Solve rate
A solve rate is what 1,000 cleared challenges of one type cost. Proxy Compare collects 10 services' rate cards across 45 challenge types, read 3 Oct 2026, spanning $0.1 to $50 per 1,000. Every service quotes this unit itself, so nothing here is converted.
Why it costs you money
It is the one figure in this market that compares cleanly, and it is also the one people quote wrongly. A service advertising a headline price is quoting its cheapest type, which is usually a plain image. The type you actually hit can be several times that on the same account, and the difference is published on the same page as the headline.
See it in the data
Related terms
- Captcha solving serviceA third party that clears a challenge for you and returns the token, billed per 1,000 solves rather than per gigabyte.
- CAPTCHA rateHow often a target serves a challenge instead of the page. A softer signal than a ban and it costs the same bytes.
- Captcha worker payWhat a solving service pays the person clearing a challenge, published on its own recruitment pages and rarely beside its prices.
- Per-GB pricingBilling by the gigabyte you move, the dominant model for residential proxies and the one most comparisons assume.
- Every term we define
Questions
Why does one service publish several rates?
Because it prices each challenge type separately, and sometimes each variant within a type. Read 3 Oct 2026, one service prices reCAPTCHA v3 twice depending on the score band it returns, at roughly double for the harder band.
Is the cheapest solve rate the cheapest to run?
Not necessarily, and Proxy Compare does not claim it is. Nothing here measures how often a service clears the challenge it charges for. A rate that fails more often costs more per solve you actually keep, and no service we read publishes a success figure you could compare.
Do the rates move?
Yes, and some services publish a range rather than a price because the rate moves with load on their side. Where that happens both ends are carried here rather than averaged, because an average is a figure the service never quoted.