We don't rewrite spec sheets. We scrape at scale every day — residential pools, anti-block stacks, deep pagination — and review proxy providers from the inside. Honest scores, real trade-offs, no fluff.
1 provider tested first-hand · 5 reviewed total
formerly Smartproxy
The provider we actually reach for when a target fights back. Datacenter proxies collapsed to roughly a fifth success on hard review pages; moving those jobs to Decodo residential is what made them viable. It's since grown into a full platform — residential, ISP, mobile, datacenter, plus the lowest-priced scraping API here — which makes it our default for serious scraping without juggling vendors.
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Our day-to-day workhorse — a full data-collection platform, not just residential GB.
The enterprise heavyweight — biggest pool, deepest managed tooling, premium price.
Premium enterprise rival to Bright Data, strong on scraper APIs and now AI-search tooling.
The budget leader — now the cheapest residential AND datacenter entry, with a free tier.
Flexible mid-market all-rounder — every proxy type plus newer unblocker and video-scraper APIs.
Buying advice and roundups from real use — by use case, provider, and budget.
Most proxy "reviews" are affiliate pages written by people who never opened a terminal. Ours come from running real jobs against real anti-bot defenses.
When datacenter proxies dropped to roughly a fifth success rate on hard review pages, we didn't read about it — we watched it happen and moved the workload to residential. We run Camoufox under xvfb, handle consent walls, replay tokens for deep pagination, and rotate IPs per outlet across a residential pool. That's the lens behind every score on this site.