Per-GB pricing
Per-gigabyte pricing charges for what you download rather than how many requests you make. 348 of the 545 plans Proxy Compare prices bill this way, read 5 Oct 2026, and 361 plans in all carry a rate that normalises to a per-gigabyte figure, from $0.01 to $8.00. Page weight, not request count, decides the bill.
Why it costs you money
It makes your bill a function of page weight rather than page count, which is the number almost nobody measures. Fetching a document and rendering the same page can differ by fifty times, so two teams scraping identical sites at identical volumes can pay wildly different amounts on the same rate. Two checks cost nothing and catch most of what goes wrong reading a rate off a page. Divide the total by the allowance and see whether you get the rate the page claims: if a page prints a per-unit rate, an allowance and a total, and the three do not reconcile, one of them is decoration. And watch the decimal separator. One vendor page we read rendered the same tier with a comma in its cards and a full stop in its table, on the same page on the same day. A human skims past that. A spreadsheet stripping the separator out reads the price as a hundred times itself.
See it in the data
Related terms
- Per-IP pricingBilling per address rented per month, with traffic uncounted. It cannot be honestly converted to a per-GB rate.
- Bandwidth overageWhat a provider charges once you pass the gigabytes your plan includes. Often several times the headline rate.
- Residential proxyAn IP address belonging to a real home internet connection, rented by the gigabyte. The hardest type to block and the most expensive.
- Pay as you goBuying bandwidth in top-ups instead of a monthly plan. Cheaper for bursty work, dearer per gigabyte.
- Credit (scraping API)Scraping APIs bill in credits, and one credit buys different amounts of work depending on the request. What each provider charges, with sources.
- Every term we define
Questions
How do I compare a per-gigabyte price with a per-address one?
You cannot, without your own volume. 348 of the 545 plans priced here bill per gigabyte and 135 bill per address, read 5 Oct 2026. Per-address plans usually leave traffic unmetered, so the crossover depends entirely on how much you download.
What is the cheapest per-gigabyte rate on this site?
$0.01 per GB, across 361 plans that normalise to a per-gigabyte figure and run up to $8.00, read 5 Oct 2026. Every rate is read from the provider's own pricing page and carries the date it was read.
Why is my bill bigger than the rate suggested?
Because per-gigabyte billing charges what you download, not how many requests you make. Pulling full HTML or images burns many times the bandwidth of pulling JSON for the same request count, so page weight sets the bill.