Decodo Pricing 2026 (formerly Smartproxy): Full Breakdown

By Marcus Reiner · 2026-03-18 · 13 min read · Pricing

Decodo is the price-to-performance king of 2026. Here's the full pricing breakdown across every product line.

The short answer

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) prices residential proxies from roughly $2.20-3.50/GB at mid-tier volume, among the most competitive rates for a full-service provider in 2026, with datacenter, ISP and mobile tiers priced proportionally below Bright Data and Oxylabs. Decodo's Site Unblocker and SERP/Social APIs start around $2.50 per 1,000 requests. The aggressive pricing reflects Decodo's positioning as the value-leader among full-featured providers, competing on price against premium names while still maintaining a genuinely large, actively-maintained IP pool.

Residential pricing

Decodo's residential proxies start around $3.50/GB at entry pay-as-you-go pricing, dropping to roughly $2.20-2.80/GB at committed volume tiers of 50-100GB+, placing it firmly below Bright Data and Oxylabs' $8/GB pay-as-you-go pricing while still above IPRoyal and Webshare's rock-bottom $1.75/GB budget tier.

The pool backing this pricing spans over 65 million residential IPs across 195+ countries with city-level targeting, a scale genuinely comparable to Bright Data and Oxylabs despite the significantly lower price - this is the core of Decodo's value proposition in 2026.

Other products

Decodo's datacenter proxies start around $0.80/IP/month, competitive with Rayobyte and above Webshare's absolute budget tier. ISP (static residential) proxies run roughly $1.90-2.50/IP/month, positioned between IPRoyal's budget ISP pricing and Bright Data/Oxylabs' premium ISP tiers.

Mobile proxies from Decodo start around $8-9/GB, competitive with SOAX and below Bright Data's $10/GB mobile pricing. The Site Unblocker API for general anti-bot bypass starts around $2.50 per 1,000 requests, and dedicated SERP and Social Media scraping APIs are priced similarly, making Decodo one of the cheapest full-featured API options against Bright Data and Oxylabs' $3-4 per 1,000 request pricing for equivalent products.

Free trial

Decodo offers one of the more generous free trial structures in the market - a limited free bandwidth allowance (typically a few hundred MB to 1GB depending on current promotions) for residential proxies, plus short trial windows on the Site Unblocker API for teams evaluating anti-bot bypass success rates before committing budget.

This trial access is meaningful in practice: it lets teams directly A/B test Decodo against whatever they are currently using on their actual target list before switching, which is the single most reliable way to validate a pricing decision rather than relying on published success rate averages.

Why the price is so aggressive

Decodo's aggressive pricing relative to Bright Data and Oxylabs reflects a deliberate market position: rather than competing on enterprise support and compliance documentation, Decodo competes on delivering comparable technical performance - pool size, geo-targeting, API sophistication - at meaningfully lower cost, targeting the large segment of the market that does not need enterprise SLAs.

This works because much of the cost premium at Bright Data and Oxylabs goes toward dedicated account management and contractual support guarantees rather than the underlying proxy infrastructure itself. Decodo's infrastructure is genuinely competitive, but its support model is more self-serve, which is where the cost savings come from.

Catch?

The main tradeoff versus premium providers is support responsiveness - Decodo's support is solid but does not match the dedicated account manager experience Bright Data and Oxylabs offer enterprise customers, which matters more as your operation scales and downtime becomes costlier. Smaller teams rarely notice this difference; large enterprise operations sometimes do.

Success rates against the most sophisticated anti-bot systems (specifically targeting DataDome and Akamai's newest ML-based detection) can lag slightly behind Bright Data and Oxylabs' most premium unblocker tiers on the hardest targets, though the gap on typical e-commerce and SERP targets is minimal in our testing. For most use cases, Decodo delivers the best price-to-performance ratio of any full-featured proxy provider in 2026, and the proxy comparison table quantifies exactly where that gap does and does not matter across common target types.

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