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How we measured cost
We bought a residential package from each of 12 providers at the price listed on its website and ran the same tests through all of them on 5–8 October 2026.
- Cost per Successful Request. We recorded each provider's price per GB and read the traffic counter in each provider's dashboard on 8 October at 14:50 UTC. Cost per Successful Request = price per GB × GB used ÷ successful requests of all our tests up to that moment. We report it per 1,000 requests.
- Price as paid. The price per GB is what we paid for the package we bought, not a list price for another volume.
Limits
- Packages differ. Prices are what we paid for each package, which differ in size (from 2 GB to 50 GB), tariff and tax. ProxyEmpire's $8.47/GB includes tax ($7.00 without). Evomi's price is converted from EUR. A larger package is usually cheaper per GB.
- Counters differ. Cost per Successful Request uses each provider's own traffic counter. Counters may count traffic differently (1 GB can be 1,000 or 1,024 MB), which moves the result by a few percent.
- Your workload. Small requests make cost follow the price per GB. Heavy pages and retries change the cost per useful result.
- Raw data and scripts. The anonymized request logs, the test scripts and the results workbook are on GitHub, so every number here can be recomputed.
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