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9.5 / 10
SCORE Decodo Buy at Decodo Score Breakdown Usability 9.5 /10 Value 6.9 /10 Speed NaN /10 Performance 10 /10 Pros Best-in-class success rate and response time
Useful browser extension
Low pay-as-you-go prices
High-quality IP pool
Cheap mobile proxy plans Cons Expensive high-data residential plans
No city-level targeting with ISP and datacenter proxies
Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) is one of the most well-established players in the proxy server space, and it’s easy to see why. It gives you stable and fast performance, a vast and high-quality pool of proxies and plenty of features to help you reach your goals.
I’d recommend Decodo to anyone thinking about using a proxy server, but with its low pay-as-you-go prices and beginner-friendly tools, it’s especially attractive for smaller businesses and new users. (Enterprise customers will be better off with Oxylabs; you can read our review here.) It has the lowest pay-as-you-go price of any residential proxy server out there, starting at $3.50 per GB, though bulk data packages are more expensive than most competitors. Decodo’s pricing on mobile, ISP and datacenter proxies were also competitive -- just not the very cheapest out there.
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