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Jan Wiśniewski
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Each year, Proxyway – an authoritative source for proxy service analysis – releases its Proxy Market Research, the industry’s most in-depth and trusted benchmarking study. The 2025 edition continues this tradition with a comprehensive, data-driven evaluation of proxy solutions from 12 prominent providers, representing all segments of the proxy market: entry, mid-market, and enterprise. Let’s see where Infatica’s proxies excelled – and analyze the strengths and improvements that set us apart!
Understanding the Proxy Market Research 2025 Report
The report’s goal is to provide a clear, objective performance comparison of each provider's offerings across multiple key dimensions. To achieve this, Proxyway utilizes a rigorous testing methodology that simulates real-world usage scenarios and tracks measurable outcomes. Their evaluation includes:
- Pool size: measuring the breadth of available IPs across providers.
- Infrastructure performance: analyzing connection speeds, stability, and throughput.
- Request success rate: assessing how reliably proxies handle requests without timeouts or errors.
- IP quality: evaluating uniqueness, trustworthiness, and block rate of the proxies used.
- Additional benchmarks such as user experience, uptime, and adaptability for different use cases.
By combining these factors, the report creates a comprehensive, large-scale performance benchmark that serves as a guide for businesses and developers looking to choose the right proxy solution for their needs – whether it’s for web scraping, ad verification, market research, or traffic management.
High Success Rate in Real-World Platform Tests
Metric: To simulate real-world usage more accurately, the report includes a benchmark focused on request success rates across major platforms. In this test, providers were evaluated based on how reliably their proxies could access Google, Amazon, and Instagram – three of the most challenging and widely-used targets for data gathering – via US proxy locations.
Importance: This benchmark is particularly important because it reflects how proxy networks perform under realistic, high-pressure conditions. These platforms employ advanced anti-bot mechanisms and rate-limiting, making them a strong test of proxy resilience, stability, and IP quality. A high success rate means fewer blocked requests, less need for retries, and more efficient data collection workflows.
Infatica’s performance: In this category, select Infatica’s proxies achieved the best results in their respective categories:
- Residential proxies’ success rate: median – 94.30%, best – 95.20% (Infatica)
- Mobile proxies‘ success rate: median – 90.55%, best – 94.20% (Infatica)
These results reflect not only the robustness of our proxy infrastructure but also the quality and diversity of our IP pool. For businesses that rely on large-scale data collection from these major platforms, Infatica’s proxies offer a reliable, high-performing solution that minimizes friction and maximizes output.
Fastest Infrastructure Response Time
Metric: One of the standout benchmarks in Proxyway’s report is infrastructure response time – a critical performance indicator that measures how quickly a proxy network reacts to a connection request. In simpler terms, it's the delay between sending a request and receiving the first byte of a response from the proxy server.
Importance: This metric directly impacts the speed and efficiency of data gathering, especially in time-sensitive use cases like real-time pricing, competitive intelligence, or high-frequency scraping. A faster response time means lower latency, smoother operations, and more reliable performance at scale.
Infatica’s performance: In this year’s report, Infatica’s residential UK proxies led the entire market with an infrastructure response time of just 0.32 seconds – outperforming the second-best provider, whose proxies clocked in at 0.55 seconds. This margin is not only significant in percentage terms but also in practical implications: it allows Infatica’s users to complete tasks more quickly, with less resource consumption and fewer delays.
Leading in Mobile IP Availability Across Key Regions
Metric: Another important benchmark focuses on the percentage of mobile IPs in country-filtered proxy pools, which is crucial for use cases that demand maximum authenticity and minimal detectability, such as social media management, app testing, and localized user experience emulation.
Importance: This test measured how well providers could deliver mobile IP addresses when users filtered their proxy pool by specific countries. The regions included in the benchmark were the United States, United Kingdom, European Union, Brazil, India, and Australia – covering a wide geographic and market-relevant range.
Infatica’s performance: In this category, Infatica delivered the strongest performance in the market, with an impressive 99.4% of IPs identified as mobile across these country-filtered pools. This level of mobile IP availability ensures that our users can maintain high session legitimacy and avoid common blocking mechanisms tied to datacenter or overused residential IPs.
Infatica's Growth Amid Evolving Market Trends
The Proxy Market Research not only benchmarks technical performance – it also reflects broader industry trends and business growth indicators. As the demand for reliable, scalable proxy solutions continues to grow across sectors like e-commerce, cybersecurity, ad tech, and market research, providers are expanding to meet evolving customer needs.
Infatica has seen substantial growth in this landscape. Over the past year, our monthly recurring revenue has doubled, signaling strong customer retention and increasing demand for our services across global markets.
This commercial momentum is matched by internal growth: we’ve expanded our team by 35%, reinforcing our capacity to innovate, support customers, and scale our infrastructure.
This level of growth underscores Infatica’s commitment to long-term development – not just in terms of proxy performance, but also in customer experience, support, and product evolution. It’s a sign of both trust in our solutions and our ability to deliver at enterprise scale.
Frequently Asked Questions
It’s an independent annual benchmark that evaluates leading proxy providers across performance metrics like speed, success rates, IP quality, and infrastructure, helping businesses choose reliable data access solutions.
Infatica stood out in several key areas, including fastest infrastructure response time in the UK, high success rates on major platforms, and the largest percentage of mobile IPs in country-filtered pools.
It determines how quickly a proxy responds to a connection request. Faster response times mean reduced latency and more efficient data gathering, especially in large-scale scraping or time-sensitive operations.
A high success rate indicates that requests pass through without blocks or errors. This ensures smoother data collection and fewer retries, which saves both time and resources.
Yes – Infatica’s monthly recurring revenue doubled over the past year, and its workforce grew by 35%, reflecting strong demand, customer trust, and ongoing investment in infrastructure and support.
