Infatica Review 2026: Features, Pricing, Pros & Cons

Much of what ranks for an Infatica review is old or selling something. One ranking review still quotes 2020 prices of $9 per GB, and another, published by a rival provider, lists residential at $0.30 per GB and then recommends its own service.

We priced everything below from Infatica's own pricing, refund, KYC and SDK pages in October 2026, and took performance from independent testing rather than marketing claims.

Where this Infatica review lands

7.5 out of 10. The pool is large overall, and its mobile side tested far fresher than SOAX's in Europe and India. Pricing is easy to follow, and city and ASN targeting can be combined.

What holds it back is a network that fails more often than the best we've covered, a slow tail on response times, and commercial terms that lean firmly toward Infatica. User ratings show the same split: 4.8 on G2 from 33 reviews, and 3.3 on Trustpilot from 31, where 78% of reviewers give five stars and 19% give one.

What is the Infatica P2B network?

It's an SDK that app developers build into their software, turning their users' devices into Infatica proxy exit points in exchange for payment.

Infatica calls it a peer-to-business network. Developers whose apps have at least 50,000 monthly active users add the Infatica SDK to Windows, macOS, iOS or Android software, and Infatica pays them up to 60 cents per active user per month.

The developer then updates the app's licence agreement so that users agree to join the Infatica P2B network. From there, a user's connection can carry Infatica customers' traffic, even when they aren't using the app.

Plenty of residential networks source IPs through apps, and how residential proxy networks are built is worth understanding before you buy from any of them. The detail that matters here is consent. Infatica's developer page doesn't describe a separate opt-in prompt, only the licence update.

What security vendors make of the Infatica SDK

Sophos lists a detection for "Infatica P2B in Non-Standard Location" as a potentially unwanted application. In June 2026, Gridinsoft published removal steps for the component appearing after K-Lite Codec Pack installs, and treats it as proxyware to remove if you didn't knowingly agree to share bandwidth.

Threat-intelligence firm Synthient rates the SDK as medium risk, based on consent practices it sampled in the wild. Independent testers also note that Infatica once drew criticism for placing its SDK in Chrome extensions, a route it has since leaned on less.

Infatica has answers of its own, and we read its transparency centre and the audit report behind it. Halborn audited its Android SDK in July 2025 and found three issues, two medium and one low. Two were fixed and one was accepted as a risk, though Halborn could not compile the code to test a working build. Infatica also lists an NCC Group audit from October 2025 and four ISO certifications, including ISO/IEC 27001.

Infatica pricing, monthly versus annual

Pay-as-you-go residential costs $4 per GB, and monthly plans fall to $2.60 per GB at 1 TB. Billing annually takes 20% off every plan, which brings the 1 TB plan to $2.08 per GB. We checked the maths, and each annual package is exactly 12 months of the matching monthly plan at that discount.

Annual billing buys a year of traffic at once, and Infatica's terms let it keep 50% of the remaining value if you end an agreement early. Take the discount only on volume you're sure of.

The rest of the catalogue, from the same page:

• Mobile. $8 per GB pay-as-you-go, with plans from $7.50 per GB at 6 GB down to $3.20 on the largest annual plan. Infatica's menu advertises mobile "from $1 per GB", and no listed rate comes close.
• Residential IPv6. $6 per GB pay-as-you-go, falling to $3.90 at 1 TB a month.
• Shared datacenter. $0.60 per GB pay-as-you-go, down to $0.30 at 2 TB.
• ISP and dedicated datacenter. $1.95 to $3.00 per ISP address a month, and $1 to $1.50 per dedicated datacenter IP a month, with no refunds on either.

Before your first gigabyte: verification, trials and renewals

• ID checks for every buyer. KYC runs at checkout through Veriff and needs a government ID plus a selfie. Infatica's KYC page says the step cannot be skipped.
• Paid trials. Seven days costs $4 for residential, $6 for residential IPv6, $8 for mobile and $3 for shared datacenter. Once a trial has started, it is not refundable.
• Renewals without asking. Plans renew monthly until you cancel, you can't top a plan up, and independent testers report that a plan renews automatically when its traffic runs out if a payment method is saved. The terms do not say whether unused traffic carries over.
• Narrow refunds. The terms, updated in March 2026, call purchases final. A separate refunds page allows exceptions for double payments and outages within 10 days of paying, and never for slow speeds.

One Trustpilot reviewer reports $45 taken automatically, the price of Infatica's smallest mobile plan. If you'd rather approve every charge yourself, don't leave a card saved on the account.

Infatica and SOAX, tested side by side

Infatica went through the same test SOAX did in April 2026, with identical request counts in every location. That makes the fresh-IP rate, the share of requests that landed on an address the testers hadn't seen yet, directly comparable between the two.

Infatica wins the global rows and most of the mobile ones. SOAX wins the US, where Infatica returned 29 fresh residential addresses per 100 requests against SOAX's 53. On these numbers, we'd pick Infatica for European and Indian mobile work and SOAX for US residential.

Infatica's global lead comes largely from outside the US and Europe. Testers found its residential pool dominated by Russia, Brazil and China, and Brazil was its strongest tested market at 53 per 100.

Mobile comes with a footnote. Infatica's own FAQ says some mobile proxies run over Wi-Fi when available, and in testing only 86% of US and 87% of UK mobile addresses registered as mobile. If carrier status matters for your target, run a sample through an IP lookup and check the ASN and network owner behind each address.

Quick in the middle, slow at the edges

Residential success came in at 97.57% globally, against 99.78% for SOAX in the same test, and testers said Infatica's infrastructure failed 3 to 4% more often than the industry's best.

The typical request is quick. The median response on a 6 KB page was 0.84 seconds globally and 0.32 in the UK, though Infatica's own site advertises 0.4 seconds.

The slowest 5% is where it drags: 7.80 seconds or longer globally, 7.19 in the UK and 8.85 in India. Testers also noted that Infatica keeps slower proxies in the pool rather than filtering them out. Heavy pages stretch it further, with a 2 MB page averaging 5.70 seconds, and mobile averaged 2.22 seconds on the small page.

If you run scraping jobs at volume, set a short timeout and retry on a fresh IP rather than waiting out the tail.

Three questions to answer before you buy Infatica

1. Where does your traffic go? For US residential work, SOAX's pool tested fresher. For EU mobile, Infatica's tested more than twice as fresh, it led in India too, and our wider mobile ranking covers the rest of the field.
2. Can your jobs absorb a slow tail? If one request in 20 taking nearly 8 seconds breaks your pipeline, budget for retries or look elsewhere.
3. Does your compliance team ask where IPs come from? If so, request Infatica's consent documentation and audit reports before you sign, because the answer is an SDK whose consent runs through app licence terms.

Infatica alternatives we've reviewed

Our own line appears below, so read that part knowing who wrote it.

Decodo's benchmark results show 99.92% residential success at 0.53 seconds, though its monthly bandwidth expires with each cycle. IPRoyal's non-expiring traffic suits irregular volume, though it tested at 74.63% success on Amazon, Google and Instagram. For mobile on a budget, Rayobyte's mobile pricing sits around $0.50 per GB against Infatica's $8 pay-as-you-go rate, though its residential line tested poorly.

FleetProxy, priced with no monthly minimum, sells residential traffic that doesn't expire from $2.65 per GB, dropping to $1.59 at 500 GB, and carrier traffic at $3.40 per GB, under half Infatica's pay-as-you-go mobile rate. If you'd rather test without paying, ask our live chat for a 50 MB trial on any rotating product.

Wrap up

This Infatica review comes out at 7.5: a big, fairly priced network with a slow tail and supply-side questions worth asking before you sign. Infatica says SOC 2 Type I is planned for Q1 2027, so for now its audits and ISO certificates are what you have to go on. If you'd rather pay as you go with bandwidth that doesn't expire, compare the plans before you commit.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Infatica legit?

Ans: Yes. Infatica operates through registered companies in Singapore and the UK, has been in business since early 2019, verifies every customer through Veriff, and has had its Android SDK audited by Halborn. Independent testing measured 97.57% residential success. The open questions concern IP sourcing: its residential network runs on an SDK inside third-party apps, which Sophos detects as a potentially unwanted application when it turns up in a non-standard location.

How much does Infatica cost?

Ans: Residential proxies cost $4 per GB pay-as-you-go, with monthly plans from $96 for 25 GB ($3.84 per GB) to $2,600 for 1 TB ($2.60 per GB). Annual billing takes 20% off, bringing the largest plan to $2.08 per GB. Mobile starts at $8 per GB pay-as-you-go, shared datacenter at $0.60 per GB, and ISP addresses at $1.95 to $3.00 per IP a month.

Does Infatica have a free trial?

Ans: No. Infatica's trials are paid: $4 for seven days of residential proxies, $6 for residential IPv6, $8 for mobile and $3 for shared datacenter, while its scraper APIs offer a free trial period. Every buyer must pass ID verification at checkout, and a trial cannot be refunded once it has started, so treat the fee as the cost of testing.

Is the Infatica SDK safe?

Ans: Halborn's July 2025 audit of the Android SDK found two medium-severity issues and one low-severity issue, and no personal data collected beyond IP addresses and an anonymized routing ID. The concern is consent rather than code: users join the Infatica P2B network through the host app's licence terms, and Sophos detects the component as a potentially unwanted application when it appears in a non-standard location.

Does Infatica require KYC?

Ans: Yes. Every customer completes identity verification through Veriff at checkout, using a government-issued ID such as a passport or driving licence plus a selfie, and Infatica says the step cannot be skipped. Its compliance team may ask for more details if something does not match, and it can refuse service if the data fails its checks.

What are the best Infatica alternatives?

Ans: It depends on what you need. Decodo posted 99.92% residential success at 0.53 seconds in independent testing. SOAX tested fresher than Infatica in the US and reached 99.78% success, though its credits expire after 60 days. Rayobyte charges about $0.50 per GB for mobile. Pay-as-you-go providers with non-expiring bandwidth suit irregular workloads better than plans that renew automatically.