The market Decodo trades in has a wide honesty range. Some vendors publish every tier, some publish a starting rate that nobody reaches, and a few publish nothing at all. Knowing which kind you are looking at is half the decision.
What is on their pricing page
Read from their own public pricing pages on 10 August 2026, and stated as advertised rather than as verified by us:
- ISP: from $3.33 per IP with no commitment, falling to $0.27 per IP on not disclosed; appears only in a plan-comparison table for the shared 'Pay per IP' plan, with no purchasable tier behind it.
- Mobile: from $4 per GB with no commitment, falling to $2.25 per GB on not purchasable; page says only 'Plans start at $2.25/GB for high-volume tiers' with no tier shown.
- Residential: from $4 per GB with no commitment, falling to $2 per GB on 1,000GB plan.
Every one of those is a published rate rather than a measured outcome. That is not a criticism of Decodo: our own page is built from the same material. It is the reason the rest of this comparison is about what published rates leave out.
How Decodo presents itself
On 9 September 2026 their homepage carried the title "Decodo - All-in-One Proxy and Web Scraping Platform". Written for search engines, their description says: "125M+ residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter proxies, plus a powerful Web Scraping API. Collect public web data at scale with 99.99% uptime. Start with Decodo today."
Also on the page, stated plainly:
The product lines named on that page are residential, datacenter, ISP or static residential, mobile, SOCKS5 and a scraping or SERP API. They advertise 195 countries or locations. The page offers some form of free trial. A refund or money-back term is mentioned. Their pricing page is titled "Buy Proxies: Residential, Datacenter, ISP and Mobile, Decodo".
Those are claims, and claims are free. They earn their place here only because the date makes them checkable later.
What the registration record shows
The domain was registered on 2 May 2006, through GoDaddy.com, LLC, which makes it about 20 years old. Registry data as of 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 20 snapshots of the site, the earliest from September 2002. It is paid up until 2 May 2030.
Read that as a floor rather than a recommendation. Longevity says somebody has kept paying the registrar, and in a market with this much churn that is worth ten seconds of your attention.
What we hold on ownership and naming: Formerly Smartproxy (rebranded 2025-04-22); Backed by Tesonet, Lithuanian entity TESO LT, UAB; In the Tesonet portfolio; Decodo is the former Smartproxy and the rename is complete.
The shape of their site
We crawled 1.171 pages of their site on 18 June 2026 and found 418 blog pages, 9 pricing pages, 20 use-case pages and 57 integration pages.
That mix tells you how the company sells. Heavy location pages mean a geography-led pitch, heavy blog means a search-led one, and a single pricing page usually means one simple offer or one sales call.
What the timestamps show
Our crawl of their site found 1,170 pages carrying a date, 418 of them articles. The oldest is from July 2024 and the newest from August 2026. 937 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.
An actively maintained site is table stakes rather than a recommendation. It does rule out the failure that costs buyers the most here, which is prepaying a company that has quietly stopped.
The questions Decodo gets asked
The Keyword Planner puts brand demand at 430 a month: 210 a month for their pricing, 140 a month for a review of them and 80 a month for an alternative to them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
Weighted towards people trying to work out what it costs. A comparison that ignores that and opens with a pitch has misread the room.
The top bid on those terms reaches $9.52 a click. That is the market pricing its own customers, and it explains why almost every other result you found is an affiliate page.
The parts no marketing page answers
Coverage in the one country you need
Almost every provider claims almost every country. What differs is depth, and depth decides whether a single city or a single carrier is usable. No published figure tells you that.
The response time nobody advertises
Every provider works when nothing is wrong. The difference shows up on the day a subnet gets flagged or a gateway stops answering. Before committing volume, send one real question through the support channel and time the reply.
Nothing here stays true for long
Supply changes hands quietly in this industry. The network behind a brand can be replaced with no announcement, which is why a benchmark is a perishable good and a re-test is cheap insurance.
Side by side, with the blanks left blank
This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:
| Question to ask | Decodo | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Published, see above, dated 10 August 2026 | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | On their own terms page | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Lower rates require one, see above | None |
| Identity checks | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Their terms page answers this | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Check the current terms, this one moves | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
Nothing in that table settles the decision on its own. It narrows the field to two or three, and then measurement finishes the job.
The ten minute version of this decision
For a few dollars you can get a verdict specific to your job, which no comparison page can honestly promise you.
- Buy the minimum each side offers. Prefer a small paid batch over a trial, because trial traffic does not always ride the same pool.
- Send an identical workload through each: same target, same tooling, same time of day, same request mix.
- Measure what came back correctly and what it consumed, then divide the spend by the successes.
- Push a sample of exit addresses through an independent checker and confirm the country and connection type are what was advertised.
- Keep whichever pool won on your job. Re-run this whenever success rate drops or the bill moves.
The other names that come up
Other providers in the same bracket, priced and dated the same way:
- Blazingseo alternatives
- BlockAway alternatives
- BrazyKicks alternatives
- Bright Data alternatives
- Brightlocal alternatives
- BrightProxies alternatives
Our side of it
What we offer is one account holding residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter, priced from $0.44 per GB on residential, with no tier to climb and no allocation to lose at month end. Whether that suits you depends on how steady your volume is.
