What QuotaGuard does

QuotaGuard monetizes through monthly subscriptions priced from $19 to $269 per month depending on product (Static or Shield) and tier (Starter, Production, Business, Enterprise), supplemented by annual and monthly compliance add-ons. The go-to-market is primarily product-led and self-serve via quotaguard.com with free trials on all plans, supplemented by distribution through AWS Marketplace, Heroku Elements, and Azure Marketplace, plus engineering-led direct sales for enterprise configurations requiring HIPAA BAA coverage, dedicated infrastructure, or EU data residency. The customer base spans over 47,000 engineering teams since founding, including marquee logos such as Airbnb, Nike, Amazon, Walgreens, Nielsen, Yale, Stanford, and Tyco, with primary end users being DevOps engineers, software developers, and enterprise systems integrators who need consistent egress identity to reach IP-restricted APIs, databases (MongoDB Atlas, Snowflake, Databricks), and regulated workloads across healthcare and fintech. The company operates as a lean, bootstrapped, founder-owned business with fewer than 10 employees and reports no venture capital or private equity investment.

Name

QuotaGuard

Legal name

Alpine Shark, LLC

Website

https://quotaguard.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

QuotaGuard provides static IP proxy infrastructure for cloud applications, AI agents, and automation tools running on platforms with dynamic IPs such as Heroku, AWS, and Kubernetes, serving developers and compliance-sensitive enterprises across healthcare and fintech.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Network Proxy & Static IP Infrastructure

akta.pro primary industry

Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) (HDABAHAD)

Keywords

• Static IP proxy
• Cloud network infrastructure
• IP allowlist management
• HIPAA proxy services
• Egress IP solution

Headquarters

HQ city

Henderson

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. QuotaGuard Static Subscription: Monthly subscription plans (Starter $19/mo, Production $49/mo, Business $89/mo, Enterprise $219/mo) with tiered request limits and bandwidth. Includes load-balanced static IP pair, high availability failover, usage analytics, HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 support, US or EU data residency. Enterprise tier adds dedicated IPs and dedicated proxy resources.
2. QuotaGuard Shield Subscription: Monthly subscription for HIPAA/PCI-compliant environments with SSL passthrough architecture (Shield Starter $29/mo, Shield Production $59/mo, Shield Business $109/mo, Shield Enterprise $269/mo). Includes end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge certificate handling, BAA review available for approved configurations.
3. HIPAA/BAA Administration Add-On: Annual add-on at $999/year covering intake review, BAA record preparation and maintenance, annual configuration review, and related security/compliance administration for approved Shield configurations.
4. Data Residency Add-On: Enterprise add-on for strict EU data residency with full traffic, static IPs, and connection logs locked to EU with no cross-border failover, starting at $899 per month on top of plan.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

QuotaGuard provides static IP proxy infrastructure that gives cloud applications, serverless functions, and AI workflows a fixed outbound and inbound IP identity. The service supports HTTP, HTTPS CONNECT, and SOCKS5 protocols, with load-balanced IP pairs and automatic failover. QuotaGuard offers two products: QuotaGuard Static (standard SSL termination) and QuotaGuard Shield (SSL passthrough for HIPAA/PCI compliance), along with add-ons for dedicated IPs, US/EU data residency, and BAA administration.

Product overview

QuotaGuard is a static IP proxy service provider offering two primary products: QuotaGuard Static and QuotaGuard Shield. QuotaGuard Static is a standard high-performance proxy for general API access, AI workflows, and database connectivity using HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 protocols with SSL termination architecture. QuotaGuard Shield is a compliance-focused product using SSL passthrough for true end-to-end encryption, designed for HIPAA and PCI-regulated environments where data must never be decrypted at the proxy level. Both products provide load-balanced pairs of static IPs with high availability and automatic failover. Add-on modules include Dedicated IPs for enterprise isolation and US/EU Data Residency for geographic compliance requirements. The company also offers HIPAA BAA administration for approved Shield configurations at an additional annual cost.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• QuotaGuard Static: High-performance static IP proxy for general connectivity, supporting HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 protocols. Designed for developers needing fixed identity for API access, AI workflows, and standard third-party integrations.
• QuotaGuard Shield
• QGTunnel

Products and services

• QuotaGuard Static Standard high-performance proxy service providing fixed static IP addresses for general API access, AI workflows, and third-party integrations. Supports HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 protocols for unrestricted database and API connectivity. Uses SSL termination architecture suitable for standard IP allowlisting use cases. Available in Starter ($19/mo), Production ($49/mo), Business ($89/mo), and Enterprise ($219/mo) tiers.
• QuotaGuard Shield End-to-end encrypted static IP proxy designed for HIPAA, PCI, and compliance-sensitive environments. Uses SSL passthrough architecture so data is never decrypted at the proxy level. Zero-knowledge certificate handling ensures private keys never leave customer servers. Includes BAA review availability for approved Shield configurations. Available in Starter ($29/mo), Production ($59/mo), Business ($109/mo), and Enterprise ($269/mo) tiers.
• Dedicated IPs Enterprise security upgrade providing dedicated static IPs assigned solely to the customer account, eliminating noisy neighbor risks and ensuring throughput is never impacted by other tenants. Designed for financial services or strict compliance environments where neighbor noise is unacceptable.
• US/EU Data Residency Data residency option routing proxy traffic through US-only or EU-only infrastructure with no cross-region failover. Ensures logs and IPs stay in-region to comply with GDPR and data sovereignty requirements. EU regions include Frankfurt, Ireland, and London. Available as an enterprise add-on starting at $899/month on top of plan.
• HIPAA / BAA Administration Add-On Annual administration add-on covering intake review, BAA record preparation and maintenance, annual configuration review, and related security/compliance administration for approved QuotaGuard Shield configurations. Priced at $999/year. BAA coverage requires QuotaGuard approval, signed documentation, and the annual add-on.

Quantifiable outcome

• 99.98% historic uptime
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration35 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• Heroku (Salesforce)coreTechnology or IntegrationQuotaGuard originally launched on Heroku and continues to offer deep integration via Heroku Elements marketplace. Provides static IPs for Heroku's dynamic runtime environment. Supports Heroku Private Spaces, custom domains, and QGTunnel for database connections.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)coreTechnology or IntegrationQuotaGuard proxies run in 11 AWS regions. Available via AWS Marketplace allowing customers to apply committed AWS spend. Deep integration for Lambda, VPC private subnets, and EC2 instances.
• Microsoft AzurecoreTechnology or IntegrationAvailable via Azure Marketplace. Integration for Azure App Service, Functions, and VNets to solve dynamic outbound IP issues.
• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)coreTechnology or IntegrationIntegration for Cloud Functions and Cloud Run to provide static IPs without Cloud NAT complexity. Proxies available in GCP-adjacent AWS regions.
• KubernetescoreTechnology or IntegrationSolves K8s egress challenge without NAT Gateway. Route traffic from specific Pods or Namespaces through dedicated static IP.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Tailscale: Tailscale delivers WireGuard-based secure networking that gives cloud workloads a stable identity and egress path without traditional VPN complexity. It addresses the same DevOps persona as QuotaGuard — developers connecting serverless and PaaS apps to restricted APIs and databases — though via overlay networking rather than forward proxies.
• Twingate: Twingate provides zero-trust network access that replaces VPNs with identity-aware, app-level connectivity from cloud workloads to internal services. It overlaps QuotaGuard's enterprise use case of providing controlled, auditable egress and ingress to firewalled databases and APIs.
• Teleport: Teleport offers identity-based access for SSH, Kubernetes, databases, and internal web apps, with audit logging and compliance features. It targets a similar persona — DevOps and platform teams needing fixed, auditable access to restricted infrastructure — as QuotaGuard's HIPAA/PCI and database access use cases.
• ngrok: ngrok provides secure tunnels that give developers static public URLs and stable egress endpoints for apps running on dynamic-IP environments. It directly overlaps QuotaGuard's core use case of providing fixed identity for cloud, serverless, and dev workloads, and is the closest functional competitor.
• StrongDM: StrongDM provides identity-aware access proxies and just-in-time credentials for databases, servers, and cloud infrastructure. It competes with QuotaGuard's database and enterprise integration story (MongoDB Atlas, Snowflake, Databricks) for compliance-sensitive customers.

Emerging players

• Smartproxy: Smartproxy provides residential, datacenter, and ISP proxy infrastructure with sticky sessions and geo targeting. It shares proxy technology DNA with QuotaGuard but targets scraping, ad verification, and market intelligence use cases rather than fixed-identity cloud egress.
• Bright Data: Bright Data operates a large proxy and web data network (residential, datacenter, mobile, ISP proxies). It overlaps QuotaGuard's SOCKS5/HTTP proxy technology but is focused on web scraping and data collection rather than cloud egress IP allowlisting.
• NetBird: NetBird offers an open-source WireGuard-based overlay network for secure access to servers, applications, and cloud resources. It is an emerging alternative for the same developer persona QuotaGuard serves, with a self-hostable architecture that appeals to sovereignty-conscious customers.

Broad incumbents

• Cloudflare: Cloudflare offers Cloudflare Tunnel, Spectrum, and Warp as part of its Zero Trust platform, providing fixed egress IPs and SOCKS/HTTP proxying for cloud apps. It competes with QuotaGuard across Static IP and Shield use cases but bundles them into a much broader networking and security portfolio.
• Zscaler: Zscaler is a leading cloud security broker that mediates user and workload access to SaaS and internet applications, with DLP, CASB, and ZTNA capabilities. It is a much larger incumbent addressing the same compliance-driven cloud security buyer that QuotaGuard's Shield product targets.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance4 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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