Decodo Pricing Breakdown: How Much Does It Really Cost in 2026?

Decodo, formerly Smartproxy, does not have one universal price. It sells rotating proxy traffic, shared and dedicated IP allocations, managed access, and scraping APIs. The number on the homepage only makes sense after you identify the product, billing unit, allowance, and commitment behind it.

Quick Answer

Decodo residential proxy pricing starts at $11.25/month for 3 GB, or $4/GB through its Wallet-based pay-as-you-go option. The advertised $2/GB residential rate requires the published 1 TB, $2,000 monthly tier. Mobile plans were displaying a 50% promotion when checked: $7.50 for 2 GB or $4/GB PAYG, compared with crossed-out standard rates of $7.50/GB and $8/GB.

ISP proxies start at $3 for 1 GB, $4.70 for 10 shared IPs, or $9.99 for three dedicated IPs. Datacenter proxies start at $6 for 10 GB, $3.50 for 100 shared IPs, or $5.55 for three dedicated IPs. Site Unblocker starts at $10 for 1 GB or $29 for about 23,000 requests. Web Scraping API and Fast Search API have free plans, with paid plans starting at $19/month.

Most paid cards show “+ VAT” and renew monthly. The effective cost can be higher than the displayed unit rate when an allowance is underused, and Decodo's smallest “from” prices often require enterprise-scale volume. Promotions, add-ons, trial conversion, unused traffic, and request type also affect the real bill.

Key Takeaways

• Residential Proxies cost $4/GB PAYG or $11.25 for a 3 GB subscription. Published monthly rates fall from $3.75/GB to $2/GB as the allowance rises from 3 GB to 1 TB.
• The smallest payment and the smallest unit rate are different. Decodo's $2/GB residential headline corresponds to a $2,000 monthly tier; the $0.27/ISP-IP headline corresponds to 8,000 shared IPs for $2,160.
• Mobile pricing currently depends on a promotion. The live cards displayed 50% off, but the page's own PAYG FAQ still stated the crossed-out $8/GB rate. Confirm the checkout and renewal price before forecasting.
• Monthly and PAYG traffic follow different expiration rules. Ordinary renewal or downgrade loses unused subscription traffic, while unused residential or mobile PAYG traffic remains valid for 12 months.
• PAYG is not postpaid per byte. It uses Wallet funds and purchases traffic in 1 GB increments, automatically buying the next gigabyte after 90% of the current one is used.
• Managed products use different meters. Site Unblocker can bill traffic or requests; Web Scraping API prices vary by proxy pool and JavaScript use; Fast Search API bills search requests.
• Compare cost per valid result, not only cost per GB, IP, or request. Underused allowances, retries, page weight, wrong locations, concurrency add-ons, and rejected output can materially change the economics.

Methodology and disclosure: Proxidize publishes this article and competes with Decodo. We checked public regular and enterprise prices, plan limits, trial terms, refund rules, and billing documentation against Decodo's first-party pages on September 14, 2026. Calculations are labeled or explained. We did not purchase every plan, inspect an account-specific checkout, obtain a custom quote, or run a shared performance benchmark. Prices are in USD before applicable VAT or other taxes and can change. For a wider market comparison, see the Proxy Pricing Index 2026.

Decodo Pricing at a Glance

The products are not interchangeable. Ten shared ISP IPs, 100 GB of rotating residential traffic, 100,000 rendered API requests, and 100 GB of managed Site Unblocker traffic solve different problems. Choose the delivery layer first, then compare plans within that layer.

Decodo vs. Proxidize: Quick Price Comparison

For buyers comparing raw residential and mobile proxy access, these are the closest public-price comparisons:

Decodo has the smaller cash entry point: a light user can buy 1 GB of residential PAYG for $4 or a 3 GB subscription for $11.25, while Proxidize's minimum residential purchase is $25. Proxidize becomes the simpler public-price option when the buyer can use at least 25 GB and wants paid traffic to remain available rather than expiring with the monthly plan.

These are price and billing comparisons, not performance rankings. Decodo may be the better fit when a buyer needs its global mobile coverage, ZIP or ASN selectors, ISP or datacenter products, managed scraping, or one vendor across several delivery layers. The dedicated Proxidize vs. Decodo comparison covers those product and use-case differences in more detail.

How Decodo Pricing Works

Decodo's catalog uses four main billing units:

A raw proxy supplies a network route while the customer operates request logic, browser rendering, retries, parsing, and validation. Site Unblocker manages more of the access layer. Web Scraping API adds retrieval and supported output formats. Fast Search API is specialized for structured search results. Read Raw Proxies vs. Scraping APIs before comparing a per-GB price directly with a per-request price.

What Decodo's “From” Prices Actually Require

The smallest unit price on a navigation card is usually not the smallest purchase:

This does not make the headlines incorrect. It means a budget should use the tier the account will actually purchase, not the lowest unit price available somewhere in the catalog.

Decodo Residential Proxy Pricing

Decodo Residential Proxies are billed by traffic. The provider advertises HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, rotating and sticky sessions, and continent, country, state, city, ZIP-code, and ASN targeting across 195+ locations.

Residential Subscription Plans

All of these cards show monthly billing plus VAT. The unit price assumes the entire allowance is used within the applicable period.

For a cross-provider view of minimum purchases, commitments, discounts, and expiration rules, see Residential Proxy Pricing in 2026.

Decodo Residential PAYG

Residential PAYG costs $4/GB. Under Decodo's PAYG rules, it is available only through Wallet, where one credit equals $1. The system buys 1 GB initially and automatically purchases another 1 GB after 90% of the current allowance has been used, provided the Wallet has enough credit.

Unused PAYG traffic remains valid for 12 months. PAYG and a monthly subscription cannot be active at the same time. Switching from a subscription to PAYG can therefore require expiring the current plan, which loses any remaining subscription traffic.

PAYG is usually the lower direct charge when expected use is below a subscription's break-even point:

For example, 8 GB costs $32 through PAYG versus $35 on the 10 GB plan. At 10 GB, the plan saves $5. This comparison excludes taxes and assumes PAYG's published $4 rate remains unchanged.

How Underuse Changes the Residential Rate

Suppose a team buys the 100 GB plan but consumes only 50 GB:

The 50 GB subscription would have cost $150, while 50 one-gigabyte PAYG increments would cost $200. The $2.75/GB card rate is therefore not the effective rate unless the team consumes close to all 100 GB.

This is why monthly forecasting matters. Test page weight, redirects, retry volume, and browser assets before choosing a tier. Paid bandwidth can disappear at renewal even when the low advertised rate encouraged a larger commitment.

How Decodo Counts Proxy Traffic

Decodo's traffic-measurement documentation says billed proxy traffic includes uploads and downloads: request and response headers, cookies, request bodies, and response bodies. Target responses such as 403, 404, and 503 count because bytes traveled through the proxy. Decodo-side connection errors do not, although an unresponsive target can still incur the uploaded request bytes.

TLS handshakes passing through the proxy also add traffic. A browser can consume much more than an HTML-only client because it loads images, fonts, scripts, API calls, and other resources. Measure transferred bytes with the real collector instead of estimating cost from the size of the final record.

Decodo Mobile Proxy Pricing

Decodo Mobile Proxies are also traffic-based. The provider advertises 3G, 4G, and 5G exits across 160+ locations, 700+ carriers, HTTP(S), SOCKS5, location and ASN targeting, and rotating or sticky behavior.

On September 14, 2026, every bundle card displayed a 50% promotion. The page showed a crossed-out standard per-GB rate, a discounted rate, and the discounted total:

The current PAYG card and the FAQ below it conflict: the card displays $8 crossed out and $4 as the current charge, while the FAQ still says one gigabyte is priced at $8. Treat $4 as a live promotional display, not a permanent list rate, and confirm the price in the dashboard before funding Wallet or projecting renewals.

At 25 GB, Decodo's currently displayed payment is $81.30, versus $50 for the current Proxidize 25 GB mobile plan. Decodo can still be the better product fit when its broader international mobile footprint or selectors are required. Test the countries, carriers, targets, and session behavior that matter rather than deciding on rate alone.

The best rotating mobile proxy providers comparison places those rates beside other current mobile products.

Decodo ISP Proxy Pricing

Decodo calls its static residential product “ISP Proxies” and offers three billing models. They should not be collapsed into one starting price:

Dedicated ISP supplies known IPs assigned to the buyer. Pay/GB supplies access measured by traffic. Pay/IP supplies a shared IP allocation with traffic described as unlimited subject to fair use. The available locations also differ slightly across the three models, so the cheapest unit may not cover the required market.

The ISP Pay/IP fair-use documentation adds two budgeting details:

• The default price includes 1,000 concurrent threads across the subscription.
• Selecting 5,000 threads adds 20% to the plan price.

Fair-use restrictions can reduce concurrency for the remainder of a period when both total account traffic and per-IP thresholds are exceeded. A buyer evaluating “unlimited traffic” should model the concurrency it needs at the expected transfer volume, not only the IP count.

Decodo Datacenter Proxy Pricing

Decodo Datacenter Proxies use the same three-way structure at lower rates:

The unusually low shared Pay/IP totals reflect access to shared datacenter IPs, not 100 or 15,000 dedicated identities. Dedicated plans cost more because the assigned IPs are exclusive to the account.

“Unlimited” shared Pay/IP traffic has operational conditions. The Datacenter Pay/IP fair-use policy includes 1,000 threads by default; 5,000 threads adds 40% to the plan price. Decodo also documents optional IP-list refreshes that can add 20% for monthly refresh, 80% for weekly refresh, or 30%–120% for one to four on-demand refresh actions. Selective replacement costs $0.30 per IP with a three-IP minimum.

Those add-ons are optional, but they can make the checkout total materially different from the base card. Datacenter remains economical when the target accepts hosting-network IPs. A lower proxy fee does not help if blocks, retries, or incomplete content reduce the number of valid results.

Decodo Site Unblocker Pricing

Site Unblocker manages proxy selection, browser fingerprints, cookies, headers, retries, and optional JavaScript handling. It is an access product rather than a raw proxy pool, and Decodo lets customers choose between bandwidth and request billing.

Site Unblocker Pay/GB

Site Unblocker Pay/Request

The request counts and per-1,000 rates are rounded, so multiplying the two can differ slightly from the plan total. Compare the actual monthly payment and dashboard allowance.

Traffic billing favors smaller or predictable responses. Request billing is easier to forecast when page sizes vary, but a large number of light requests can make bandwidth cheaper. Benchmark both models on the same target, with the same rendering and acceptance rules.

Decodo Web Scraping API Pricing

Decodo Web Scraping API uses a monthly credit-like allowance whose consumption depends on two choices:

• Standard or Premium proxy pool. Premium requests cost more.
• JavaScript off or on. Rendering raises the request price.

The provider says customers pay for successful responses. Your own acceptance test still matters: a technically successful response can contain the wrong locale, incomplete fields, stale data, or a page that is unusable for the project.

The allowance changes by request class. “707,000 requests for $99” applies only to Standard proxies without JavaScript. The same $99 plan supports about 82,000 Premium-plus-JavaScript requests. The request type therefore changes capacity by more than eight times.

The free plan provides $1 of credit valid for a year, according to Decodo's trial documentation. Activating it makes later Web Scraping API purchases ineligible for the 14-day refund, so it is a technical test path rather than an extra refund period.

Decodo Fast Search API Pricing

Fast Search API returns structured search results and uses a simpler request ladder:

The $0.40 headline is a custom rate, not the $19 entry price. As with any fixed allowance, underuse raises the effective rate. If only 50,000 searches are sent on the $99 plan, the effective subscription cost is $1.98 per 1,000 searches before tax.

Decodo Billing Rules That Affect the Real Cost

The plan table is only the first part of a budget.

1. Monthly Plans Auto-Renew

Buying a subscription authorizes a charge at the beginning of each monthly billing cycle, including applicable taxes. Decodo's monthly-subscription FAQ says it emails customers before renewal, but the account owner is responsible for disabling auto-renewal before the next charge.

2. Unused Subscription Traffic Normally Does Not Roll Over

Under Decodo's plan-change rules, a manual upgrade transfers unused traffic into the new subscription period. An ordinary renewal or downgrade loses it. Extra traffic also expires in the billing month when it is purchased and does not extend the period.

This makes allowance utilization central to the effective rate. Buying 100 GB because its card says $2.75/GB does not produce that rate if half the traffic expires unused.

3. PAYG Traffic Lasts 12 Months, but Wallet Credit Also Expires

Unused residential or mobile PAYG traffic remains valid for 12 months. Unused Wallet credits also expire after 12 months. Because PAYG automatically buys another 1 GB when 90% is consumed, turn it off when a project ends if another increment is not wanted.

4. Top-Ups Belong to the Current Period

Manual or automatic top-ups add traffic to an active subscription, but the extra amount expires with that billing period. Decodo's public documentation does not provide every product's top-up unit rate in one table. Check the dashboard rather than assuming the base plan's per-GB rate applies.

5. Mobile Discounts May Be Temporary

The current mobile cards label the bundle rates as 50% savings and display higher crossed-out rates. No public end date was visible on the pricing page when checked. Keep standard and promotional forecasts separate, especially for annual budgeting.

6. Trial and Refund Paths Are Alternatives

Decodo's trial documentation lists a 3-day, 100 MB trial for eligible Pay/GB proxy plans and a 3-day trial with 100 MB plus 10 IPs for eligible Pay/IP plans. Dedicated ISP and dedicated datacenter products are excluded. The selected paid plan activates after the trial unless canceled. Site Unblocker has a 7-day trial with 100 MB on Pay/GB or 1,000 requests on Pay/Req. Web Scraping API has a free plan.

The current refund policy gives eligible self-service first purchases a 14-day window, but excludes customers who used a free trial, paid with cryptocurrency, bought an Enterprise plan, or exceeded the usage limit. For proxies, that limit is 20% of the plan or 1 GB, whichever is reached first; for scraping products it is 20% of the plan. Read the live terms before assuming a refund is available.

7. Per-IP Add-Ons Can Change the Checkout Total

The most visible examples are shared ISP and datacenter concurrency upgrades and datacenter IP refreshes. If the workload needs more threads or frequent replacement, include the percentage add-on rather than comparing only the base IP price.

Real Decodo Pricing Examples

Scenario 1: A 10 GB Residential Project

• Residential PAYG: 10 × $4 = $40.
• Decodo 10 GB subscription: $35.
• Proxidize minimum residential plan: $25 for 25 GB.

The Decodo subscription is $5 cheaper than PAYG at full use. Proxidize requires a larger allowance but a smaller payment in this example.

Scenario 2: A 100 GB Residential Month

• Decodo 100 GB subscription: $275.
• Proxidize 100 GB plan: $100.

The public-price difference is $175. This does not establish which network will produce more valid records on a particular target; test that separately.

Scenario 3: A 100 GB Plan With Only 50 GB Used

• Decodo 100 GB plan: $275 ÷ 50 = $5.50 per used GB.
• Decodo 50 GB plan: $150, or $3/GB at full use.
• Decodo PAYG: 50 × $4 = $200.

Overestimating demand by 2× makes the larger subscription the most expensive of the three Decodo paths.

Scenario 4: Mixed Web Scraping API Requests

On the $99 tier, 100,000 Standard non-JS requests use about $14 of the displayed request value, while 50,000 Premium-plus-JS requests use about $60:

This simplified example illustrates why the cheapest per-request number cannot price a mixed workload. Confirm how the dashboard accounts for credits, rounding, retries, and successful responses before production.

Decodo vs. Proxidize at 10 GB, 100 GB, and 500 GB

The table uses actual published plans, not a headline rate multiplied by usage. It excludes VAT and performance differences. At 3 GB, Decodo has the lower minimum payment—$11.25 versus Proxidize's $25 minimum—so Proxidize is not the cheapest checkout for every volume.

Need 100 GB of residential proxy traffic? Proxidize offers a purchasable 100 GB plan for $100, with country, city, and ISP targeting plus paid bandwidth that rolls over and does not expire. View Residential Proxy Pricing →

Is Decodo Expensive?

Decodo is relatively accessible at very small volumes. A user can test a monthly residential plan for $11.25, buy one PAYG gigabyte for $4, start Mobile Proxies for $7.50 under the current promotion, or use free API plans. Those low cash entry points are useful for proof-of-concept work.

Its raw residential rates are more expensive than Proxidize's current $1/GB public plans once a buyer can use the 25 GB minimum. The gap narrows as Decodo volume rises, but its published residential price reaches $2/GB only at a $2,000 monthly commitment. Mobile promotion rates are closer to Proxidize, especially at higher volume.

The wider catalog can still make Decodo cost-effective. A managed API may remove enough browser, retry, proxy-selection, and maintenance work to cost less overall than a cheaper raw route. Shared ISP or datacenter IPs can also be economical when their network type works for the target.

Use this fuller cost model:

A low card price can lose if the resulting output is incomplete or needs many retries. A higher managed price can win if it substantially reduces internal work. Only a representative pilot can answer that for a specific workload.

Decodo vs. Proxidize Pricing

Decodo is a broader web-data platform. Proxidize's current public catalog is focused on managed residential and mobile proxy infrastructure.

Choose Decodo when its international mobile reach, ZIP/ASN controls, ISP or datacenter products, managed extraction, integrations, or single-vendor catalog justify the price. Choose Proxidize when the job primarily needs raw residential or mobile proxies, standard protocols, straightforward access points, and simpler bandwidth economics.

Proxidize Residential Proxies provide rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 support, and country, city, and ISP targeting. Current public plans start at $25 for 25 GB, and unused bandwidth rolls over without expiring. Explore Proxidize Residential Proxies or compare the current residential plans.

For mobile-specific requirements, compare Proxidize Mobile Proxy pricing with Decodo's confirmed checkout price and required geography. For a feature-level decision rather than a price audit, use the full Decodo alternative page.

How to Test Decodo Before Committing

Use the free plan, eligible trial, or smallest suitable purchase to run a bounded pilot.

1. Define a valid result: required fields, correct location, page type, freshness, and rejection conditions.
2. Confirm that the target and use case are permitted for the selected product and plan.
3. Test the lowest-cost eligible network or request class before enabling Premium proxies or JavaScript.
4. Measure success after business validation, not only HTTP status or provider-reported delivery.
5. Record traffic per accepted page, retries, p50 and p95 latency, location accuracy, session stability, and block-page rate.
6. Repeat at representative concurrency and include any thread upgrade or fair-use behavior.
7. Forecast a normal and peak month, including unused allowance, top-ups, VAT, API request mix, compute, and engineering.
8. Verify promotion duration, renewal price, cancellation timing, trial conversion, traffic expiration, target eligibility, and refund conditions in the dashboard or contract.

When testing rotation, separate the event that requests a new exit from the provider's IP-selection behavior. The IP rotation guide explains why “per request” and “per connection” are not always equivalent in browsers or pooled HTTP clients.

Use proxies and scraping products only for lawful, legitimate work. Follow applicable laws, contractual obligations, website terms, privacy requirements, and reasonable request rates. A proxy changes the route to a destination; it does not create permission to access restricted or private data.

Price the Product You Will Actually Use

Decodo Residential Proxies start with a small $11.25 subscription and $4 PAYG, but the $2/GB headline requires a 1 TB plan for $2,000. Mobile rates were 50% promotional when checked. ISP and datacenter prices vary by traffic, shared IP, or dedicated IP, while managed products bill traffic or requests.

The right number is therefore not the smallest one on the pricing menu. It is the payment for the correct product at realistic utilization, plus add-ons and the cost of producing valid output.

Decodo is a credible choice for small tests, global mobile access, ISP/datacenter configurations, granular targeting, and managed scraping. When the requirement is straightforward raw residential access at 25 GB or more, Proxidize Residential Proxy pricing is materially lower on the current public plans and preserves unused paid bandwidth.