$ curl proxypicker.com/pricing –verified
- 19 providers tracked
- 41 verified rates
- updated 2026-08-07
- 1 FBI seizure on record
Every number on this page was read from the provider’s live pricing page and is dated. No sponsored rankings, no stale listicles — when a price changes, this table changes and the changelog records it.
✓ last verified 2026-08-07 · every figure read from the provider’s live pricing page on that date · how we verify
Residential proxy pricing, verified
| Provider | Cheapest verified /GB | Entry /GB | Pay-as-you-go | Details |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ProxyEmpire | $0.75 | $0.75 | — | full pricing |
| Proxy-Cheap | $0.78 | $0.78 | — | full pricing |
| DataImpulse | $1.00 | $1.00 | — | full pricing |
| Proxy-Seller | $1.30 | $1.30 | — | full pricing |
| SOAX | $1.50 | $5.00 | — | full pricing |
| Webshare | $1.50 | $3.50 | — | full pricing |
| Rayobyte | $1.50 | $3.50 | — | full pricing |
| IPRoyal | $1.75 | $7.00 | $7.00 | full pricing |
| NodeMaven | $2.20 | $2.20 | — | full pricing |
| Bright Data | $2.50 | $4.00 | $4.00 | full pricing |
| Decodo (ex-Smartproxy) | $2.75 | $4.00 | $4.00 | full pricing |
| Oxylabs | $6.00 | $6.00 | — | full pricing |
| Storm Proxies | verification pending | profile | ||
| NetNut | ⚠️ Domains seized by the FBI on 2026-07-02 — removed from rankings | what happened | ||
“Cheapest verified” is the lowest per-GB rate on any published tier (usually high-volume); “entry” is the smallest plan’s rate. Geo-tiered providers (e.g. SOAX) shown at Tier 1 rates. Some rates are promotional — see each profile for what’s a standing discount vs a real price.
Scraping API pricing, verified
| Service | Entry plan | Included | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| ScraperAPI | verification pending | profile | |
| ScrapingBee | $49.00/mo (Freelance) | 250k credits; ex VAT | full pricing |
| Zyte | verification pending | profile | |
| Apify | $29.00/mo (Starter) | $29 platform usage incl; Free $0 w/ $5 usage; Scale $199; Business $999; -10% annual | full pricing |
| Scrape.do | $29.00/mo (Hobby) | 250k credits ($0.11/1k) | full pricing |
Free and unlimited residential proxies: the short honest version
Free residential proxies do not legitimately exist — the bandwidth costs providers real money, so anything free is monetised through logging, injection, or reselling your connection. “Unlimited” plans are flat-rate products (ProxyEmpire lists unlimited residential from a verified $1,500/month) where the economics only beat per-GB above several hundred gigabytes a month. The honest cheap end of this market is in the table above from $1.00/GB flat; static residential options are on the ISP proxies ranking, and trials are tracked on free trials as verification lands.
Compare two providers directly
The matrix answers “who is cheapest”. These answer “which of these two, at my volume” — with both full tier tables and the crossover point where the cheaper option flips:
- Decodo vs Oxylabs — published ladder against a negotiated floor
- Decodo vs Bright Data — same pay-as-you-go rate, very different commitments
- Bright Data vs Oxylabs — the two enterprise options
- IPRoyal vs Webshare — non-expiring traffic against a cheaper ladder
- SOAX vs Decodo — geo-tiered against flat-rate
- ScraperAPI vs ScrapingBee — and why we can’t fully answer it yet
All head-to-head comparisons →
What this site is
ProxyPicker is a data lab for the proxy and web-scraping market. We maintain a verified, dated record of pricing, promo codes, and trial terms across every major provider — and a public changelog of every change we catch. Read how we verify or see who runs this.