Proxy Bastion vs Resin

Last checked 2026-09-10

Resin is a proxy pool gateway: point it at a large set of raw proxy subscriptions, potentially tens or hundreds of thousands of nodes across several upstream sources, and it health-checks them, drops the bad ones, and presents one stable entry point with sticky sessions on top. Its own description is that it turns massive proxy subscriptions into a unified entrypoint.

Proxy Bastion solves a different problem that sits on the other side of that gateway. It does not care where your proxies came from or how many nodes are behind them. What it adds is a way to hand a specific proxy, or a specific slice of your existing proxy capacity, out to a specific person as a metered, revocable link, so that many separate people can each get their own accountable piece of something you already have.

Resin: side by side

DimensionProxy BastionResin
What problem it solves Distribution: taking proxy access you already have and handing separate, accountable pieces of it out to separate people. Aggregation: taking many raw upstream proxy nodes or subscriptions and turning them into one stable, health-checked gateway.
Direction of the proxy traffic One proxy in, many people out. A single upstream credential can be split into many per-person links. Many proxies in, one gateway out. Many upstream nodes are combined behind a single smart entry point.
Who the primary user is Someone who already has working proxy access and needs to share defined, revocable pieces of it with other people. Someone who already has, or is buying, a large raw pool of proxy subscriptions and needs it turned into one reliable endpoint before anyone can use it well.
Revocation granularity Revoking one issued link removes exactly one person while every other link and the underlying proxy keep working. Removing a node from the pool is a health or capacity decision about that node, not a way to cut off one specific downstream person; Resin's gateway is not built to track which end user is on the other side of a given request.

Where this page draws the line

  • Proxy Bastion and Resin are not competitors; they sit on different sides of the same proxy stack. Resin's output, a stable, health-checked gateway, is a perfectly reasonable thing to put behind Proxy Bastion and then hand out to people as individually revocable links. Proxy Bastion does not aggregate raw proxy nodes, and Resin does not issue or revoke per-person access.

When Resin is the right choice

  • If what you actually have is a large, raw set of proxy subscriptions from one or more upstreams that need health checking, deduplication and a single stable entry point with sticky sessions before anyone can use them well, that is exactly what Resin is built for, and Proxy Bastion does none of that node-level pool management.

Sources

  • The public Resinat/Resin GitHub repository describes the project as "A high-performance proxy pool gateway. Turn massive proxy subscriptions into a stable, smart, and observable network with sticky sessions," and showed 2.3k stars and 377 forks at fetch time, supporting the claim that Resin is an aggregation gateway for large raw proxy pools rather than a per-person access distribution tool. https://github.com/Resinat/Resin (checked 2026-09-10)