Cheapest Pay-As-You-Go Proxies

Every figure on this page is quoted for protected targets: Cloudflare, Akamai and DataDome, login walls, moderate rate limits and some JS rendering.

pages/month

Assuming an average page weight of 480 KB and counting every blocked response that a bandwidth plan still bills.

250,000 pages a month, repriced

Effective cost is the list price divided by the share of requests that come back with usable HTML.

01

Scrape.doBest value

Rotating proxy and scraping API behind a single endpoint

4.869 reviewsTrustpilot

Per successful requestJS renderingSticky sessionsTrial without card
Success rate97.8%estimate
Median latency3.4s
List price$0.11 per 1k
$0.11
per 1,000 delivered pages
No retry penalty
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$27.30 a month
02

Ake.net

Pay-As-You-Go Plan, rotating proxy pool

4.2110 reviewsTrustpilot

Per GB, pay as you goSticky sessions
Success rate93.8%estimate
Median latency4.3s
List price$1.25 / $3.00 per GB
$1.33
per 1,000 delivered pages
+7% paid on blocks
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$333.25 a month
Code SCRAPEOPS3GB
03

Databay

Residential Pay As You Go Plan, rotating proxy pool

3.56 reviewsTrustpilot

Per GB, pay as you goSticky sessions
Success rate93.8%estimate
Median latency4.3s
List price$1.25 / $3.00 per GB
$1.33
per 1,000 delivered pages
+7% paid on blocks
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$333.25 a month
7 day refund
04

SOAX

The most granular filtering controls in this group

3.4149 reviewsTrustpilot

Per GB, blocks includedSticky sessions
Success rate93.5%estimate
Median latency4.4s
List price$1.50 / $3.60 per GB
$1.60
per 1,000 delivered pages
+7% paid on blocks
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$400.97 a month
05

Oxylabs

Enterprise network with negotiated contracts

4.0766 reviewsTrustpilot

Per GB, blocks includedSticky sessions
Success rate96.2%estimate
Median latency4.0s
List price$1.67 / $4.00 per GB
$1.73
per 1,000 delivered pages
+4% paid on blocks
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$433.02 a month
Code PRX20
06

Bright Data

The largest network on the market, priced like it

4.31,022 reviewsTrustpilot

Per GB, blocks includedSticky sessions
Success rate96.8%estimate
Median latency3.9s
List price$1.75 / $4.20 per GB
$1.81
per 1,000 delivered pages
+3% paid on blocks
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$451.85 a month
Code RESIGB50
07

NodeMaven

Residential + Mobile 2GB PAYG Plan, rotating proxy pool

3.7116 reviewsTrustpilot

Per GB, pay as you goSticky sessions
Success rate93.8%estimate
Median latency4.3s
List price$2.08 / $5.00 per GB
$2.22
per 1,000 delivered pages
+7% paid on blocks
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$555.42 a month
Code SCRAPE35
08

Proxy Empire

Residential Pay-As-You-Go Plan, rotating proxy pool

4.5107 reviewsTrustpilot

Per GB, pay as you goSticky sessions
Success rate93.8%estimate
Median latency4.3s
List price$2.92 / $7.00 per GB
$3.11
per 1,000 delivered pages
+7% paid on blocks
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$777.59 a month
7 day refund

What 1,000 successful pages costs

Same workload, ten cheapest providers in the current selection. The gap between a headline price and a delivered page widens sharply as targets get harder.

Scrape.do
$0.11
Ake.net
$1.33
Databay
$1.33
SOAX
$1.60
Oxylabs
$1.73
Bright Data
$1.81
NodeMaven
$2.22
Proxy Empire
$3.11

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.

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.