01How does proxy pricing work per GB vs per IP vs per day?
Proxy pricing comes in three models depending on what is measured. You pay by traffic (GB), by number of IPs times months, or by a flat daily rate.
Per GB pricing applies to rotating residential proxies ($0.78/GB) and mobile proxies ($2.18/GB). The amount of data sent and received comes straight off your balance, and only data size counts, no matter how many requests or IPs you use. The lighter the pages you fetch in bulk, the better per GB pricing works for you.
Per IP pricing is the monthly price of one IP, such as $1.08 for ISP, $0.63 for dedicated datacenter, $0.0163 for shared datacenter and $0.0818 for IPv6. Count times period is charged once when you order, and you keep using the IPs you received for that whole period.
Per day pricing applies to unlimited residential proxies. At $37.58 per day with traffic unmetered, your cost per GB drops the more you use. At current prices, one day at $37.58 equals about 48.2 GB of rotating residential, so on days you use more than that, unlimited is cheaper.
- Pick per GB pricing when data volume varies.
- Pick per IP pricing when IP count and period are fixed.
- Pick per day pricing for big data days.
- All three models draw from the same balance.
02Which proxy is cheapest for which job?
The cheapest proxy depends on the shape of your job. The answer changes with the same budget depending on whether data volume, IP count or time period matters most.
For example, 1,000 IPs for one month cost $16.30 on shared datacenter, $81.80 on IPv6 and $630 on dedicated datacenter. The same 1,000 IPs vary widely in price depending on whether they are shared, private to you, or on a different address type.
Account work follows a different rule. 50 ISP proxies for 3 months cost $162 and give each account the same static residential IP for a full three months. For this kind of work, an IP that keeps one address for a long time is what saves money in the end.
If your work is mixed, combining products is the cheapest route. Send bulk lookups on lenient sites through shared datacenter and strict sites through residential, so your pricier GB balance goes only where it is needed.
- Unlimited residential proxies are the value pick for tens of GB a day.
- Rotating residential proxies suit occasional small scraping jobs.
- Shared datacenter proxies have the lowest price per IP for light lookups.
- IPv6 proxies are great when an IPv6 site needs thousands of IPs.
- ISP proxies fit one long lived IP per account.
- Use mobile proxies only as much as your app checks need.
03How much proxy usage does each top up get me?
We worked out the balance you receive and what it buys for each top up card at current prices. Real usage depends on page size and request count, so treat these as a planning baseline.
The $500 card gets 35% and becomes $675, and the $3,000 card gets 45% and becomes $4,350. These tiers lower your effective rate for the same work as your projects grow.
The math stays the same when you split a top up across products. Subtract each product's cost from the balance you receive, and the rest carries over to your next job.
When picking a card, aim for your expected monthly usage plus a little headroom. Leftover balance rolls into next month, so one card size up beats topping up again midway, and it earns a bigger bonus too.
- The $30 card buys about 38.4 GB of rotating residential, or 47 dedicated datacenter IPs for a month.
- The $100 card becomes $120 with the bonus, about 153.8 GB residential or about 55 GB mobile.
- The $200 card becomes $250, enough for 231 ISP proxy IPs for a month.
- The $300 card becomes $390, which is 500 GB of rotating residential.
- The $1,000 card becomes $1,400, leaving $272.60 after 30 days of unlimited residential.
- The $5,000 card becomes $7,500, about 9,615.4 GB of rotating residential.
04How is the proxy top up bonus calculated?
The top up bonus multiplies your top up by a rate and adds the result to your balance. The rate grows along $100 +20%, $200 +25%, $300 +30%, $500 +35%, $1,000 +40%, $3,000 +45%, $5,000 +50%, so if you plan to run the same work for a while, one larger top up pays off.
The math is simple. Top up $200 and 25%, or $50, is added for $250. Top up $300 and 30%, or $90, is added for $390. The $200 card is the one marked as popular on the top up screen.
Bonus balance works just like regular balance across all seven products. On rotating residential, the $90 bonus from a $300 top up comes to about 115.4 GB of extra usage. So the bonus works like a discount, lowering your effective rate by that share on whichever product you use.
When timing a top up, add up your rough workload for the next few months. Pooling several smaller top ups into one puts you in a higher bonus tier. Leftover balance never expires, so a larger top up stays comfortable.
05What is the minimum top up in lower income countries?
If you connect from one of the 72 low and lower middle income countries by World Bank classification, the minimum top up drops to $20. Everywhere else, top ups start at $30.
Your country is based on where you connect from when you top up. The first card, normally $30, shows your country's minimum in its place, so there is nothing to work out yourself.
This lets developers, students and small teams in many regions try proxies with a light budget and check the results firsthand. When you need more, step up to a card with a bonus.
06What happens to unused proxy balance and refunds?
Your balance stays in your account with no expiry, ready for any product next month or months from now. Even with a break between projects, your balance simply waits for you.
If an IP product order is cancelled or refunded, the amount you paid returns to your balance. You can use it right away to reorder in another country, at another count or on another product. When you reorder, use your last setup as a guide and adjust the count and period to the job.
Balance is credit you spend on products inside your account. That is why sizing a top up to a few months of planned work is the smartest approach.
Every change to your balance shows up in top up history and My orders in the dashboard. You can see which order used how much at a glance, which also makes splitting costs within a team easy.
07How do I order ISP and datacenter proxies in the dashboard?
Order IP products under Buy products in the dashboard by choosing the product, country, count and period. The price is the monthly price per IP times the count times the number of months.
Every IP product offers 1, 3, 6 or 12 months. After you order, it appears in My orders as Activating and switches to In use once it is ready.
For example, 20 dedicated datacenter IPs for 6 months cost $75.60. 500 shared datacenter IPs for one month cost $8.15, a light way to start bulk lookups.
Ordered IPs are managed in My orders along with their connection details. To use more of the same product, add a new order, and for another country, place a separate order so each use stays neatly organized.
- ISP proxies come in 1 to 500 IPs, from 60 countries.
- Dedicated datacenter proxies come in 1 to 1,000 IPs, from 18 countries.
- Shared datacenter proxies come in 10 to 5,000 IPs, in steps of 10.
- IPv6 proxies come in 10 to 10,000 IPs, in steps of 10.
- Unlimited residential proxies come in 1, 7 or 30 days.
08How can I save proxy bandwidth and spend less?
Per GB products cost exactly what you download, so fetching only the data you need makes the same balance last far longer. Most of the savings come from cutting large files like images, video and fonts.
For example, calling a site with 2 MB pages 10,000 times is about 20 GB, or $15.60. Block images and video to bring pages down to 0.5 MB and the same job takes about 5 GB, or $3.90.
If your heavy traffic falls on known days, order unlimited residential for just those days. Move light repeat lookups to per IP datacenter products and keep your GB budget for strict sites. Used together, these two moves noticeably stretch how much work the same balance covers.
Measuring a small sample first gives the most accurate estimate. Run about 100 pages, check how much your balance dropped in the dashboard, and you have an average cost per page to plan the whole job's budget.
- Block image, video and font requests in browser automation.
- Use the JSON responses a site relies on when you can.
- Set request headers to accept compression (gzip, br).
- Store pages you already fetched and reuse them.
- Retry failed requests only a few times, with gaps between.
