# Unlimited residential proxies: what they cost per GB

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Category: Comparison
Published: 2026-09-27
Updated: 2026-09-27
Author: ipvolt
Reading time: 18 minutes
Tags: proxies, choosing

Turn Mbps- and thread-based unlimited residential proxy plans into cost per GB, find the break-even with your per-GB rate, and check terms before you pay.

An "unlimited" residential proxy plan does not sell unlimited gigabytes. It sells a speed channel in Mbps, a number of threads or a number of ports for a period, from an hour to a year, so the traffic you can move is capped by speed × time. One division tells you whether that beats a per-GB plan on bandwidth cost: `plan price ÷ your per-GB rate = break-even GB`. Move more than that within the plan's period and the flat plan costs less per GB. Move less and per-GB is cheaper.

On 26 September 2026, 15 of the 22 vendors checked had a residential plan priced this way on a public page. At the 13 that sell 200 Mbps for 30 days or a month, that plan cost $700 to $2,525.53: $0.0108 to $0.0390 per GB with the line full all month and no overhead, or $0.120 to $0.433 at 10% use of its usable capacity. Both ends appear only after JavaScript runs, at vendors that assign locations at random by default; the 7 static-page prices run from $1,249 to $2,499.

Against per-GB rates from $0.24 (a listed bundle) to $4.00 (illustrative), the plan breaks even at 175 GB to 10,523 GB a month, or 0.30% to 18.0% of the month's usable capacity. The $0.24 bundle's own page also says $0.28, which lowers the top to 9,020 GB (15.5%).

An unlimited plan is the wrong purchase if:

- **You move a few hundred GB a month or less**, unless your per-GB rate is high. The cheapest monthly plan in the dataset, ScaleProxy's 25 Mbps for $279, needs 698 GB a month to beat $0.40 per GB, 279 GB to beat $1.00 and 69.8 GB to beat $4.00.
- **Your job needs targeting or rotation the plan lacks.** By their own descriptions, 3 of the 15 vendors assign locations at random by default and 4 target countries only.
- **You cannot keep the channel busy.** Utilisation sets the real price: a $1,800 200 Mbps month costs $0.309 per GB at 10% use of its usable capacity and $3.09 at 1%.

Price is the last check. Pool, targeting, rotation and refund terms come first, and ipvolt has not measured the quality, speed or success rate of any plan here.

## Small budgets: what applies instead

No 30-day or monthly plan in the dataset costs less than $279 (ScaleProxy, 25 Mbps), then $300 (Proxyrack, 100 threads) and $350 (IPcook, 100 Mbps). Only 5 of the 15 vendors list a monthly tier below 200 Mbps: ScaleProxy (25, 50 and 100 Mbps for $279, $449 and $849), and IPcook, ProxyScrape, ProxyEmpire and Lightning Proxies at 100 Mbps ($350, $1,425, $1,500 and $1,570). Below that budget, look elsewhere:

- **Short periods are tests, not budgets.** The lowest prices in the dataset are $5 for 5 ports for a day (711Proxy's trial), $10 for 10 days (ScaleProxy's trial, one per customer) and $12 for a 200 Mbps hour (LokiProxy). 711Proxy's ports otherwise come only in 3-day periods, from 20 ports for $48, so a month takes ten purchases. Thirty single 200 Mbps days cost 3.1 to 4.0 times a 30-day plan at the 8 vendors that list both. Use one to [test a pool](#test-before-you-commit).
- **Small per-GB bundles.** 14 of the 15 vendors also sell per-GB residential traffic, some from 1 GB. Rainproxy lists 100 GB of its cheapest pool for $40.
- **Static addresses priced per IP**, if your target accepts ISP or datacenter addresses. [Residential vs datacenter proxies](/blog/residential-vs-datacenter-proxies#what-each-one-costs-and-how-it-is-billed) explains how per-IP billing changes the calculation.

Mobile plans priced per device are a different product, not covered here. If you run several accounts, no network plan changes each platform's rules.

## What "unlimited" means on each kind of plan

Vendors use the word for five different products. Only the first three are residential plans with no per-GB meter; those are the plans in this article's tables.

| What you buy | Metered per GB? | What limits you |
|---|---|---|
| A speed channel (Mbps) for a period: 14 of the 15 vendors | No | Speed × time, plus any concurrency or fair-use terms |
| Threads (simultaneous connections): Proxyrack | No | Threads × a per-thread speed the vendor does not publish |
| Ports with a stated speed: 711Proxy | No | A 5 Mbps base per port; the IP changes every 3 to 30 minutes |
| Static ISP or datacenter IPs, priced per IP | No, up to a fair-use threshold | The threshold |
| Per-GB residential plans called "unlimited" | Yes | The GB meter |

Static thresholds on the check date: [Decodo](https://decodo.com/faq/getting-started/fair-usage-policy), "Up to 10 TB total traffic per subscription cycle"; [Bright Data ISP](https://brightdata.com/pricing/proxy-network/isp-proxies), "Each IP includes a 100 GB fair usage allowance per month."; [Webshare](https://www.webshare.io/fair-usage-policy), at least 10 TB per plan before throttling, more on larger plans. [Bright Data's "Unlimited Proxies"](https://brightdata.com/solutions/unlimited-proxies) and [Live Proxies](https://liveproxies.io/products/rotating-residential) still bill residential traffic per GB.

## Check the pool before the price

ipvolt did not buy or test any of these plans; below is what the vendors say.

- **Is the unlimited plan on the same pool?** [Geonode](https://geonode.com/products/unlimited-residential-proxies) says "Unlimited Residential uses a separate pool from Premium Residential." [ProxyEmpire](https://proxyempire.io/unlimited-bandwidth-residential-proxies/) lists "41+ countries, 500K+ daily IPs" for its unlimited plan and says its per-GB plans "offer a larger residential IP pool with more targeting options." [PrivateProxy.me](https://privateproxy.me/unlimited-rotating-proxies/) says of its two products: "Both use the same 200M+ residential pool." [ScaleProxy](https://scaleproxy.com/) says it "runs on ProxyRack's infrastructure" and shares its IP pool, so those two brands may not be two separate networks.
- **Can you choose the location?** By ipvolt's grouping of what each vendor states for its unlimited plan: 5 of the 15 offer city-level or finer targeting, 4 country level, 1 continent (country on request) and 3 random assignment by default; 2 do not say. [LokiProxy's docs](https://docs.lokiproxy.com/configure-proxies/unlimited-residential-proxy): "country/region selection is currently unavailable for unlimited residential proxies"; [IPcook](https://www.ipcook.com/product/unlimited-proxy): "IP locations are assigned automatically and cannot be manually selected."
- **Does it rotate the way your job needs?** [GloryCloud](https://www.glorycloud.com/proxy/unlimited-proxies/) offers "optional sticky sessions up to 60 minutes", PrivateProxy.me "sticky sessions from 1 minute to 24 hours", and 711Proxy's ports rotate every 3 to 30 minutes. [Rotating vs sticky proxies](/guides/rotating-vs-sticky-proxies) covers what to test.
- **What caps speed and concurrency?** Geonode's product page says "Each tier has a concurrency limit" without giving it, while [its docs](https://docs.geonode.com/docs/proxies/guides/unlimited-residential-proxies/00_unlimited_residential_proxies) say "There are no thread or concurrency limits enforced by the plan." ScaleProxy calls the tier "your guaranteed sustained floor", while [its terms](https://scaleproxy.com/terms) define the maximum speed as "connections × 2 Mbps = total speed". The vendor pages checked do not say whether their Mbps counts downloads only or both directions.
- **Does it work on your target?** Only your own test shows that. The fair-use and refund clauses are [quoted below](#fair-use-and-refund-terms-quoted).

## The arithmetic: from Mbps to GB to dollars

Mbps means megabits per second, 10^6 bits. A byte is 8 bits and a GB here is 10^9 bytes ([SI prefixes](https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure), [NIST](https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html)). One Mbps kept busy for a day therefore moves at most 10.8 GB:

```text
10^6 bit/s
  ÷ 8 bit per byte
  × 86,400 s
  ÷ 10^9 byte per GB
  = 10.8 GB per Mbps-day
  = 0.45 GB per Mbps-hour
  = 324 GB per Mbps over 30 days
  = 10.058 GiB per Mbps-day
```

The rest follows:

```text
capacity (GB)
  = Mbps × 10.8 × days
usable GB
  = capacity × h
effective $/GB
  = price ÷ (usable GB × u)
break-even GB
  = price ÷ your per-GB rate
utilisation needed
  = break-even GB ÷ usable GB
average Mbps needed
  = GB per month ÷ 324 ÷ h
```

- **Capacity is a ceiling on line bits.** 200 Mbps for 30 days is 64,800 GB.
- **h is the share of the line that arrives as response payload.** On standard 1500-byte Ethernet, TCP payload is at most 94.9% of the link rate, 1,460 of every 1,538 bytes after TCP/IP headers and Ethernet framing ([RFC 6349](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6349)), before TLS, HTTP headers and retries. The tables use h = 0.90, an assumption you can change, not a measurement. 200 Mbps for 30 days is then 58,320 usable GB.
- **u is the utilisation you sustain** over the whole period, nights and idle hours included.
- If a vendor means megabytes per second, multiply by 8. ProxyEmpire writes "Mbit"; it is read here as megabits per second.

Two vendors' own figures agree with the constant: PrivateProxy.me's "roughly 2.2 TB per day" at 200 Mbps, and [ScaleProxy's](https://scaleproxy.com/pricing) "$0.0193/GB at full speed" for its $1,249 month ($1,249 ÷ 64,800 GB). Check the utilisation behind any such equivalent: PrivateProxy.me's 200 Mbps card ("Equivalent at $1.1/GB", "$35,200/mo") implies 32,000 GB, about 49% of a full line.

For thread plans, the speed comes from your workload:

```text
Mbps per thread
  = bytes per response × 8
    ÷ seconds per request
    ÷ 10^6
aggregate Mbps
  = threads × Mbps per thread
```

A hypothetical 150 kB page every 2 seconds is 0.6 Mbps per thread; a 2.56 MB browser page load every 6 seconds is 3.41 Mbps.

## Prices, capacity and $/GB across 15 vendors

**Prices and terms last checked on 26 September 2026 (UTC).** They change often, so open the vendor's page before you buy.

One row per vendor at 200 Mbps for 30 days or a month, or the nearest tier it sells. Prices are in USD as listed, after any on-page discount and without coupon codes: before tax at the 7 vendors that say so, while 8 of the 15 do not state a tax basis. The last column is $/GB at 10% use of the usable capacity (58,320 GB for 200 Mbps over 30 days). For utilisation u, multiply it by 0.1 ÷ u; for a full line with no overhead, by 0.09.

| Vendor | Period | Price | $/GB at 10% use |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Geonode](https://geonode.com/products/unlimited-residential-proxies) | Month | $1,800 | $0.309 |
| [ProxyEmpire](https://proxyempire.io/unlimited-bandwidth-residential-proxies/) | Month | $2,400 | $0.412 |
| [711Proxy](https://www.711proxy.com/pricing/regular/unlimited-rotating-proxies) | 30 days | $1,920 | $0.329 |
| [711Proxy ports](https://www.711proxy.com/pricing/regular/port-rotating-proxies) | 3 days | $95 † | $0.130 |
| [LokiProxy](https://www.lokiproxy.com/product/unlimited-residential-proxy) | 30 days | $1,800 | $0.309 |
| [PrivateProxy.me](https://privateproxy.me/unlimited-rotating-proxies/) | Month | $2,499 | $0.428 |
| [Rainproxy](https://rainproxy.io/products/unlimited-residential-proxies) | 30 days | $1,925.63 | $0.330 |
| [IPcook](https://www.ipcook.com/pricing/buy-unlimited-proxy) | 30 days | $700 † | $0.120 |
| [ScaleProxy](https://scaleproxy.com/pricing) | Month | $1,249 | $0.214 |
| [IPDeep](https://www.ipdeep.com/unlimited-residential-proxy) | 3 days | $165.30 | $0.283 |
| [Rapidproxy](https://www.rapidproxy.io/unlimited-residential-proxies/pricing) | 30 days | $1,800 † | $0.309 |
| [GloryCloud](https://www.glorycloud.com/proxy/unlimited-proxies/) | 30 days | $2,175 † | $0.373 |
| [Lightning Proxies](https://lightningproxies.net/pricing/unlimited-residential-proxies) | 30 days | $2,300 † | $0.394 |
| [ProxyScrape](https://proxyscrape.com/products/unlimited-residential-proxies) | 30 days | $2,367 † | $0.406 |
| [Lumiproxy](https://www.lumiproxy.com/proxies/unlimited/) | 30 days | $2,525.53 † | $0.433 |

† The price appears only after JavaScript runs or a public price toggle is clicked, so a plain page fetch cannot recheck it.

What the rows do not show:

- ScaleProxy's page defaults to annual billing ($1,145 a month, billed $13,739 a year); the row is its month-to-month price.
- IPcook's 200 Mbps price appears after a click; its page opens on 100 Mbps at $350.
- Lumiproxy's price also moves with an unlabelled selector: $2,525.53 at its default of 1000, $2,998.09 at 5000.
- GloryCloud showed an "Original price" of $2,300 with a discount line; ProxyScrape showed $2,630 struck through beside an expiring-offer countdown. Both may be promotions.
- IPDeep sells only 3-day periods, though its page also says "Billing is based on actual bandwidth usage".
- 711Proxy's port row is 50 ports at a stated 5 Mbps base each; a port may exceed it, "reaching up to 50 Mbps".

**Thread plans.** [Proxyrack](https://www.proxyrack.com/unmetered-residential-proxies/) sells 100 threads for $300 a month and says only that "The speed varies depending on the connection of the exit node". With every thread busy all month, 100 threads carry 3,240 GB at a hypothetical 0.1 Mbps per thread (a 50 kB response every 4 seconds), 19,440 GB at 0.6 Mbps and 110,592 GB at 3.41 Mbps: $0.0926, $0.0154 or $0.0027 per GB. Your workload sets the answer, capped by exit-node speeds that Proxyrack does not publish.

## Break-even against your per-GB rate

Use the rate you would actually pay at your volume. Low "from" prices usually need a large purchase, so every table here applies one rule: a per-GB rate counts only if you would use up its minimum purchase within the bundle's validity or 12 months, whichever is shorter.

Break-even GB within each plan's period for four plans, with the share of its usable capacity (h = 0.90) in brackets:

| Rate | $700 month | $2,525.53 month | $200 day | $12 hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $0.24 ‡ | 2,917 (5.0%) | 10,523 (18.0%) | 833 (42.9%) | 50.0 (61.7%) |
| $0.28 ‡ | 2,500 (4.3%) | 9,020 (15.5%) | 714 (36.7%) | 42.9 (52.9%) |
| $0.40 | 1,750 (3.0%) | 6,314 (10.8%) | 500 (25.7%) | 30.0 (37.0%) |
| $0.48 | n/a | 5,262 (9.0%) | 417 (21.4%) | 25.0 (30.9%) |
| $0.55 | 1,273 (2.2%) | 4,592 (7.9%) | 364 (18.7%) | 21.8 (26.9%) |
| $1.00 | 700 (1.2%) | 2,526 (4.3%) | 200 (10.3%) | 12.0 (14.8%) |
| $2.00 | 350 (0.60%) | 1,263 (2.2%) | 100 (5.1%) | 6.0 (7.4%) |
| $4.00 | 175 (0.30%) | 631 (1.1%) | 50.0 (2.6%) | 3.0 (3.7%) |

- **Plans:** IPcook's and Lumiproxy's 200 Mbps for 30 days (the ends of the price range, both rendered-only with random locations by default), Rapidproxy's 200 Mbps day and LokiProxy's 200 Mbps hour. For the day and the hour, the rule uses the monthly pace of rebuying the plan.
- **Rates:** listed bundles that never expire. [Rainproxy](https://rainproxy.io/pricing) sells "Residential Smart", its cheapest pool and not its unlimited line, at $0.40 per GB for 100 GB and $0.28 for 500 GB. ‡ Its 1,000 GB card shows $0.24, but the same page says it "auto-discounts to $0.28/GB at 1 TB". [LokiProxy's](https://www.lokiproxy.com/pricing/rotating-residenial-proxy) $0.48 needs 50,000 GB, so it counts only from 4,167 GB a month. [Rapidproxy's](https://www.rapidproxy.io/residential-proxies/pricing) $0.55 needs 5,000 GB.
- **$1.00, $2.00 and $4.00 are illustrative.** On the check date, [Bright Data](https://brightdata.com/solutions/unlimited-proxies) showed pay-as-you-go residential at $4.00 per GB with a three-month 50%-off code (list $8.00).

The download has these figures for every Mbps and port plan. A month of per-GB traffic costs this, against $700 to $2,525.53 for a flat 200 Mbps month whatever you move:

| GB a month | $0.24 | $0.40 | $0.55 | $1.00 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | $24 § | $40 | n/a | $100 |
| 300 | $72 § | $120 | n/a | $300 |
| 1,000 | $240 | $400 | $550 § | $1,000 |
| 3,000 | $720 | $1,200 | $1,650 § | $3,000 |
| 10,000 | $2,400 | $4,000 | $5,500 | $10,000 |
| 30,000 | $7,200 | $12,000 | $16,500 | $30,000 |

§ One bundle lasts months: Rainproxy's 1,000 GB ($240) lasts 10 months at 100 GB and 3.3 at 300 GB; Rapidproxy's 5,000 GB ($2,750) lasts 5 months at 1,000 GB and 1.7 at 3,000 GB. Below 417 GB a month it would outlast a year, so $0.55 does not count (n/a). At $4.00, multiply the $1.00 column by 4.

- At 100 GB a month, even $4.00 per GB ($400) costs less than any flat 200 Mbps month.
- At 3,000 GB, $0.40 to $0.55 per GB costs $1,200 to $1,650: a large discounted bundle lands within tens of percent of a flat month, and only the $700 and $1,249 months cost less than $1,650. At $1.00 or more, every flat month costs less.
- At 10,000 GB, even the $0.24 rate costs $2,400, more than 10 of the 13 flat months (at $0.28, $2,800 is more than all 13); at 30,000 GB it costs more than all of them.

So from around 10 TB a month, 17.1% of a 200 Mbps month's usable capacity, most flat plans are the cheaper way to buy bandwidth at these list prices, provided you sustain the utilisation and the pool passes the checks above. Below that, the break-even table and your own rate decide.

ipvolt, which publishes this post, is in development. Its announced launch pricing is per GB, and it does not sell Mbps- or thread-based unlimited residential plans.

### Worked example: 2 TB a month (hypothetical)

A crawler that moves 2,000 GB a month averages 6.17 Mbps of payload, or 6.86 Mbps on the line at h = 0.90: 3.4% of a 200 Mbps month.

- As per-GB traffic, that costs $480 at $0.24, $800 at $0.40, $1,100 at $0.55, $2,000 at $1.00 and $8,000 at $4.00.
- The 13 flat 200 Mbps months work out at $0.35 to $1.26 per GB at this volume. Against $0.40 per GB, 12 of the 13 cost more; against $1.00, 7 of the 13 cost less; against $2.00 or more, all 13 do.
- The smallest monthly plan that covers the volume is ScaleProxy's 25 Mbps at $279, about $0.14 per GB, provided 25 Mbps also covers your peak and you keep 27.4% of it busy.

Against the 200 Mbps months, the answer flips inside the rate band, so your own rate decides. Three smaller Mbps months cost less than 2,000 GB at even $0.24 per GB ($480): ScaleProxy's 25 and 50 Mbps ($279 and $449) and IPcook's 100 Mbps ($350), if that speed covers your peak and the pool passes the checks above. Size the channel to your peak, not to the 200 Mbps default.

### Against the same vendor's per-GB plan

If you already buy per GB from one of these vendors, compare on its own price list, under the same rule. The two products may use different pools.

| Vendor | Flat month | Per-GB rate | Break-even |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Geonode](https://geonode.com/products/residential-proxies) | $1,800 | $0.441 | 4,082 GB (7.0%) |
| [ProxyEmpire](https://proxyempire.io/rotating-residential-proxies/) | $2,400 | $3.00–$3.97 | 605–800 GB (1.0–1.4%) |
| [711Proxy](https://www.711proxy.com/pricing/enterprise/residential-proxies-gb) | $1,920 | $0.571 | 3,360 GB (5.8%) |
| [LokiProxy](https://www.lokiproxy.com/pricing/rotating-residenial-proxy) | $1,800 | $0.550 | 3,273 GB (5.6%) |
| [PrivateProxy.me](https://privateproxy.me/residential-rotating-proxies/) | $2,499 | $1.00 | 2,499 GB (4.3%) |
| [Rainproxy](https://rainproxy.io/pricing) | $1,925.63 | $0.240 | 8,023 GB (13.8%) |
| [IPcook](https://www.ipcook.com/pricing/buy-residential-proxy) | $700 | $0.600 | 1,167 GB (2.0%) |
| [Rapidproxy](https://www.rapidproxy.io/residential-proxies/pricing) | $1,800 | $0.550 | 3,273 GB (5.6%) |

- **The rate** is the bundle in force at the break-even: Geonode's 3,000 GB and PrivateProxy.me's 1,000 GB monthly plans, used within the month; 711Proxy's 5,250 GB Enterprise, LokiProxy's 10,000 GB Premium, IPcook's and Rapidproxy's 5,000 GB and Rainproxy's 1,000 GB bundles, which never expire. [results.json](https://ipvolt.com/downloads/unlimited-proxy-cost/results.json) gives each bundle's page and retrieval time.
- **ProxyEmpire** is at list price, without its 50%-off code, and a range because the price of its listed 500 GB card is not transcribed in the dataset.
- **Rainproxy's** bundle is Residential Smart, not its unlimited pool; at the $0.28 its page also gives for 1 TB, the break-even is 6,877 GB (11.8%).
- **Buying only a month's traffic at a time** lowers four break-evens: 700 GB at IPcook, 2,769 GB at LokiProxy, 3,000 GB at Rapidproxy and 3,102 GB at 711Proxy.

## Fair-use and refund terms, quoted

Quotes are exact excerpts as of the check date; vendor names link to the refund terms, and the other pages are in the sources.

**Fair use.** None of the 15 vendors publishes a GB threshold on the pages read, and ScaleProxy says "No fair use policy. No hidden throttling. No data caps." Geonode, GloryCloud, LokiProxy, 711Proxy and IPcook have general clauses, such as Geonode's "Unlimited plans remain subject to applicable throughput limits", 711Proxy's ban on "abusing bandwidth" and IPcook's warning of "throttling or account suspension in cases of excessive bandwidth consumption". PrivateProxy.me may refuse refunds for "excessive consumption of resources", and ProxyScrape's published limits cover datacenter plans only. The other 7 have none on the pages read.

**Refunds and renewal.** By ipvolt's grouping of the refund text: 2 offer a money-back window, 2 refund only an unused or barely used plan, 4 only a service failure or error, 6 give no refund after purchase or use, and 1 publishes none. 8 of the 15 describe recurring billing: Geonode, ProxyEmpire, PrivateProxy.me, Rainproxy, ScaleProxy, Proxyrack and ProxyScrape sell subscriptions, and IPcook's terms have a general auto-renew clause. Cancel any plan you only meant to test.

| Vendor | Shortest paid option | Refund |
|---|---|---|
| [Geonode](https://geonode.com/refund-policy) | 1-day trial, any tier, $100 | Only if Geonode "fails to deliver"; "Paid trials are non-refundable." |
| [ProxyEmpire](https://proxyempire.io/terms-of-service/) | 1 day: 100 Mbit $200, 200 Mbit $275 | "All sales and charges are final" |
| [711Proxy](https://www.711proxy.com/policy/RefundPolicy) | 5 ports for a day, $5; 200 Mbps hour, $15 | None "after the order is placed or the proxies are used" |
| [LokiProxy](https://www.lokiproxy.com/RefundPolicy.html) | 200 Mbps hour, $12 | None "upon order completion or proxy utilization" |
| [PrivateProxy.me](https://privateproxy.me/terms-of-service/) | Monthly only; trial by sales contact | Within 24 hours, if "the plan was not substantially used" |
| [Rainproxy](https://rainproxy.io/refund-policy) | 200 Mbps hour, $15 | "Non-refundable, including unused days." |
| [IPcook](https://www.ipcook.com/policy) | 100 Mbps for 7 days, $100 | Within 24 hours, if unused "(zero bandwidth consumption)" |
| [ScaleProxy](https://scaleproxy.com/pricing) | $10 for 10 days, fee non-refundable | "10-day money-back guarantee on all plans." |
| [Proxyrack](https://www.proxyrack.com/refund-policy/) | 100 threads for a month, $300 | Within 3 days, card or PayPal via Paddle only |
| [IPDeep](https://www.ipdeep.com/protocol/userService) | 100 Mbps for 3 days, $85.50 | None published |
| [Rapidproxy](https://www.rapidproxy.io/terms_of_service) | 200 Mbps for a day, $200 | "non-refundable", unless inactive or defective in the first 24 hours |
| [GloryCloud](https://www.glorycloud.com/terms-of-service/) | 50 Mbps hour, $20 | "Under most circumstances, we do not support refunds", except a double order or the wrong plan |
| [Lightning Proxies](https://lightningproxies.net/legal/terms-of-service) | 100 Mbps for a day, $155 | Non-refundable, except "technical issues for more than 48 hours" |
| [ProxyScrape](https://proxyscrape.com/terms-and-conditions) | 100 Mbps for a day, $190 excl. VAT | Only purchases up to $100 with at most 1 GB used, so no unlimited plan |
| [Lumiproxy](https://www.lumiproxy.com/policy/) | 30 days, the shortest listed | None "Once an order is placed and the product is dispatched" |

## Test before you commit

1. **Measure your bytes first.** [The scraper bandwidth report](/guides/scraper-bandwidth-report) shows bytes per page and where they go, so you can estimate GB a month. It measures a run on your machine; it is not a provider bill. HTTP clients that send no `Accept-Encoding` header, such as curl without `--compressed`, can move several times the bytes; [check which clients skip compression](/guides/curl-compressed-accept-encoding) before you compare plans. In that guide's local lab, the uncompressed bodies of 23 CPython documentation pages were 6.67 times their gzip size, a ratio for that corpus only.
2. **Buy the shortest paid option** of a plan you are considering (table above), after reading its refund terms; several cannot be refunded. A short plan needs far higher utilisation to beat a per-GB rate (see the day and hour columns of the break-even table), so treat it as a test, not a purchase of traffic.
3. **Run your real target at your real concurrency** for the whole period. Log bytes moved, achieved Mbps over time, success on the content you need, and the locations and rotation you actually get.
4. **Work out effective $/GB and cost per successful GB** (next section) and compare them with your per-GB rate at your volume.

[What a proxy benchmark should measure](/blog/what-a-proxy-benchmark-should-measure) covers how to define success and sample fairly across providers, but not throughput or bytes: log those from your own client or proxy.

## Cost per successful GB: the number only your test gives

Failed, blocked and retried requests use a flat plan's channel and, depending on the provider, add to a per-GB bill. ipvolt has not measured success for any plan here; your test supplies s:

```text
s = bytes of successful responses
  ÷ all bytes moved

flat plan:
  cost per successful GB
    = price ÷ successful GB
    = effective $/GB ÷ s

per-GB plan:
  cost per successful GB
    = rate × billed GB ÷ successful GB
```

Which failed or retried bytes count toward a per-GB bill varies by provider; the [bandwidth report's notes on reading a report](/guides/scraper-bandwidth-report#how-to-read) list what to check. A plan with a lower bandwidth price and a lower success rate can still cost more per useful GB.

## How the dataset was built

- **Inclusion rule.** A vendor is in the tables when its own public page offers a residential plan billed by Mbps, threads or ports for a period, with no per-GB meter, and the price, period and unit can be read without a login, signup or form. Pages were read as static HTML or in a fresh headless browser that clicked only public price toggles. The same rule applies to every vendor.
- **Coverage.** 15 of the 22 vendors checked on 26 September 2026 (17:52 to 18:23 UTC) met the rule, with 314 plan rows between them. Not included: [Thordata](https://www.thordata.com/pricing/unlimited-proxies) (price by quote only), [Storm Proxies](https://stormproxies.com/rotating_reverse_proxies.html) (HTTP 403 bot challenge), [Shifter](https://shifter.io/pricing/residential-proxies), Bright Data and Live Proxies (residential billed per GB), and Decodo and Webshare (static plans priced per IP).
- **Normalisation.** Mbps is megabits per second, GB is 10^9 bytes and "monthly" is 30 days. Where a page defaulted to annual billing, the month-to-month price is used. Prices are in USD as listed. 7 of the 15 vendors say their listed prices exclude tax. PrivateProxy.me's terms let it charge "applicable taxes" without saying whether prices include them, and the other 7 do not mention tax on the pages read, so 8 of the 15 do not state a tax basis. None says its prices include tax.
- **Not verified.** Pool size, IP quality, throughput, success rate, location accuracy, how fair-use clauses are enforced, whether coupons apply and the tax added at checkout. Nothing was bought, and no account, trial or form was used.

**Download.** [unlimited-proxy-cost.zip](https://ipvolt.com/downloads/unlimited-proxy-cost/unlimited-proxy-cost.zip) holds the plans with every quote behind the groupings, the reference rates, every table (results.json), a README, checksums and compute.py, a calculator that needs only the Python 3 standard library and no network:

```sh
# your plan, your per-GB rate, your GB a month and the success share from your test
python3 compute.py --price 1800 --mbps 200 --days 30 --rate 0.8 --gb 2000 --success 0.85

# a thread plan: each thread fetches a 150 kB response every 2 s
python3 compute.py --price 300 --threads 100 --bytes-per-response 150000 --seconds-per-request 2 --days 30 --rate 0.8
```

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## Sources

- [Geonode: Unlimited Residential Proxies (plans, pool, trial)](https://geonode.com/products/unlimited-residential-proxies)
- [Geonode: Refund Policy](https://geonode.com/refund-policy)
- [Geonode: Acceptable Use Policy, 6.5 Fair Use and Unlimited Plans](https://geonode.com/acceptable-use-policy)
- [Geonode: Terms and Conditions, 5.3 (renewal)](https://geonode.com/terms-and-conditions)
- [Geonode docs: Unlimited Residential Proxies overview (concurrency)](https://docs.geonode.com/docs/proxies/guides/unlimited-residential-proxies/00_unlimited_residential_proxies)
- [Geonode: Residential proxies, per-GB pricing](https://geonode.com/products/residential-proxies)
- [ProxyEmpire: Unlimited Bandwidth Residential Proxies](https://proxyempire.io/unlimited-bandwidth-residential-proxies/)
- [ProxyEmpire: Terms of Service, 6.4, 7.3 and 8.1](https://proxyempire.io/terms-of-service/)
- [ProxyEmpire: Rotating residential proxies, per-GB pricing](https://proxyempire.io/rotating-residential-proxies/)
- [711Proxy: Unlimited Proxies, high bandwidth](https://www.711proxy.com/pricing/regular/unlimited-rotating-proxies)
- [711Proxy: Unlimited Proxies, by port](https://www.711proxy.com/pricing/regular/port-rotating-proxies)
- [711Proxy: Refund Policy](https://www.711proxy.com/policy/RefundPolicy)
- [711Proxy: Terms of Service, 3(h)](https://www.711proxy.com/policy/TermsOfService)
- [711Proxy: Residential proxies per GB, Enterprise](https://www.711proxy.com/pricing/enterprise/residential-proxies-gb)
- [LokiProxy: Unlimited Residential Proxy](https://www.lokiproxy.com/product/unlimited-residential-proxy)
- [LokiProxy docs: Unlimited residential proxy (location selection)](https://docs.lokiproxy.com/configure-proxies/unlimited-residential-proxy)
- [LokiProxy: Refund Policy](https://www.lokiproxy.com/RefundPolicy.html)
- [LokiProxy: Rotating residential proxy pricing (per GB)](https://www.lokiproxy.com/pricing/rotating-residenial-proxy)
- [PrivateProxy.me: Unlimited Rotating Proxies](https://privateproxy.me/unlimited-rotating-proxies/)
- [PrivateProxy.me: Terms of Service, 6.2 and 6.3](https://privateproxy.me/terms-of-service/)
- [PrivateProxy.me: Residential rotating proxies, per-GB pricing](https://privateproxy.me/residential-rotating-proxies/)
- [Rainproxy: Unlimited Residential Proxies](https://rainproxy.io/products/unlimited-residential-proxies)
- [Rainproxy: Refund Policy](https://rainproxy.io/refund-policy)
- [Rainproxy: Terms of Service, 3 (payments and taxes)](https://rainproxy.io/terms-of-service)
- [Rainproxy: Pricing (Residential Smart per-GB bundles)](https://rainproxy.io/pricing)
- [IPcook: Buy Unlimited Proxy (pricing)](https://www.ipcook.com/pricing/buy-unlimited-proxy)
- [IPcook: Unlimited Proxy (product FAQ)](https://www.ipcook.com/product/unlimited-proxy)
- [IPcook: Refund Policy](https://www.ipcook.com/policy)
- [IPcook: Terms of Service, 2.2 and 4.2](https://www.ipcook.com/terms)
- [IPcook: Residential proxy pricing (per GB)](https://www.ipcook.com/pricing/buy-residential-proxy)
- [ScaleProxy: Pricing](https://scaleproxy.com/pricing)
- [ScaleProxy: Home page (speed floor, Proxyrack infrastructure)](https://scaleproxy.com/)
- [ScaleProxy: FAQ (fair use)](https://scaleproxy.com/faq)
- [ScaleProxy: Terms of Service, 4, 6, 7 and 8](https://scaleproxy.com/terms)
- [Proxyrack: Unmetered Residential Proxies](https://www.proxyrack.com/unmetered-residential-proxies/)
- [Proxyrack: Refund Policy](https://www.proxyrack.com/refund-policy/)
- [Proxyrack: Terms of Use (renewal)](https://www.proxyrack.com/terms-of-use/)
- [IPDeep: Unlimited residential proxy](https://www.ipdeep.com/unlimited-residential-proxy)
- [IPDeep: User Service Agreement](https://www.ipdeep.com/protocol/userService)
- [Rapidproxy: Unlimited residential proxies pricing](https://www.rapidproxy.io/unlimited-residential-proxies/pricing)
- [Rapidproxy: Terms of Service, 6.9 and 6.10](https://www.rapidproxy.io/terms_of_service)
- [Rapidproxy: Residential proxies pricing (per GB)](https://www.rapidproxy.io/residential-proxies/pricing)
- [GloryCloud: Unlimited proxies](https://www.glorycloud.com/proxy/unlimited-proxies/)
- [GloryCloud: Unlimited proxies pricing (FAQ on taxes)](https://www.glorycloud.com/pricing/unlimited-proxies/)
- [GloryCloud: Terms of Service, 6.3](https://www.glorycloud.com/terms-of-service/)
- [GloryCloud: Acceptable Use Policy, 3 Fair Use Policy](https://www.glorycloud.com/acceptable-use-policy/)
- [Lightning Proxies: Unlimited residential proxies pricing](https://lightningproxies.net/pricing/unlimited-residential-proxies)
- [Lightning Proxies: Terms of Service, 20 Refund Policy](https://lightningproxies.net/legal/terms-of-service)
- [ProxyScrape: Unlimited Residential Proxies](https://proxyscrape.com/products/unlimited-residential-proxies)
- [ProxyScrape: Terms and Conditions, 05 Pricing, 8 and 17](https://proxyscrape.com/terms-and-conditions)
- [Lumiproxy: Unlimited proxies](https://www.lumiproxy.com/proxies/unlimited/)
- [Lumiproxy: Refund Policy](https://www.lumiproxy.com/policy/)
- [Decodo: Unlimited proxies](https://decodo.com/proxies/unlimited-proxies)
- [Decodo: Fair usage policy](https://decodo.com/faq/getting-started/fair-usage-policy)
- [Webshare: Unlimited bandwidth proxies](https://www.webshare.io/features/unlimited-bandwidth-proxy)
- [Webshare: Fair usage policy](https://www.webshare.io/fair-usage-policy)
- [Bright Data: ISP proxies pricing (fair usage per IP)](https://brightdata.com/pricing/proxy-network/isp-proxies)
- [Bright Data: Unlimited Proxies (per-GB residential)](https://brightdata.com/solutions/unlimited-proxies)
- [Live Proxies: Rotating residential proxies](https://liveproxies.io/products/rotating-residential)
- [Thordata: High-Bandwidth Proxies pricing (contact sales)](https://www.thordata.com/pricing/unlimited-proxies)
- [Storm Proxies: Rotating reverse proxies (HTTP 403 on the check date)](https://stormproxies.com/rotating_reverse_proxies.html)
- [Shifter: Residential proxies pricing](https://shifter.io/pricing/residential-proxies)
- [BIPM: The International System of Units (SI Brochure), SI prefixes and the day](https://www.bipm.org/en/publications/si-brochure)
- [NIST: Prefixes for binary multiples (byte, GB and GiB)](https://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html)
- [RFC 6349: Framework for TCP Throughput Testing, section 4.1.1](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6349)

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