Irmu vs LumiProxy
Irmu vs LumiProxy: score breakdown
Irmu scores 64/100 against 58/100 for LumiProxy, a 6-point gap. Irmu is ahead on Ease of use (19 vs 16), Value (16 vs 15) and Delivery (12 vs 10); they tie on Capability (17). Each sub-score is out of 25.
Features and platforms
| Feature | Irmu | LumiProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Freemium | Paid |
| Free plan | Yes | No |
| Platforms | Web, REST API, MCP server | Web, API |
| Best for | Solo developers and small teams building data pipelines who want one API key for scraping, rendering, and AI extraction. | Developers and data teams running high-volume web scraping or market research at scale. |
| Skip if | Teams needing multi-step browser automation or a standalone proxy endpoint today; those features are planned but not yet available. | Anyone looking for an AI coding assistant, code completion, or IDE integration - this is a proxy and data-collection infrastructure product. |
Cost and usage limits
Irmu has a free plan. LumiProxy has no free plan; paid plans start at $6.00/IP/mo (Static Residential Proxies).
Prices from each vendor's pricing page. Irmu checked November 2026 · LumiProxy checked November 2026
Pros and cons
Irmu
- Single credit pool covers scraping, JavaScript rendering, screenshots, AI extraction, Google SERP, Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT answers, and Booking.com data, with no separate keys or quotas per API.
- Geotargeting by country, region, and city is free on every request and every plan, including the free tier, which is uncommon among comparable scraping APIs.
- MCP server with OAuth 2.1 or API key auth lets developers connect Irmu directly to Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT without writing REST integration code.
- Both the Proxy API (standalone IP pool endpoint) and the Browser API (multi-step scripted sessions) are listed as planned features but are not part of the live product, making the product page misleading for developers who need those capabilities now.
- Premium residential IPs and AI extraction are locked behind the $90/month Standard plan; the $19 Starter and $40 Lite tiers only offer datacenter IPs, which limits their usefulness against sites with meaningful anti-bot protection.
- Scheduling and webhooks, essential for any recurring crawl job, only appear at the $200/month Pro tier, forcing teams with modest volume but recurring needs to pay for 3,000,000 credits per month whether they use them or not.
LumiProxy
- 90M+ residential IP pool with city-level and all-50-US-states geo-targeting gives genuine coverage depth that smaller providers cannot match.
- Dual billing models, per-GB for rotating residential and flat daily rate for unlimited residential, let teams choose the structure that fits their actual usage pattern rather than overpaying on one model.
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification is a concrete, verifiable trust signal that matters when routing business-critical traffic through a third-party network.
- The Long Acting ISP proxy plan caps stable session time at 12 hours, which rules it out for workflows that need persistent identity across full business days or multi-day sessions without re-authentication.
- The scraping API suite (Web Scraper, SERP, Video) is newer and thinner in documented capability than what established competitors like Bright Data or Oxylabs offer, with less public documentation on success rates and parsing accuracy.
- No permanently free tier exists; the $10 Trial plan for residential proxies gives only 2GB, which is too small to meaningfully benchmark performance for high-volume use cases before committing to a larger plan.
Our verdict
Irmu verdict
Irmu suits developers who want a single API key covering scraping, JavaScript rendering, screenshots, and AI extraction without stitching together separate services. The credit model is transparent and geotargeting is free at every tier, but residential IPs and AI extraction only enable at the $90/month Standard plan, putting real production features out of reach for the $19 and $40 tiers. Teams that need multi-step browser automation or a dedicated proxy endpoint should look elsewhere: both are listed on the roadmap but not yet shipped.
Read full Irmu review →LumiProxy verdict
LumiProxy is the right pick for developers and data engineers who need a large, affordable rotating residential proxy pool and don't want to pay enterprise rates. Its per-GB billing and unlimited daily plans give genuine flexibility that fixed-seat tools can't match, but the scraping API suite is thinner than dedicated competitors like Bright Data or Oxylabs. Teams that need a true AI coding assistant should look elsewhere entirely, this is infrastructure, not an IDE tool.
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