Bandwidth overage
Bandwidth overage is the rate charged beyond your included allowance. Proxy Compare prices 545 plans and holds an overage rate for 0 of them, read 5 Oct 2026. Providers publish the allowance and almost never the rate past it, so the figure is missing from every comparison table including this one.
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.
- Per-GB pricingBilling by the gigabyte you move, the dominant model for residential proxies and the one most comparisons assume.
- Traffic rolloverWhether gigabytes you paid for but did not use survive into the next billing period. Most providers do not say.
- Minimum commitmentThe smallest spend or term a provider will sell, which decides whether an advertised rate is reachable by you at all.
- Every term we define
Questions
What overage rates does this site publish?
0 of the 545 plans priced here carry one, read 5 Oct 2026. That is not an omission on our side: providers publish the included allowance and almost never the rate beyond it, so the figure is missing from every comparison table including this one.
How do I find the overage rate before I buy?
Ask the provider in writing and keep the answer. It is rarely on the pricing page and is often in the billing terms or nowhere at all. A plan that looked cheapest stops being cheapest at the overage.
Does unused allowance carry over?
Usually not. Allowance normally expires at the end of the billing month, and where a provider says otherwise it says so in the terms rather than on the pricing page.