Decodo spent its first seven years being called Smartproxy. The rename went live on 22 April 2025, and it was a rename rather than a relaunch: the same company, the same network, the same logins, the same billing. That matters more than a cosmetic detail, because anybody researching decodo review in 2026 is researching a product whose reputation, price history and support record all sit under a different name.
We run a competing proxy network, so read this knowing where we stand. What follows is what Decodo sells, what it charges, and which of its advertised numbers survive contact with its own pricing tables. Every price here was read off a decodo.com page on 3 August 2026.
Decodo and Smartproxy are one company
The vendor says so plainly. Its rebrand page dates the transition, describing a process that "officially began in early 2025 with the official release on April 22nd". The homepage carries the line "Smartproxy is now Decodo" and describes "the same trusted team and solutions you've relied on since 2018".
The domain backs it up. Fetching smartproxy.com returns an HTTP 301 permanent redirect to decodo.com, and the redirect preserves the path, so a deep link like smartproxy.com/pricing/residential-proxies lands on the matching Decodo page. No live Smartproxy pricing page exists anywhere.
For anyone already inside, the continuity is unusually clean. Decodo states that current subscriptions, pricing and renewal terms remain unchanged, that the same login credentials work, and that Smartproxy endpoints and URLs will keep working indefinitely, with backward compatibility maintained for existing integrations. Plenty of brands in this market have changed names and left dead endpoints behind them. This one did the migration properly.
The practical consequence for a buyer is simple. Every Smartproxy review, forum thread and support complaint written before April 2025 is evidence about Decodo. Read them as one body of research, not two.
One more piece of context. Decodo, founded in 2018 as Smartproxy, is widely reported to sit in the portfolio of Tesonet, the Lithuanian technology group whose other brands include Oxylabs, Nord Security and Surfshark. That reporting comes from third parties rather than a corporate filing, so treat it as likely rather than proven. If it matters which proxy brands share an owner, we mapped the cluster in who owns your proxy provider and the consumer-VPN version of it in NordVPN and Surfshark are the same company.
What Decodo sells
The catalogue is wider than most mid-market proxy vendors manage. Six products, briefly:
- Residential proxies, the flagship, billed per GB either pay as you go or on a monthly subscription.
- Static residential (ISP) proxies, sold two ways: per dedicated IP, or per GB of bandwidth.
- Datacenter proxies, also sold both per IP and per GB.
- Mobile proxies, billed per GB.
- A Web Scraping API, billed per thousand requests on monthly plans, with the rate varying by request type (standard, JavaScript rendering, premium proxies, and premium plus JavaScript).
- A Site Unblocker, billed per GB, and the most expensive product on the price list by a wide margin.
Alongside those, Decodo advertises geo-targeting down to country, state, city and ZIP, a 3-day free trial including 100 MB, a 14-day money-back option, and a genuinely free Web Scraping API tier with 2,000 standard requests at no cost.
Decodo pricing, and what a new buyer really pays
Residential is where most people start, so start there. A buyer with no commitment pays $4/GB on pay as you go. The advertised floor is $2/GB, and reaching it means committing to the 1,000 GB a month tier. That is a spread of 2x between the price on the sign and the price a first-time customer is charged, with a ladder of monthly subscription tiers filling the space between, each one shaving a little off the per-GB rate in exchange for a larger monthly commitment.
Credit where it belongs: that $2/GB floor is real. It is printed in Decodo's own pricing table at the largest tier, not buried in a sales conversation. Most vendors in this market advertise a floor that no published plan reaches, so a headline you can actually point at in a table is above average.
The audit of the rest is less flattering. Across its products Decodo publishes eight of these "from" rates. Two of them, the residential per-GB floor and the datacenter per-IP floor, are genuinely displayed in a tier table you can buy from. The other six are not:
| Advertised headline | What the product page shows |
|---|---|
| Mobile, per GB | Named only in a sentence about high-volume tiers. No such tier is displayed anywhere. |
| Datacenter, per GB | No listed tier reaches it. The largest bandwidth tier is still above it. |
| ISP, per IP | Appears only in a comparison row labelled "Shared", with no quantity, no commitment and no purchase option attached. |
| ISP, per GB | Same comparison table, same problem. The cheapest purchasable per-GB static residential rate is several times higher. |
| Web Scraping API, per 1K requests | Absent from the product page entirely. The cheapest published per-request rate belongs to the $99-a-month Business plan, and the only cheaper tier is Enterprise, priced "Custom". |
| Site Unblocker, per 1K requests | The Site Unblocker pricing page carries no per-request rate at all. It sells bandwidth. |
ISP is the sharpest case. The entry rate for a dedicated static residential IP is $3.33/IP on the smallest purchasable plan, which is 12.3x the $0.27/IP in the headline, and even the largest dedicated tier on the page does not close most of that distance.
Two more things that change the number on your invoice. Every listed proxy price is quoted before VAT, printed on the page as "+ VAT", so a VAT-liable buyer in the EU should add tax to all of the above. And mobile was running a "SAVE 50%" promotion on the day we checked, with each tier showing a struck-through pre-discount price beside the current one. The residential page showed no promotion at all on the same date, which makes the mobile discount look like a genuine campaign rather than permanent pricing. Budget your renewal at the undiscounted rate.
For the comparison to be fair, our own numbers get the same treatment. HProxy residential is $0.50/GB for a single gigabyte with no plan, no tier and no commitment, and Decodo's pay-as-you-go rate is roughly eight times that. We do advertise a lower figure, $0.44/GB, and that one carries a condition exactly like Decodo's does: it needs 2,000 GB+. The difference is which number a first-time buyer meets. On day one you pay our $0.50, and 50 GB costs $25. Our full pricing lists every rate.
What Decodo does genuinely well
It handled its own rebrand better than most. Permanent redirects that preserve paths, credentials that carry over, endpoints that keep answering, terms that do not change. That is the boring, expensive kind of engineering that nobody notices when it works, and this market is littered with counterexamples.
Breadth. Six products under one login, covering everything from a raw datacenter IP to a managed unblocker that fights anti-bot systems for you. If you would rather consolidate vendors than shop each proxy type separately, that has real value.
A low-risk way in. A 3-day trial with 100 MB, a 14-day money-back option on eligible subscriptions, and a free Web Scraping API tier at 2,000 requests. You can form an opinion on your own targets before spending meaningfully.
Maturity. Years of accumulated product work show in the dashboard, the documentation, the browser extensions and the support reputation. Buying a mature platform is a legitimate thing to want, and Decodo is one.
Targeting. Country, state, city and ZIP is finer control than most of the market exposes, and if your work depends on appearing in one specific place, that precision is worth paying for.
Where it falls short
The entry price is the main one. $4/GB with nothing committed is the rate most people actually meet, and it is 2x the floor in the pricing page headline. Getting the better rate means subscribing monthly, and a subscription you underuse quietly raises what you pay per successful request.
The headline audit is the second. Six advertised rates with no purchasable tier behind them is a lot, and the ISP and Web Scraping API cases are the kind where a buyer builds a budget on a number that turns out to require a sales call.
Then the smaller frictions: prices excluding VAT, a mobile discount that will revert, and a monthly billing cycle rather than a balance that waits for you. None of those is disqualifying. Together they mean the price you plan around and the price you pay tend to drift apart.
Who should buy Decodo
Buy it if you want a mature, well-documented platform with a wide product range and fine-grained geo-targeting, and your volume is high enough that the subscription ladder works in your favour rather than against it. If you are already a Smartproxy customer, staying put is a perfectly reasonable decision: nothing broke, your integrations still work, and your terms did not move.
Buy it, too, if the Site Unblocker or the Web Scraping API is what you actually want. Managed anti-bot handling is a different product from a proxy, and Decodo sells both under one account.
Who should not
Skip it if you mainly need clean residential IPs at the lowest price with no monthly plan. At $4/GB for a no-commitment buyer, you are paying about eight times what the same gigabyte costs at HProxy, for capability you may never touch. Skip it as well if you cannot commit to a fixed monthly volume, since Decodo's better rates are subscriptions and its cheapest rate needs a four-figure monthly plan.
If you are weighing it against us specifically, HProxy vs Decodo puts the two side by side, and our residential proxy price study shows where both sit against the rest of the market.
Try it before you decide
Nobody should buy a proxy network on a review, ours included. Test against your own targets with our free proxy checker and the live free proxy list, and when you are ready residential runs at $0.50/GB pay as you go with no plan to join. Decodo's 3-day trial does the same job on their side, and running both against one target for an afternoon will tell you more than any comparison table.