The Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) alternative for prepaid proxies with no subscription

The name changed, the business did not. If you had a Smartproxy account, it is a Decodo account now, and the old smartproxy.com address sends you to decodo.com.

One warning Decodo makes itself, worth repeating on any page that ranks for the old name: Smartproxy.org is not Decodo, which calls it an impersonator and names decodo.com as its only official site. If you are shopping for Smartproxy, check the address bar before you pay anyone.

What the rename signals is breadth. Decodo now sells residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter proxies, plus a Site Unblocker and a Web Data API for scraping, with no Mac server. It wants to be the one supplier a data team buys everything from, and at that it is good. Our catalogue is narrower on purpose: rotating residential and mobile bandwidth, static ISP subnets and Mac servers, sold prepaid.

Decodo prices residential bandwidth on a ladder. The entry point is $4 per GB on Pay As You Go. Monthly plans run $3.75 per GB on the 3 GB monthly plan, falling to $2.75 per GB on the 100 GB plan, and enterprise plans go further: $2.50 per GB on the 250 GB enterprise plan, falling to $2 per GB at 1,000 GB. The more you commit to each month, the less each gigabyte costs.

We publish one rate per pool and keep it at every size. Essential is $1.50/GB and Premium is $3.00/GB, whether you buy a sliver or a terabyte, with no plan to pick and no contract to sign.

On today's prices, Essential sits below every step of that ladder, including the enterprise floor. Premium lands inside the range of their monthly plans, so there the comparison is about what each plan includes rather than the rate.

The ladder has a cost the rate does not show. A monthly plan is sized in advance, and if you guess high, the unused part is gone at renewal. See pricing for our published sheet.

This is the row where Decodo beats us outright. Its mobile rate reaches $2.25 per GB on the 500 GB monthly plan. Ours is $3.00/GB.

The picture flips at the small end. Decodo's small mobile plans cost $3.75 per GB on the 2 GB monthly plan, or $4 per GB on Pay As You Go. Ours is $3.00/GB from a top-up of $0.50, so a light or occasional mobile job usually costs less here.

Their mobile network is 10M+ mobile IPs from 700+ carriers in 160+ locations. Ours runs on real phones attached to carrier networks in 150 countries, with US state and city targeting. See mobile proxies for how the pool is built.

Decodo offers continent, country, state, city, ZIP code and ASN targeting on every residential plan, at no extra charge. That is broader than ours: we do not target by ZIP code. Our targeting lives in the username, where every pool takes a country, a US state and a network (ASN), and Premium and Mobile add city.

On protocols, Decodo lists HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 on every residential plan. We run HTTP on port 7777 on every pool, and SOCKS5 on port 1080 on Premium, Mobile and ISP. If your tool speaks only SOCKS5 and your budget points at Essential, that matters.

On sessions, Decodo offers rotating per request, or sticky sessions it describes as minutes to days. A sticky session of ours holds for up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential), the longer figure on Premium and Mobile. We publish the limit per pool so that a multi-step flow is planned against a number.

Decodo sells static ISP the way most of the market does, by the address: from $0.27 per IP on shared pay-per-IP plans, $1.30 per GB on shared pay-per-GB plans, or $2 per IP dedicated. For a handful of addresses, or a country outside the US, that is the better product.

We sell static ISP as single IPs from $1.25 per IP a month (minimum 50 IPs), or a whole /24 for $255 a month, and each whole /24 goes to exactly one customer. Nobody else sends traffic from a /24 you hold, so its reputation is yours to keep.

Coverage is US ranges today, international to follow, and stock is sold in restock windows, members first and then everyone. If you need a block that looks like one organisation's network, ours is built for that. If you need a few addresses today, buy them from Decodo. See ISP proxies for how a restock works.

Decodo's catalogue reaches past proxies into scraping: a Web Data API from $0.15 per 1,000 requests, and a Site Unblocker from $0.95 per 1,000 requests. It also sells datacenter proxies from $0.02 per IP. If you want a managed scraper and a proxy pool on one invoice, it covers both and we cover neither.

What we sell instead is hardware. Our Macs rent from $32 a day or $160 a month, and the shortest rental is a day rental from $32, 24 hours counted from when the Mac is ready. A Mac with its own line suits anything that needs Safari, Xcode or a real macOS fingerprint.

The table below is read live from our catalogue, with builds that are out of stock marked rather than hidden.

Decodo's plans are monthly auto-renewing subscriptions, charged at the start of every billing cycle. It also offers Pay As You Go for residential and mobile, paid from a prepaid Wallet one GB at a time, with unused traffic valid for 12 months. Traffic added to a plan behaves differently: extra traffic bought on top of a plan expires within the billing month it was bought in.

We use a prepaid wallet for everything. Load any amount from $0.50 into the pool you need, spend it at your own pace, and it does not expire. There is no renewal date and no plan to resize.

Decodo offers a 3-day free trial with 100MB, after which the chosen plan activates automatically. That is easy to start, but it becomes a subscription unless you cancel. Ours is 1 GB of Premium free when a new account links Google, and nothing renews afterwards.

On refunds, Decodo offers a refund within 14 days of a first self-service purchase, if no more than 20% of the plan or 1 GB was used, no free trial was taken and the payment was not in crypto. Ours are requests within 14 days of a top-up, under the refund policy.

Decodo takes card, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay in Asia, and crypto through CoinGate. We take cards through Stripe, or SOL.

Decodo is a larger network than ours, and in places a cheaper one. If you move mobile bandwidth in bulk, need ZIP targeting, want a handful of static IPs in Europe or Asia, or want proxies and a scraping API on one invoice, it is the better buy.

If you do not want a subscription, its model works against you: plans renew monthly and added traffic expires with the billing month. Our wallet is prepaid and does not expire, and Essential at $1.50/GB costs less than any step of their residential ladder today.

The rest is catalogue. A whole static subnet to one customer, and a Mac server, are things you can buy here and not there. If one of those is the job, the per-gigabyte comparison never starts.

Proxyway published a hands-on review of Decodo, written when it was still Smartproxy and kept up under the new name, and Decodo has a Trustpilot profile, which it links from its own home page. Read both in full rather than through our summary; we quote no scores from either, because a copied figure goes stale.

Judge us on the network instead: our prices here are read live, and the trust page lists what we can prove.