{ "name": "ProxyFacts Residential Proxy Pricing & Compliance Dataset (2026)", "description": "Vendor-published per-GB pricing, advertised residential IP pool sizes, free-trial terms, scraping/unblocker pricing, and KYC/compliance posture for Oxylabs, Bright Data, Decodo, IPRoyal, SOAX, Thordata and DataImpulse — every field dated and sourced.", "sourceUrl": "https://proxyfacts.com/blog/proxy-market-report", "fetchedAt": "2026-08-13", "currency": "USD", "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "attribution": "ProxyFacts (https://proxyfacts.com)", "disclaimer": "All figures are vendor-published values captured on the fetch date, not independent measurements. ProxyFacts has not run its own benchmarks; vendor pool-size and performance numbers are labeled as vendor claims. Verify against each provider before purchase.", "providers": [ { "key": "oxylabs", "name": "Oxylabs", "displayName": "Oxylabs", "formerName": null, "officialUrl": "https://oxylabs.io/", "canonicalReviewUrl": "https://proxyfacts.com/blog/oxylabs-review", "fetchedAt": "2026-07-17", "residentialPricing": "Pay-as-you-go per-GB rate: unverified (not shown on the pricing page fetched 2026-07-17). Subscription tiers (USD, monthly): Starter 5 GB = $30/mo ($6/GB); Basic 20 GB = $100/mo ($5/GB, 'Most popular'); Advanced 125 GB = $500/mo ($4/GB); Corporate 1 TB = $2,500/mo ($2.50/GB). Top-ups allowed (Starter/Basic up to 100 GB, Advanced/Corporate up to 2 TB).", "freeTrial": "Free trial of the residential pool available once per client, requested via contact form or support@oxylabs.io. No explicit money-back guarantee stated on the residential product page.", "poolClaim": "175M+ residential IPs (vendor claim).", "scrapingApis": "Web Scraper API: per-result pricing (pay only for successful results), from $0.25 per 1K results. Free trial includes up to 2K results, no credit card required.", "webUnblocker": "Oxylabs Web Unblocker is billed per GB in monthly tiers: Micro 8 GB at $9.40/GB ($75/mo), Starter 38 GB at $8.60/GB ($325/mo), Advanced 88 GB at $7.50/GB ($660/mo), with a 40%-off-for-six-months promo code WU40 (as displayed 2026-07-17) cutting rates to $5.64/$5.16/$4.50 per GB, plus top-up capacity (up to 73 GB on Micro, up to 143 GB on Starter/Advanced) and an Enterprise tier without listed prices. Free trial: 1 week, 1 GB (up to 10K results), no credit card required, rate-limited to 10 requests/s versus 50 requests/s on paid plans. Provides server-side JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA handling with auto-retry that rotates client device parameters (vendor claim), and success-based billing described as pay only for successfully extracted data (vendor claim); a customer case study on the page cites a 98%+ success rate at $0.60 per 1K requests (vendor claim). Regular per-GB rates are the durable figures; the discounted rates depend on the promo banner active 2026-07-17.", "compliance": "Every customer completes a KYC form at signup (business/contact details, use case). Risk-based escalation can add ID verification, compliance calls, and risk questionnaires; compliance team monitors usage post-onboarding. Member of the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative. Policy: oxylabs.io/kyc-and-safety.", "sources": [ "https://oxylabs.io/products/residential-proxy-pool", "https://oxylabs.io/products/scraper-api/web", "https://oxylabs.io/kyc-and-safety", "https://oxylabs.io/products/web-unblocker", "https://oxylabs.io/products/web-unblocker/pricing", "https://oxylabs.io/Oxylabs_Residential_Proxy_Acquisition_Handbook.pdf", "https://oxylabs.io/risk-and-legal-compliance", "https://oxylabs.io/blog/ewdci-announces-accreditation" ], "pricing": { "billing": "plan", "paygPerGbUsd": null, "vatExtra": false, "neverExpires": false, "tiers": [ { "gb": 5, "monthlyUsd": 30, "perGbUsd": 6, "label": "Starter" }, { "gb": 20, "monthlyUsd": 100, "perGbUsd": 5, "label": "Basic" }, { "gb": 125, "monthlyUsd": 500, "perGbUsd": 4, "label": "Advanced" }, { "gb": 1000, "monthlyUsd": 2500, "perGbUsd": 2.5, "label": "Corporate 1TB" } ] }, "scrapingApi": { "dollarsPer1kRequests": 0.25, "jsRenderingPer1kRequests": null, "billingModel": "per-result", "isFloor": true, "vatExtra": false, "earlyAccess": false, "freeTier": "Free trial up to 2K results, no credit card.", "freeRequestsPerMonth": null, "sourceUrl": "https://oxylabs.io/products/scraper-api/web", "notes": "Web Scraper API bills per successful RESULT, \"from $0.25 per 1K results\" — a floor for the easiest targets. JS rendering bundled by target (not separately priced)." } }, { "key": "brightdata", "name": "Bright Data", "displayName": "Bright Data", "formerName": null, "officialUrl": "https://brightdata.com/", "canonicalReviewUrl": "https://proxyfacts.com/blog/bright-data-review", "fetchedAt": "2026-07-17", "residentialPricing": "Pay-as-you-go: $4.00/GB (shown as 50%-off promo from a list price of $8/GB), no commitment. Subscription tiers (USD, billed monthly, shown with 50% OFF promo): $499/mo = 141 GB at $3.50/GB; $999/mo = 332 GB at $3.00/GB; $1,999/mo = 798 GB at $2.50/GB.", "freeTrial": "Free trial with no credit card required (residential proxies page). Note: production access to the residential network still requires passing KYC.", "poolClaim": "400M+ monthly ethical residential IPs across 195 countries (vendor claim).", "scrapingApis": "Web Unlocker: per-request pricing, pay only for successful requests. Free tier 5K requests/month (no credit card); pay-as-you-go $1.50 per 1K requests; Scale plan $499/mo with 383K requests included and $1.30 per 1K additional; Enterprise custom. First-deposit matching bonus up to $500.", "webUnblocker": "Bright Data Web Unlocker API is priced pay-as-you-go at $1.50 per 1K requests, billed only for successful requests, with a free tier of 5K requests/month (no credit card required) and a Scale plan at $499/mo that includes 383K requests with overage at $1.30 per 1K; Enterprise is custom-priced (as displayed 2026-07-17). All plans include built-in JavaScript/full-browser rendering and automatic CAPTCHA solving, with unlimited concurrency on paid tiers. Bright Data advertises a 98% success rate (vendor claim) and a sign-up promotion matching the first deposit dollar-for-dollar up to $500 (promotional, may be time-limited).", "compliance": "Strictest KYC of the four: residential network access is limited to verified companies that pass a human-reviewed KYC by the compliance team. Requires signing up as a registered company, verifying a corporate email domain, describing the use case; may include an intro video call and government-issued ID of the point of contact.", "sources": [ "https://brightdata.com/proxy-types/residential-proxies", "https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker", "https://brightdata.com/trustcenter/kyc-faq-residential-proxy-network", "https://docs.brightdata.com/proxy-networks/residential/network-access", "https://brightdata.com/products/web-unlocker", "https://brightdata.com/trustcenter/sourcing", "https://bright-sdk.com/users", "https://brightdata.com/trustcenter/bright-sdk-ethical-data-practices", "https://ethicalwebdata.com/" ], "pricing": { "billing": "plan", "paygPerGbUsd": 4, "vatExtra": false, "neverExpires": false, "tiers": [ { "gb": 141, "monthlyUsd": 499, "perGbUsd": 3.5, "label": "$499/mo" }, { "gb": 332, "monthlyUsd": 999, "perGbUsd": 3, "label": "$999/mo" }, { "gb": 798, "monthlyUsd": 1999, "perGbUsd": 2.5, "label": "$1,999/mo" } ] }, "scrapingApi": { "dollarsPer1kRequests": 1.5, "jsRenderingPer1kRequests": null, "billingModel": "per-request", "isFloor": false, "vatExtra": false, "earlyAccess": false, "freeTier": "Free tier 5K requests/month, no credit card.", "freeRequestsPerMonth": 5000, "sourceUrl": "https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker", "notes": "Web Unlocker per successful REQUEST. Headline rate is pay-as-you-go $1.50/1K (no commitment); $1.30/1K requires the $499/mo Scale plan (383K requests included). JS/full-browser rendering bundled at the same rate." } }, { "key": "decodo", "name": "Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)", "displayName": "Decodo", "formerName": "Smartproxy", "officialUrl": "https://decodo.com/", "canonicalReviewUrl": "https://proxyfacts.com/blog/decodo-review", "fetchedAt": "2026-07-17", "residentialPricing": "Pay-as-you-go: $4.00/GB (+VAT). Subscription tiers (USD +VAT, monthly): 3 GB = $11.25/mo ($3.75/GB); 10 GB = $35/mo ($3.50/GB); 25 GB = $81.25/mo ($3.25/GB); 50 GB = $150/mo ($3.00/GB); 100 GB = $275/mo ($2.75/GB). Enterprise 250 GB-1000 GB plans range $2.50-$2.00/GB.", "freeTrial": "3-day free trial with signup plus a 14-day money-back option on eligible subscriptions.", "poolClaim": "115M+ ethically-sourced residential IPs in 195+ locations (vendor claim).", "scrapingApis": "Web Scraping API: per-request pricing. Free plan $0/mo with 2,000 requests/month (standard proxies, effective $0.50 per 1K, 10 req/s, no credit card). Core paid plan $19/mo = 38,000 requests/month at $0.50 per 1K (standard); 'Premium proxies + JS rendering' requests cost $1.50 per 1K across tiers. 14-day money-back on paid plans. Prices +VAT.", "webUnblocker": "Decodo's Site Unblocker survived the April-2025 Smartproxy rebrand as a standalone single-endpoint proxy-format product (decodo.com/proxies/site-unblocker; the old /scraping/site-unblocker URL returned HTTP 404 on 2026-07-17). It is priced per GB, not per 1K requests: $10.00/GB (1 GB, $10/mo), $9.00/GB (5 GB, $45/mo), $8.50/GB (10 GB, $85/mo), $8.00/GB (25 GB, $200/mo), $7.50/GB (50 GB, $375/mo), $6.75/GB (100 GB, $675/mo), all +VAT, with a 14-day money-back option (as displayed 2026-07-17); free-trial terms unverified (not shown on the page fetched 2026-07-17). Decodo cites a 99.99% success rate, 195+ locations and 0 CAPTCHAs (vendor claim). Separately, unblocking logic is bundled into the Web Scraping API's premium-proxy rates at $1.00-$0.85 per 1K requests ($1.50-$1.20 per 1K with JS rendering, tier-dependent), which has its own 2,000-request no-card free plan and 14-day money-back option (as displayed 2026-07-17).", "compliance": "Automated fraud checks, KYC verification, and third-party screening for every customer at registration; suspicious activity triggers third-party ID verification (also required to unlock restricted target groups). Actively blocks high-risk targets (banking, government portals, streaming, app stores, ticketing). GDPR/CCPA-aligned; published ethical residential sourcing policy.", "sources": [ "https://decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies", "https://decodo.com/scraping/web", "https://decodo.com/security-compliance", "https://decodo.com/proxies/ethical-residential-proxy-sourcing-and-usage", "https://decodo.com/smartproxy", "https://decodo.com/proxies/site-unblocker", "https://help.decodo.com/docs/scraping-with-webapi-su" ], "pricing": { "billing": "plan", "paygPerGbUsd": 4, "vatExtra": true, "neverExpires": false, "tiers": [ { "gb": 3, "monthlyUsd": 11.25, "perGbUsd": 3.75, "label": "3GB" }, { "gb": 10, "monthlyUsd": 35, "perGbUsd": 3.5, "label": "10GB" }, { "gb": 25, "monthlyUsd": 81.25, "perGbUsd": 3.25, "label": "25GB" }, { "gb": 50, "monthlyUsd": 150, "perGbUsd": 3, "label": "50GB" }, { "gb": 100, "monthlyUsd": 275, "perGbUsd": 2.75, "label": "100GB" } ] }, "scrapingApi": { "dollarsPer1kRequests": 0.5, "jsRenderingPer1kRequests": 1.5, "billingModel": "per-request", "isFloor": false, "vatExtra": true, "earlyAccess": false, "freeTier": "Free plan 2,000 requests/month (standard proxies), no credit card.", "freeRequestsPerMonth": 2000, "sourceUrl": "https://decodo.com/scraping/web", "notes": "Web Scraping API per REQUEST. Standard-proxy rate $0.50/1K; \"Premium proxies + JS rendering\" $1.50/1K. All prices +VAT." } }, { "key": "iproyal", "name": "IPRoyal", "displayName": "IPRoyal", "formerName": null, "officialUrl": "https://iproyal.com/", "canonicalReviewUrl": "https://proxyfacts.com/blog/iproyal-review", "fetchedAt": "2026-07-17", "residentialPricing": "Pay-as-you-go (USD, never-expiring traffic): 1 GB = $7.35/GB; 2 GB = $6.25/GB; 10 GB = $5.51/GB ('most popular'); 50 GB = $5.15/GB. Subscriptions run about 5% cheaper: 1 GB = $7.00/GB; 2 GB = $5.95/GB; 10 GB = $5.25/GB; 50 GB = $4.90/GB. Marketing cites bulk rates down to $1.75/GB at high volume.", "freeTrial": "No standard free trial for residential proxies (official FAQ suggests buying the 1 GB pay-as-you-go minimum instead; a dashboard trial may appear 'if available to you', and enterprise trials exist after company verification). Refunds only if the service fails due to an IPRoyal-side issue that support cannot resolve, reported within 24 hours of purchase.", "poolClaim": "64M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries (vendor claim, as displayed 2026-07-17).", "scrapingApis": "Web Scraping API (labelled 'New', early-access list): per-request pricing from $1.00 per 1K requests, includes rendering, proxy rotation, and CAPTCHA solving. Also offers Web Unblocker; a Video Scraper API is on a waitlist.", "webUnblocker": "IPRoyal Web Unblocker bills per successful request at $1.00 per 1K requests (1K tier), $0.90 per 1K (5K), $0.80 per 1K (50K) and $0.70 per 1K (100K), minimum purchase $1.00 for 1K requests, with custom volume plans via sales (as displayed 2026-07-17); a free trial is unverified (not shown on the product or pricing pages fetched 2026-07-17). It integrates as a backconnect-proxy-style endpoint (unblocker.iproyal.com:12323) with built-in CAPTCHA bypass and automatic retries on a new IP or browser fingerprint (vendor claim), country/state/city geo-targeting, a 200-concurrent-connection cap, and on-demand JavaScript rendering in a headless browser enabled via a password flag, with no rendering surcharge documented. Draws on the claimed 64M+ residential pool (vendor claim). The per-successful-request billing claim comes from IPRoyal's official help center, not the landing page.", "compliance": "KYC handled by third-party provider iDenfy. Mandatory only for static residential (ISP) proxies; optional otherwise, but unverified accounts stay partially restricted. KYC eligibility begins after spending at least $10.", "sources": [ "https://iproyal.com/residential-proxies/", "https://iproyal.com/web-scraping-api/", "https://iproyal.com/kyc-policy/", "https://help.iproyal.com/en/articles/7222620-do-you-offer-a-free-trial", "https://help.iproyal.com/en/articles/7215815-what-is-your-refund-policy-for-residential-proxies", "https://iproyal.com/web-unblocker/", "https://iproyal.com/pricing/web-unblocker/", "https://iproyal.com/residential-proxy-sourcing/", "https://pawns.app" ], "pricing": { "billing": "payg-volume", "paygPerGbUsd": null, "vatExtra": false, "neverExpires": true, "tiers": [ { "gb": 1, "monthlyUsd": 7.35, "perGbUsd": 7.35, "label": "1GB" }, { "gb": 2, "monthlyUsd": 12.5, "perGbUsd": 6.25, "label": "2GB" }, { "gb": 10, "monthlyUsd": 55.1, "perGbUsd": 5.51, "label": "10GB" }, { "gb": 50, "monthlyUsd": 257.5, "perGbUsd": 5.15, "label": "50GB" } ] }, "scrapingApi": { "dollarsPer1kRequests": 1, "jsRenderingPer1kRequests": null, "billingModel": "per-request", "isFloor": true, "vatExtra": false, "earlyAccess": true, "freeTier": "No verified free trial (Web Scraping API is early access).", "freeRequestsPerMonth": null, "sourceUrl": "https://iproyal.com/web-scraping-api/", "notes": "Web Scraping API is early-access (\"New\", waitlist), \"from $1.00 per 1K requests\" (floor), rendering/rotation/CAPTCHA included. Not part of the article's 3-provider benchmark." } }, { "key": "soax", "name": "SOAX", "displayName": "SOAX", "formerName": null, "officialUrl": "https://soax.com/", "canonicalReviewUrl": "https://proxyfacts.com/blog/soax-review", "fetchedAt": "2026-07-26", "residentialPricing": "Billed in credits, not gigabytes: 1 credit = $1, and traffic draws down credits at a per-GB rate that depends on the plan AND the destination geography (Tier 1/2/3). All prices +VAT. Plans (monthly, Tier-1 rate): Sandbox $0/mo with 0 credits at $5.00/GB; Builder $200/mo for 200 credits at $3.00/GB; Team $500/mo for 500 credits at $2.20/GB; Scale $1,500/mo for 1,500 credits at $1.50/GB; Enterprise $3,000/mo for 3,000 credits at $0.85/GB. The GB figures in the comparison tables are DERIVED (credits ÷ Tier-1 per-GB rate), because SOAX publishes credits rather than a GB allowance: Builder 66.67 GB, Team 227.27 GB, Scale 1,000 GB, Enterprise 3,529.41 GB. Cheaper geographies cost less per GB — Tier 2 runs $3.75/GB (Sandbox) down to $0.55/GB (Enterprise) and Tier 3 $2.00/GB down to $0.35/GB — so Tier 1 is used throughout as the conservative, most-comparable rate. Unused credits roll over for 60 days on monthly billing (365 days on annual). Pay-as-you-go overage billing is offered on the Enterprise plan only (as displayed 2026-07-26).", "freeTrial": "No free trial. A paid three-day 400 MB trial is offered at $1.99 (residential product page, 2026-07-26). No money-back guarantee is stated on either the pricing or residential page fetched 2026-07-26.", "poolClaim": "155M+ residential IPs across 195+ geos (vendor claim).", "scrapingApis": "SOAX markets scraper APIs and a web unblocker alongside the proxy network, but per-request pricing for them is unverified (not shown on the pricing page fetched 2026-07-26), so SOAX is deliberately excluded from the scraping-API cost comparisons rather than estimated.", "webUnblocker": "A web unblocker product is marketed, but its pricing and terms are unverified (not shown on the pages fetched 2026-07-26).", "compliance": "Customer KYC/vetting requirements, restricted target categories and industry-body memberships are unverified: SOAX has no ethics or compliance page at the conventional URLs (soax.com/ethics and soax.com/ethical-proxies both returned HTTP 404 on 2026-07-26), and the pricing and residential pages state none. This is a documentation gap on our side, not evidence of a policy gap — treat it as \"not published where we could find it\".", "sources": [ "https://soax.com/pricing", "https://soax.com/residential-proxies" ], "pricing": { "billing": "plan", "paygPerGbUsd": 5, "vatExtra": true, "neverExpires": false, "tiers": [ { "gb": 66.67, "monthlyUsd": 200, "perGbUsd": 3, "label": "Builder" }, { "gb": 227.27, "monthlyUsd": 500, "perGbUsd": 2.2, "label": "Team" }, { "gb": 1000, "monthlyUsd": 1500, "perGbUsd": 1.5, "label": "Scale" }, { "gb": 3529.41, "monthlyUsd": 3000, "perGbUsd": 0.85, "label": "Enterprise" } ] }, "scrapingApi": { "dollarsPer1kRequests": null, "jsRenderingPer1kRequests": null, "billingModel": "per-request", "isFloor": false, "vatExtra": true, "earlyAccess": false, "freeTier": "Not shown on the pricing page fetched 2026-07-26.", "freeRequestsPerMonth": null, "sourceUrl": "https://soax.com/pricing", "notes": "Per-request scraping-API pricing is not published on the pricing page fetched 2026-07-26, so SOAX carries no benchmarked rate and is excluded from the per-request comparisons (same treatment as any unpriced product)." } }, { "key": "thordata", "name": "Thordata", "displayName": "Thordata", "formerName": null, "officialUrl": "https://www.thordata.com/", "canonicalReviewUrl": "https://proxyfacts.com/blog/thordata-review", "fetchedAt": "2026-08-11", "residentialPricing": "Fixed prepaid traffic packages rather than a per-gigabyte meter: you buy a package, and the per-GB rate falls as the package grows. Published packages (USD, as displayed 2026-08-11): 1 GB $2.00 ($2.00/GB); 10 GB $18.00 ($1.80/GB); 50 GB $75.00 ($1.50/GB); 150 GB $150.00 ($1.00/GB); 350 GB $280.00 ($0.80/GB); 1,000 GB $730.00 ($0.73/GB); 2,000 GB $1,400.00 ($0.70/GB); 5,000 GB $3,250.00 ($0.65/GB). Because the steps are fixed, a buyer whose volume falls between two of them buys the larger package, so the headline rate is only the effective rate when the package is consumed in full. The pricing page's promotional banner headlines '$0.65/GB' against a '$1.05/GB' regular rate plus '10% Extra Traffic'; $0.65/GB is the 5,000 GB package rate, and the vendor confirmed by email (2026-08-11) that pricing follows the published packages rather than a separate flat pay-as-you-go rate, so no PAYG rate is recorded. Traffic validity is NOT stated on the pricing page: the vendor states by email (2026-08-11) that the standard validity is one month and that extensions of one to three months, or longer, are granted on request. That is a discretionary courtesy rather than a published term, so the traffic is modelled as expiring. No VAT or sales tax is shown on the pricing page, and the vendor states the checkout total matches the listed price (email, 2026-08-11). A 10% discount code ('Thor2026'), described by the vendor as open-ended, was supplied to this site on 2026-08-11; discount codes are excluded from every comparison table here, which uses published list rates only.", "freeTrial": "A free trial is offered and no credit card is required (vendor email, 2026-08-11); the pricing page advertises the trial but does not state its size. The vendor states the standard allowance is 200 MB over three days, that 3 GB is commonly issued on request, and that a three-day trial is also available for static ISP proxies. Refunds follow a published policy: the request must be made within 7 days of the first purchase of a product, usage must not exceed 30% of the package and must not exceed 2 GB, cryptocurrency purchases are excluded, and each customer may refund once only, on the first charge of a first order (thordata.com/refund-policy, 2026-08-11).", "poolClaim": "100M+ residential IPs across 190+ countries (vendor claim). The FAQ states the figure without saying whether it counts unique IPs per day, per month or cumulatively, and the vendor declined to elaborate, citing confidentiality (email, 2026-08-11).", "scrapingApis": "Thordata publishes per-1K rates for three separate scraping products (fetched 2026-08-11). Web Scraper API bills per 1,000 RESULTS: 30,000 credits $30.00 ($1.00/1K), 150,000 $125.00 ($0.83/1K), 750,000 $500.00 ($0.67/1K), 3,000,000 $1,500.00 ($0.50/1K), with a 7-day 5,000-credit free trial. Per-target rates sit above the tier base — at the 150K tier Amazon, YouTube text, Zillow and Instagram are $0.83/1K while Facebook is $1.67/1K — which is why the tier rate is recorded as a floor rather than a fixed price. SERP API bills per 1,000 responses: 15,000 $18 ($1.20/1K), 50,000 $55 ($1.10/1K), 150,000 $135 ($0.90/1K), 500,000 $400 ($0.80/1K), 1,000,000 $700 ($0.70/1K), with a 7-day 5,000-response free trial. Worth recording: the vendor told this site by email (2026-08-11) that no accurate per-request figure exists because cost varies by target. The tier tables above were fetched from the vendor's own pricing pages the same day and are used in preference to that statement.", "webUnblocker": "Web Unlocker is priced per 1,000 responses and publishes a tier table (2026-08-11): 5,000 responses free, 10,000 $13.00 ($1.30/1K), 50,000 $60.00 ($1.20/1K), 100,000 $110.00 ($1.10/1K), 200,000 $200.00 ($1.00/1K), with enterprise pricing on request. The page headlines 'from $1.00/1K responses' and states a 30-day free trial. JavaScript rendering is included in the rate rather than priced separately.", "compliance": "A published KYC page describes a customer-vetting programme: multi-level vetting, direct assessment by experienced compliance officers, video identity verification where necessary, and the rejection or closure of applications that do not meet its standards (vendor claim, thordata.com/kyc, 2026-08-11). A separate acceptable-use policy governs customer conduct and enumerates prohibited activities. No industry-body membership (such as the EWDCI) and no third-party audit are stated on any page fetched 2026-08-11, and thordata.com/ethics, /ethical-proxies, /compliance and /terms-of-service all returned HTTP 404 on that date.", "sources": [ "https://www.thordata.com/pricing/residential-proxies", "https://www.thordata.com/products/residential-proxies", "https://www.thordata.com/pricing/web-scraper-api", "https://www.thordata.com/pricing/serpapi", "https://www.thordata.com/pricing/web-unlocker", "https://www.thordata.com/refund-policy", "https://www.thordata.com/kyc", "https://www.thordata.com/acceptable-use-policy", "https://www.thordata.com/privacy-policy", "https://doc.thordata.com/doc/faq/product-problem", "https://www.thordata.com/affiliate-program" ], "pricing": { "billing": "plan", "paygPerGbUsd": null, "vatExtra": false, "neverExpires": false, "tiers": [ { "gb": 1, "monthlyUsd": 2, "perGbUsd": 2, "label": "1GB" }, { "gb": 10, "monthlyUsd": 18, "perGbUsd": 1.8, "label": "10GB" }, { "gb": 50, "monthlyUsd": 75, "perGbUsd": 1.5, "label": "50GB" }, { "gb": 150, "monthlyUsd": 150, "perGbUsd": 1, "label": "150GB" }, { "gb": 350, "monthlyUsd": 280, "perGbUsd": 0.8, "label": "350GB" }, { "gb": 1000, "monthlyUsd": 730, "perGbUsd": 0.73, "label": "1TB" }, { "gb": 2000, "monthlyUsd": 1400, "perGbUsd": 0.7, "label": "2TB" }, { "gb": 5000, "monthlyUsd": 3250, "perGbUsd": 0.65, "label": "5TB" } ] }, "scrapingApi": { "dollarsPer1kRequests": 1, "jsRenderingPer1kRequests": null, "billingModel": "per-result", "isFloor": true, "vatExtra": false, "earlyAccess": false, "freeTier": "7-day free trial, 5,000 credits — a one-off allowance, not a recurring monthly tier.", "freeRequestsPerMonth": null, "sourceUrl": "https://www.thordata.com/pricing/web-scraper-api", "notes": "Web Scraper API bills per successful RESULT. $1.00/1K is the entry tier (30,000 credits, $30); the ladder runs $0.83/1K at 150K, $0.67/1K at 750K and $0.50/1K at 3M. Recorded as a floor because per-target rates sit above the tier base (Facebook $1.67/1K at the 150K tier). JS rendering is not priced separately. Web Unlocker is a distinct product billed per 1,000 responses — see `unblocker`." } }, { "key": "dataimpulse", "name": "DataImpulse", "displayName": "DataImpulse", "formerName": null, "officialUrl": "https://dataimpulse.com/", "canonicalReviewUrl": null, "fetchedAt": "2026-08-13", "residentialPricing": "Pay-as-you-go per gigabyte with one published volume break and no subscription: residential $1.00/GB, falling to $0.80/GB from 1,000 GB. The other pools follow the same shape (vendor email, 2026-08-13, matching dataimpulse.com fetched the same day): datacenter $0.50/GB dropping to $0.45/GB from 1,000 GB; mobile $2.00/GB to $1.60/GB; premium residential $5.00/GB to $4.00/GB. Purchased traffic does not expire (vendor email, 2026-08-13). Two minimums apply and they differ sharply: the minimum FIRST purchase for a new customer is $5 (the 5 GB Intro plan), while the minimum subsequent top-up is $50 (vendor email, 2026-08-13) — so the effective entry cost for anyone continuing past the intro block is $50, not $5. VAT is not included in the listed rates: the vendor states that its payment providers (Stripe, Paddle) calculate and collect VAT where the customer's jurisdiction requires it (email, 2026-08-13), so the rate is modelled as VAT-exclusive.", "freeTrial": "No free trial — access starts with a purchase. The $5 Intro plan (5 GB residential, or 10 GB datacenter) is the entry point, and because the traffic never expires it behaves as a paid trial with no countdown. The refund path is narrow: the published terms grant a 7-day refund on the FIRST purchase of the Intro plan only, exclude cryptocurrency payments as 'final and non-refundable, regardless of circumstances', and allow a request to be denied if less than 20% of the purchased traffic remains at the time of review (dataimpulse.com/terms-of-services, fetched 2026-08-13).", "poolClaim": "90M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries, plus 20M+ datacenter and 16M+ mobile (vendor claim, dataimpulse.com, fetched 2026-08-13). No basis is published for the count — unique per day, per month or cumulative. The one independent measurement available: Proxyway's April 2026 test observed 1.5M unique IPs in the regular residential pool, 1M in premium residential, 373k mobile and 54k datacenter within its sample. Those are sample sizes rather than pool sizes, but they sit two orders of magnitude below the headline claim.", "scrapingApis": "None published. DataImpulse sells proxy access only — residential, premium residential, mobile and datacenter — and publishes no per-request scraping API, SERP API or crawler product on any page fetched 2026-08-13, so it carries no benchmarked per-request rate and is excluded from the per-request comparisons.", "webUnblocker": "No web unblocker product is published (pages fetched 2026-08-13). The vendor's own blog frames the unblocker category as a fetching stack sitting above a proxy network and positions DataImpulse as the network layer inside it rather than as the stack.", "compliance": "An ISO 27001 badge is displayed on the website, but no certificate, registrar or certificate number is published on any page fetched 2026-08-13, and the terms of service do not mention the standard. The operating entity is Softoria LLC, 'a company registered in the United States' (dataimpulse.com/terms-of-services, 2026-08-13); a Data Processing Agreement is linked in the footer. Customer-side vetting is documented for the reseller programme, which runs KYC through the vendor iDenfy, and unblocking of restricted destination categories is gated on identity verification plus spend. Not an EWDCI member: DataImpulse does not appear on the ethicalwebdata.com member list fetched 2026-08-13, and the vendor states it is interested in membership but has not submitted an application (email, 2026-08-13).", "sources": [ "https://dataimpulse.com/", "https://dataimpulse.com/residential-proxies/", "https://dataimpulse.com/terms-of-services/", "https://dataimpulse.com/affiliate/", "https://docs.dataimpulse.com/blocked-websites", "https://docs.dataimpulse.com/port-access", "https://traffmonetizer.com/", "https://traffmonetizer.com/terms-of-service", "https://traffmonetizer.com/for-developers/", "https://proxyway.com/reviews/dataimpulse-proxies", "https://ethicalwebdata.com/" ], "pricing": { "billing": "payg-volume", "paygPerGbUsd": 1, "vatExtra": true, "neverExpires": true, "tiers": [ { "gb": 1, "monthlyUsd": 1, "perGbUsd": 1, "label": "1GB" }, { "gb": 1000, "monthlyUsd": 800, "perGbUsd": 0.8, "label": "1TB" } ] }, "scrapingApi": { "dollarsPer1kRequests": null, "jsRenderingPer1kRequests": null, "billingModel": "per-request", "isFloor": false, "vatExtra": true, "earlyAccess": false, "freeTier": "Not applicable — no scraping API is published (pages fetched 2026-08-13).", "freeRequestsPerMonth": null, "sourceUrl": "https://dataimpulse.com/", "notes": "DataImpulse publishes no per-request scraping API, SERP API or web unblocker: the catalogue is proxy access only (residential, premium residential, mobile, datacenter). It therefore carries no benchmarked per-request rate and is excluded from the per-request comparisons, the same treatment as any unpriced product." } } ], "researchSources": [ { "claim": "Academic 30-month longitudinal study of 640,600+ free proxies from 11 providers: only 34.5% were ever active; 4,452 distinct vulnerabilities found on proxy IPs (1,755 allowing remote code execution, 2,036 privilege escalation); 16,923 proxies manipulated content in transit — 'Free Proxies Unmasked' (NDSS MADWeb 2024).", "url": "https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/madweb2024-35-paper.pdf" }, { "claim": "Proxyway guide on why free proxies are unsafe (traffic interception, content manipulation, instability) — reputable independent proxy-industry research outlet.", "url": "https://proxyway.com/guides/reasons-to-never-use-free-proxy" }, { "claim": "Proxyway Proxy Market Research 2026 (data collected March-April 2026, 13 providers benchmarked): residential pricing stabilized after 2023-2025 declines of up to 75%; Oxylabs and IPRoyal removed long-running discount codes with permanent plans revised down ~25%; median advertised residential pool size reached 54M IPs; grey-market entry pricing under $0.50/GB; Bright Data cited ~$300M annualized revenue growing 50% YoY on AI demand.", "url": "https://proxyway.com/research/proxy-market-research-2026" }, { "claim": "SOAX residential plan tiers, credit model, VAT treatment and rollover window", "url": "https://soax.com/pricing" }, { "claim": "SOAX pool size, geo/session/protocol features and paid trial terms", "url": "https://soax.com/residential-proxies" } ], "rebrandNote": "Smartproxy officially rebranded to Decodo on April 22, 2025 ('the official release on April 22nd'); accounts, subscriptions, pricing, endpoints, and billing carried over unchanged. Source: https://decodo.com/smartproxy" }