Cheapest Datacenter Proxies in 2026: What $50, $100 and $500 Buy

Evomi buys the most datacenter gigabytes at every budget modeled here: $0.45/GB pay-as-you-go on traffic it says never expires, or monthly plans that fall to $0.30/GB at 1,000 GB for $300, as published on October 24, 2026. DataImpulse is the runner-up on never-expiring traffic — 100 GB for $50 ($0.50/GB) and 1 TB for $450 — and Decodo has the cheapest published ladder for dedicated IPs, at $145 for 100 (plus VAT). The cheap end of the datacenter market is genuinely cheap: every provider here that publishes a per-GB price sells a gigabyte for 60 cents or less. What separates a cheap bill from an expensive one is not the per-GB rate but the five pricing traps below — headline prices no tier carries, per-IP plans that bill traffic separately, intro packages for new customers only, monthly expiry, and credit plans that charge the whole plan for a partial need.

What each budget buys

The table answers the budget-first question — "I have $X; how much datacenter traffic do I get?" — for the providers that sell datacenter traffic per gigabyte. Every figure is a published tier price read from the provider's own page on October 24, 2026; where a figure says "about", it is the budget divided by a published pay-as-you-go rate.

Pay-as-you-go figures assume the meter sells any amount; check the minimum top-up at checkout before you budget to the gigabyte.

The full price table

The two tables below are rendered from the same dataset as every other price on this site, at three canonical volumes per meter. Per-GB and per-IP prices sit in separate tables because they measure different things: a per-IP plan's real cost depends on how much traffic each IP carries.

Engineer's take (Hinata): On datacenter proxies the per-GB rate is the least interesting number on the page. At $0.30 to $0.60 per GB, a crawl that burns 100 GB costs less than an hour of the engineer watching it. What actually decides the bill is whether the IPs survive your target: a datacenter range that gets blocked on the first thousand requests is infinitely expensive per useful page. Buy the smallest amount you can, run it against your real target, and only then optimize the rate.

Five traps that make cheap datacenter proxies expensive

1. Headline prices no tier carries

Bright Data's page description says "Starting from $0.077/GB", a figure none of its published tiers carries. Decodo's comparison cards say "From $0.10/IP" and "From $2.50/IP" while its own tables run $0.035 to $0.02 per shared IP and $1.85 to $1.15 per dedicated IP. Thordata shows only "Starts from $0.75/IP" with its tier table empty until the browser fills it in. Price from the tier you would actually buy, never from the banner.

2. Per-IP plans that bill traffic separately

Decodo's shared per-IP plan starts at 100 IPs for $3.50, the lowest per-IP figure in this set. Its FAQ says the plan buys IPs and gigabytes separately, and the pricing page does not show the traffic rate, so the true bill cannot be computed from the page. A per-IP price is only comparable when it includes traffic, as Bright Data's does (with a 100 GB monthly fair-usage allowance per IP).

3. Intro packages for new customers only

DataImpulse's 10 GB for $5 is labeled "For New Users". It is a good way to test the pool, and it is not the price you will pay afterwards: the next package is 100 GB for $50. The same rate, $0.50/GB, but a $50 minimum instead of $5.

4. Monthly expiry

Decodo's per-GB plans are monthly allowances, so traffic you do not use is lost at the end of the billing month. If your crawl runs weekly or seasonally, a never-expiring pay-as-you-go balance (Evomi, DataImpulse) can cost less in practice than a lower monthly rate.

5. Credit plans that charge the whole plan

Oxylabs sells one monthly credit spendable on any of its products: $30, $100, $500 or from $2,500. The datacenter quantities on its page are what each credit buys, so needing 60 GB still means paying for the $100 plan. The upside is that unused credit can go to another Oxylabs product rather than being lost outright.

Who each cheap option suits

• Evomi — the lowest per-GB price at every budget, with never-expiring pay-as-you-go traffic and free country and ISP targeting. It sells no dedicated IPs, and there is no up-front company KYC gate: per the vendor, accounts get automated use-case analysis and KYC is requested only when a use case is unclear.
• DataImpulse — never-expiring packages at $0.50/GB and $0.45/GB, with a $5 new-user package to test the pool. It names the company behind it (Softoria LLC) and publishes a 7-day refund policy on the datacenter page.
• Decodo — the cheapest published dedicated-IP ladder and the finest per-GB ladder (ten tiers from 10 GB to 10,000 GB), with a 14-day money-back and KYC with automated fraud checks for every customer. Everything is monthly and plus VAT.
• Bright Data — no-commitment $0.60/GB pay-as-you-go plus large monthly plans, with every tier carrying a free-trial button.
• Oxylabs — makes sense if you already buy another Oxylabs product, because the same credit covers datacenter traffic.

If your target blocks datacenter ranges outright, no datacenter price is cheap enough; the residential vs datacenter proxies guide explains when to switch, and the cheapest residential proxies guide does the same budget arithmetic for residential traffic. For the full field ranked by fit rather than price, see best datacenter proxies.

Our methodology

Every price on this page was read from each provider's own datacenter pricing page on October 24, 2026, and recorded in our machine-readable pricing dataset, which also renders the tables above. Where a provider publishes only a "from" price (IPRoyal, Thordata) or no price at all (SOAX), we compute no bill rather than guess. We run no independent datacenter benchmarks, so pool sizes and speeds are vendor claims. This is a document-based comparison: prices move, so check the retrieval date before quoting any figure here.