NSOCKS Review 2026: Pricing, Is It Legit & Cheaper Alternatives

NSOCKS keeps coming up in proxy communities — especially after several big S5 networks went dark and users started hunting for replacements. Here's an honest look at what NSOCKS offers, what the pricing really works out to, where the catches are, and when a simpler pay-per-GB product does the same job for less.

What is NSOCKS?

NSOCKS is a Hong Kong based proxy provider with an 80M+ rotating residential pool across 190+ countries, plus unlimited-bandwidth residential plans, static residential (ISP) and static datacenter proxies. Both HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 are supported, with country targeting, sub-accounts, bulk proxy generation and a dashboard with API extraction. There's also a separate per-IP SOCKS5 shop on a sister domain — a different product line aimed at one-off IP buyers, with crypto payments and a short refund window on dead IPs.

NSOCKS pricing: read the fine print

Rotating residential starts around $0.90/GB on a 10 GB pack — but that traffic comes with 30-day validity. If you don't burn the full pack in a month, the remainder is gone. Bigger packs bring the per-GB price down, and unlimited plans exist for heavy daily use, but the pattern is clear: the headline price assumes you commit and consume on schedule. There's no self-service free trial on the bandwidth products — you start with a paid pack.

The API situation

NSOCKS has an API, but it's a client API, not a reseller one: before using API extraction you must whitelist your device IP, then generate proxy lists from the dashboard. It works for personal automation, and sub-accounts help teams split a balance — but there's no public reseller or white-label program. For volume terms you have to negotiate with support directly.

Who NSOCKS fits

If you burn traffic fast and predictably — daily scraping, steady account farms — the volume tiers and unlimited plans can price out well. If your usage is irregular, the 30-day expiry quietly eats your money: a 10 GB pack you only half-use effectively doubles your real per-GB cost.

Alternatives without the expiry clock

Our Proxy001 residential packs cost a flat $0.85/GB — slightly under NSOCKS entry pricing — and the traffic never expires. Buy from 1 GB, pay with crypto or local methods, get instant delivery. For long sticky sessions try SwiftProxy (80M+ IPs, 195 countries), and for Asian targets 711Proxy GB. All work over HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 with no subscription and no monthly burn requirement.

Verdict

NSOCKS is a legitimate provider with a real pool and fair volume pricing — for disciplined, high-consumption users. For everyone else the 30-day expiry is the dealbreaker hiding behind the $0.90 headline. If you want the same class of residential traffic without a countdown timer, flat-rate non-expiring GB packs are the safer buy.