A proxy pricing page is four products stacked on one screen. The hero prints the cheapest number the company is willing to say out loud. That number is often a volume floor, a coupon, or a different unit from the plan you will buy.
Name the unit before the dollar
Residential and mobile are usually dollars per gigabyte. Datacenter and ISP are usually dollars per IP per month. A page that ranks them on one ‘from’ price is not comparing products. Write the unit in the same cell as the rate, or do not write the rate.
Find the smallest plan you can buy
Decodo’s residential page is a clean example. Pay as you go is $4 per GB plus VAT. The smallest subscription is 3 GB at $3.75. The $2 line is enterprise volume. If you price the vendor at $2, you priced a plan you have not qualified for.
Oxylabs is the opposite shape. The cited public entry is a subscription, about $30 for 5 GB. The terabyte floor is a different rung. Bright Data prints an $8 list and a coupon that often shows $4. Both numbers are true. Only one of them is the list.
Expiry, VAT, KYC
- Expiry: a cheap monthly gigabyte that dies is not cheaper than a pack you still have.
- VAT: several European stickers exclude it. Your card will not.
- KYC: Bright Data residential does not start when you want it to. A closed door has no rate.
- Pool size: ‘100 million IPs’ is a vendor sentence. It is not a test.
What we refuse to fill in
If two write-ups disagree and the vendor page is ambiguous, ProxyTopSite leaves the cell as Quote. That happened with some residential grids and with vendors whose public entry moves behind a form. A complete table of guessed numbers is worse than a short table.
Orange “Open” buttons can be affiliate. They do not change the editorial order. Confirm the live rate before you pay.