Billing and the meter
Count your own requests: ProxyDesk’s activity log and its CSV export
ProxyDesk counts every connection it carries, on your machine. What the log and its CSV hold, what they leave out, and how to hold them against our meter.
Read →Stop apps wasting your proxy bandwidth: Clash Verge rules that keep the meter for the job
On a per-GB proxy, Global mode or a catch-all rule bills you for every app. The Clash Verge rules that put only your job on the meter, tested on its core.
Read →Clash Verge proxy setup: your own proxy as a node, and rules that decide what uses it
Add your own HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy to Clash Verge Rev as a node, group it, write rules so only chosen sites use it, check the route and spot a failed login.
Read →Torrent clients with proxy support: all 15 ranked by how easy, and how cheap
15 torrent clients ranked by how easily they take a SOCKS5 or HTTP proxy, which traffic goes through it, what happens to UDP, and what seeding costs per GB.
Read →Proxy pricing explained: per GB, per IP, and the cost per page that matters
How proxies are priced (per gigabyte, per IP, per month), what each model rewards and punishes, and how to compare offers by the cost of one page that loads.
Read →The best cheap proxy providers in 2026, us included
Cheap residential proxy providers compared on what a small buyer pays at 1, 10 and 100 GB, plus minimums, expiry, refunds and targeting. Sources linked.
Read →Cheap residential proxies: what to check before you top up
Eight questions to ask any cheap residential proxy provider, us included: what the meter counts, whether GB expire, what refunds cover, what the IPs are.
Read →Nine ways to move fewer bytes through a residential proxy
Compression, asset blocking, conditional requests, hidden JSON endpoints and smarter retries: make each residential gigabyte fetch more pages, with code.
Read →Giving an AI agent a proxy: browser agents, Crawl4AI and plain HTTP
Route an AI agent’s browsing through a proxy: browser agents, Crawl4AI and plain HTTP tools, plus a byte budget so a runaway loop cannot drain your balance.
Read →Buying proxies with crypto: coins, networks, confirmations and refunds
Paying for proxies in BTC, USDT or ETH, step by step: which network to pick, how long confirmation takes, where fees hide, and how a refund comes back.
Read →How much bandwidth will my scrape eat? Measure it before you pay
Measure what one page costs on the wire from your own connection, multiply it out, and know the gigabytes before you buy any.
Read →Auditing your proxy bill: check the meter yourself
Count your own request and response bytes, pull the same window from our usage log, and diff the two with a short Python script.
Read →How proxy providers inflate your usage, and how to catch them
The three ways a cheap proxy provider quietly bills you for more traffic than it delivered, and a ten-minute test that shows whether yours is doing it.
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