Every number on a proxy pricing page is real. The trouble is what each one belongs to. The lowest residential rate on a page usually needs something: a bigger order, a monthly plan, a year's contract, an application, a country tier or a coupon. Read without that condition, it tells you nothing about what you will pay.
Infatica's homepage showed the gap plainly on October 23, 2026. It said residential IPs run "From $0.3 to $4 per Gb". Its residential price list started at $4 per GB pay as you go and ended at $2.08, on a 12,000 GB annual package for $24,960. No residential plan on the page reached $0.30.
This guide shows what sits behind the low numbers at 14 sellers, from their own pages read between October 12 and 23, 2026. It ends with five questions that work on any pricing page, our own included. For what a gigabyte actually costs at each order size, see our residential price study.
What the lowest number belongs to
Six patterns cover most of what we found:
| The page prints | Seller | What it needs |
|---|---|---|
| Residential from $0.30 per GB | Infatica | Its residential list ends at $2.08, on a 12,000 GB annual package |
| $0.0095 per GB | Rayobyte | The $5,000 monthly Scale plan, and an application |
| From $0.35 per GB | SOAX | Tier 3 countries on the $3,000 monthly plan; Tier 1 costs $5.00 without a plan |
| $0.49 per GB | Evomi | A $49 monthly plan for 100 GB; pay as you go costs $0.99 from 15 GB |
| $4 per GB, with $8 struck through | Bright Data | The code RESIGB50, for the first three months by our October 12 record |
| From $0.55 per GB | 711Proxy | One of seven price lines on its homepage, each on its own meter |
Each of these pages prints its condition near the number. The low figure simply travels further: into comparison tables, ads and AI answers, without the line beside it.
What the lowest rate costs up front
The fastest test of a floor rate is the payment that unlocks it. Here it is for 14 sellers, as one purchase, one month or one year:
Two numbers stand behind each bar: the rate, and the money it takes to get it. A buyer who needs 20 GB a month cannot use most of these floors at all. For that buyer, the rate on the first few gigabytes is the real price, and that is the number to compare.
The bars also mix three kinds of payment on purpose. A one-time purchase of 10,000 GB sits beside a monthly plan, because both are what the page asks for. Read the note before the bar.
One page, seven meters
The unit is the second thing a quick read drops. 711Proxy's homepage on October 23, 2026 showed seven price lines, each on its own meter:
- Residential from $0.55 per GB
- Static residential from $3.50 per IP
- Unlimited traffic from $15 per hour
- Residential by IP from $0.03, where every 6 hours of use counts as one
- Unlimited traffic by port from $1 per port
- Mobile from $1.45 per GB
- SOCKS5 from $30 per 15 days
Each line prices its own product. Side by side, they cannot be compared until you turn them into the unit your job uses. A scraper that moves 50 GB a month should price everything in GB. A bot that holds 20 accounts for weeks should price everything per address per month. A per-IP price rents an address, and the traffic through it is often unmetered, so its cost per GB falls the more you use it. A per-GB price stays the same on the first gigabyte and the ten thousandth.
How long the traffic lasts
Expiry is part of the price. A cheap GB that expires before you use it costs more than a dear one that waits. The rules we recorded in October 2026:
| Seller | What happens to bought traffic |
|---|---|
| SOAX | Credits roll over for 60 days |
| 9Proxy | GB stay valid for 180 days |
| Novada | 30-day packages that renew each month |
| DataImpulse | Never expires |
| IPCook | Never expires |
| Evomi, pay as you go | Never expires |
| Monthly plans (Decodo, Oxylabs, NodeMaven, IPBurger, Massive) | Billed each month; rollover rules vary by seller |
If your use comes in bursts, a balance that keeps beats a lower rate that lapses. If it is steady, a monthly plan sized to it can cost less.
Coupons and struck-through prices
A struck-through price says two things: what the seller calls its list price, and what it charges now. Bright Data showed $8 struck through to $4 per GB on October 23, 2026, with the code RESIGB50 and a deposit match up to $500. Our record of October 12 says the coupon price covers the first three months, so the fourth month costs the list rate.
Ask two questions of any discount. When does it end, and what does the page charge after it? Our study of undated proxy discounts found how rarely a sale states its end date.
Trials and free plans
A trial is a price line too. On October 23, 2026, Infatica offered a 7-day trial for $4. Evomi offered a one-day trial, and Rayobyte a free trial with no card. SOAX ran a free Sandbox plan, which charges $5.00 per GB in Tier 1 countries.
Read what each one includes, and what follows it. A trial that ends in a monthly plan starts a subscription, so check the renewal line before you enter a card. A free plan with a high rate per GB is a pay-as-you-go price under another name.
We run no trial. Our smallest top-up is $3 in crypto or $10 by card. Unused balance can be refunded within 14 days, and it does not expire.
Five questions before you pay
Run these against any page, ours included:
- What does the heading above the number say? The nearest heading names the product. On a page with four products, it is the whole difference between datacenter and residential.
- What is the unit? Per GB, per IP per month, per port, per hour. Convert to the unit your job uses before you compare.
- What unlocks it? An order size, a monthly plan, a year, an application, a country tier. The condition is usually on the same row.
- How long does it last? Thirty days, 60 days, 180 days or never. Expiry changes the real price of every GB you do not use in time.
- Is it a sale? Look for a struck-through price, a code or a deposit match, and find out what the page charges afterward.
Our page, read the same way
The questions catch us too, so here is our pricing page through them.
Residential Lite costs $0.50/GB for one GB, falling to $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+, and the lower rate applies to a single order of that size. Residential Premium costs $1.49/GB for one GB, falling to $1.00/GB at 1,000 GB+. Both are per GB, and the balance does not expire.
We also sell other meters. Mobile is $1.50/GB, and ISP addresses are $2.70/IP, rented per IP. So a reader who takes the smallest number on our pricing page as the price of the thing they came for will be wrong here too.
And we run a coupon. As of October 23, 2026, the public code HPROXY20 takes 20% off Residential Premium, once per customer, and our coupon feed lists it until March 31, 2027.
Sources
- Rayobyte pricing page, read October 23, 2026.
- Infatica homepage and residential pricing page, read October 23, 2026.
- SOAX pricing page, read October 23, 2026.
- Evomi residential proxies page, read October 23, 2026.
- 711Proxy homepage, read October 23, 2026.
- Oxylabs, Decodo and Thordata residential pricing pages, read October 23, 2026.
- Bright Data residential pricing page, read October 23, 2026, and our record of October 12, 2026.
- Our price records for MarsProxies, 9Proxy, NodeMaven, DataImpulse, Massive, IPBurger, Novada and IPCook, each from the seller's own pages between October 12 and 22, 2026.
- Our coupon feed at hproxy.com, read October 23, 2026.
- Competitor prices are quoted in plain text and not linked, as everywhere on this site.
