HProxy vs Decodo.com (formerly Smartproxy): Residential Prices, Plans and the Terms (2026)

Compared against Decodo

For residential proxies, HProxy costs less per GB than Decodo at every size Decodo publishes. One GB of our Residential Premium costs less than Decodo's best rate, $2 per GB on a 1 TB plan. Decodo's unused plan GB also reset at each new billing cycle unless you upgrade, while ours have no scheduled expiry date. Decodo still wins on ZIP code targeting, a free trial, PayPal and its scraping tools. We read Decodo's prices, FAQ and terms on October 22, 2026. We sell residential proxies, so weigh our view with that in mind.

Decodo.com vs HProxy at a glance

Decodo is Smartproxy under a new name, live since April 22, 2025. It sells residential traffic on monthly plans, or one GB at a time from a prepaid wallet. Every plan includes continent, country, state, city, ZIP code and ASN targeting.

Decodo's figures come from its residential pricing page, its FAQ, its API reference, its refund policy and its license agreement, read through our server on October 22, 2026. Its prices exclude VAT. For HProxy we used the catalog behind our checkout and our refund policy.

What a GB of residential traffic costs

Decodo's pricing page lists eight ways to buy residential traffic. Pay as you go costs $4 per GB. Monthly plans run from $3.75 per GB on 3 GB to $2.75 on 100 GB. Enterprise plans cost $2.50 on 250 GB and $2 on 1 TB, billed monthly. Every price is before VAT.

How to read it for your job:

• Country-level work. Lite at $0.50/GB and $0.44/GB costs less than any Decodo plan.
• State, city or network targeting. Premium at $1.49/GB for one GB costs less than Decodo's 1 TB plan. It falls to $1.00/GB from 1,000 GB+.
• ZIP code or continent targeting. Only Decodo offers it.

Here is 50 GB in money. Decodo's 50 GB plan is $150 a month before VAT, and 50 GB of Lite is $25.

Unused GB reset at each new billing cycle

Decodo's FAQ answers this plainly. If you upgrade, unused GB move to the new period. If you downgrade, renew or keep the same plan, "unused GB will not be transferred to the new billing cycle". Extra GB bought on top of a plan "will expire within the same billing month". If you cancel, the remaining GB last until the subscription ends.

Pay as you go works another way. It sells one GB at a time from a prepaid wallet. Once 90 percent of a GB is used, it buys the next one on its own. Unused pay-as-you-go traffic stays valid for 12 months, and it cannot run beside a monthly plan. Our GB have no scheduled expiry date, so a quiet month leaves the balance where it was.

Targeting, sessions and UDP

• Targeting. Decodo includes continent, country, state, city, ZIP code and ASN targeting with every plan. Our Premium handles country, state, city, network (ASN) and device, and Lite handles countries. ZIP code targeting is not something we offer.
• Sessions. Decodo's API reference sets a sticky session from 1 to 1,440 minutes, which is up to 24 hours. Its pricing FAQ still says "up to 30 min". HProxy Premium keeps an exit for 3 minutes up to 24 hours. Our page on rotating vs static residential proxies shows when a long session matters.
• UDP. Decodo's FAQ lists UDP over SOCKS5 for its static residential and datacenter proxies only. Our Premium carries UDP through SOCKS5 on rotating residential, line by line as you enable it.
• Blocked targets. Decodo's residential proxies block mailing, business and streaming targets by default. They open after an ID check, a document plus a selfie, or after a business form.

Trial, refunds and payment

• Trial. Decodo gives new users 100 MB for 3 days. When the trial ends, the plan you picked starts on its own unless you cancel. A purchase after a trial cannot be refunded. We offer no trial.
• Refunds. Decodo refunds only a first self-service purchase within 14 days. You must have used under 20 percent of the plan's traffic or 1 GB, whichever comes first. Crypto payments, Enterprise plans and purchases after a trial are excluded. With us, unused balance is refundable for 14 days under our refund policy, back to the card or crypto you used. Only the traffic you already sent is kept.
• Payment. Decodo takes cards, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, Alipay in Asia, and crypto for all products except its pay-per-IP options. Our payment options are card, crypto, Alipay, Pix and QRIS, from $3 in crypto and $10 with the others.
• ID checks. HProxy needs no documents to open an account or to buy. When we do ask, the reasons are on the identity checks page.

Where Decodo is the better pick

• ZIP code and continent targeting with every plan.
• A free first test. 100 MB for 3 days, as long as you cancel before the plan starts.
• PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, which we do not take.
• Scraping tools beside the proxies. Decodo sells scraping solutions on the same account.
• A steady monthly volume you always use up. Its plans are plain, and an upgrade carries unused GB forward.

Where HProxy is the better pick

• Residential price per GB at every size Decodo publishes, with Lite the cheapest for country-level work.
• GB with no scheduled expiry date. Nothing resets at the end of a month.
• Any amount in one order. Buy what you need from 1 GB, with no plan and no automatic top-up.
• UDP over SOCKS5 on Premium's rotating residential.
• A wider refund. 14 days on unused balance, crypto included.
• A single balance for all four of our proxy types: residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile.

Who should pick which

Pick Decodo if you need ZIP code or continent targeting, want to test 100 MB for free first, or pay by PayPal. Its monthly plans suit a steady volume you use up every month.

Pick HProxy for residential traffic at a lower price per GB, bought in any amount, with GB that do not reset. Lite covers work that only needs a country. Premium covers jobs that need a state, a city, a network, a device or UDP.

Try it before you decide

You can check a tool's proxy settings for free with our proxy checker and the addresses on our live free proxy list. Residential itself starts at $0.50 per GB for one GB, and full pricing has every rung. What is a residential proxy explains what you are buying. Our guide to datacenter vs residential proxies covers when cheaper datacenter addresses do the job. Our Decodo review and Decodo company page cover the rest of Decodo. The cheapest residential proxies in 2026 puts it beside the rest of the market.

Limits of this comparison

• No proxy tests. We sent no traffic through Decodo or through our own pools for this comparison, so it makes no claim on speed, success rates or blocks.
• Pool sizes. Decodo's pool figures are its own claims, and its pages gave two that day, 115M+ and 125M+. We make none about ours.
• VAT. Decodo prints its prices before VAT, which is added at checkout where it applies.
• Older reads. The rename date and the ID check rules come from Decodo's pages as read September 26, 2026, for our Decodo review.
• Our balance. GB bought from us have no scheduled expiry date. Our terms cover the pool behind a purchase during its first 30 days.
• One day. Prices and terms change without notice. Check again after December 22, 2026.

Sources

• Decodo, residential pricing page, read through our server on October 22, 2026.
• Decodo FAQ: unused GB, the monthly subscription model, plan changes, extra GB, payment methods and SOCKS support, read October 22, 2026.
• Decodo, refund policy and license agreement, read October 22, 2026.
• Decodo API reference, custom back-connect endpoints, read October 22, 2026.
• Decodo, rebrand page and ID verification help page, read September 26, 2026.
• HProxy: price catalog and the dashboard's product sheet, as they stood on October 22, 2026.
• HProxy: refund policy, identity checks page, terms and checkout minimums, as they stood on October 22, 2026.
• Google Keyword Planner, read October 22, 2026: "decodo" 33,100 searches a month worldwide, "smartproxy" 27,100, "decodo pricing" 210.