What proxies and scraping APIs really cost

Headline rates are hard to compare: per-GB prices fall with volume, and credits change with rendering. Compare plans from official pricing pages at the same volume, and work out your real cost per successful request.

Free tools and databases

• Proxy cost calculatorWork out your real monthly proxy cost and cost per successful GB from the price per GB, GB needed, success rate, plan minimum and overage rate.
• Proxy and scraping API price databaseSearch 138 dated datacenter, ISP and scraping API plans from 9 providers, plus same-volume costs at 10 GB, 100 GB and 1 TB. From official pages.
• Scraping API cost calculatorWork out your cost per 1,000 successful requests from the plan price, included credits, credits per request and success rate. Rendering options included.

Guides

• Datacenter vs ISP proxy costDatacenter vs ISP proxy cost per GB and per IP from the same providers, plus the success rate at which the cheaper option stops being cheaper.
• Decodo pricing explainedDecodo (formerly Smartproxy) prices from its own pages: ISP and datacenter plans, Web Data API limits, its Source group link, and what we could not check.
• Oxylabs pricing explainedOxylabs now sells one plan that funds a credit balance for all products. See the rate per GB at each plan, what expires, and how traffic is billed.
• Oxylabs vs Bright Data pricingOxylabs vs Bright Data datacenter cost at 10 GB, 100 GB and 1 TB from official pages, plus ISP rates, billing models and the Reddit lawsuit note.
• Proxy pay as you goPay-as-you-go proxy rates from official pages, against the monthly plan price, with the point where a subscription starts to save money.
• ScraperAPI pricing explainedScraperAPI plans from $49 a month: cost per 1,000 credits, how credits change with rendering or target site, and what happens when they run out.
• Scraping API credits explainedWhy 1 million API credits is not 1 million requests. ScraperAPI and ScrapingBee credit costs, and what rendering and premium options do to the price.
• Webshare vs IPRoyal pricingWebshare vs IPRoyal datacenter and ISP prices per proxy from official pages, with plan sizes, fixed periods and why the unit prices may not compare.

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