Mid-market proxies without enterprise friction
Key takeaways
from our research
Roughly half the per-GB cost of the enterprise leaders
Success rates within a few points on ordinary targets
Self-serve signup with no KYC queue before testing
Smaller pool shows on the most heavily defended targets
Our verdict
Decodo is the sensible middle of this category, and for most teams the middle is the right place to be. Residential traffic at roughly half Bright Data's per-gigabyte rate, a dashboard you can operate without a solutions engineer, and self-serve signup with no KYC queue before you can test anything.
Performance in our testing was solid: success rates within a few points of the leaders on ordinary targets and falling behind only on the most heavily defended one. For competitive price monitoring, SEO rank checking, ad verification and the general run of collection work, that difference is immaterial and the cost saving is not.
The rebrand from Smartproxy in 2025 caused some confusion and a few of our reviewers report documentation and integration links that took time to catch up. Support is good but business-hours-weighted rather than genuinely 24/7 at lower tiers, and the pool is smaller than the leaders' — which shows on the hardest targets.
Our guidance: the default recommendation for small and mid-sized teams doing real collection work. Move up to Bright Data or Oxylabs only when a specific target defeats you or compliance documentation becomes a requirement.
Written by Maya Krishnan · Edited by Daniel Ross
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Category LeaderBest success rates and compliance for large-scale data collection
Capabilities
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Pricing
Decodo's paid plans start at $0.50/month — below the $1.20 median of the 5 Proxy Services tools we track. You can test it on a 3-day free trial.
Value for money 4.7/5per GB, no commitment
from, per month, ~$3.50/GB at volume
or $28/mo billed monthly
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or $12/mo billed monthly
Pricing fact-checked August 25, 2026 · source: vendor pricing page · see the full breakdown
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Reviews
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Tom B.
Engineering Manager · SaaS · 51–200 employees
July 14, 2026
Used daily for 1–2 years
We monitor competitor pricing across about 40,000 product pages a day. Decodo handles it at roughly half what the enterprise vendors quoted, and I set it up in an afternoon without a sales call.
David K.Validated Reviewer
CTO · SaaS · 11–50 employees
May 29, 2026
Used weekly for 1–2 years
Half my bookmarks broke and some integration docs still referenced the old name months later. The service never changed and the confusion was avoidable. Minor, but it cost me an afternoon.
Ethan K.
Account Executive · SaaS · 11–50 employees
April 21, 2026
Used daily for 2+ years
I expected to outgrow it and move to an enterprise provider. Two years later our volume has tripled and it still works. The enterprise tier solves problems we have not encountered.
Sources & methodology
Product information sourced from Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)'s public content (Lithuania); pricing verified August 25, 2026. Reviews are first-party and moderated. How we test and rate tools
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