Proxy Grove vs Decodo: Per-IP Unlimited or Pay-per-GB

This article is a factual comparison. It is not an affiliation, a speed test, or legal advice. Proxy Grove sells Mobile, Residential, and Corporate on Pricing. Decodo (the current brand; the site footer still says formerly smartproxy.com) sells proxy networks and related tooling. Follow applicable law and each site’s terms.

Teams comparing Proxy Grove vs Decodo are usually choosing a meter. Decodo’s public residential catalog is billed per gigabyte, with monthly GB buckets and a pay-as-you-go option. Proxy Grove’s published Unlimited plans are billed per IP per day (1, 7, 30, or 90 days), with traffic included on those plans subject to fair use. If you still search “Smartproxy vs Proxy Grove,” that is this page: same company, new name.

If you already run Decodo for a rotating residential pool, browser extensions, or a GB-based scrape, this page will not tell you to delete that account. It will tell you when allocated per-IP unlimited egress is a better fit, and when Decodo’s GB pool is the better fit.

What each company actually sells

Decodo’s public residential pricing page (21 August 2026) markets 115M+ ethically sourced IPs in 195+ locations, HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, continent/country/state/city/ZIP and ASN targeting, rotating and sticky sessions, a sub-0.5s average response time, a 99.92% success rate, and 99.99% uptime. They also publish Chrome and Firefox proxy add-ons with residential plans and a large integrations list (browsers, FoxyProxy, SwitchyOmega, and more). Treat pool size, success rate, and uptime as vendor claims. We have not measured them.

Their site also sells other proxy types (the fresh-proxies hub lists residential and mobile per GB, and ISP/datacenter with per-GB and per-IP options). We are comparing the residential GB product they price in public, not every SKU they sell.

Proxy Grove publishes three proxy SKUs plus Enterprise custom: Residential, Mobile 4G/5G, and Corporate. HTTP and SOCKS5 are included on published Unlimited plans. Sticky or rotating is a plan setting. Country targeting is the public geo model. We do not publish a 115M IP pool figure, ZIP/ASN targeting on public SKUs, or a browser-extension marketplace. If the job is “rotate through a large shared residential pool and pay for GB,” Decodo’s product is built for that. If the job is “give me N IPs in this country for a rank tracker, browser profile, or httpx client,” Proxy Grove is built for that.

How the money works

Decodo residential, Regular public grid (decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies/pricing, 21 August 2026). Totals are listed plus VAT, billed monthly:

• 3 GB at $3.75/GB ($11.25)
• 10 GB at $3.50/GB ($35)
• 25 GB at $3.25/GB ($81.25), marked popular
• 50 GB at $3.00/GB ($150)
• 100 GB at $2.75/GB ($275)
• Pay as you go at $4.00/GB

The same page headlines residential “starting at just $2/GB” and later “from just $2/GB, no coupon needed.” That headline is not the 3 GB Regular card. We did not treat $2/GB as the self-serve entry rate. Confirm the Enterprise or custom tab in their dashboard if you were quoted $2/GB. They also publish a 3-day free trial on residential and a 14-day money-back line on that pricing page.

Proxy Grove Unlimited (proxygrove.com/pricing/, 21 August 2026):

• Residential from $2/IP/day
• Corporate from $2/IP/day
• Mobile from $4.50/IP/day
• Durations 1 / 7 / 30 / 90 days
• Traffic on those plans is not billed per GB. Fair use still applies.
• HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5, sticky or rotating

Worked examples, not promises:

1. Sticky SEO, 4 residential IPs, 30 days, heavy pages. Proxy Grove: 4 × $2 × 30 = $120, traffic on the plan. Decodo: GB × rate. At the 25 GB / $3.25 card, 25 GB is $81.25 plus VAT. If the same job pulls 80 GB, you are off that card and into a higher bucket or PAYG at $4/GB. The meter decides.

2. One-off 8 GB rotating sample. Decodo PAYG at $4/GB is $32 plus VAT, or the 10 GB monthly card at $35. Proxy Grove unlimited IPs are the wrong shape if you only need a few gigabytes through a huge shared pool and you do not need a sticky identity for a month.

3. Wide crawl, 400 GB. Decodo’s public Regular cards stop at 100 GB in the table we loaded. You would use their Enterprise/custom path or multiple top-ups. Their 115M+ pool claim is aimed at that shape. Proxy Grove unlimited IPs are a poor match if you need millions of rotating addresses rather than a handful of allocated IPs.

We do not publish a 115M IP figure. Decodo publishes 195+ locations; Proxy Grove publishes 246 countries and regions. Those are different counting methods.

Sessions, targeting, and tools

Both vendors describe sticky and rotating sessions. On Proxy Grove that is a plan/endpoint setting. Do not invent a second rotating-proxies URL; use rotating proxies.

Decodo markets city, ZIP, and ASN targeting on residential. Proxy Grove’s public location library is country-level (see Switzerland residential proxies and the rest of the unique country set). If the SOP is “this ZIP or ASN,” Decodo’s published targeting is the closer match. If the SOP is “this country, sticky, then rotate,” either vendor can fit; billing still decides.

HTTP vs SOCKS5: Decodo’s residential pricing page states HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 support. Proxy Grove includes both on Mobile, Residential, and Corporate Unlimited. For the protocol trade-off, use SOCKS5 vs HTTP. For identity, use residential vs datacenter. Decodo also sells ISP and datacenter; we do not sell a public datacenter SKU.

Decodo publishes first-party Chrome and Firefox extensions with residential subscriptions. Proxy Grove does not ship a browser extension. If your operators live in a Chrome proxy extension, that is a Decodo workflow. If they already use AdsPower, a rank tracker, or Python, an extension is optional.

Onboarding

Decodo’s residential pricing page emphasizes a 3-day free trial and a 14-day money-back line. We did not load a public all-customer KYC policy comparable to Oxylabs’ “75% approved” page or Bright Data’s residential-only KYC docs. Confirm current onboarding, identity checks, and restricted targets in their dashboard and help center. Do not assume “free trial” means every use case is allowed.

Proxy Grove checkout is self-serve at app.proxygrove.com. Self-serve is not a claim that we skip abuse controls. It is a claim that published Unlimited plans start from a wallet top-up without a GB commit.

For the other GB-platform comparisons see Proxy Grove vs Bright Data and Proxy Grove vs Oxylabs. Those pages cover unlockers and scraper APIs that Decodo may or may not match SKU-for-SKU. This page stays on the residential GB meter vs per-IP unlimited.

When Decodo is the better fit

Keep or choose Decodo when most of these are true:

• You want a large shared residential pool and you think in GB, including a 3 GB or PAYG start.
• You need city / ZIP / ASN targeting they advertise.
• You want their Chrome or Firefox proxy add-on bundled with the plan.
• You want a 3-day trial before a monthly GB bucket.
• You already know the product as Smartproxy and your runbooks still use that name.

Those are real jobs. Proxy Grove does not replace a 115M-class rotating pool or their extension.

When Proxy Grove is the better fit

Choose Proxy Grove when most of these are true:

• You want N known IPs for SEO, ad QA, localization, or storefront checks.
• Unlimited traffic on the plan matters because sessions are heavy (screenshots, long sticky windows).
• You want HTTP and SOCKS5 on the same SKU family without assembling a GB bucket.
• You want to start from $2/IP on published Residential/Corporate day plans.
• You already have Python, a rank tracker, or a browser profile tool and only need egress.

Use residential, mobile, or corporate. Async Python jobs should use httpx and asyncio, not a second requests tutorial.

You can use both

A common setup: Decodo GB rotating residential for wide public collection; Proxy Grove IPs for sticky local QA. Matching meters to jobs is not “migration.”

Before you switch either way, list sticky vs rotating, country list, estimated GB per month, IP count, and HTTP vs SOCKS5. Price the same workflow on both meters, including Decodo VAT. Confirm protocol and targeting in each dashboard. Confirm what you are not buying. If you need ZIP-level targeting or their browser extension, Proxy Grove is the wrong cart. If you need allocated unlimited IPs, a GB bucket is the wrong cart.

Sources (21 August 2026)

• https://decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies/pricing
• https://decodo.com/proxies/residential-proxies
• https://decodo.com/proxies
• https://proxygrove.com/pricing/

Decodo and Smartproxy are trademarks of their owners. Proxy Grove is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Decodo. Names are used only to identify the products compared, including the former Smartproxy brand.