AnchoredIP vs Fixie

The HTTP/HTTPS ladder, read from usefixie.com/pricing on 10 August 2026; it continues above these tiers. SOCKS is priced on a separate and higher ladder, so if you need SOCKS compare against that one rather than this table.

Ours are on the pricing page, the same for everyone, with no quote to request and no minimumterm. Every paid plan includes a dedicated IPv4, unmetered.

Whether the address you get is yours alone. Their published pages describe static IP addresses for outbound requests and assign each customer to a load-balanced cluster, but they do not say whether the resulting addresses are dedicated to one customer or shared between several — and we are not going to guess at it in our own favour on a page you came to for a straight answer.

Ask them, because for an allowlist it is the question that matters. A shared address means another customer’s behaviour is attached to your identity: their rate limits, their reputation, and their entry in the blocklist your partner consults. On our side the answer is stated and checkable — one customer per address, on every paid plan.

A proxy needs no kernel access, so it runs in places a tunnel cannot go at all: a Heroku dyno, a Lambda, a managed platform that hands you a process and no network stack. Two environment variables and you are done, with no interface to bring up and no routing to reason about.

If everything you run is on such a platform, that is a real advantage and it may decide this for you. What a proxy cannot do is carry traffic that is not HTTP or SOCKS, or apply to a library that ignores the proxy variables — and it puts a third party in the path of requests you may not want decrypted there.

Which is cheaper?

At the same money — $19 on both sides — Fixie gives you 25,000 requests a month and 10 GB, and we give you an IPv4 address with nothing counted. Which is cheaper therefore depends entirely on your volume. Under a few thousand calls a month their free and $5 tiers have no equivalent here and we would not pretend otherwise.

Is the Fixie address dedicated to me?

Their published pricing and home pages do not say, so we are not going to tell you either way — ask them before you decide, because it is the question that matters most for an allowlist. On our side it is stated plainly: every paid plan assigns an IPv4 to one customer, and nobody else sends from it.

Proxy or tunnel?

Fixie is a proxy — you set proxy environment variables and it forwards HTTP, with SOCKS sold separately. AnchoredIP is a WireGuard tunnel at layer 3, so the address applies to everything the machine sends: any protocol, any library, including ones that ignore proxy settings entirely.

What about Heroku and other platforms without kernel access?

This is where a proxy genuinely wins and we will not argue it. A tunnel needs to create a network interface, which a Heroku dyno or a Lambda will not let you do. With us you route those calls through one small always-on machine that holds the tunnel; if everything you run is on such a platform, that extra hop is a real cost and a proxy may suit you better.

What happens when I go over the limit?

On a metered plan that is their policy to state, not ours. The thing worth knowing is that it is a question you have to ask at all: an allowance is something to monitor, forecast and get paged about. We do not meter requests or bandwidth, so the plan decides how many addresses and machines you get and nothing decides how much you may send.

Seven days on a real address out of the same range paying customers are in, so you can put it in front of the partner whose allowlist started all this and see it accepted. No card, and nobody to talk to.