Proxy pricing: per GB, per IP, or per period

What each model is actually charging for

• Per GB: charging for traffic. You pay for what you move, and stopping the job stops the meter. Standard for rotating residential
• Per IP × lease: charging for holding one fixed IP over time. Throughput does not change the bill. Standard for static residential and datacenter
• Per period: charging for fixed bandwidth over a window. Nobody counts GB, but bandwidth is capped

Start from the shape of your traffic

Only two variables decide this: total traffic per unit time, and how many distinct IPs you need online at once.

High traffic, few IPs needed leans per IP or per period. Low traffic across many IPs leans per GB. Both high and you need to run the numbers, and the answer is usually a mix.

An estimate you can actually run

Run one real day of work and record three numbers: actual GB consumed, peak concurrency, and the share of requests that were blocked and retried. Measure, do not guess — guesses are usually off by an order of magnitude, especially before you disable images and fonts.

Then plug them in: per-GB cost equals daily GB times unit price times days; per-IP cost equals IPs needed times lease price. Take the lower one. Remember that retries burn traffic too, so a high block rate quietly inflates the per-GB side.

Costs people forget to count

• Failed requests still consume billable traffic, so block rate multiplies the per-GB bill
• Unfiltered images, video, and fonts can several-times your traffic
• A leased IP keeps costing money after the job stops, so short projects want short leases
• Whether traffic bundles expire, and whether the remainder is forfeited

Ignore the "from" price on the homepage

Nearly every provider advertises the cheapest tier, which is the largest bundle. The tier you will actually buy usually costs more per unit.

Open the full price table and find the tier matching your real volume. NextProxy reads its price cards straight from the live catalog, and the pricing page shows the real unit price for each tier.