Nine providers below sell rotating residential traffic by the gigabyte. Proxies.Vision and DataImpulse both charge $1 per GB at everyday volumes and neither lets traffic expire, yet a buyer who needs 2 GB three times in six months pays $1.00 per used gigabyte at the first and $9.17 at the second. Prices verified in November 2026.
The short answer, if that is all you need:
- A single gigabyte without a subscription: Proxies.Vision, Thordata, Proxy Seller and Geonix.
- Traffic that does not expire: Proxies.Vision, DataImpulse and 2extract. NodeMaven rolls unused traffic over on its monthly plans.
- Lowest cost per used gigabyte in all five buyer profiles we modelled: Proxies.Vision at $1.00, crypto only. Paying by card, Thordata suits small irregular needs and DataImpulse steady volume.
Who sells residential traffic by the gigabyte
How each provider bills, how little you may buy and how long what you bought stays alive. These terms are also the inputs of our calculation further down.
| Provider | Billing model | Minimum purchase | Traffic life |
|---|---|---|---|
| NodeMaven | Monthly plan | $8.50 | Unused traffic rolls over |
| Proxy Seller | Volume packages, no monthly lock-in | 1 GB | 30 days |
| Proxyscrape | Volume packages by term | 5 GB | 30 days, non-expiry term offered |
| Thordata | Volume packages | 1 GB | 30 days |
| Geonix | Pay-as-you-go | 1 GB | 30 days |
| Webshare | Monthly subscription | Plan size | Billing month |
| 2extract | Pay-as-you-go balance | $10 deposit | Balance does not expire, void after 12 months of inactivity |
| DataImpulse | Prepaid traffic | $5 first order, then $50 | Never expires, rolls over |
| Proxies.Vision | Pay-as-you-go, crypto only | 1 GB ($1) | Never expires |
What a used gigabyte really costs
The rate on a pricing page is the price of a gigabyte you buy. What you really pay is the price of a gigabyte you use, and minimum purchase, traffic expiry and rollover move it further than any volume discount does. So we modelled six months of purchases at each provider for five typical buyers: a little now and then, a small steady amount, occasional mid-sized bursts, a flat monthly load, and one big project.
Each cell is the cost of one used gigabyte over the whole six months. The rules of the calculation are in How we calculated this at the end. If you only need the lowest rate at 10 GB, 100 GB and 1 TB, that comparison is in Cheap Residential Proxies.
| Provider | A, light and irregular | B, steady small | C, irregular mid | D, steady | E, one project |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 GB in months 1, 3, 5 | 5 GB every month | 20 GB in months 1, 2, 4 | 50 GB every month | 100 GB once | |
| NodeMaven | $4.25 | $4.00 | $3.75 | $3.18 | $3.00 |
| Proxy Seller | $3.50 | $3.00 | $2.50 | $2.30 | $2.20 |
| Proxyscrape | $7.12 | $2.85 | $2.65 | $2.65 | $2.20 |
| Thordata | $2.00 | $2.00 | $1.80 | $1.50 | $1.00 |
| Geonix | $3.00 | $2.30 | $2.20 | $2.10 | $1.80 |
| Webshare | $3.50 | $3.50 | $2.75 | $2.45 | $2.25 |
| 2extract | $5.00 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 | $3.99 |
| DataImpulse | $9.17 | $1.83 | $1.17 | $1.00 | $1.00 |
| Proxies.Vision | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 | $1.00 |
The same provider can be cheap or expensive depending on how you buy. DataImpulse moves from $1.00 to $9.17 per used gigabyte without changing a single price on its page, and Proxyscrape from $2.20 to $7.12. What drives it is waste: on the lightest profile Proxyscrape burns 9 GB of expired traffic and DataImpulse parks 49 GB that you only get back if you come back.
The same rate can produce a ninefold different gigabyte
Up to a few hundred gigabytes DataImpulse and Proxies.Vision charge the same $1 per GB, and neither lets traffic expire. The only difference is the smallest top-up. DataImpulse takes $5 for the first order and $50 for every order after it, while Proxies.Vision sells a single gigabyte.
So profile A pays $55 at DataImpulse, uses 6 GB and shows $9.17 per used gigabyte. At Proxies.Vision the same buyer pays $6. The 49 GB left at DataImpulse are frozen money, not lost money, and if you keep coming back they eventually get spent.
Minimum purchase and expiry only hurt together
Thordata, Proxy Seller and Geonix let you buy a single gigabyte. When you can buy exactly what you need, a 30-day validity window costs you nothing, and profile A pays the plain rate: $2.00, $3.50 and $3.00 respectively.
Proxyscrape starts at 5 GB for 30 days. The same 6 GB buyer therefore pays for 15 GB across three separate months, burns 9 of them and reaches $7.12 per used gigabyte while the rate itself is nowhere near that.
The two halves of the trap show up separately in the table. DataImpulse has the big minimum without the clock and ends up with frozen money. Proxyscrape has a smaller minimum with the clock and ends up with burned money. Proxies.Vision has neither, which is why its number never moves.
At a steady volume the billing model stops mattering
Profile D buys 50 GB every month, never wastes a byte and never needs rollover. If your load is flat, stop comparing billing models and compare rates: Proxies.Vision and DataImpulse at $1.00 against 2extract at $3.99 is a fourfold difference for the same job.
The chart shows list rates at three volume steps. 2extract and Proxies.Vision keep one flat rate at every step, and NodeMaven is missing because it has no 250-350 GB step. At 1,000 GB a flat rate loses its edge: Thordata, Geonix and DataImpulse all go below the $1 of Proxies.Vision.
If your monthly volume has grown past the point where any per-GB grid looks sane, that is a signal to price unlimited residential plans instead, which are a different product sold on different terms.
What you are billed for is not always what you used
Every calculation above assumes the counter measures your bytes honestly, and buyers do not always trust it. One DataImpulse reviewer on Trustpilot wrote that data felt like it burned very fast, and a Reddit user found Webshare's usage tracking hard to trust over time. Compare the dashboard counter with your own logs in the first week.
Failed requests, by contrast, barely matter. Among the five providers here that we measure ourselves, NodeMaven, Proxy Seller, Thordata, 2extract and Proxies.Vision, success sat between 98% and 100% in the latest runs, so retries add no more than 2% to the price of a gigabyte. Our numbers and method are on the benchmark page.
Where this market sits
Our catalog holds 74 providers selling rotating residential traffic on a per-GB grid. 33 of them will sell you a single gigabyte, and 15 refuse any order under 10 GB.
The median minimum ticket across the market is $6, and the median price of one gigabyte is $3.90. Buy 100 GB and the median rate falls to $2.20.
Volume discounts are shallower than the marketing implies. The median gigabyte at 1,000 GB is 1.74 times cheaper than at 10 GB, and 9 providers move their price by less than 15% across that whole range. For those nine there is no reason to buy ahead of what you need.
Which provider fits which profile
Proxies.Vision is the cheapest or tied for cheapest in every profile at $1.00, as long as you can pay in crypto. The rest of this section is for buyers who pay by card.
For profile A take Thordata or Geonix. Both sell a single gigabyte, so nothing burns and nothing freezes, and you pay what the page says you will pay.
For profiles B and C, DataImpulse comes first at $1.83 and $1.17 and Thordata second at $2.00 and $1.80. DataImpulse only makes sense here if you accept parking $50 at a time, which is fine for a recurring workload and painful for a one-off.
For profiles D and E DataImpulse holds $1.00, and Thordata matches it on the single 100 GB project. On that project the table runs from $1.00 to $3.99 at 2extract, four times apart.
This calculation is about price, not quality. The cheapest provider in one profile is not the best provider overall, and our rotating residential rating weighs things the money model says nothing about.
Provider notes
What moves each provider's number. The calculation uses plan prices. Payment minimums below come from our own crypto checkouts on 20 October 2026, and where paying in crypto raises the floor, we say so.
NodeMaven
Official website: https://nodemaven.com/
Rollover means nothing is wasted, but the rate is among the highest here, from $4.25 per used gigabyte for the light buyer to $3.00 on a single project. The smallest crypto payment was $8.50. There is no money-back guarantee, only a pro-rated refund for traffic you have not used, so the $3.50 paid trial is the cheaper way to test.
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, ISP Proxies
Pool of IPs
30M+ IP
Date established
2023
Headquarters
Estonia
Pros & Cons
- Paid test for $3.50
- Up to 48% cheaper per GB at volume
- With monthly plans, unused traffic is carried over to the next month
- Pay-as-you-go option available
- Limited payment methods
Proxy Seller
Official website: https://proxy-seller.com/
Sells from 1 GB with no subscription, so the 30-day clock rarely costs anything and every profile pays close to the published rate. The crypto minimum was $5. Verification, when triggered, can ask for passport scans and a live video check.
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, Individual IPv6 Proxies, ISP Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
47M+ IP
Date established
2014
Headquarters
Cyprus
Pros & Cons
- 24-hour refund window
- Up to 63% cheaper per GB at volume
- 8 proxy types in one account
- SDKs: PHP, Python, Node.js, Java, GoLang
- 24/7 support
Proxyscrape
Official website: https://proxyscrape.com/
The 5 GB floor with a 30-day life decides everything: $7.12 for the light buyer, $2.20 on a single project. A non-expiry term exists, but its price is not published, so it is not in the calculation.
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
120M+ IP
Date established
2018
Headquarters
Belgium
Pros & Cons
- Free trial
- 3-day refund window
- Up to 60% cheaper per GB at volume
- Unlimited-traffic residential plans
- Large IP pool (120M+)
- Short refund window with conditions
- Unlimited datacenter plans still meter traffic
- Identity verification may be required
- Banned premium proxies are not replaced
Thordata
Official website: https://thordata.com/
Sells from 1 GB and keeps getting cheaper with volume. Traffic lives 30 days, which costs nothing when the order can be this small. Paying in crypto changes that: a plan starts at $5, so a 2 GB need becomes a 3 GB order and profile A rises to $3.00. One Trustpilot buyer received a different country than the one ordered.
Thordata
https://thordata.com/
$0.65/GB
Proxy Type
Residential Proxies
Pool of IPs
100M+ IP
Date established
2018
Headquarters
Hong Kong
Pros & Cons
- Free trial
- Refunds available
- Up to 68% cheaper per GB at volume
- Sticky sessions up to 90 minutes
- ASN targeting
- Slow first request in our test
- Trial only on request via support
- No SOCKS5 for residential proxies
Geonix
Official website: https://geonix.com/
Pay-as-you-go from 1 GB at $3.00, with nothing to burn and nothing to park. Its crypto checkout matched Proxy Seller's, with the same $5 minimum. Refunds for faulty proxies are the common complaint on Trustpilot.
Geonix
https://geonix.com/
$0.55/GB
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, Individual IPv6 Proxies, ISP Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
15M+ IP
Date established
2019
Headquarters
Bulgaria
Pros & Cons
- Paid test for $1.99
- 24-hour refund window
- Up to 82% cheaper per GB at volume
- 7 proxy types in one account
- The website design has many bugs
Webshare
Official website: https://webshare.io/
Discounts arrive late, so profiles A and B both pay $3.50. A refund needs cancellation within two days and under 0.1 GB of use, so test on the free tier instead: 10 proxies and up to 1 GB a month without a card. One Reddit user found its usage tracking hard to trust, which matters when you pay by the byte.
Webshare
https://webshare.io/
$1.40/GB
Proxy Type
Residential Proxies, ISP Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
80M+ IP
Date established
2018
Headquarters
United States
Pros & Cons
- Free trial
- 2-day refund window
- Up to 60% cheaper per GB at volume
- 5 proxy types in one account
- 10 free proxies provided
- Minimum purchase of 20 IPs (inconvenient for personal use)
2extract
Official website: https://2extract.com/
One flat rate of $3.99 per GB, paid from a balance that starts at a $10 deposit. That makes it the most expensive per used gigabyte from profile C up, and the $10 floor lifts the light buyer to $5.00. The balance does not burn at the end of the month, 2extract can void it only after 12 months of inactivity. Top-ups of $50 or more need KYC, and a volume price from $0.70 per GB is available only on request.
2extract
https://2extract.com/
$3.99/GB
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies
Pool of IPs
10M+ IP
Date established
2025
Headquarters
Singapore
Pros & Cons
- Pay-as-you-go balance that does not expire
- Residential and mobile traffic from one balance
- Targeting by city, ZIP code or ASN
- Access points with their own limits
- KYC for top-ups of $50 or more
- Mobile slower than residential in our test
- Monthly plans not available yet
- New provider with a limited track record
DataImpulse
Official website: https://dataimpulse.com/
A $1 rate up to 350 GB with no expiry gives $1.00 per used gigabyte at steady volume. The catch is the $50 minimum after a $5 first order, which is why the light buyer reads $9.17 with 49 GB parked.
DataImpulse
https://dataimpulse.com/
$0.80–$1.00/GB
Proxy Type
Mobile Proxies, Residential Proxies, Datacenter Proxies
Pool of IPs
90M+ IP
Date established
2023
Headquarters
United States
Pros & Cons
- Refund within up to 7 days
- Up to 20% cheaper per GB at volume
- State/City/Zip/ASN Targeting
- Pay-as-you-go (traffic does not expire)
- No free trial
Proxies.Vision
Official website: https://proxies.vision/
One flat rate of $1 per GB from a single gigabyte up, with no tiers and no expiry, so every profile pays exactly $1.00 per used gigabyte. Payment is crypto only and there is no KYC. In our own latest run 99.5% of requests went through.
Proxy Type
Residential Proxies
Pool of IPs
90M+ IP
Date established
2026
Headquarters
Singapore
Pros & Cons
- Same price per GB at any volume, packages from 1 GB
- Bandwidth never expires
- No KYC and no documents at signup
- Simple dashboard with a ready list generator
- Reseller portal with sub-users and API
- Crypto is the only payment method
- Targeting by country and city only, no ISP choice
- No refunds and no free trial
- Rotating residential only
How we calculated this
- Each simulated buyer tops up only what the next month requires, by the cheapest route the provider actually offers, and spends the traffic that expires soonest first.
- Traffic sold with a term dies one month after purchase. Traffic sold without one stays in the account and counts as reserve, not loss.
- Prices come from our catalog grid, checked against provider sites in November 2026.
- Minimums are enforced as the providers enforce them. DataImpulse takes 5 GB for the first order and $50 after that. Proxyscrape starts at 5 GB. 2extract starts from a $10 deposit, Proxies.Vision from 1 GB. 2extract's volume price is quoted only on request, so it is not in the calculation.
- Proxyscrape's non-expiry term was left out because its price is not published. NodeMaven was priced at its current discounted rates.
One honest limit: a real buyer does not know next quarter's volume. Pick the profile that matches your worst month rather than your average one, because the trap in this market is always the purchase you were forced to make, not the one you planned.
Sources
- DataImpulse: Buy Residential Proxies - $1 per 1 GB (checked November 2026)
- Proxies.Vision: Pricing (checked November 2026)
- 2extract: Terms of Service (checked November 2026)
- Webshare: Proxy Pricing - Datacenter, ISP & Rotating Residential Plans Compared (checked November 2026)
FAQ
- Which residential proxies can I pay for as I go, without a subscription?
- Among the nine here: Proxies.Vision, Thordata, Proxy Seller and Geonix sell from a single gigabyte, 2extract from a $10 balance and DataImpulse from a $5 first order. NodeMaven and Webshare bill monthly plans.
- Does paid residential proxy traffic expire?
- It depends on the seller. Thordata, Proxy Seller and Geonix traffic lives 30 days and Proxyscrape sells fixed terms, while DataImpulse, Proxies.Vision and 2extract keep unused traffic or balance with no monthly expiry. Confirm this before you top up, not after.
- Is pay-as-you-go or a monthly subscription cheaper?
- At a steady volume it hardly matters. On 50 GB a month the model changes almost nothing while the grid changes everything: $1.00 at Proxies.Vision and DataImpulse against $3.99 at 2extract for the same traffic. Pay-as-you-go wins when your usage is lumpy.
- Can I buy just 1 GB of residential proxies?
- Yes, from 33 of the 74 providers in our catalog that publish a per-GB grid. Among the nine here, Proxies.Vision, Thordata, Proxy Seller and Geonix sell a single gigabyte, at $1.00, $2.00, $3.50 and $3.00.
- What is the usual minimum order on this market?
- The median minimum ticket is $6, but 15 providers will not take an order under 10 GB. The median price of one gigabyte is $3.90.
- Why does DataImpulse cost $9.17 per used gigabyte for a light buyer at a $1 rate?
- Because after the $5 first order every top-up is $50. A buyer who needs 6 GB over six months pays $55 and keeps 49 GB unused. Nothing expires, so the money is frozen rather than lost.
- Do blocked requests make the real price much higher?
- Not on these providers. Among the five of them we measured, success ran between 98% and 100%, so retries add at most 2% to the cost of a gigabyte. Minimum orders and expiry cost far more than failures do.
