How Hourly Mobile Proxies Work: Pay for the Hours You Use

Most proxy shops want you to think in months. HourlyProxies thinks in hours, because that is how a lot of real work is shaped. You need to check a page from a Verizon address in Houston, run a login from a T-Mobile line in Miami, or confirm that your scraper still behaves on a carrier connection before you let it loose. None of that takes a month. It takes an hour or two, and the meter should stop when you do. This article explains what the hourly product is, exactly what it costs, what is behind the port you receive, and the three places you can buy it.

The meter, in plain numbers

A 4G line costs $2 for the first two hours. If you still need it after that, each extra hour is $2, up to four hours per purchase. A 5G line costs $3 for the first two hours and $3 for each extra hour, with the same four-hour limit. There is no setup fee and no minimum number of purchases. You pick the length when you buy, the clock starts the moment the line is active, and when the time is up the line stops. That is the whole model.

Nothing renews on its own. An hourly line never turns into a day, and a day never turns into a week unless you ask for it. If you walk away from your desk and forget, the worst case is that the hours you bought run out. You will not come back to a charge you did not expect.

The hours are also not wasted money if the job grows. If you keep a line going through the day, what you already paid for the hours counts toward the one-day price, which is $5 on 4G and $6 on 5G. You are not paying for the hours and then paying for the day on top. Think of the hourly line as a down payment on the day, in case you need it.

What is behind the port

The thing you are renting for those hours is a dedicated US carrier line. A real SIM from AT&T, T-Mobile or Verizon sits in a 4G or 5G USB modem, a cellular router or an Android phone in one of our cities: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Miami, North Carolina or Boston. For the length of your purchase, that SIM carries your traffic and nobody else's. You are not sharing a pool with other customers, and nobody else can rotate your address or wear out its reputation on a site you care about.

The line comes with unlimited data for the time you hold it. There is no gigabyte meter running next to the hour meter, only a fair-use rule against bulk transfer such as download pipes, torrent seeding or streaming relays. Rotation is unlimited too. You can change the IP with the rotation link, through the API, on a timer, from the dashboard or by hand, as often as you like inside your hours.

You connect over HTTP(S) or SOCKS5, with UDP supported over SOCKS5, so the same line works in a browser profile, a command-line tool, a mobile app or a script. If you prefer a tunnel, the dashboard also gives you a VLESS link for the line. Speed depends on signal at the modem: 4G usually 20 to 45 Mbps, 5G 50 Mbps and up.

Three doors to the same product

The dashboard at meter.hourlyproxies.com is the full view. You choose a city, a carrier, 4G or 5G, and the number of hours, pay from your balance or with a card, PayPal, crypto, Zelle or a wire, and the credentials appear on the page the moment the line is live. The dashboard is also where you add balance, read your connection details again, rotate, extend, move a line to another city, and see what time each line expires.

The mobile app does the same job from your phone, which is handy when you are away from a laptop and just need to open a line for a colleague or a quick check. And the Telegram bot, @HourlyProxiesBot, is the fastest door of all: a few taps, pay from balance, and the host, port, user and password land in the chat. All three doors sell the same lines at the same prices, and a line bought in one shows up in the other two.

A typical two hours

Say you buy a 5G line in Chicago for two hours at 10:00. By 10:01 you have a host, a port, a username and a password. You paste them into your tool, load an IP check page, and see a T-Mobile address in Illinois. You run the job. At 11:20 the target site starts acting differently, so you hit the rotation link and continue on a fresh address from the same carrier. At 11:50 you realise the job will run past noon, so you extend by an hour from the dashboard for $3. At 12:40 you are done, and you simply let the line expire at 13:00.

Total cost: $6. No subscription to cancel, no renewal to remember, no ticket to open. If the job had instead turned into a whole day, the $6 you paid would have counted toward the $6 day price for 5G and you would have kept the same line until the next morning.

When hours stop making sense

Hourly is the product we built the company around, but it is not the right shape for everything. If you are going to be on the line for most of a day, buy the day. If a job repeats every day for a week, the weekly plan at $28 on 4G or $31 on 5G is cheaper than seven separate days. If an account needs the same carrier line month after month, the monthly plan at $65 on 4G or $75 on 5G gives it that home. The hours are for when the job is short. The longer plans are for when it is not. We sell both without pushing you toward either.

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