Teardowns, method and market changes
How proxy pricing actually works, where each figure on this site came from and what we refuse to publish, and the provider changes worth knowing about. If you want the raw feed of every price move instead, the change log is the place.
How it works
Do your unused proxy gigabytes expire?
We read eight providers' pricing pages. Two promise unused traffic rolls over. Six say nothing at all, and on a monthly plan silence is not a promise.
18 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
How it works
How much proxy bandwidth do you actually need?
We measured five real pages in a browser. The same quarter-million requests cost 8.5 GB or 899 GB depending on one choice, and it is not the site's choice.
18 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
How it works
What residential proxies cost, across 24 providers
The market runs from $0.27 to $8.00 per GB, a 30x spread for one product. Here is the whole range in one place, with the date each figure was read.
18 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
How it works
How to read a proxy pricing page without getting fooled
Six things proxy pricing pages do that cost buyers money, found by reading 27 of them. Including one page that prints two different prices for the same plan.
18 Aug 2026 · 4 min read
How it works
Proxy or scraping API? The break-even is page weight
Per-GB and per-request prices cannot be compared until you convert one into the other. The conversion is your average response size, and here is where it lands.
16 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Market
Smartproxy is Decodo: what carries over
The domain smartproxy.com now redirects to decodo.com. Same company, same team, same network. The reviews you will find are filed under the old name.
16 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
How it works
Unlimited bandwidth proxies: where the real limit is
Five of 27 providers sell an unlimited plan. All 49 of them meter something else instead. What each one counts, quoted from the vendors' own policies.
16 Aug 2026 · 5 min read
Market
Who writes the proxy comparisons you find
We captured 162 AI Overview citations across 15 proxy queries. Proxy sellers wrote 59% of them and held the top slot on 13 of 15. Not one carried a date.
16 Aug 2026 · 3 min read
Policy and law
The FBI seized NetNut. What it means if you were a customer
A residential proxy platform was seized on 2 July 2026. Its network was resold under other brands, and Google's AI Overview still recommends it. What to check.
8 Aug 2026 · 2 min read