Bandwidth overage
The rate charged for traffic beyond what your plan includes. It is a separate number from the headline per-gigabyte price and is usually higher.
Why it costs you money
This is where a plan that looked cheapest stops being cheapest. A provider with a low included rate and a steep overage can cost more than one priced higher across the board, and the overage rate is the figure most often missing from a comparison table.
See it in the data
Related terms
- Concurrency limitThe cap on how many requests you can have in flight at once. Often the real constraint on a scraping job, not price.
- Pay as you goBuying bandwidth in top-ups instead of a monthly plan. Cheaper for bursty work, dearer per gigabyte.
- Residential proxyAn IP address belonging to a real home internet connection, rented by the gigabyte. The hardest type to block and the most expensive.
- Mobile proxyAn address on a phone carrier's network, shared by thousands of real subscribers. The hardest to block and the most expensive.
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