Visits and sessions

Visits and sessions, from a gigabyte

A visit is not a price. It is your page weight divided into the gigabytes you will transfer. A session is how long one exit stays, and it is still not a third invoice.

How to use it

Four steps, then confirm the live SKU

page loads = gigabytes × 1,048,576 ÷ kilobytes per page. Cost per load = rate × kilobytes ÷ 1,048,576.

01
Type the gigabytes and the per-GB rate
Use a published residential or mobile rate. Do not type an ISP or datacenter per-IP price into this box.
02
Type the kilobytes of one page load
HTML with images blocked is often a few hundred kilobytes. A full page is often more. The number is yours.
03
Type retries if you have them
Two attempts per page you count halves the successful loads. ProxyTopSite does not know your success rate. You type it, or you leave it at 1.
04
Read the session as a control
Rotating can change the exit each request. Sticky keeps one exit for minutes and still bills bytes. A static ISP lease is a different product, priced per IP.

What a session is not

Vendors sell rotating residential proxies and sticky sessions on the same per-GB meter. Sticky means the exit stays for a timer. It does not mean you bought a visit. Static residential, on this site, is the ISP lease: one address, billed per IP per month, often with a transfer cap instead of a per-GB tax.

Products billed per successful request, sometimes called unlockers, are a different SKU. They are not in this catalog, and this calculator does not invent their price.

Published rates are a snapshot. Estimates are arithmetic, not invoices. Confirm the live price, VAT and expiry with the provider before you pay.

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