Buying Guide
Why Cheap Proxies Fail
There is no such thing as a $1 residential proxy. There is only a $1 residential proxy and the bill that comes after: burned accounts, lost revenue, or compromised data.
- Hidden Costs
- Account Risk
- Data Risk
- Real Math
What You Are Actually Buying for $1
Botnet-sourced IPs
A pool that costs the provider almost nothing usually means malware-infected end-user devices, not consenting users.
Burned-out IP rotation
Heavy bot density in cheap pools means most IPs are already on shared blocklists when you get them.
Logging your traffic
When the network is the product, your traffic and credentials become the product the provider sells next.
How Real Cost Math Works
Adjusted for retry rate and risk, "cheap" proxies are usually several times more expensive than they look
Retry math
A 60% success rate means 1.67 requests per success, multiplying your nominal price.
Account replacement cost
A single banned mid-tier ad account costs more than a year of premium proxy bandwidth.
Data quality cost
Bad data fed into pricing or strategy decisions has a much bigger downstream cost than the proxy line item.
How It Works
Calculate true cost-per-success
Divide the nominal price by the success rate. That is what you actually pay.
Add retry overhead
Bandwidth on failed requests still costs money. Most cheap pools double or triple effective bandwidth use.
Price account risk
For account-based workflows, weight the cost by the value of one banned account.
Compare apples to apples
A vetted residential pool at $0.65/GB usually beats a $0.30/GB pool when retry-adjusted.
Key Features
Real household IPs
Residential IPs from a third-party pool of household connections.
High success rate
Healthy IPs that return real data.
Transparent terms
Plain-language AUP and privacy policy.
No-log policy
Aggregate metrics for billing, never payload retention.
Use Cases
Replacing a flaky free pool
Stop fighting captchas and start collecting clean data.
Migrating from a sketchy provider
Move to a known residential pool with no compromise on price.
Building production data pipelines
Reliability that makes the data team trust the source.
Protecting account portfolios
Well-managed IPs that are less likely to put your accounts on shared blocklists.
Use Proxies That Cost Less in the Long Run
Residential, ISP, and datacenter proxies, priced honestly and reliable (new mobile orders are paused).
High success rates. Pay-as-you-go. Cancel anytime.
Frequently Asked Questions
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