing before you read the rest of the terms as if a lawyer had recently been through them.

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Key Features: What You Actually Get

Rotating proxy servers, billed by bandwidth. This is the flagship product and the one the company clearly builds its routing technology for. You point your scraper at a single hostname instead of maintaining a list, and a routing engine picks the exit IP per request. The advertised mechanics are specific rather than hand-wavy: hybrid selection across datacenter, premium, residential and high-value pools; real-time block detection based on response-size analysis through HTTPS tunnels, which is meant to catch soft blocks before they cascade; automatic retry on HTTP 403, 502, 503 and 504, stepping up through progressively better pools; sticky sessions on a 24-hour sliding window so a pinned exit IP survives a long workflow and auto-reassigns if it dies; and a circuit-breaker state machine (Healthy, Unhealthy, Recovering) that quarantines failing proxies and reintroduces them at reduced weight once they pass health checks. Whether all of that outperforms a cheaper competitor is not something we can tell you without running both, and we did not.

Shared datacenter proxies. Static IPs shared with other customers, billed per proxy per country, with unlimited bandwidth. The advertised uses are account management, social media work, ad verification and competitive price research. It is the cheapest real product in the catalogue and, in our reading, the best value one.

Dedicated datacenter proxies. The same idea with exclusive IPs and unlimited bandwidth. The company says it can supply proxies “never before used” for particular websites, which is the pitch that matters to anyone whose shared IP has already been burned on a target.

GeoSet, the browser extension. A Chrome and Firefox add-on that connects a browser session to proxies already on your Trusted Proxies account, with one-click switching, a live display of your current public IP, keep-alive monitoring and port failover. It does not provide proxy service by itself; it is a client for what you already rent. It is included free with a Shared or Dedicated Datacenter plan, which is the cheapest sensible way to get it given the standalone price.

Protocols, integrations and support. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 across the static products, TLS-encrypted proxy connections, compatibility claims covering Python, PHP, JavaScript, Go, Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright and Octoparse, 24/7 ticketing, and a sales contact link. The one G2 review that says anything about support, from October 2022, calls the team knowledgeable and helpful. The other three reviews on the profile and both of the old Web of Trust reviews say nothing about support at all, so that is a single data point, not a pattern.

Trusted Proxies Pricing in 2026

Every figure below is a published list price on the official pricing page, the GeoSet page or the pricing calculator as of October 2026, and the effective per-gigabyte rates are our arithmetic on those prices. The pricing calculator applies a 10% saving on annual billing for the proxy products and 17% for GeoSet, and prices exclude VAT where it applies.

Product	Price (as of October 2026)	What you get	Effective rate
Rotating Proxies — Good	$50/month, or $45/month billed annually ($540/year)	5 GB bandwidth per month, rotating residential IPs, global coverage, API and proxy gateway access	$10 per GB
Rotating Proxies — Better	$200/month, or $180/month annually ($2,160/year)	40 GB per month, same feature set	$5 per GB
Rotating Proxies — Best	$400/month, or $360/month annually ($4,320/year)	100 GB per month plus priority support	$4 per GB
Shared Datacenter Proxies	From $10 per proxy/month (from $9 on annual billing)	Static shared IPs, unlimited bandwidth, HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5	US and UK at the entry rate; 77 locations in the calculator
Dedicated Datacenter Proxies	From $17 per proxy/month (from $15.30 on annual billing)	Exclusive static IPs, unlimited bandwidth, HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5	US $17/month; UK $18/month; 82 locations in the calculator
GeoSet Starter	$9.99/month or $99/year	5 countries, Chrome and Firefox, one-click switching, live IP display	Free with a Shared or Dedicated plan
GeoSet Pro	$19.99/month or $199/year	10 countries, same feature set	Free with a Shared or Dedicated plan
Free trial	$0 for 7 days	1 rotating proxy, or 5 shared or dedicated proxies	Signup form asks name, email, password, country

Three things about that table are worth pulling out.

First, the per-gigabyte maths is the whole story on the rotating product. $10 per gigabyte at the entry tier is expensive to run continuously, and the price only falls to $4 per gigabyte if you buy the $400-per-month plan — which means paying for 100 GB every month whether your crawlers need it or not. Three third-party ProxyLook pages record competing entry rates on the same date: Rayobyte at $7.50 per gigabyte, and Infatica at $3.84 and Hydraproxy at $2.95 on the directory’s own pricing table and comparison pages. The same Rayobyte head-to-head scores Trusted Proxies 4.0 out of 5 against a 7.2 out of 10 trust score, versus 8.4 for Rayobyte. Directory scores like these are commercially entangled with the vendors they rank — ProxyLook’s own pricing table carries discount codes for several of the providers it lists — so treat the ordering as directional. The raw per-GB list prices are the part you can check yourself on each vendor’s site.

Second, the per-IP products are priced differently. Shared datacenter at $10 per proxy per month with unlimited bandwidth is competitive for what it is, and US and UK proxies sit at the bottom of the location table while rare countries cost far more — Bermuda and Sri Lanka are tied at the top of the shared list at $250 per proxy per month, with Moldova at $196 and Bangladesh at $56 further down. If your work is US-focused, the headline price is the price you pay.

Third, the pricing page was running a promotion when we checked it in October 2026: a banner advertising 39% off any plan with code 2026OCTOBER39, described as ending 31 October 2026. The banner identifies its audience as new visitors. We have not tested the code at checkout, so the table above deliberately uses list prices, and the discount is worth confirming on the cart page before you rely on it.

One last oddity: the pricing page’s FAQ includes the question “How secure is my payment information?” and answers it with the text about cancelling a subscription and minimum commitment periods. That is a copy-paste error sitting on a live commercial page as of October 2026, and it is a fair illustration of how closely this site is proofread. Accepted payment methods, per the same FAQ, are major credit cards, PayPal and bank transfer.

What Customers Say About Trusted Proxies

The honest summary is that public review volume is limited as of October 2026, and what exists leans mildly positive without being independent. This is not a company with a hidden complaint problem — it is a company with almost no public footprint at all.

• Trustpilot: the profile exists and is marked as claimed in October 2023, but it shows 0 reviews and a TrustScore of 0 out of 5. There is no sentiment to report because there is no content.
• G2: G2’s Trustedproxies seller profile shows 3.8 out of 5 from 4 reviews, with a stated split of 25% five-star and 75% four-star and dates running from October 2022 to July 2024. Every one of the four is tagged “Review source: G2 invitation” and “Incentivized review”. The themes named are ease of setup, perceived security and speed; exactly one review mentions support. The profile’s own arithmetic does not add up — one five-star plus three four-star reviews averages 4.25, not 3.8 — which is itself a reason to treat a four-review sample cautiously. Four incentivised reviews is not a measurement of anything.
• Chrome Web Store: the GeoSet listing shows 3 ratings averaging 5 stars, with 133 users, version 2.3.6, last updated 9 March 2026. Three ratings is anecdote, not data.
• Web of Trust: 2 community reviews, roughly 13 years old, one 5-star and one 1-star, with no security score computed for the domain.
• Better Business Bureau: no profile for Trusted Proxies, Appstractor Corporation (UK) Ltd or Trusted Web Services Limited, so there is no complaint count and no accreditation status to report.
• Reddit and forum discussion: searches in October 2026 did not surface any Reddit threads about this provider, and no WebHostingTalk thread either. Reddit blocks automated access, so we cannot rule out discussion we could not read — but nothing appeared in indexed search results.

The only third-party assessment with any structure is ProxyLook’s directory profile, which rates the provider 4.0 out of 5, gives it a 7.2 out of 10 trust score and recommends it specifically for shared datacenter use cases while conceding that competitors beat it on price per gigabyte. Roughly nine public ratings across every platform combined is too small a sample to measure satisfaction, and we are not going to pretend otherwise.

Is Trusted Proxies Legit and Safe?

Legit: yes, and it is one of the clearer-cut cases in this category. There is a named, active UK company behind the product with a Companies House record going back to 2010, a VAT number and a trading address. The prices are published rather than hidden behind a sales call. The terms are specific, dated and internally consistent enough to be enforceable, including a 7-day cooling-off clause and a stated refund turnaround. Searches across Trustpilot, G2, the Chrome Web Store, Web of Trust and general complaint queries in October 2026 found no scam reports, no payment disputes and no evidence of the operator reselling IP addresses it does not control. Proxy and scraping services are dual-use by nature, but this is ordinary commercial data-collection infrastructure of the same kind Bright Data and Oxylabs sell, and its acceptable-use rules are stricter than most.

Safe: yes, with the caveats that come from these being business-to-business terms rather than consumer ones. Four clauses deserve reading before you buy:

• The refund is not a universal 7-day money-back guarantee. Clause 10.1 refunds 100% within 7 days except on metered products, which get unused credit back pro-rata — and nothing at all if you have already burned the month’s allowance inside those 7 days. Rotating proxies are metered.
• Liability is capped at what you paid in the previous 12 months, and availability is not warranted at all. Clause 13.1 makes no warranty that the proxies will be available or error-free, and clause 13.5 limits total liability to the fees paid under the relevant contract in the 12 months before the event. That is a normal B2B limit, but it sits badly next to the 99.9% uptime SLA the parent company advertises on its own about page. An advertised SLA and a contractual disclaimer of availability are not the same promise, and it is worth knowing which one you can enforce.
• Blocked IPs on shared plans may simply stay blocked. Clause 11.2 lets the company replace a banned proxy at its discretion without being obliged to, even when another customer caused the ban, and clause 11.3 tells search-report customers on non-dedicated plans to expect temporary bans and wait a few hours. Clause 11.4 adds that they are under no obligation to replace any IP banned by any search engine or website. If your whole workflow depends on clean IPs on a $10-per-proxy plan, that is a real risk of downtime you cannot bill them for.
• The licence is internal business use only. Clause 13.2 bars resale of the product unless agreed otherwise, so anyone planning to white-label proxy capacity into their own offering needs a conversation with sales first, not a checkout.

On data handling, the privacy policy is conservative on its face: it says the company does not collect special-category personal data such as race, religion, health or political beliefs, and that it will get express opt-in consent before sharing personal data outside the Appstractor group for marketing. The catch is the date — the stated version is 25 May 2018, four years older than the Terms & Conditions and well before the recent wave of US state privacy statutes. For a B2B tool the practical exposure is small, but a US privacy team reviewing a vendor will notice it.

One structural note for anyone who found this through an affiliate or advertiser listing: the advertiser record on the Awin network is filed as “Trusted Proxies US”. That is the brand’s own name in the network, not evidence of a separate American entity. No US company registration for Appstractor appears in the records we checked, the company’s own site publishes only its UK phone number, and there is no Better Business Bureau profile behind the US-facing storefront.

Bottom Line

Trusted Proxies is a real business selling real proxy infrastructure, run by a company that has been registered at Companies House since 2010 and has been selling this product line for at least a decade. Nothing in its public record suggests anything worse than a small UK software vendor with stale paperwork. The problem is not legitimacy, it is value and the shape of the guarantees.

At $10 per gigabyte on the entry rotating plan, it is priced at a premium to rivals that third-party directories put at $2.95 to $7.50 per gigabyte for the same job, and you only reach $4 per gigabyte by committing $400 a month to 100 GB. The 7-day refund excludes metered products, so on exactly the plans most buyers start with, a heavy first week can wipe out the refund entirely. Blocked IPs on non-dedicated plans are replaced at the company’s discretion rather than automatically, and the contract disclaims any availability warranty while the marketing advertises a 99.9% uptime SLA. On top of that, the independent review record is roughly nine ratings across every platform combined, and the only four reviews with any structure at all are flagged as incentivised.

Where it genuinely wins is on the static products and on service. Shared datacenter proxies at $10 per proxy per month with unlimited bandwidth are competitive, the US and UK are the cheapest locations on the shared product, GeoSet is free with a Shared or Dedicated plan, SOCKS5 is supported, the routing engine has features worth paying something for, and the one public review that discusses support describes the team as helpful. Our 3.7 rating reflects that split: decent product, honest company, above-market price on the metered plan, and terms that protect the seller more than the buyer.

If you do sign up, use the Trusted Proxies 7-day trial first and watch your bandwidth counter during it, because the trial gives you one rotating proxy and the refund clause turns on how much of the monthly allowance you burn. If your work is US-focused static scraping, price the shared datacenter product before the rotating one — it is where the maths makes sense. And if your deciding factor is cost per gigabyte, look at the directory comparisons above before you pay $200 a month.

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