Proxy Fundamentals
Unlimited Bandwidth Proxies, Billed per IP
Pay per IP per day, not per gigabyte. Residential and Corporate from $2. Mobile from $4.50. Fair use applies.
On 16 October 2026, searches for unlimited bandwidth residential proxies did not return Decodo, IPRoyal, or Webshare in the first results we loaded. Those companies lead “buy residential proxies” with per-gigabyte pools. The unlimited results were a different product: TrueProxies selling speed by the hour, PrivateProxy selling a flat monthly channel from $2,499, Bart Proxies selling static ISP proxies from $1 per IP, and DataImpulse explaining that “unlimited” often means a per-IP ISP or datacenter plan rather than a rotating residential pool.
Proxy Grove sits in the per-IP group. You rent Mobile, Residential, or Corporate IPs for a number of days. The published plans do not add a gigabyte line to the invoice. Proxy Grove publishes Unlimited plans for three products. Residential and Corporate start at $2 per IP per day. Mobile starts at $4.50 per IP per day. Durations are 1, 7, 30, or 90 days. Traffic on those plans is not billed per gigabyte. Fair use still applies, which means a plan is not a promise of infinite concurrency or a waiver of the acceptable-use rules. The pricing page is the only source for the current rate.
That is not the same sentence as “unlimited rotating residential IPs with no fair use.” Bright Data’s ISP pricing page, loaded the same day, includes a 100 GB fair-use allowance per IP even on a plan titled unlimited. Decodo’s ISP help page describes a fair-use rule above 10 TB and 25 GB per IP. Proxy Grove also says fair use applies. Read that as a limit on abuse and on extreme concurrency, not as a hidden per-GB price.
Who this pricing is for
Per-IP pricing fits a job that holds a small number of exits and moves a lot of bytes through them: a rank tracker on four sticky IPs, a media QA browser, a price monitor that downloads full HTML, or an ad check that loads heavy creatives. The bill is IPs times days times the day rate.
Per-GB pricing fits a job that needs a very large shared pool and little data per IP: a one-off sample, a ZIP or ASN target, or a crawl that must look like millions of different home connections. Decodo’s public residential cards on the comparison we already published run from about $2.75 to $4 per GB depending on the bucket. If you only need 8 GB once, buying a month of dedicated IPs is the wrong shape.
A worked example, not a quote: 4 residential IPs for 30 days is 4 × $2 × 30 = $240, whatever the page weight, until fair use. The same 30 days at 20 GB per day is 600 GB. At $3 per GB, which is inside the public range competitors were showing on 16 October 2026, that is $1,800. At 1 GB per day the per-GB bill is $90 and the per-IP bill is still $240, so the gigabyte plan is cheaper. Use the calculator and type the rate from the vendor page you are actually comparing.
What we do not claim
We do not publish an IP-pool size in the hundreds of millions. We do not publish a success rate for this page beyond the figure already on the homepage, and we do not treat vendor uptime claims on other sites as measurements of Proxy Grove. We do not sell a datacenter SKU or a ZIP-level product on the public catalog.
Country coverage is the public location library. City targeting exists only where a product says so. HTTP and SOCKS5 are settings on the three plans, not extra products.
How to choose
Count IPs, not gigabytes, first. If the workflow is “N browsers or N workers, each with its own exit, all month,” start with Residential at $2 or Mobile at $4.50. If the workflow is “as many different addresses as possible, a few megabytes each,” start with a per-GB provider and keep Proxy Grove only for the sticky identities.
Then open the calculator, the pricing page, and one comparison: Decodo if you are looking at a GB pool, IPRoyal if you are looking at non-expiring traffic, Webshare if you are looking at their residential GB rate. Those pages state where the other company is the better fit.
Six situations with the arithmetic written out
2 residential IPs, 1 day, 5 GB. Proxy Grove side: 2 x $2 = $4. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: 5 x $3 = $15. Reading: per-IP is cheaper. These figures use the published Proxy Grove day rates of $2 for Residential and Corporate and $4.50 for Mobile. The gigabyte rates are illustrations inside the public ranges we saw on 16 October 2026, not a current invoice from Decodo, IPRoyal, Webshare, Evomi, Oxylabs, or Bright Data.
2 residential IPs, 1 day, 0.4 GB. Proxy Grove side: 2 x $2 = $4. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: 0.4 x $4 = $1.60. Reading: per-GB is cheaper. These figures use the published Proxy Grove day rates of $2 for Residential and Corporate and $4.50 for Mobile. The gigabyte rates are illustrations inside the public ranges we saw on 16 October 2026, not a current invoice from Decodo, IPRoyal, Webshare, Evomi, Oxylabs, or Bright Data.
10 residential IPs, 30 days, 15 GB/day. Proxy Grove side: 10 x $2 x 30 = $600. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: 450 GB x $2.75 = $1,237.50. Reading: per-IP is cheaper. These figures use the published Proxy Grove day rates of $2 for Residential and Corporate and $4.50 for Mobile. The gigabyte rates are illustrations inside the public ranges we saw on 16 October 2026, not a current invoice from Decodo, IPRoyal, Webshare, Evomi, Oxylabs, or Bright Data.
1 mobile IP, 7 days, 3 GB/day. Proxy Grove side: 1 x $4.50 x 7 = $31.50. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: 21 GB x $3.50 = $73.50. Reading: per-IP is cheaper. These figures use the published Proxy Grove day rates of $2 for Residential and Corporate and $4.50 for Mobile. The gigabyte rates are illustrations inside the public ranges we saw on 16 October 2026, not a current invoice from Decodo, IPRoyal, Webshare, Evomi, Oxylabs, or Bright Data.
1 residential IP, 90 days, 0.2 GB/day. Proxy Grove side: 1 x $2 x 90 = $180. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: 18 GB x $3.25 = $58.50. Reading: per-GB is cheaper. These figures use the published Proxy Grove day rates of $2 for Residential and Corporate and $4.50 for Mobile. The gigabyte rates are illustrations inside the public ranges we saw on 16 October 2026, not a current invoice from Decodo, IPRoyal, Webshare, Evomi, Oxylabs, or Bright Data.
6 corporate IPs, 30 days, 8 GB/day. Proxy Grove side: 6 x $2 x 30 = $360. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: 240 GB. Public GB cards we loaded stopped at 100 GB, so this needs an enterprise quote. Reading: per-IP is predictable. These figures use the published Proxy Grove day rates of $2 for Residential and Corporate and $4.50 for Mobile. The gigabyte rates are illustrations inside the public ranges we saw on 16 October 2026, not a current invoice from Decodo, IPRoyal, Webshare, Evomi, Oxylabs, or Bright Data.
Log the byte count from the client, not from a feeling. In Python, response.headers.get('content-length') is a start, and len(response.content) is the body you actually received. Add the request size if you upload files. Multiply by runs per day, then by days. Put that gigabyte total in the calculator with the IP count. If fair use would stop the job, the cheap arithmetic is irrelevant. Ask support before you commit a large concurrency number.
Keep the endpoint secret out of the repository. A host, port, username, and password from the dashboard is enough for requests or httpx. Select SOCKS5 only in a client that speaks SOCKS5. Select HTTP for requests, curl -x, and most SEO tools. After the first successful response, confirm the exit country matches the country you set, then increase the run.