Hourly Mobile Proxies: A Dedicated Carrier Line for Exactly as Long as the Job Takes

Hourly mobile proxies do one thing the day plan cannot: they end when the job ends. HourlyProxies rents you a dedicated 4G or 5G carrier line in an American city for as little as two hours, bills $2 for those two hours on 4G or $3 on 5G, and stops the clock when the hours are up. Nothing renews, nothing lingers overnight, and if the work runs long the hours you paid roll into a full day. The rest of this page walks through the billing from first click to last minute, the minimum you can buy, how an hourly line becomes a day, and the three places you can buy the hours.

The meter, and the longer clocks

Hourly is the product. The day, week and month are the same dedicated line with a longer clock and a lower price per day.

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Hourly billing, from checkout to the last minute

You pick a city, a carrier, 4G or 5G and a number of hours, between two and four. The price is fixed up front: on 4G the first two hours cost $2 together and each hour after that costs $2, so three hours is four dollars and four hours is $6. On 5G the first two hours cost $3 and each extra hour $3. The amount comes off your balance at checkout, and the clock starts when the line is live, not when you paid.

Live means the host, port, username and password are in front of you and the line answers. That usually takes seconds, since the hardware is already racked and the SIM already registered. From that moment the hours run continuously, whether you use the line or not, until they are spent.

When the last hour ends the line is released and the port stops answering. There is no charge after that and no grace period that quietly bills you.

The arithmetic is deliberately dull. Two hours on 4G is $2; three hours is $2 plus $2 for the third hour; four hours is $2 plus $2 plus $2. On 5G swap every two for a three. There is no setup fee, no minimum balance beyond the purchase itself and no different rate at night or on a weekend. What you see on the plan picker is what leaves your balance, and if the balance is short the purchase simply does not go through.

The minimum purchase: two hours

Two hours is the smallest thing we sell, and it is priced as one unit: $2 on 4G, $3 on 5G. We did not go lower because a line needs a few minutes to prove itself and most short jobs want at least that long. The longest hourly purchase is four hours. Beyond that, the day plan is cheaper, which is why the hourly cap stops where it does.

Every hour runs on the same dedicated hardware as a month: one modem, one SIM, one customer. Unlimited data, unlimited rotation, HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 with UDP, and the same eight cities. Buying two hours does not buy a lesser line; it buys the same line for a shorter time.

Two hours is also the natural size of a test. It is long enough to run a job end to end, confirm how a target treats the carrier's address and measure the speed you actually get in that city, and short enough that a wrong guess costs very little. It is the natural way to compare two carriers in one city, or two cities on one carrier, before buying a longer term.

When two hours turn into a day

Jobs run long. When yours does, you do not buy a second block and hope the address stays the same. You keep the line and move it to the 1-day plan, and the hours you already paid count toward the day price: $5 on 4G, $6 on 5G. A 4G line bought for two hours and kept for the day therefore costs $3 more, and you keep the same modem, the same SIM and the same address history.

From a day you can extend the same line to a week at $29 on 4G or $32 on 5G, or a month at $67 or $77. The line never changes under you; only the clock gets longer and the price per day gets lower.

The upgrade is done from the line itself in the dashboard, not by a new order, which is what keeps the address and the credentials unchanged. A browser profile logged in on the two-hour line stays logged in on the day. Nothing is reprovisioned and no port changes. Nothing obliges you to upgrade either: if the hours run out and you did not extend, the line ends cleanly and the next job starts with a fresh purchase and, if you like, a fresh carrier address.

Nothing renews on its own

An hourly purchase is a one-off. It cannot auto-renew, because the point of buying hours is that the spend has an end you chose. When the hours finish, the line stops, and you decide fresh next time.

Day, week and month plans can auto-renew if you choose, and you can switch that off again from the dashboard at any point before the term ends. Nothing bills you that you did not turn on.

That design also removes a class of mistakes. Nobody forgets an hourly line and pays for a month of it; nobody wakes up to a line that ran all night. If you want a line that stays up, you buy a term that says so.

4G or 5G for an hour

The hourly price differs by a dollar: $2 against $3 for the first two hours, then $2 against $3 for each extra hour. A 4G LTE line runs 20 to 45 Mbps on our racks and handles browsing, account sessions, API tests and ordinary scraping without strain. A 5G line runs 50 Mbps and up with good signal, which pays off when the two hours are for a big pull, a video check or many parallel threads.

Both carry unlimited data, so a two-hour pull of a large site is fine on either; the choice is about how fast you want it done.

One point is often misunderstood: hourly lines are not a slower class of hardware. The modem answering a two-hour purchase is the same modem that would answer a thirty-day one, on the same rack with the same signal. The hourly price buys less time, not less line.

Three places to buy hours

Hours are sold in the dashboard, in the mobile app and in our Telegram bot. All three share one account, one balance and one stock list, so a line bought in the bot shows up in the dashboard, and a line bought on a laptop can be rotated from your phone. Top up balance by card, PayPal, crypto, Zelle or wire in any of them.

The bot is the fastest route when you are away from a desk: pick city, carrier, network and hours, and the credentials arrive in the chat. The app is the same flow with a screen. The dashboard adds the full set of controls: rotation link, API key, IP whitelist, moves between cities and the upgrade to a day.

Which door you use changes nothing about the line. Credentials, rotation link and API key are the same whether the hours were bought in a chat, a tap or a browser, and the hours themselves run on the same clock. If you start in the bot and want the finer controls later, log into the dashboard with the same account and the line is already there.

What the hour buys you

The line is a physical device we own in a US city with its own AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon SIM: a USB modem, a cellular router or a real Android phone, chosen at checkout at the same hourly price. Its address is a carrier address shared with real subscribers, which is why it reads as a phone. Rotate it as often as you want by dashboard button, rotation link, API or timer, or hold one address for the whole session. Lines are racked in Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Miami and North Carolina, and a line moves between them for free from the dashboard.

Access is by username and password or by whitelisting your own IP, both set from the dashboard, and the line drops into any browser profile, scraper, phone or script that takes a standard proxy. Anything you would do with a month of mobile proxy, you can do with two hours of it; the difference is only when the clock stops.

• API testing behind real carrier NAT for an hour
• Per-IP limits on registries, mirrors and public APIs: a fresh carrier address for two hours
• Mobile QA of a site, a preview deployment or an app from a real carrier network
• One-off checks of a listing, a price page or a regional feature from a US phone address
• Short scrapes of one site for an afternoon, unlimited data included
• Ad verification from the metro a campaign targets, in the time it takes to look

If the line is not right

If a line does not work for your target in the first twenty-four hours of your first order, tell support and we refund it. Support is a person, by email or in the bot, around the clock, and the usual fix for a target that behaves oddly is a different carrier in the same city, which you can try for another $2.

Hourly mobile proxies: questions before you start the clock