Proxy Cost Calculator - True Cost Per 1,000 Successful Requests
Enter your monthly volume and target difficulty. We price it against our own measured success rates for 12 providers, so blocked requests are counted as money spent - because your provider bills them either way.
Why per-GB pricing lies to you
Residential and mobile proxies are billed per gigabyte of bandwidth used, and that meter runs on blocked responses too. A provider at $1.24/GB with a 76% success rate on your target moves more bytes to deliver the same 100,000 usable pages than a provider at $2.71/GB with 93% success - and the cheap sticker price can end up the more expensive invoice.
The only number that lets you compare providers honestly is cost per 1,000 successful requests on the protection your target actually runs. That is what the calculator above computes, using published entry pricing and the success rates we measured ourselves rather than rates providers quote in marketing.
Real 2026 pricing benchmarks
Pay-as-you-go residential pricing in 2026 ranges from roughly $1.75/GB (IPRoyal) at the budget end to $8/GB (Bright Data, Oxylabs) at the premium, enterprise-support end. Committed-volume plans bring the higher end down substantially - often to $2.50-5/GB at real production scale.
Datacenter proxies are far cheaper per unit, typically $0.50-2 per IP per month, but are blocked far more often on protected targets, so the true cost-per-successful-request can end up higher than a pricier residential plan once retries are factored in.
Reference scenario: 100,000 successful requests per month, 250 KB average response
At 100,000 successful requests a month on mixed anti-bot protection, Webshare is the cheapest provider in real terms at $31.21 per month ($0.31 per 1,000 successful requests at a measured 76.4% success rate), because blocked requests are billed as bandwidth even though they return no data.
| Provider | $/GB | Measured success | GB billed | True monthly cost | Per 1,000 successful | Median TTFB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Webshare | $1.00 | 76.4% | 31.2 | $31.21 | $0.31 | 468 ms |
| IPRoyal | $1.75 | 88.8% | 26.8 | $46.99 | $0.47 | 812 ms |
| Decodo | $2.00 | 92.3% | 25.8 | $51.66 | $0.52 | 701 ms |
| Proxy-Cheap | $2.99 | 82.0% | 29.1 | $86.94 | $0.87 | 1012 ms |
| SOAX | $3.60 | 91.5% | 26.1 | $93.80 | $0.94 | 742 ms |
| ProxyEmpire | $3.50 | 86.5% | 27.6 | $96.47 | $0.96 | 905 ms |
| Infatica | $4.00 | 85.4% | 27.9 | $111.67 | $1.12 | 948 ms |
| Rayobyte | $4.00 | 84.1% | 28.3 | $113.40 | $1.13 | 878 ms |
| NetNut | $4.50 | 90.3% | 26.4 | $118.81 | $1.19 | 596 ms |
| Nimbleway | $5.00 | 93.3% | 25.6 | $127.77 | $1.28 | 664 ms |
| Bright Data | $8.00 | 95.9% | 24.9 | $198.89 | $1.99 | 612 ms |
| Oxylabs | $8.00 | 95.1% | 25.1 | $200.56 | $2.01 | 588 ms |
Success rates are our own measurements from the Q3 2026 Proxy Benchmark Report (1 July – 15 August 2026); methodology at how we test. Per-GB rates are published entry pricing, so committed-volume plans land lower.