Comparison
A QuotaGuard alternative, when what you need is the address
Both give your application a fixed outbound identity so a partner can allowlist one entry. They are different shapes: one is a proxy you send requests through, the other is an address assigned to you and delivered over a tunnel.
First, the question that decides it: can you run a WireGuard client on the machine that makes the outbound calls?
If your code runs on Heroku, Vercel, Lambda, Cloud Run or any managed platform, the answer is no — a proxy works there and our tunnel does not. There is a way round it with one small VM, and that page also says plainly when you should buy a proxy instead of this. On your own servers, a VPS, Docker or Kubernetes with privileges, the answer is yes and none of this applies.
QuotaGuard starts at $19 a month; we start at $19. What separates the two is not the price but what it buys: on their entry tier a pair of addresses shared with other customers, metered by request and by gigabyte; on ours an IPv4 address nobody else sends from, unmetered. A dedicated address on their table starts at $219.
The difference in one table
| QuotaGuard Static | AnchoredIP | |
|---|---|---|
| Shape | HTTP and SOCKS5 proxy | WireGuard tunnel, layer 3 |
| Entry price | $19/month | $19/month |
| Address at that price | A pair shared with other customers | An IPv4 assigned to you alone |
| Dedicated address from | $219/month, the Enterprise tier | $19/month, the entry tier |
| Requests | Metered, 20,000/month at entry | Not metered |
| Bandwidth | Metered, 10 GB/month at entry | Not metered |
| Covers | What honours a proxy setting | Any TCP or UDP — database, SMTP, SSH |
| Needs kernel access | No | Yes, on the machine holding the tunnel |
| Address space | Not stated publicly | Held at RIPE, announced from AS41800 |
QuotaGuard figures read from quotaguard.com/products/pricing on 29 July 2026. Check it before relying on this — it is their page and they can change it.
What QuotaGuard does better
A proxy needs no privileged access to the machine, which means it works in places a tunnel simply cannot go. AWS Lambda, Cloud Run, a locked-down PaaS container — you set two environment variables and you are done, in about two minutes.
With us, the same job needs one always-on machine or pod holding the tunnel, with the serverless code routed through it. If everything you run is serverless, that is an extra component you would not otherwise have, and it is a fair reason to pick a proxy.
They also offer SOCKS5 and an inbound option, and have been doing this considerably longer than we have.
Why a dedicated address matters more than it sounds
A shared pair is still a fixed address, so it satisfies the allowlist. What it does not give you is control of that address's reputation. Anyone else on the same pair can get it listed on a blocklist, and the first you learn of it is a partner integration failing.
On their table that risk is removed at $219 a month, where dedicated infrastructure starts — bundled with fifty times the requests and a hundred times the bandwidth of their entry tier, whether or not you have any use for them. On ours it is removed on every paid plan, because addresses are assigned to one customer and the allocator refuses to hand out an address that appears on any blocklist in the first place.
Pricing
QuotaGuard Static
| Tier | Price | Requests | Bandwidth | Address |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | $19 | 20,000 | 10 GB | Shared pair |
| Production | $49 | 100,000 | 50 GB | Shared pair |
| Business | $89 | 250,000 | 200 GB | Shared pair |
| Enterprise | $219 | 1,000,000 | 1 TB | Dedicated |
Their soft-limit policy means a brief spike over these numbers does not cut traffic off. They also sell QuotaGuard Shield from $29 a month, for traffic they must not decrypt at the proxy.
Ours are published on the pricing page, the same for everyone, with no quote to request and no minimum term. Every paid plan includes a dedicated IPv4, unmetered.
Questions people ask first
- Is QuotaGuard cheaper?
- Their entry tier is $19 a month and ours is $19, so this is not a question of price. It is a question of what the money buys: there a pair of addresses shared with other customers, metered at 20,000 requests and 10 GB; here an IPv4 address assigned to you alone, with nothing metered. Their dedicated addresses begin at $219 a month, on the Enterprise tier.
- Is QuotaGuard a proxy or a tunnel?
- A proxy. Your application routes requests through it by setting proxy environment variables, and it supports HTTP and SOCKS5. AnchoredIP is a WireGuard tunnel, so the address applies to everything the machine sends rather than to the libraries that honour a proxy setting.
- Is the IP address dedicated?
- On QuotaGuard, the address pair is shared with other customers on every tier below Enterprise at $219 a month, where dedicated addresses and proxies begin. On AnchoredIP every paid plan assigns addresses to one customer, starting at the entry tier.
- Are there request or bandwidth limits?
- QuotaGuard meters both, and the tier you are on is the allowance — applied as a soft limit, so a brief spike does not cut traffic off. AnchoredIP does not meter requests or bandwidth; the plan sets how many addresses and machines you get.
- Can I use either from AWS Lambda?
- A proxy, yes — it is two environment variables and no kernel access. A tunnel cannot run inside Lambda, so with AnchoredIP you route the calls that need the identity through one small always-on machine or pod that holds the tunnel. If everything you run is serverless, that extra hop is a real cost and a proxy may suit you better.
Try it rather than take our word
If QuotaGuard is not the only thing on your list: Fixie prices by request in much the same way, a managed NAT gateway is what most people are actually paying today, and Wiredoor is the self-hosted route.
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.