NodeMaven Proxies Review

NodeMaven is a proxy provider that sells rotating residential and mobile proxies from one shared traffic balance, plus static ISP proxies priced per IP. Its main selling point isn't the size of its network or the lowest price. It's the claim that every residential and mobile IP passes a fraud-score and blacklist check before it's assigned to you, so you're less likely to start a session on an address a platform has already flagged.

That makes NodeMaven a specialist rather than an all-rounder. It's built for multi-accounting, social media management, affiliate marketing and browser automation, where one bad IP can cost you an account, and it integrates closely with antidetect browsers. The trade-off is clear: with 30M+ IPs, NodeMaven has a smaller pool than the largest networks, its entry plans cost more per GB than budget providers, and its refund terms are strict. If you need very large volumes of scraping traffic at the lowest cost, other providers fit better.

NodeMaven at a glance

NodeMaven proxy products

NodeMaven sells three proxy products. Residential and mobile proxies share one gateway, one dashboard page and one traffic balance; ISP proxies are a separate product with their own ordering and connection format.

Rotating residential proxies

NodeMaven's residential pool is its main product: 30M+ residential IPs in 190+ countries, sourced from home internet connections and screened by its IP Quality Filter before assignment. Its location list (last updated 28 August 2026) contains 193 country codes, each marked with an availability badge: "High" means more than 200 available IPs, "Medium" 15 to 200, and locations with fewer than 15 IPs are removed. NodeMaven says inventory refreshes every 8 hours.

Targeting goes down to region, city, carrier and ZIP code. Carrier targeting means the network that owns the IP (for example Verizon or Spectrum) and can be combined with region and city. ZIP targeting is US only according to the documentation, and replaces region and city rather than adding to them. You can choose a mixed IPv4/IPv6 pool or IPv4 only, but not IPv6 only.

There are three session types:

• Sticky (the default) keeps one IP for up to 24 hours. If that IP goes offline, you get a new one from the same location.
• No rotating keeps the same IP and waits for it to come back if it drops, rather than substituting another. That's useful when an IP change would break a login.
• Rotating gives a new IP on every request, for scraping and price monitoring.

Custom sticky durations run from 60 seconds to 86,400 seconds (24 hours). NodeMaven doesn't cap concurrent sessions; you pay only for traffic, which is counted in both directions (upload and download).

The main limitation is size. A 30M+ pool is ample for most account work, but it's smaller than the pools claimed by the largest providers, and narrow targeting (a city plus a carrier, or a single ZIP code) shrinks the available pool quickly. Combining narrow targeting with the strictest quality filter can make some locations slow to connect.

Rotating mobile proxies

Mobile proxies route traffic through 4G, 5G and LTE carrier networks. NodeMaven's pricing page lists 250K mobile IPs, while its residential, mobile and static residential pages say 295K. Mobile uses the same 190+ country list and the same targeting, session and filter options as residential, including carrier targeting.

The unusual part is pricing: mobile traffic costs the same as residential, because both draw on one balance. You switch to mobile by adding -type-mobile to your proxy username, and there's no separate mobile plan. Most providers charge a premium for mobile, so for social media and app work this is one of NodeMaven's strongest arguments. NodeMaven's own documentation notes that mobile inventory is much smaller than residential, so deep targeting runs out of IPs faster. The dashboard doesn't report residential and mobile usage separately.

Static ISP proxies (static residential)

NodeMaven's ISP proxies, which it also calls static residential proxies, are dedicated IPs registered to internet service providers and hosted on server infrastructure. You keep the same IP for a 30-day or 90-day term, with unlimited traffic, HTTP or SOCKS5, and UDP support over SOCKS5. Orders auto-renew by default and keep the same IPs on renewal. Each order includes one free swap of the whole IP pack per renewal cycle, and every IP is checked against Scamalytics before delivery.

The limitations are significant. The ISP pool is small (NodeMaven's comparison table says 10K+ static residential IPs), targeting is country-level only, IP whitelisting isn't available, and a swap replaces every IP in an order, not individual addresses.

NodeMaven's pages also disagree about where ISP proxies are sold:

The help centre says the list changes as inventory comes online. Check the dashboard before you plan a project around a specific country. For more choice of static IPs, see our guides to the best ISP proxy providers and best static residential proxy providers.

NodeMaven pricing

NodeMaven sells residential and mobile traffic as either a monthly subscription or pay-as-you-go, and ISP proxies per IP. All figures below come from NodeMaven's pricing calculator in November 2026, in US dollars. The calculator shows these prices discounted from crossed-out list prices about 25% higher; we list the prices you actually pay.

Residential and mobile: monthly plans

Above 1,000 GB a month, NodeMaven offers custom pricing through its sales team. Subscriptions renew automatically only when you pay by card; with crypto, YooMoney or MIR each month is a one-off purchase.

Residential and mobile: pay-as-you-go

Pay-as-you-go costs 11% to 22% more per GB than the matching monthly plan, but the traffic never expires and nothing renews.

ISP proxies: per IP

NodeMaven's headline ISP price of "$2.33/IP/30 days" is the 90-day rate at 2,500+ IPs ($7.00 divided by three). A single IP costs $5 for 30 days. The pricing calculator lets you order one IP, but NodeMaven's help centre says the minimum ISP order is 3 IPs for one month, and the dashboard's quantity presets start at 3, so expect a minimum of about $12.45.

Rollover, expiry and cashback

• Subscription traffic rolls over when you renew, upgrade or downgrade. If you let a subscription lapse or cancel it, the remaining traffic freezes and is added back when you subscribe again.
• The exception: cancelling a subscription and moving to pay-as-you-go forfeits the remaining subscription traffic. NodeMaven's marketing says "you never lose what you paid for", but its help centre spells out this exception, so use up subscription traffic before you switch.
• Cashback: every month NodeMaven credits bonus traffic equal to a share of the residential and mobile traffic you used: 5% at 1–24 GB, 6% at 25–49 GB, 7% at 50–99 GB, 8% at 100–249 GB, 9% at 250–499 GB and 10% at 500 GB and above. It's credited on the 3rd of the following month, never expires, and has to be claimed in the dashboard. ISP proxies earn no cashback.
• Referrals: you and a friend each get 50% bonus traffic on the friend's first paid purchase (trials excluded).

Trial, refunds and payment

There's no free trial. The paid trial costs $3.50 for 750 MB (about $4.67/GB), covers residential and mobile, has no expiry date and is limited to one per account.

The refund position is the main weakness. NodeMaven's terms state that "subscription purchases are non-refundable", and that refunds can be denied in a range of compliance situations. Its help centre is softer: if you cancel mid-cycle with unused traffic, you can ask support to review a refund, case by case. Approved refunds go back to the original payment method, and crypto refunds are paid only in USDT (ERC-20 or TRC-20), with extra verification if you paid from an exchange wallet. Buy the trial or a small plan first.

NodeMaven's help centre lists Visa and Mastercard, cryptocurrency, and YooMoney and MIR for customers in Russia. Its terms name Stripe, Coinbase and BTCPay as payment processors.

What 10 GB, 100 GB and 1 TB actually cost

The public calculator steps through fixed tiers, so a requirement that falls between tiers means buying the next tier up or combining purchases.

At small volumes NodeMaven costs more than budget providers, which often charge less than $2/GB on entry plans. At 1 TB its rate, after cashback, is competitive with mid-market providers. Compare prices across the market in our residential proxy directory and mobile proxy directory.

Features and dashboard

NodeMaven's dashboard is built around a proxy generator. You pick the connection type (residential or mobile), country, region, city, carrier or ZIP, IP version, session type and filter mode, and the dashboard writes them into your proxy username. You can generate many proxy strings at once, copy them in host:port:user:pass or URL format, and export them as .csv or .txt.

Other dashboard and account features:

• IP Quality Filter with four modes: Quality (the default), Quality + Speed, Speed and Max pool size. Each mode is a username parameter, so you can trade cleanliness for speed or pool size per proxy string.
• Check proxy: a one-click check that shows an IP's fraud risk, resolved location and a link to its Scamalytics report.
• Sub-users: unlimited sub-users with their own credentials and optional traffic limits, with usage stats per sub-user.
• IP whitelisting for residential and mobile (not ISP), so tools that can't store credentials can connect.
• Usage statistics: traffic and request charts plus a breakdown by target domain, filterable by user and product.
• API and SDKs: a REST API (version 2, with 47 operations) for balance, locations, statistics, sub-users, whitelisted IPs and webhooks, plus open-source Python, Rust and Go SDKs under the MIT licence.
• MCP server: connects AI assistants such as Claude or Cursor to your account to generate proxy URLs and check connections.
• Antidetect browser shortcuts: an "Open in Anti-detect browser" option for Dolphin Anty, BitBrowser, AdsPower, MostLogin, GeeLark and DICloak, and written setup guides for many more, including Multilogin, GoLogin, Octo Browser, Kameleo, Incogniton and Undetectable. New to these tools? Read what an antidetect browser is.

NodeMaven also bundles extras. The Scraping Browser runs hosted Chrome sessions on NodeMaven's infrastructure with managed fingerprints, automatic CAPTCHA solving, AI-prompt or Playwright/Puppeteer scripting and session recordings kept for three days. It has no separate fee; you pay only for the proxy traffic it uses. It's not a full scraping API with per-request pricing and parsed output, though. There's also an LLM Visibility API for comparing ChatGPT and Gemini answers by country, and free tools including an IP lookup, an anti-bot checker, a proxy bandwidth checker and an open-source Google search scraper.

Setting up NodeMaven proxies

Residential and mobile proxies connect through one gateway, gate.nodemaven.com. The port selects the protocol: any port from 8080–9080 or 32000–33000 for HTTP, and 1080–2080 or 42000–43000 for SOCKS5 (the defaults are 8080 and 1080). NodeMaven's documentation gives the connection string in two formats:

# Host:Port format (most antidetect browsers and proxy managers)
gate.nodemaven.com:8080:USERNAME-country-us-region-california-sid-abc123def4567-filter-medium:PASSWORD

# Protocol format (code and command-line tools)
http://USERNAME-country-us-region-california-sid-abc123def4567-filter-medium:PASSWORD@gate.nodemaven.com:8080

All targeting and session settings are parameters appended to your username as -key-value pairs, in a fixed order:

Leave out -sid- and every request gets a new IP. Change the session ID to get a new IP while keeping all other settings. A quick test with curl, following NodeMaven's own example:

# Rotating US residential IP over HTTP
curl -x "http://USERNAME-country-us:PASSWORD@gate.nodemaven.com:8080" https://ipinfo.io/json

# Sticky UK mobile IP over SOCKS5
curl -x "socks5://USERNAME-country-gb-type-mobile-sid-abc123def4567:PASSWORD@gate.nodemaven.com:1080" https://ipinfo.io/json

The same in Python with the requests library:

import requests

username = "USERNAME-country-us-sid-abc123def4567-filter-medium"
password = "PASSWORD"
proxy = f"http://{username}:{password}@gate.nodemaven.com:8080"

response = requests.get(
    "https://ipinfo.io/json",
    proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

ISP proxies work differently. There's no gateway and there are no username parameters: each IP is its own host, in the format IP:PORT:USERNAME:PASSWORD, and every IP in an order shares one port and one set of credentials. The protocol (HTTP or SOCKS) is fixed when you order. If you're new to proxy setup, start with what is a proxy?.

IP sourcing, compliance and trust

Sourcing. NodeMaven's help centre says its residential IPs come from "real home internet users" who "choose to offer their IP address to a proxy network in exchange for various benefits", and it says it sources mobile IPs "directly from real devices on genuine carrier networks". It doesn't name the apps, SDKs or partners behind the pool, or explain how users are paid or how they withdraw consent. Its terms go further than many providers on paper: they prohibit connecting infected or unauthorised devices, hidden proxy SDKs, undisclosed bandwidth-sharing software and "non-consensual residential devices", and its privacy policy says it keeps supplier consent and audit records. That's a policy, not an independent audit.

Certifications. NodeMaven doesn't list any security or privacy certifications (such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2). Its site lists awards from review platforms, which aren't the same as audits.

KYC. NodeMaven doesn't require identity verification: its help centre says you need only an email address to sign up, buy and generate proxies. Its terms reserve the right to request KYC or KYB, source-of-funds and use-case information at any time and to suspend accounts that don't comply. For buyers, that means a fast start but less assurance about who else shares the pool. For comparison, enterprise-focused providers such as Bright Data require KYC before residential access.

Acceptable use and blocked sites. The terms ban a long list of activities, including credential stuffing, account takeover, fake account creation, ad and click fraud, malware and scraping personal data unlawfully. NodeMaven also blocks whole categories of destinations: bank, payment service, educational, government and news domains, and port 25 (email). The news-site block in particular rules NodeMaven out for media monitoring and some SEO or ad-verification work.

Transparency gaps. NodeMaven's performance figures vary from page to page: its pricing page claims a 99.54% average success rate, its homepage 99.4%, and its IP Quality Filter page 98.5%. The same page says it passes "only IPs with under 97% fraud score", next to a claim of fraud scores under 5/100. Its location counts, such as 299,783 US IPs and 404,847 for all of Europe, are small next to the 30M+ headline and aren't explained. None of these figures are independently verified.

Customer support and documentation

NodeMaven offers support through live chat in the dashboard, email (support@nodemaven.com) and Telegram. Its homepage advertises 24/7 support and a dedicated account manager, but it doesn't say which plans include an account manager. We haven't measured response times.

The documentation is one of NodeMaven's strengths. Its help centre covers quick starts for each product, a full reference for the proxy string, port ranges, session types, filter modes, billing rules (including the rollover and freeze exceptions above), troubleshooting guides and more than 40 integration guides for antidetect browsers, browser extensions, mobile apps and automation frameworks. It's unusually candid about limitations such as US-only ZIP targeting, the absence of UDP on rotating proxies and the forfeited-traffic rule.

Pros and cons

Who should (and shouldn't) use NodeMaven

NodeMaven is a good fit if you:

• Manage multiple social media, ad or marketplace accounts in an antidetect browser and need each profile to keep a clean IP for hours. The 24-hour sticky sessions, the no-rotate mode and the fraud-score filter target exactly this.
• Need mobile IPs without paying mobile prices. Because mobile shares the residential balance, a team running TikTok, Instagram or Telegram accounts pays from $2.20/GB on the 1 TB plan, the same as residential.
• Run affiliate marketing or automation workflows with steady monthly usage, where cashback and rollover reduce waste.
• Want a few static IPs with unlimited traffic in the US, UK or Western Europe for long-lived logins, and value the free full-pack swap.
• Build tools in code and want an API, webhooks, SDKs and an MCP server rather than a dashboard-only product.

Look elsewhere if you:

• Scrape at large volume on a tight budget. Providers such as DataImpulse sell residential traffic from around $1/GB, and the per-GB price matters more than IP cleanliness for most scraping.
• Want to test risk-free. NodeMaven has no free trial and no guaranteed refund; Decodo offers a free trial and a money-back guarantee on first purchases.
• Need news, government, banking or education sites, which NodeMaven blocks.
• Need static IPs in Asia, Latin America outside Brazil, or with city targeting, which NodeMaven's ISP product doesn't cover.
• Must document supplier compliance, for example with ISO 27001 or KYC-based customer vetting.

NodeMaven vs alternatives

Decodo is the better choice for first-time buyers and broad scraping. Its residential pool is claimed at 115M+ IPs, it offers ZIP, ASN and carrier targeting, a 3-day free trial and a 14-day money-back guarantee on first purchases, and it sells ISP and datacenter proxies too. NodeMaven wins on mobile pricing (Decodo charges for mobile separately) and on IP filtering aimed at account work.

IPRoyal suits irregular, bursty usage. Its residential traffic never expires and sticky sessions last up to 7 days, longer than NodeMaven's 24 hours, which helps if you keep one IP on an account for a week. It claims a 64M+ residential pool, but it's expensive on small purchases and its refund window is narrow. Choose NodeMaven if you want filtered IPs and mobile at the residential rate.

DataImpulse is the budget alternative: residential from $1/GB on a $5 starter plan, falling to $0.80/GB at 1 TB, with traffic that never expires and a 90M+ pool. The trade-offs are sticky sessions of at most 120 minutes and extra charges for targeting finer than country level. For price-sensitive scraping, DataImpulse costs a fraction of NodeMaven; for long-lived account sessions, NodeMaven is the better fit.

For more options, browse our full proxy provider directory or our rankings of the best residential proxy providers and best mobile proxy providers.

Final verdict

NodeMaven is a focused provider that does a few things well. Fraud-score filtering on every residential and mobile IP, 24-hour sticky sessions with a no-rotate option, mobile traffic at the residential price, traffic that rolls over or never expires, and monthly cashback make it a strong match for multi-accounting, social media and automation work in antidetect browsers. Its documentation, API and integrations are well developed for a provider of its size.

The weaknesses are just as clear. Entry plans are expensive per GB, there's no free trial, subscriptions are non-refundable under its terms, and the ISP product is small and inconsistently documented. NodeMaven also blocks news, government, banking and education sites, and offers no certifications or audit of its sourcing. Start with the $3.50 trial, test it on the platforms you actually use, and commit to a monthly plan only if the IPs hold up. If you mainly need cheap scraping bandwidth, look at a budget provider instead.

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