Bandwidth Cost Calculator - Estimate Your Monthly Proxy Spend

Estimate your monthly proxy bandwidth cost below, then compare against real 2026 provider pricing.

How proxy pricing actually works

Residential and mobile proxies are almost always billed per gigabyte of bandwidth used, not per request or per IP. Datacenter and ISP (static residential) proxies are typically billed per IP instead, since you are renting a specific address rather than paying for rotating bandwidth.

The calculator above uses a per-GB model, since that covers the majority of scraping and automation use cases. If your work is account management or long-session automation on ISP proxies, check our proxy type cheatsheet for per-IP pricing instead.

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.