Per-GB pricing
You pay for traffic transferred, measured in gigabytes, regardless of how many addresses or requests you use. It is the default for residential and mobile proxies.
Why it costs you money
It makes your bill a function of page weight rather than page count, which is the number almost nobody measures. Fetching a document and rendering the same page can differ by fifty times, so two teams scraping identical sites at identical volumes can pay wildly different amounts on the same rate.
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Related terms
- Per-IP pricingBilling per address rented per month, with traffic uncounted. It cannot be honestly converted to a per-GB rate.
- Bandwidth overageWhat a provider charges once you pass the gigabytes your plan includes. Often several times the headline rate.
- Residential proxyAn IP address belonging to a real home internet connection, rented by the gigabyte. The hardest type to block and the most expensive.
- Pay as you goBuying bandwidth in top-ups instead of a monthly plan. Cheaper for bursty work, dearer per gigabyte.
- Every term we define