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Every pricing change, promo update and market event we verify, newest first. This is the record the rest of the site is built on.
| Date | Provider | Type | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-02 | — | site | Retired the August 2026 Pricing Transparency Audit: /pricing-transparency/ now 301-redirects to the Proxy Pricing Transparency Report. Webshare’s August A grade (pass on discount framing) conflicts with the report’s archive check of its $7.00 struck-through price. The old grades and what changed are kept on the report. |
| 2026-10-02 | — | site | Added a contact page and a press & data requests line on every study page. Email [email protected] for corrections, press and data requests. |
| 2026-10-02 | — | site | New study: Where Bot Traffic Comes From. Source countries of 26.5 million attacks recorded by one university honeypot network (CSIRT-UPJS), November 2024–April 2025 and July–December 2025, from two CC BY 4.0 datasets. Two CSVs. |
| 2026-10-02 | — | site | New study: Residential IP Supply by Country. Per-country residential IP figures published by 10 of 14 providers (sites captured 2 October 2026), set against World Bank/ITU internet users, broadband and mobile subscriptions for 41 countries. Provider claims, not verified pool sizes. Two CSVs. |
| 2026-10-02 | — | site | New study: Proxy & Scraping Search Demand Report. Estimated Google search volumes for 87 proxy, scraping, AI-scraping, anti-bot and brand keywords, October 2022–August 2026, worldwide and in 24 countries including the US (Google Ads data via DataForSEO; Google Trends cited separately), with three CSVs. |
| 2026-10-02 | — | site | New study: The Scraping Workforce. US employment and wages for 10 web-data occupations, May 2021–May 2025 (BLS OEWS, O*NET 31.0), with state pay rankings and two CSVs. |
| 2026-10-02 | — | site | New study: Anti-Bot vs Proxy Patents. It covers US patents and published applications on bot detection, browser and device fingerprinting, CAPTCHA and residential proxies / IP rotation, built from USPTO PatentsView data (through 2025) and USPTO Open Data Portal searches for 2026. It includes patents assigned to proxy-network companies, the top patent owners, notable patents, the method, caveats and two CSV downloads. |
| 2026-10-02 | all | price | Site-wide price sync: 52 pages (the /best/ rankings, provider profiles, comparisons, alternatives and guides) re-checked against providers’ pricing pages on 2026-10-02. Changes: IPRoyal’s $7.00/$5.95/$5.25 tiers relabelled as subscription prices (pay-as-you-go is $7.35/$6.25/$5.51/GB); Apify Starter $29 → $19/mo; ScrapingBee’s new $19 Hobby plan (75k credits) added; Oxylabs residential plans now $6/GB (Starter 5GB) to $2.50/GB (Corporate 1TB); Rayobyte mobile now $3/GB down to $0.95/GB (was “as low as $0.50”); SOAX Tier 2 and Tier 3 ranges updated (Tier 3 from $0.35, was $0.25); Decodo’s $8.50 figure removed (no longer published). Confirmed unchanged: the “datacenter from $0.30/GB” rate (Rayobyte pay-as-you-go, 2–50 GB), DataImpulse, Webshare, Bright Data, Proxy-Seller, Proxy-Cheap, NodeMaven and Scrape.do. The Price Index remains the dated 2026-08-07 baseline snapshot. |
| 2026-10-02 | — | site | New free tool: What’s my IP? Proxy & VPN checker. It shows your IP address, ASN, and DB-IP country, and whether the address is on open cloud, datacenter, VPN, Tor-exit or iCloud Private Relay lists. Built from data published on 2026-10-02; sources and licences are listed on the page. |
| 2026-10-02 | — | site | Proxy cost calculator synced to rates read from 11 providers’ pricing pages on 2026-10-02 (same data as the embeddable widget). Notable changes since 2026-08-07: ProxyEmpire and NodeMaven now publish plan ladders (ProxyEmpire pay-as-you-go $3.50/GB), Oxylabs publishes plans from $6/GB down to $2.50/GB at 1TB, ScrapingBee added a $19 Hobby plan, and the datacenter comparison now uses DataImpulse’s published $0.50/GB. |
| 2026-10-02 | — | site | Embeddable proxy cost calculator widget launched. Its residential rates were read from 11 providers’ pricing pages on 2026-10-02 (NetNut excluded). |
| 2026-10-02 | NetNut | site | Status check: netnut.io still shows an FBI seizure notice; Alarum announced a temporary operational pause on 2026-07-04. No public announcement of charges found. NetNut status notes added to its profile, alternatives and comparison pages; an unsourced description of Alarum’s response replaced site-wide with its filed statements. See botnet & takedown timeline. |
| 2026-08-07 | all | price | Baseline pricing verification: 15 of 19 providers recorded from live pricing pages. Storm Proxies/ScraperAPI/Zyte pending browser check; Oxylabs starting prices only. |
| 2026-08-07 | — | site | ProxyPicker project started: architecture defined, provider set selected, WordPress scaffold created. |
| 2026-07-02 | NetNut | site | FBI seized NetNut-associated domains in an action coordinated with Google (GTIG describes the network as also known as Popa, at least 2M devices). Parent Alarum said it was cooperating with law enforcement. NetNut removed from all rankings. Sources: Krebs on Security, SecurityWeek, The Register, Alarum 6-K. |