Source-documented comparisons of residential proxies and scraping APIs for legitimate business use: price monitoring, SEO tracking, ad verification and AI training data.
Browse all articles| Provider | Residential from | More on this provider |
|---|---|---|
| Oxylabs | $5/GB at 100 GB | |
| Bright Data | $4/GB at 100 GB | |
| Decodoformerly Smartproxy | $2.75/GB at 100 GB+VAT | |
| IPRoyal | $4.90/GB at 100 GB | |
| SOAX | $5/GB at 100 GB+VAT | |
| Thordata | $1.50/GB at 100 GB | |
| DataImpulse | $1/GB at 100 GB+VAT |
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An independent, vendor-neutral data reference on the 2026 residential-proxy market: per-GB pricing ($2.00–$7.35), advertised pool sizes, free trials, and compliance/KYC across Oxylabs, Bright Data, Decodo, and IPRoyal — every figure dated and sourced (July 2026, USD).
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Independent comparison of the best residential proxies in 2026. Every provider we track compared on per-GB pricing, trials, targeting and compliance, with Oxylabs, Bright Data, Decodo and IPRoyal profiled in depth.
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A complete web scraping guide for 2026: lawful use cases, the legal landscape, proxy types, build-vs-buy decisions, and how to choose compliant infrastructure.
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How to store scraped data with SQLAlchemy 2.0: declarative models, connection-pool sizing, idempotent ON CONFLICT upserts, bulk inserts, asyncio sessions, retry policy and Alembic migrations — with runnable code and the official defaults.
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Thordata review for 2026: prepaid residential packages from $2.00/GB down to $0.65/GB, a one-month expiry the pricing page never mentions, published scraping-API rates the vendor told us did not exist, and an IP supply chain it declines to document.
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Bright Data pricing for 2026 in one ledger: residential proxies at $4.00/GB pay-as-you-go down to $2.50/GB, Web Unlocker at $1.50 per 1K requests, what the 50%-off promo hides, and the KYC gate before production access.
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Oxylabs pricing for 2026 in one ledger: residential proxies from $6.00/GB down to $2.50/GB, Web Unblocker at $9.40-$7.50/GB, Web Scraper API from $0.25 per 1K results, and why no pay-as-you-go rate is published.
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SOAX review for 2026: credit-based pricing from $5.00/GB down to $0.85/GB, a geography multiplier that breaks naive comparisons, a paid-only trial, and the sourcing policy we could not find.
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On 2 July 2026 the FBI and IRS-CI seized domains belonging to residential proxy provider NetNut, alleging ties to the 2-million-device Popa botnet. What is confirmed, what is still an allegation, and how to check whether your own traffic was exposed.
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