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Billing & the meter
Why are you cheaper than the big providers?Home
We do not have a sales team, an enterprise tier, a compliance department, or a conference booth. We have a Discord, a status bot, and a bandwidth bill.
The traffic itself costs what it costs. Most of what you pay elsewhere is the org chart.
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What stops you inflating my usage like the last provider did?Home
Nothing stops us except the fact that you can check. We bill request bytes plus response bytes, headers included, and every request is logged with both counts and exportable as CSV. Run the same job through your own byte counter and compare. If ours is higher by more than protocol overhead explains, that is a bug and we credit back the difference.
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Do I need a plan or a subscription?Pricing
Not for residential. You top up, and traffic draws down the balance for as long as it lasts.
ISP and datacenter are rented per IP, so you pick a plan (shared, dedicated or premium) and a term when you order, and the whole term is paid up front from your balance. There is no monthly fee on top of either.
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Exactly what bytes do you charge for?Pricing
The bytes that cross our network on your behalf: your request (headers and body) plus the response (headers and body), including TLS overhead on the tunnelled connection.
A connection that fails before it carries data costs nothing. Retries are billed, because they are real traffic, but each one appears as its own line in your log so you can see them.
Answered on Pricing. Also asked on Residential pricing
How do the volume rungs work?Pricing
The size of a single order sets the rate, and that rate applies to the whole order. Cross a rung and every unit reprices, not only the ones above it.
On ISP and datacenter the rung discount comes off the plan price first, then the term discount comes off that. Checkout rounds to the cent after each step, and so does every figure on these pages.
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Are there hidden fees?Pricing
No setup fee, no port fee, no monthly minimum. What can cost extra is listed on each pricing page: traffic beyond the allowance on a shared ISP or datacenter IP, and the add-on for more threads. Checkout shows every one of them before you pay. Payment processors take their own cut on the way in, which is why crypto is marginally better for both of us.
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Why should I believe any of this?Honesty
You should not, on the strength of a marketing page. Every claim here is written so that you can check it rather than trust it: export the usage CSV and diff it, whois the IPs we give you, ask for a refund and see what happens.
That is deliberate. A promise you can verify in ten minutes is worth more than a badge.
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What happens if I catch you overbilling?Honesty
Send us the two numbers. If ours is higher by more than protocol overhead explains, we credit back the difference and post what went wrong in the Discord where everyone can read it. If yours is wrong, we will show you why, and you get to keep being suspicious of us, which is fine.
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Are you going to raise prices once I depend on you?Honesty
If our costs move, prices may move — pretending otherwise would be its own small lie. What we will not do is change the rate on a balance you have already paid for. Money already in your account buys traffic at the rate you bought it at.
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Does the price change by country?Locations
No. The price list has no country column: an ISP address in Japan costs what one in Canada costs. Plan, term length and how many IPs you order are what move the price, and the pricing pages break those down.
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What gets metered?Locations
Residential is billed per GB, and we count request bytes plus response bytes, as the terms say. ISP and datacenter are billed per IP for the term. Shared plans on those lines include a small traffic allowance and bill traffic past it per GB.
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What does the order size change?Residential pricing
The rate for the whole order. One GB costs $2.40. Buy 5 GB in one go and every GB in it costs $1.95; at 500 GB it is $1.50. The rung you reach reprices all of it, not only the gigabytes above the line.
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What does one address cost on the 365-day term?ISP pricing
One dedicated IP on the 365-day term costs $2.56 a month, $30.72 paid up front, which is 20% under the 30-day rate. The address does not change under you at any point in the term.
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Shared or dedicated for a crawl?Datacenter pricing
Work out the traffic first. Shared includes 1 GB per IP and sells more at $0.35/GB with the order. From 2 extra GB per IP up, a dedicated IP costs less than shared plus traffic, and dedicated has no meter at all.
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Is a longer term worth it?Datacenter pricing
Only if the job will still exist. 60 days takes 5% off, 90 days takes 10% off, 365 days takes 20% off. The discount stacks on top of the volume rung, and the whole term is paid up front from your balance.
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Is this cheaper than it should be?Residential proxies
It is cheaper than the big providers because we do not carry their cost structure. It is not cheaper than physically possible: bandwidth from a real home connection has a real cost, and anyone selling residential for pennies a gigabyte is selling you something else.
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Why can ISP work out cheaper than residential?ISP proxies
Because the bandwidth is ours. Rotating residential runs over other people's home connections, and we pay a share of every gigabyte to the SDK partner whose users provide it. ISP traffic runs on wholesale datacenter bandwidth with a residential ASN on the front, so a dedicated ISP IP has no traffic meter.
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Why is this so much cheaper than residential for heavy jobs?Datacenter proxies
Because a server in a rack costs a fraction of what a real home connection costs, and on a dedicated IP there is no traffic meter at all. Residential charges for every byte; a dedicated datacenter IP costs the same whether you move one gigabyte or a hundred.
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Do I pay per IP or per GB?Datacenter proxies
Per IP, for the term you pick. On the dedicated and premium plans traffic is not metered at all. The shared plan includes 1 GB per IP and sells more at $0.35/GB with the order.
From 2 extra GB per IP up, a dedicated IP works out cheaper than shared plus traffic.
Answered on Datacenter proxies
How many GB will my scraper use?Proxies for web scraping
Fetch fifty representative pages, read the byte counts in your usage log, and multiply out. We bill request bytes plus response bytes, headers included, so the log will read a little higher than the size of the HTML you saved.
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How do I keep costs down on a big crawl?Proxies for AI training data
Fetch HTML only, deduplicate URLs before fetching, and cache everything while you develop. Send only the domains that block datacenter through residential. Check the usage log after the first thousand pages and extrapolate before you commit to the rest.
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Is there anything cheaper than crawling it myself?Proxies for AI training data
Often, yes. If the pages you need are in a public crawl archive such as Common Crawl, downloading that costs less than any proxy. Crawl yourself for the gaps and for fresh pages.
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Why is there a price gap at all?Us vs Bright Data
Most of it is the company around the product: sales, compliance, support tiers, marketing. Those are real costs and Bright Data serves customers who need them. We do not have them, and we do not serve those customers.
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How do I test whether a provider is inflating usage?Us vs the $1/GB no-names
Run a fixed job — say, fetch the same 500 URLs — through a local byte counter such as mitmproxy or a wrapper that sums Content-Length plus header size. Then compare with what the provider billed.
A few percent of drift is normal, since TLS and connection overhead are real bytes. Thirty percent is not drift. That is a business model.
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Products & choosing
What are you not okay with?Home
Anything aimed at people rather than data: credential stuffing, harassment, CSAM, fraud, and attacks on infrastructure. We will close the account and refund the whole unused balance, however old, rather than take that money, unless the balance itself was paid for fraudulently. Everything else is your call to make.
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Do you log what sites I visit?Honesty
We log the destination host, timestamp, status code and byte counts, because that is what makes the meter auditable and what lets us respond to abuse reports. We do not log request bodies, response bodies, or credentials. Logs are retained for 30 days and then deleted.
If you want the detail, it is written down in the privacy policy rather than implied here.
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What do you do about abuse?Honesty
We publish an acceptable use policy, we keep an address that a victim of abuse can actually reach, and we act on reports. Accounts that get used for credential stuffing, harassment, CSAM or fraud get closed, and the whole unused balance goes back to where it came from rather than into our pocket, unless it was paid for fraudulently.
This is partly ethics and partly self-interest: pools that tolerate that behaviour end up on blocklists, and then nobody’s scraper works.
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Can I choose the country when I order?Locations
On ISP and datacenter, yes. You pick the country at checkout and the IP stays in it for the whole term.
On residential, no. Checkout does not offer country selection for residential, so each request exits wherever the next IP in the pool happens to be.
Answered on Locations. Also asked on Residential proxies, Proxies for web scraping
Then why list countries for residential at all?Locations
So you know what the pool is made of. If a target only needs a real home IP from somewhere, residential does the job. If it needs one particular country, buy ISP or datacenter in that country.
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Is every listed country always in stock?Locations
The ISP and datacenter lists are what the order form offers. Stock in one country can run short for a while, and the order form in the dashboard is the live answer. If a country you need is missing, say so in Discord.
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Can I test a country before paying for a full term?Locations
Yes. Order one ISP or datacenter IP in that country on the shortest term, point your scraper at it, and only then buy more addresses or a longer term.
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Can I pay extra to pick the country?Residential pricing
No. Residential is sold as one pool spread over 180+ countries, and the order has no country setting at any price. If a job must come from one named country, ISP and datacenter are ordered per country.
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Why pay for ISP when datacenter exists?ISP pricing
For the whois record. An ISP address is registered to a consumer internet provider, a datacenter address to a hosting company, and plenty of sites block hosting ranges on sight. That registration is what the extra pays for: a dedicated ISP IP is $2.66 a month at 10 IPs, where datacenter is $1.58. If the site you are after does not check, datacenter does the same job for less.
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Which plan do logged-in accounts need?ISP pricing
Dedicated. A shared IP is used by up to 3 customers, so whatever they do on it follows your account around. Premium is dedicated plus a fresh IP nobody has used before. That is worth it when an account has to start clean.
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Will a datacenter IP get blocked?Datacenter pricing
On sites that block hosting ranges, yes, and fast. On most APIs, content sites and price feeds it works fine, and it is the quickest line we sell. Ask in Discord about a specific target before you commit to a long term.
Answered on Datacenter pricing. Also asked on Datacenter proxies
Where do the IPs come from?Residential proxies
A paid, opt-in SDK partner. Real people install an app, are told in plain language that their spare bandwidth is being used, and are paid for it. They can turn it off at any time.
We will name the partner if you ask in Discord. Providers who will not name theirs are usually not the ones you want.
Answered on Residential proxies
What is the difference between this and residential?ISP proxies
Residential rotates: a different real home IP on every request, drawn from millions. ISP does not rotate: you get one address, hosted in our racks, that whois attributes to a consumer ISP.
So residential is for looking like many people, and ISP is for looking like the same person repeatedly.
Answered on ISP proxies
How long do I keep an address?ISP proxies
For the term you buy, from 30 up to 365 days. It does not rotate on a timer and it does not change under you mid-session, which is the whole point. On the premium plan you can also swap it for a fresh one yourself.
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Will sites treat it as residential?ISP proxies
They will see a consumer ISP on the ASN lookup, which is what most filters check. A determined anti-bot vendor can still tell a static hosted address from a home line by other signals, so ISP is not magic. It is a good middle option.
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How fast is it?Datacenter proxies
Every datacenter IP runs at a 100 Mbps port speed, on every plan. Latency is sub-100 ms in-region.
Answered on Datacenter proxies
Is web scraping legal?Proxies for web scraping
Collecting publicly available data is lawful in many places, but it depends on where you are, what you collect and the site's terms. Our acceptable use policy allows scraping public data at a considerate rate.
Personal data and copyrighted content carry their own rules, and a proxy does not change them.
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Residential or datacenter for my first scraper?Proxies for web scraping
Try datacenter first. If the target returns 403s through datacenter and 200s through residential, the site blocks hosting ranges and you need residential. The residential vs datacenter guide has a script that tells you in about five minutes.
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Can I see the price a shopper in another country sees?Proxies for price monitoring
Yes, on datacenter or ISP: choose the country at checkout and the IP is in that country. Residential has no country selector here. The pool covers 180+ countries and you get whichever one the rotation hands you. That makes it the wrong line for country-specific prices.
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Can I use this for a restock or release bot?Proxies for price monitoring
Yes. Our acceptable use policy lists sneaker, ticket and release bots as fine. The shop's own rules still apply, and a store that limits one item per customer can cancel your order.
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Shared or dedicated plan?Proxies for price monitoring
Shared is cheaper per IP, but other customers use the same address and it comes with a small traffic allowance before extra traffic is charged. For a monitor you want to trust, dedicated means you never inherit somebody else's ban.
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Do search engines allow this?Proxies for SERP tracking
Their terms generally prohibit automated queries, and they enforce that by blocking. Our acceptable use policy allows SEO and SERP monitoring. Whether a given engine tolerates it is between you and the engine.
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Is this allowed for a university project?Proxies for AI training data
Yes. Academic research is on the fine list in our acceptable use policy. Your university may have its own ethics rules for collected data, and those are yours to follow.
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Why ISP and not residential?Proxies for ad verification
Ad verification usually means checking one market repeatedly. ISP lets you pick the country at checkout and keeps the same address. Residential has no country selector here. The pool covers 180+ countries and you get whichever one the rotation hands you.
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Can I check mobile ads?Proxies for ad verification
We do not sell mobile proxies. Setting a mobile user agent and viewport in the browser covers layout, but a network that targets by mobile carrier will see a home ISP.
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Will the ad network see what a real visitor would?Proxies for ad verification
It will see a consumer ISP address in the right country, which is what most geo and bot checks look at. Anything tied to a signed-in profile or a device fingerprint is outside what an IP can change.
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Is ad verification allowed?Proxies for ad verification
Yes. Ad verification and brand protection are on the fine list in our acceptable use policy. Clicking the ads is not.
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Which countries can I test from?Proxies for geo testing
Datacenter covers 70+ countries and ISP 70+. You pick the country when you order, and checkout shows the full list.
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Is ProxyMonkey a Bright Data reseller?Us vs Bright Data
No. Different pools, different infrastructure, no commercial relationship.
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Are your residential IPs the same quality?Us vs Bright Data
On the sites most people are scraping, you will not notice a difference. On the hardest targets, a bigger pool wins more often, and theirs is bigger. We would rather say that than pretend.
Start with 1 GB for $2.40 and find out on your own targets. That is cheaper than either of us arguing about it.
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Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than Oxylabs?Us vs Oxylabs
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $2.40 in all. Oxylabs: $6.00/GB on their smallest monthly plan, $30.00 for 5 GB, the smallest order that covers it. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB; for the 1 GB you need, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $18.50 in all. Oxylabs: $5.00/GB on a monthly plan, $100.00 for 20 GB, the smallest plan that covers it, or Starter plus a top-up, whose price is not published. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB; for the 10 GB you need, against that plan, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $160.00 in all. Oxylabs: $4.00/GB on a monthly plan, $500.00 for 125 GB, the smallest plan that covers it, or a smaller plan plus a top-up, whose price is not published. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB; for the 100 GB you need, against that plan, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page. Their plan prices are billed every month; ours are one-off orders. Their prices and ours both exclude tax.
Answered on Us vs Oxylabs
What about Oxylabs pay as you go?Us vs Oxylabs
We cannot compare it. Their terms describe a pay-as-you-go option for residential, bought through their dashboard, but the price is not on their public pricing page, so it is not on this page either. What their terms do say: pay-as-you-go purchases are never refunded, and traffic unused for 3 months may be expired.
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Is their bigger pool worth it?Us vs Oxylabs
On the sites most people scrape, you are unlikely to notice. On the hardest targets a bigger pool wins more often, and theirs is far bigger. Run the same job through both and count successful requests per dollar. Our side of that test starts at $5.
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Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than Webshare?Us vs Webshare
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $3.50/GB on their 1 GB monthly plan. ProxyMonkey is cheaper.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $2.75/GB on their 10 GB monthly plan. ProxyMonkey is cheaper.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $2.25/GB on their 100 GB monthly plan. ProxyMonkey is cheaper.
At 1,000 GB: $1.50/GB here, $1.50/GB on their 1,000 GB monthly plan. The two cost the same.
At 3,000 GB: $1.50/GB here, $1.40/GB on their 3,000 GB monthly plan. Webshare is cheaper.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page.
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Is a Webshare plan ever the cheaper buy?Us vs Webshare
At their biggest plan, yes, if you use all of it. Their price is for a plan that renews each month; ours is a one-off order from a balance that does not expire. If you get through thousands of gigabytes every month, their top plan wins. If you need 40 GB one month and nothing for the next two, compare what you would actually spend over the quarter.
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Can I pick a country on ProxyMonkey residential like I can on Webshare?Us vs Webshare
No. Our residential proxies rotate across the whole pool and cannot be pinned to a country. Our ISP and datacenter proxies can: you pick the country at checkout. If you need residential IPs from one place, Webshare is the better fit for that job.
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Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than IPRoyal?Us vs IPRoyal
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $7.35/GB on their pay-as-you-go 1 GB. ProxyMonkey is cheaper.
At 2 GB: $2.40/GB here, $6.25/GB on their pay-as-you-go 2 GB. ProxyMonkey is cheaper.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $5.51/GB on their pay-as-you-go 10 GB. ProxyMonkey is cheaper.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page.
Their subscription is 5% below their pay-as-you-go price. Sizes they do not list, between 10 GB and their custom plans, are not published.
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Both of you say traffic never expires. What is actually different?Us vs IPRoyal
Mostly targeting and the meter. They let you pick a country, state or city on residential and we do not. We show every request with its byte count and they do not describe a per-request log on their public pages. Pick on whichever of those matters to your job.
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Can I pay IPRoyal and ProxyMonkey in crypto?Us vs IPRoyal
Yes, both. Note that their terms make crypto payments non-refundable in every case, so check the refund terms of whichever you choose before paying in crypto.
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Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than DataImpulse?Us vs DataImpulse
At 5 GB: $1.95/GB here, $1.00/GB on their 5 GB package. DataImpulse is cheaper.
At 50 GB: $1.70/GB here, $1.00/GB on their 50 GB package. DataImpulse is cheaper.
At 1,000 GB: $1.50/GB here, $0.80/GB on their 1 TB package. DataImpulse is cheaper.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page.
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Then why would anyone pay more?Us vs DataImpulse
Only if the meter, the IP evidence or the refund terms are worth the difference for your job. For a disposable scrape where a few percent of billing drift does not matter, they probably are not. For a job where someone else is paying and wants the bill reconciled line by line, they might be.
We would rather you buy the right thing than buy from us.
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Can I run the same job through both and compare?Us vs DataImpulse
Yes, and it is the only comparison that counts. Their smallest package for new users is $5, as of 2026-09-30, and our minimum top-up is $5. Run the same fixed set of URLs through each, count the bytes yourself, and compare against what each one billed and how many requests succeeded.
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Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than Decodo?Us vs Decodo
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $4.00/GB on their pay-as-you-go. ProxyMonkey is cheaper.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $4.00/GB on their pay-as-you-go. ProxyMonkey is cheaper.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $3.50/GB on their 10 GB monthly plan. ProxyMonkey is cheaper.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $2.75/GB on their 100 GB monthly plan. ProxyMonkey is cheaper.
At 1,000 GB: $1.50/GB here, $2.00/GB on their 1 TB Enterprise plan. ProxyMonkey is cheaper.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page. Their prices and ours both exclude tax.
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Is Decodo the same company as Smartproxy?Us vs Decodo
Yes. Their own site describes decodo.com as formerly smartproxy.com. Everything on this page refers to what Decodo publishes today.
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Why is there no free trial on ProxyMonkey?Us vs Decodo
We do not offer one. The nearest thing is the $5 minimum top-up, and unused balance comes back if you ask within 7 days.
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Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than Evomi?Us vs Evomi
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $2.40 in all. Evomi: $0.99/GB pay as you go, $14.85 for 15 GB, the smallest order that covers it. Evomi is cheaper per GB; for the 1 GB you need, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $18.50 in all. Evomi: $0.99/GB pay as you go, $14.85 for 15 GB, the smallest order that covers it. Evomi is cheaper per GB; for the 10 GB you need, Evomi still costs less in total.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $160.00 in all. Evomi: $0.99/GB pay as you go, $99.00 in all. Evomi is cheaper per GB.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page. Their 100 GB monthly plan is lower again, at $0.49/GB.
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Evomi is cheaper. Why would anyone pay more?Us vs Evomi
Only if the refund terms or the meter are worth the difference for your job. Their pay-as-you-go purchases are not refundable; ours come back within 7 days of a top-up if you have not used them. We log every request with its byte count so you can reconcile the bill against your own numbers. For a disposable job where neither matters, buy from them.
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Can I target a city on ProxyMonkey residential, like on Evomi?Us vs Evomi
No. Our residential proxies rotate across the whole pool and cannot be pinned to a country or a city. Our ISP and datacenter proxies can: you pick the country at checkout. If your job has to come from one place on a residential IP, Evomi is the better fit.
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Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than PacketStream?Us vs PacketStream
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $2.40 in all. PacketStream: $1.00/GB flat, $50.00 for 50 GB, the smallest order that covers it. PacketStream is cheaper per GB; for the 1 GB you need, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $18.50 in all. PacketStream: $1.00/GB flat, $50.00 for 50 GB, the smallest order that covers it. PacketStream is cheaper per GB; for the 10 GB you need, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $160.00 in all. PacketStream: $1.00/GB flat, $100.00 in all. PacketStream is cheaper per GB.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page.
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If their balance never expires, does the minimum matter?Us vs PacketStream
Only if you would not use the rest. $50 buys 50 GB that you can draw down for as long as it takes, so if you will get through it eventually, their rate wins. If you need a few gigabytes once, you are paying for traffic you will never send.
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Can I pick a country on ProxyMonkey residential?Us vs PacketStream
No. Our residential proxies rotate across the whole pool and cannot be pinned to a country. Our ISP and datacenter proxies can: you pick the country at checkout. If you need residential IPs from one country, PacketStream offers that and we do not.
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Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than Rayobyte?Us vs Rayobyte
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $2.40 in all. Rayobyte: $3.50/GB pay as you go, $3.50 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $18.50 in all. Rayobyte: $3.50/GB pay as you go, $35.00 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $160.00 in all. Rayobyte: $2.00/GB pay as you go, $200.00 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page.
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Does Rayobyte have cheaper monthly plans?Us vs Rayobyte
Their page says monthly payment options come with more discounts, but it does not publish those prices, so this page compares pay as you go only. If you are on one of their monthly plans, compare what you actually pay.
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Can I pay Rayobyte in crypto?Us vs Rayobyte
Not according to their residential page, which lists PayPal, Google Pay and cards. We take crypto through CoinGate and Cryptomus.
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Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than Geonode?Us vs Geonode
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $2.40 in all. Geonode: $0.792/GB on their smallest monthly plan, $7.92 for 10 GB, the smallest order that covers it. Geonode is cheaper per GB; for the 1 GB you need, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $2.40 in all. Geonode: $0.88/GB pay as you go, $8.80 for 10 GB, the smallest order that covers it. Geonode is cheaper per GB; for the 1 GB you need, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $18.50 in all. Geonode: $0.792/GB on a monthly plan, $7.92 in all. Geonode is cheaper per GB.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $18.50 in all. Geonode: $0.88/GB pay as you go, $8.80 in all. Geonode is cheaper per GB.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $160.00 in all. Geonode: $0.648/GB on a monthly plan, $64.80 in all. Geonode is cheaper per GB.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $160.00 in all. Geonode: $0.72/GB pay as you go, $72.00 in all. Geonode is cheaper per GB.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page. Their plan prices are billed every month; ours are one-off orders. Their page marks the subscription as 10% off pay as you go. Their pricing page does not say whether tax is added on top; our prices exclude it, so compare both totals at checkout.
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Does Geonode bandwidth expire?Us vs Geonode
Their page says bandwidth rolls over until cancellation, on the plans and on pay as you go, so unused gigabytes carry forward until you cancel. Ours is a balance with no plan attached, and it does not expire.
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Can I pick a city on ProxyMonkey residential, like on Geonode?Us vs Geonode
No. Our residential proxies rotate across the whole pool and cannot be pinned to a country or a city. Our ISP and datacenter proxies can: you pick the country at checkout. If your job needs residential IPs from one place, Geonode is the better fit.
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Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than SOAX?Us vs SOAX
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $2.40 in all. SOAX: $5.00/GB on Sandbox for tier 1 exit IPs, $5.00 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $18.50 in all. SOAX: $5.00/GB on Sandbox for tier 1 exit IPs, $50.00 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $160.00 in all. SOAX: $5.00/GB on Sandbox for tier 1 exit IPs, $500.00 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $160.00 in all. SOAX: $3.00/GB for tier 1 on their Builder plan, $300.00 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page. Their smallest top-up is not published, so this assumes you can buy exactly what you need. Their Builder plan bills $200 every month; ours are one-off orders. Tier 2 and tier 3 exit IPs cost less with them: $4.00/GB and $2.00/GB on Sandbox. Their prices and ours both exclude tax.
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Why does SOAX charge different rates for different countries?Us vs SOAX
Their pricing page groups exit countries into three tiers by what each market costs them to serve, and charges by the country of the exit IP, not by where you or the target site are. We charge one rate for the whole pool, which you cannot pin to a country.
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Do SOAX credits expire?Us vs SOAX
Yes. Their pricing FAQ says credits added on Sandbox or a monthly plan expire 60 days after they are added, and credits on an annual plan after 12 months. Our balance does not expire.
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Is ProxyMonkey cheaper than ProxyEmpire?Us vs ProxyEmpire
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $2.40 in all. ProxyEmpire: $7.00/GB pay as you go at list price, $7.00 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
At 1 GB: $2.40/GB here, $2.40 in all. ProxyEmpire: $3.50/GB pay as you go with the EMPIRE50 code, $3.50 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $18.50 in all. ProxyEmpire: $7.00/GB pay as you go at list price, $70.00 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
At 10 GB: $1.85/GB here, $18.50 in all. ProxyEmpire: $3.50/GB pay as you go with the code, $35.00 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $160.00 in all. ProxyEmpire: $4.44/GB on a monthly plan at list price, $600.00 for 135 GB, the smallest order that covers it. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB; for the 100 GB you need, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $160.00 in all. ProxyEmpire: $2.22/GB on a monthly plan with the code, $300.00 for 135 GB, the smallest order that covers it. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB; for the 100 GB you need, ProxyMonkey costs less in total.
At 100 GB: $1.60/GB here, $160.00 in all. ProxyEmpire: $3.50/GB pay as you go with the code, $350.00 in all. ProxyMonkey is cheaper per GB.
Their prices as of 2026-09-30, from their own pricing page. Their plan prices are billed every month; ours are one-off orders. They advertise the code as limited-time, and their page does not say whether it applies after the first payment. Their page shows the code price by default, with the list price struck through beside it; our table leads with the list price. That page does not say whether tax is added on top; our prices exclude it, so compare both totals at checkout.
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Does ProxyEmpire bandwidth expire?Us vs ProxyEmpire
Not while your account exists. Their refund policy says pay-as-you-go bandwidth can be used until it is spent or the account is deleted, and that unused plan bandwidth stays usable after you cancel. Ours is a balance with no plan attached, and it does not expire.
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What is the ProxyEmpire activation fee?Us vs ProxyEmpire
Their terms charge a fee to activate an account, and it doubles as a paid trial: $1.97 for 100 MB of rotating residential and 50 MB of mobile, as of 2026-09-30. Like their other charges, it is not refundable. We have no activation fee and no trial; the nearest thing is our $5 minimum top-up, and unused balance comes back within 7 days.
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How do I check whether an IP is really residential?Us vs the $1/GB no-names
Take the IP, look up the ASN, and see who owns it. If it belongs to a hosting company, a cloud provider, or a VPS reseller, it is a datacenter IP no matter what the label says. Free ASN lookups will tell you in seconds.
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Are you not just another one of these?Us vs the $1/GB no-names
By appearance, yes — same price bracket, same kind of landing page. The difference is that everything we claim above is checkable, and the checking does not depend on trusting us.
That is the whole bet: publish the numbers, make them auditable, and be the cheap option that survives being audited.
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Payments & refunds
What does the smallest order cost?Home
Top-ups start at $5 and the balance never expires. The smallest residential order is 1 GB for $2.40, a shade over the minimum top-up, pay as you go with nothing to cancel. The smallest datacenter order is one shared IP for 30 days at $1.25. The same order on ISP is $2.10, because an ISP address is registered to a home ISP. Checkout shows the plan, the term and any add-ons before you pay.
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Does my balance expire?Pricing
No. Come back in a year and it will still be there. Expiring balances are a way of billing you for nothing, and we are not going to do that.
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Can I pay in crypto?Pricing
What if I want my money back?Pricing
Ask within 7 days of the top-up and the unused portion goes back the way it came. One message in Discord or an email is enough. We do not require a reason and we do not void the refund because you used some of it.
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Setup & errors
How often do the IPs rotate?Residential proxies
Every request by default. If you need the same IP for a multi-step flow such as a login and a checkout, use a sticky session and keep it for up to 30 minutes.
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Do I need a new IP for every request?Proxies for web scraping
For one-off page fetches, rotation per request is the default and usually what you want. Paginating a search or holding a cart needs one address for a while; residential supports sticky sessions for that.
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How often should I check prices?Proxies for price monitoring
As rarely as the data allows. Most shop prices change a few times a day at most. Hourly checks catch nearly everything and look much less like a bot than a check every minute.
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How many queries per IP is safe?Proxies for SERP tracking
Nobody publishes a number and it changes. With rotation, every query comes from a new address, which sidesteps the question. On a static ISP IP, keep it to a slow trickle with random gaps between queries.
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Why do my rankings differ from what I see in my browser?Proxies for SERP tracking
Your browser results are personalised by history, login and exact location. Proxy results reflect the IP's location with no history. Track the trend over weeks and ignore single-day jumps.
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Headless browser or plain HTTP?Proxies for SERP tracking
Plain HTTP when the result page works without JavaScript: fewer bytes, no images. We meter request plus response bytes, so a full browser load can cost several times what the HTML alone does. Block images if you do use a browser.
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Should I respect robots.txt?Proxies for AI training data
We would. It is the cheapest way to learn what a site's owner is fine with, and it keeps your crawl at the considerate rate our acceptable use policy asks for. Crawlers that ignore it are how ranges end up on blocklists for everyone.
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Can I use this in CI?Proxies for geo testing
Yes. Store the credentials as CI secrets and pass them through the HTTPS_PROXY variable, which most HTTP clients read. A rented IP costs the same whether the test runs once a day or on every commit, unless you are on the shared plan with its traffic allowance.
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Why does a GeoIP lookup disagree with the country I ordered?Proxies for geo testing
GeoIP databases update on their own schedules and sometimes lag behind when an address moves. Post the IP and the database you checked in Discord and we will look into it.
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Do I need a browser for this?Proxies for geo testing
Only if the geo logic runs in client-side JavaScript. Redirects, headers and server-rendered prices all show up with curl.
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Community & support
Do I have to be a customer to join?Community
No. Lurking is free and quite a lot of the channel has never bought anything. If you are trying to work out whether we are worth $5, reading how we handle other people is a reasonable way to decide.
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Is Discord the only support channel?Community
No. The help centre (https://support.proxymonkey.io) has setup and billing articles, and [email protected] reaches us and gets answered. Discord is just faster, and it has the side effect of letting you see the answers we gave other people.
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Why run support in public at all?Community
Because it is the strongest honesty signal we have. A private ticket queue lets a provider be pleasant to you and useless to everyone else. In a public room, our worst support interaction is visible to every prospective customer.
That is uncomfortable in exactly the way it should be.
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What does the status bot actually post?Community
Pool availability by product and region, incident start and resolution, and planned maintenance. It posts automatically, so it is not filtered through anyone deciding whether the news is convenient.
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Question not on the list?
Ask it in Discord. The people who run the network read the channel, and a good question tends to end up answered on the page it belongs to.
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Help from humans
Post your error, get an answer. Usually in minutes, usually from someone who has hit the same wall.
A status bot that tells on us
Pool health, incidents and maintenance posted automatically. Including the bad days.
Deals and free traffic
Bonus GB drops, early access to new pools, and the occasional giveaway for a good bug report.