The honest answer is a spread, not a salary. Here is the real margin math for reselling mobile proxies — the gap between $4/GB wholesale and retail, worked examples, what payment fees and churn quietly take, and how to model it so the numbers are yours, not someone else's screenshot.
Proxy resellers earn the spread between wholesale and retail, not a fixed wage. Buy bandwidth at $4/GB (down to $2.40/GB at volume), price it at a typical 2–5× markup, then subtract Stripe fees (2.9% + $0.30), refunds, and churn. Net profit is whatever survives. All numbers here are illustrative — earnings depend on your pricing, volume, and retention, and are not guaranteed.
A proxy reseller does not get paid a salary — they capture the difference between what bandwidth costs them and what a customer will pay for it, packaged with a brand, a dashboard, and support. That difference is your gross spread. Everything else in this article is about turning gross spread into netprofit by subtracting the costs that quietly accumulate underneath it.
On the wholesale side, PROXIES.SX is deliberately simple to model: bandwidth is pay-per-GB at $4/GB, dropping to $2.40/GB at the highest volume tiers, and the GB never expire. Endpoints are free, there are no per-port charges, and there are no monthly platform fees. That matters for margin math because it means your only variable cost per sale is the bandwidth itself plus the payment fee — there is no fixed overhead silently eroding the spread before a single customer shows up.
On the retail side, the open market for mobile proxies is wide — directionally somewhere around $2–15/GBdepending on country mix, session control, support quality, and brand. Resellers commonly price at a 2–5× markup over their wholesale cost. Treat both of those as directional industry ranges, not promises: the price you can actually command depends on who you sell to and how much trust you have built.
Three illustrative packages, all priced at a 3× markup over $4/GB wholesale, with Stripe fees subtracted per order.
| Package | You sell (3×) | Cost @ $4/GB | Gross spread | Stripe fee* | Net spread |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter — 5 GB | $60 | $20 | $40 | −$2.04 | ~$37.96 |
| Pro — 25 GB | $300 | $100 | $200 | −$9.00 | ~$191.00 |
| Scale — 100 GB | $1,200 | $400 | $800 | −$35.10 | ~$764.90 |
*Stripe fee = 2.9% of the sale + $0.30 per transaction. All figures are illustrative examples of the math, not earnings claims. They assume your wholesale cost stays at $4/GB; at volume it can fall toward $2.40/GB, widening every spread. They do not yet subtract refunds, chargebacks, or support time — see below.
The most underrated margin lever is your own volume tier. Because you aggregate every customer's usage under one reseller account, growth pulls your wholesale cost down the curve — and you keep that saving as pure extra spread if your retail price stays the same. Here is the same 25 GB customer at three points on the wholesale curve:
| Your wholesale tier | Cost of 25 GB | You still sell at | Gross spread | Effective margin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $4.00/GB | $100 | $300 | $200 | 67% |
| $3.20/GB | $80 | $300 | $220 | 73% |
| $2.40/GB | $60 | $300 | $240 | 80% |
Illustrative. Effective margin = gross spread ÷ retail price, before payment fees. The lesson: scaling your customer base improves margin on every existing customer, not just new ones.
The gap between gross spread and money in your pocket lives in these four line items.
Stripe takes 2.9% + $0.30 on every transaction. The fixed $0.30 is brutal on small orders — on a $5 sale it is 6% of revenue before the percentage even applies.
A refund returns the sale; a chargeback can cost the sale plus a dispute fee. Even a low single-digit rate meaningfully trims a thin-margin product.
One-and-done buyers are the silent profit killer. If half your customers never top up, your effective acquisition cost per retained customer doubles.
Setup questions, rotation help, billing issues — unpaid labor that scales with customer count. Price it in, or it quietly eats your hourly rate.
You control more than the markup multiple. These are the dials that actually compound.
Scrapers, social-media operators, and AI agents value clean mobile IPs differently. Bundles and tiers capture more of that value than a single flat /GB rate.
Your wholesale cost falls toward $2.40/GB as monthly usage grows. Aggregating many small customers under one reseller account widens every spread.
Set a sensible minimum package so the fixed $0.30 Stripe fee is a rounding error, not a tax. Annual or top-up credits cut transaction count too.
GB never expire on PROXIES.SX, so retention is about support and reliability, not artificial deadlines. Retained customers are pure margin.
Numbers in isolation flatter the business. Here is one fully-loaded month, built so you can copy the structure and drop in your own assumptions. This is a hypothetical model of the math, not a typical result or a forecast of what you will earn.
| Orders this month (mix of packages) | 40 orders |
| Total bandwidth sold | 600 GB |
| Gross revenue (avg ~$10/GB retail) | $6,000 |
| Wholesale cost (600 GB @ ~$3.20 volume tier) | −$1,920 |
| Stripe fees (40 × $0.30 + 2.9% of $6,000) | −$186 |
| Refunds + chargebacks (~3% of revenue) | −$180 |
| Support time (~15 hrs valued at $25/hr) | −$375 |
| Net profit (illustrative) | ~$3,339 |
Earnings disclaimer. Every figure above is a worked example of the arithmetic, chosen to show the method — not a representative income, an average, or a guarantee. Your actual results depend on your prices, how much you sell, your refund and churn rates, your country mix, your support load, and your local taxes. Many resellers earn less than this; some earn more; some make nothing. Model your own numbers with the free reseller calculator before you build a plan around any of them.
The takeaway is structural, not numerical: gross spread is generous on mobile proxies, but the four eaters — fees, refunds, churn, and support — decide how much of it you keep. A reseller who obsesses over markup and ignores retention will underperform one who prices sensibly and keeps customers around. For the operational side of getting set up, see the full guide to starting a proxy reselling business.
There is no fixed number — a reseller earns the spread between wholesale cost and retail price, minus payment fees, refunds, and churn. With wholesale at $4/GB (dropping to $2.40/GB at volume) and retail commonly set at a 2–5× markup (a directional industry range, not a guarantee), the gross spread on a single GB can run from a couple of dollars to over ten. Net profit depends entirely on your pricing, the volume tier you reach, and how many customers stay. These figures are illustrative; earnings are not guaranteed.
Margin is the spread between what you pay wholesale and what you charge retail. If you buy at $4/GB and sell at $12/GB, your gross margin is $8/GB or about 67% of the sale price, before Stripe fees of 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction. As your monthly volume grows, your wholesale cost can fall toward $2.40/GB, which widens the spread without raising your price. Markups of 2–5× are a common directional range across the mobile-proxy market.
Four things. Payment processing (Stripe is 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction, which hits small orders hardest). Refunds and chargebacks, where you lose the sale plus sometimes a dispute fee. Churn — customers who buy once and never return, so you never recover acquisition effort. And support time, which is unpaid labor that scales with customer count. Tight margin businesses live or die on these four line items, not on the headline markup.
No. Wholesale is pay-per-GB only: $4/GB dropping to $2.40/GB at volume, with GB that never expire. Endpoints are free, there are no per-port charges, and there are no monthly platform fees. That keeps your cost structure simple — your only variable cost per sale is the bandwidth and the payment fee, which makes margin easy to model.
Start from one sale: retail price minus wholesale cost ($4/GB, or your volume tier) minus the Stripe fee (2.9% + $0.30) equals net spread per order. Multiply by expected orders per month, then subtract a realistic refund/chargeback rate and the hours you spend on support. Use the free proxy reseller calculator to sweep prices and volumes. Treat every output as illustrative — real income depends on pricing, volume, and churn.
Wholesale starts at $4/GB and drops to $2.40 at volume — free endpoints, no monthly fees, GB that never expire. Clone the open-source kit, set your prices, and the spread is yours. Questions about volume tiers or setup? We answer fast on Telegram.