# Cheapest Pay-As-You-Go Proxies

Pay-as-you-go proxy plans sorted by price, with no subscription required.

Source: https://proxycompare.io/cheapest-pay-as-you-go-proxies/
Figures quoted for protected targets at 250,000 pages a month.
Success rates and latency on this site are estimates rather than measured results. Prices are taken from each provider's published pricing page.
Proxy Compare is run by Scrape.do, which is shown at the top of every list. No other provider pays for placement or ranking.

These are the lowest priced plans you can buy without a monthly commitment. Pay-as-you-go pricing suits testing, short projects and workloads that arrive in bursts, and it removes the risk of paying for an allowance you never use. Several providers also let unused balance roll forward, which softens the premium further.

Bear in mind that the cheapest pay-as-you-go rate is rarely the cheapest way to buy capacity overall. If your monthly volume is predictable, price the equivalent committed tier before deciding; the discount for commitment is usually large enough to change the answer.

## Ranking

| # | Provider | Billing | List price / 1k | Success rate | Effective / 1k delivered | Rating |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Scrape.do | Per successful request | $0.11 | 97.8% (est.) | $0.11 | 4.8/5 (69 on trustpilot) |
| 2 | Ake.net | Per GB, pay as you go | $1.25 | 93.8% (est.) | $1.33 | 4.2/5 (110 on trustpilot) |
| 3 | Databay | Per GB, pay as you go | $1.25 | 93.8% (est.) | $1.33 | 3.5/5 (6 on trustpilot) |
| 4 | SOAX | Per GB, blocks included | $1.50 | 93.5% (est.) | $1.60 | 3.4/5 (149 on trustpilot) |
| 5 | Oxylabs | Per GB, blocks included | $1.67 | 96.2% (est.) | $1.73 | 4.0/5 (766 on trustpilot) |
| 6 | Bright Data | Per GB, blocks included | $1.75 | 96.8% (est.) | $1.81 | 4.3/5 (1022 on trustpilot) |
| 7 | NodeMaven | Per GB, pay as you go | $2.08 | 93.8% (est.) | $2.22 | 3.7/5 (116 on trustpilot) |
| 8 | Proxy Empire | Per GB, pay as you go | $2.92 | 93.8% (est.) | $3.11 | 4.5/5 (107 on trustpilot) |

Effective cost is the list price divided by the share of requests that come back with usable HTML. A bandwidth plan bills blocked responses, a per request plan does not.

## Buying proxy capacity cheaply without a subscription

### What this page ranks

These are the lowest advertised prices available without a monthly commitment, across every proxy type. Because the categories have very different cost structures, the top of this list will be dominated by datacenter plans and per-request APIs with low entry points. Narrow by proxy type before drawing conclusions — a cheap datacenter rate is not competing with a mobile plan for the same job.

### The cheapest rate is rarely the cheapest bill

Three things separate the advertised rate from what you end up paying.

Minimum top-up amounts. A low rate that requires a fifty dollar purchase is not cheap for a project that needs five dollars of traffic.

Expiry. Balance that disappears after thirty days converts unused capacity into a loss. Providers that let credit sit indefinitely are frequently the better deal at a nominally higher rate, particularly for work that arrives in bursts.

Blocked traffic. On any bandwidth-billed plan, failed requests bill at full rate. The advertised price per gigabyte is a floor; what you pay per delivered page depends on how much of your traffic comes back usable.

### Where genuinely low prices come from

Some are structural. Providers that source addresses more cheaply, or that run leaner operations, can hold lower prices indefinitely — these are the ones whose rates have been stable for years rather than appearing last quarter.

Some are promotional. Introductory discounts, first-deposit matches and capped rates are real money, and worth taking, but they expire. Check what the rate reverts to before building a budget on it.

And some are a different product than the label suggests. An unusually cheap residential rate can mean a small or heavily recycled pool; an unusually cheap mobile rate can mean residential addresses described generously. A trial against your own target settles the question quickly.

### A practical sequence

Buy the smallest top-up the provider allows. Point it at the hardest target you actually need to reach. Measure your own success rate over a few thousand requests. Only then compare providers on cost per delivered page, using your own numbers rather than anyone's published ones.

That process costs a few dollars and a couple of hours, and it is the only comparison in this market that is definitely about your workload.