Proxy Fundamentals
Unlimited Proxies for Price Monitoring
A price check that fetches a small HTML page a few times a day is often cheaper on a gigabyte plan. A check that loads the full page, images, and variants
A price check that fetches a small HTML page a few times a day is often cheaper on a gigabyte plan. A check that loads the full page, images, and variants on a schedule can flip the math. Write down the bytes per run before you pick a meter.
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.
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.
How to run it
Sticky sessions help when the storefront expects one shopper to stay. Rotating sessions help when you only need a fresh exit per SKU. Country targeting matters more than city targeting for a national price. Confirm the exit country after you change it.
Copy the host, port, username, and password from the dashboard after you buy. Match the protocol to the client. A Python requests session looks like this, with placeholders instead of a real password.
When not to buy this
Do not buy a month of IPs for a one-time 2 GB sample. Do not buy Mobile at $4.50 if a residential exit is enough. Do not expect city, ZIP, or ASN targeting unless the product page lists it. Do not treat fair use as optional.
If you need a shared pool of tens of millions of rotating addresses, the per-GB vendors in the comparison articles are the closer product. Link those pages from this one and decide with the calculator.
Six situations with the arithmetic written out
500 SKUs, 100 KB each, once a day, 30 days. Proxy Grove side: about 1.5 GB. One IP is $60. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: 1.5 x $3.50 = $5.25. Reading: per-GB wins. 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.
500 SKUs, full page 2 MB, hourly for 30 days. Proxy Grove side: about 720 GB. One IP is still $60. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: 720 x $2.75 = $1,980. Reading: per-IP wins. 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.
4 countries, 4 IPs, 30 days, 2 GB/day each. Proxy Grove side: 4 x $2 x 30 = $240. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: 240 GB x $3 = $720. Reading: per-IP wins. 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.
Weekly snapshot, 200 MB, 12 weeks. Proxy Grove side: 90 days x $2 = $180 if you keep the IP. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: 2.4 GB x $4 = $9.60. Reading: per-GB wins. 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.
Variant images included, 8 MB x 2,000/day. Proxy Grove side: 16 GB/day. One IP is $2. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: 16 x $3 = $48 per day. Reading: per-IP wins. 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.
API-sized JSON, 20 KB x 1,000/day. Proxy Grove side: 20 MB/day. $2/day. Per-GB side, using a rate you must confirm on that vendor's page: pennies per day on a GB plan. Reading: per-GB wins. 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.
What to write down before checkout
Write the result down before you buy. The day rate does not change when a page is heavier, until fair use stops the job. The gigabyte rate changes on every retry, every image, and every extra country. If your log shows less than about one gigabyte a day, start with a per-GB plan and use Proxy Grove only for a sticky identity you will keep. If your log shows many gigabytes a day through a handful of exits, start with the day rate and open the calculator with your own numbers. Neither choice is a measurement of block rates. A proxy that is cheaper can still be the wrong network for the site you are allowed to request.
Then read the matching comparison if you are also looking at Decodo, IPRoyal, or Webshare. Those articles say when their product is the better fit. Come back to pricing only after the byte count is real.