Our pick
Decodo
4.5Rated 4.5 out of 5
Formerly Smartproxy — the best balance of price and quality
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Two mid-market favourites at very different price points. We compare pool quality, dashboard, support and true cost.
IPRoyal
4.3Rated 4.3 out of 5
Budget-friendly proxies with pay-as-you-go pricing
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| Spec | Decodo | IPRoyal |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price | $3.50/GB | $1.75/GB |
| Pool size | 115M+ | 34M+ |
| Countries | 195 | 195 |
| Uptime | 99.9% | 99.5% |
| Avg response | 0.5s | 0.9s |
| Free trial | Yes | No |
| Founded | 2018 | 2020 |
Decodo
- Excellent price-to-quality ratio
- Genuinely simple onboarding and dashboard
- Large residential pool with solid geo coverage
- Responsive 24/7 chat support
- Fewer enterprise controls than Bright Data or Oxylabs
- Occasional pool saturation on the most popular targets
IPRoyal
- Among the lowest residential prices available
- Purchased traffic never expires
- No minimum commitment
- Smaller pool than the market leaders
- Success rates drop on heavily protected targets
Our verdict
Decodo has the better pool and a markedly easier dashboard; IPRoyal is roughly half the price and its traffic never expires. For sustained production work Decodo justifies the premium. For intermittent or low-volume jobs, IPRoyal's non-expiring traffic makes it the more economical choice.
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