$ curl proxypicker.com/pricing –verified
- 19 providers tracked
- 41 verified rates
- updated 2026-11-02
- 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 2026-11-02 · 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 | $1.45 | $1.45 | — | 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 | $7.35 | full pricing |
| NodeMaven | $2.20 | $2.20 | — | full pricing |
| Bright Data | $2.50 | $4.00 | $4.00 | full pricing |
| Oxylabs | $2.50 | $6.00 | — | full pricing |
| Decodo (ex-Smartproxy) | $2.75 | $4.00 | $4.00 | full pricing |
| Storm Proxies | verification pending | profile | ||
| NetNut | ⚠️ Domains seized by the FBI on 2026-07-02; parent says service paused; seizure notice still shown 2026-10-02 — not buyable, 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 | $19.00/mo (Hobby) | 75k credits; Freelance $49 for 250k; ex VAT | full pricing |
| Zyte | verification pending | profile | |
| Apify | $19.00/mo (Starter) | $19 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.
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 — two published ladders, one much shorter
- 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. Our newest studies track what a gigabyte of residential proxy traffic has cost since 2019 and which of the top 100,000 websites block AI crawlers. Read how we verify or see who runs this.