Cheapest Proxies for Low-Volume: 10–200 GB Compared
Proxy providers often promote the lowest per-GB rate available on their largest plans. A buyer needing 10 or 50 GB can pay several times that rate when the provider imposes a fixed monthly charge.
We compared the total cost of selected residential, mobile and datacenter proxy products at 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 GB.
Quick picks for low-volume proxy buyers
Cheap can refer to a low total payment, a low price per GB, or a low cost per successful request. These measures do not necessarily identify the same provider.
In our dataset, DataImpulse is the lowest-priced option at every tested volume from 10 to 200 GB for residential, datacenter, and mobile proxies. The table shows how the next options compare.
Segment | 1st | 2nd | 3rd |
|---|---|---|---|
10 GB residential | DataImpulse $10 | Byteful $32.50 | Decodo $55 |
100 GB residential | DataImpulse $100 | Byteful $275 | Decodo $450 |
10 GB datacenter | DataImpulse $5 | Bright Data / Decodo $6 | Oxylabs / Decodo $50 |
100 GB datacenter | DataImpulse $50 | Decodo $54 | N/A |
200 GB datacenter | DataImpulse $100 | Oxylabs $110 | Bright Data $120 |
10 GB mobile | DataImpulse $20 | Byteful $42.50 | Decodo $70 |
100 GB mobile | DataImpulse $200 | Byteful $345 | Decodo $550 |
Bandwidth per dollar at low volumes (10–200 GB)
For the full pricing landscape including enterprise volumes and cost calculator, see proxy pricing. For residential, see residential proxy providers.
What is the price premium for a 10 GB residential buyer?
Half of the residential providers in our dataset charge a 10 GB buyer at least twice their lowest rate.
DataImpulse combines the lowest 10 GB residential rate with a relatively small low-volume premium: its 10 GB rate is 1.25 times its lowest rate. By comparison, Decodo’s 10 GB buyer pays 2.5 times the rate available from 5,000 GB, while Oxylabs’ 10 GB rate is twice its lowest rate.
Cheapest residential proxy prices from 10 to 200 GB
DataImpulse is the lowest-priced residential provider at every tested volume from 10 to 200 GB. At $1 per GB, its total cost ranges from $10 for 10 GB to $200 for 200 GB.
Byteful is the next-lowest-priced provider across the tested range, with total costs ranging from $32.50 at 10 GB to $550 at 200 GB. Its rate falls from $3.25/GB below 25 GB to $3.00/GB at 50 GB and $2.75/GB from 100 GB. Compared with Byteful, DataImpulse costs approximately 64–69% less at these low-volume points.
Decodo follows, with total costs ranging from $55 at 10 GB to $900 at 200 GB. Byteful costs approximately 39–41% less than Decodo across the tested range.
How monthly charges change datacenter pricing
DataImpulse has the lowest datacenter cost at every tested volume from 10 to 200 GB. Its $0.50/GB rate results in a total cost of $5 at 10 GB, $50 at 100 GB, and $100 at 200 GB.
Bright Data and Decodo tie for second at 10 GB ($6 each); Oxylabs has no 10 GB option in our dataset. From 20 GB, Oxylabs costs less than Bright Data: $11.80 vs. $12 at 20 GB, $28.50 vs. $30 at 50 GB, and $55 vs. $60 at 100 GB. At 200 GB, Oxylabs costs $110 and Bright Data $120, compared with $100 for DataImpulse.
Decodo’s datacenter pricing depends on plan size. At 20 GB, the smallest plan that covers the volume is its 50 GB plan at $28.50, an effective rate of $1.43/GB and the highest in the group at that point. At 50 GB, the same plan works out to $0.57/GB, tying with Oxylabs. At 100 GB, Decodo is second-cheapest at $54, but at 200 GB its effective rate rises to $0.64/GB ($128), the highest in the group.
Cheapest mobile proxy prices from 10 to 200 GB
DataImpulse is the lowest-priced mobile provider at every tested volume from 10 to 200 GB. At $2/GB, its total cost ranges from $20 at 10 GB to $400 at 200 GB.
Byteful is the next-lowest option. At $4.25/GB below 25 GB, its total cost is $42.50 at 10 GB. The rate falls to $3.85/GB at 50 GB and $3.45/GB at 100 GB, resulting in a total cost of $345 at 100 GB and $690 at 200 GB. DataImpulse costs about 53% less at 10 GB ($20 versus $42.50) and about 42% less at 100 GB ($200 versus $345).
Decodo follows Byteful. Byteful costs about 39% less than Decodo at 10 GB ($42.50 versus $70) and about 37% less at 100 GB ($345 versus $550).
Add as preferred sourceCheap proxies methodology
For each usage tier, we compare all public pricing options from each provider and use the one with the lowest total monthly cost. This includes monthly plans, pay-as-you-go pricing, and overage fees, since the cheapest option is not always the provider’s advertised package.
Byteful sells residential and mobile traffic through monthly plans, but purchased traffic does not expire and remains available after cancellation. We therefore treat its tiered rates as the monthly cost at each tested volume.
FAQs
DataImpulse is the cheapest option at every tested volume from 10 to 200 GB for residential, datacenter, and mobile proxies. The runner-up depends on the proxy type: for datacenter, Bright Data and Decodo tie for second at $6 for 10 GB; for residential and mobile, Byteful is second at $32.50 and $42.50 for 10 GB.
DataImpulse has the lowest total residential price at every tested point from 10 to 200 GB, ranging from $10 at 10 GB to $200 at 200 GB. Byteful is second and Decodo third across the same range.
For the cheapest options in our dataset, yes: DataImpulse charges $0.50/GB for datacenter and $1/GB for residential traffic, so its datacenter option costs less at every tested volume.
Plan structure can reverse this for other providers.
At 20 GB, Decodo’s datacenter option costs $28.50 because the smallest plan that covers 20 GB is its 50 GB plan. That is more than DataImpulse’s residential price for the same volume ($20).
Fixed monthly charges and plan sizes mean small buyers often pay for capacity they don’t use or pay higher per-GB rates.
For residential proxies, Decodo’s 10 GB buyer pays $5.50/GB, 2.5 times its lowest rate of $2.20/GB. For datacenter proxies, Decodo’s 20 GB buyer must purchase its 50 GB plan for $28.50, an effective rate of $1.43/GB, while a 50 GB buyer pays $0.57/GB on the same plan.
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@misc{karatas2026,
author = {Karatas, Gulbahar},
title = {{Cheapest Proxies for Low-Volume: 10–200 GB Compared}},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
howpublished = {\url{https://aimultiple.com/cheap-proxies}},
note = {AIMultiple. Retrieved October 26, 2026}
}Results and timestamps of 91 data points. Download the summary data shown in this article's charts and tables as a ZIP file containing 7 CSV files.
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