Short version: for trust and block rates, 4G and 5G mobile proxies are identical, the IP comes from the same carrier pools. The difference is bandwidth. Pay for 5G when you actually move serious data, take 4G for everything else.
What’s identical
- IP trust: carriers assign IPs from shared mobile ranges regardless of radio generation. The target site sees a Singtel or M1 mobile IP either way.
- CGNAT cover: both sit behind carrier-grade NAT shared with thousands of real users.
- Rotation: both pull fresh IPs from the carrier pool on demand.
- Protocols: HTTP and SOCKS5, each on its own port, same credentials.
What’s different
| 4G/LTE port | 5G port | |
|---|---|---|
| Typical downlink in SG | 30-60 Mbps | 300+ Mbps |
| Typical uplink | 10-20 Mbps | 40+ Mbps |
| Latency | Good | Slightly better |
| Price | From $40 per 30 days | On request |
| Right for | Accounts, scraping, verification | Media upload, heavy concurrent sessions |
Pick by workload, not by marketing
- Managing TikTok/marketplace accounts: 4G is plenty, sessions are tiny. See mobile proxy for TikTok in Singapore
- Scraping HTML and APIs: 4G, your bottleneck is politeness rate, not bandwidth. See Singapore proxy for web scraping
- Uploading video at scale, streaming, bulk media QA: 5G earns its premium
- Not sure: start 4G, upgrade if you saturate it. Nobody scraping product pages has ever saturated a 4G port
Both run on the same dedicated model, 1 SIM = 1 port = 1 customer, and you pick Singtel or M1 at checkout on any plan, at the same price.
Try the real thing
The 24-hour free trial runs on our standard 4G hardware. Speed test it during your working hours, and if the numbers say you need 5G, message us and we’ll sort a 5G port. Plans on the plans page.