Proxies, VPNs, and network setup for scraping.
Smartproxy became Decodo on 22 April 2025. Prices read on 13 August 2026, plus sticky-session limits, thread caps, restricted targets and IP sourcing.
SquidProxies review with prices read from the vendor pages on 13 August 2026: dedicated datacenter IPs at $0.80 to $1.50 each, residential from $0.75 per GB, HTTP/HTTPS only, IP-whitelist authentication, a one-time 7-day refund.
Scraping proxies rechecked in August 2026: why the transparent/anonymous/elite test measures a protocol you no longer use, what MaxMind and IP2Proxy actually flag, datacenter vs ISP vs residential vs mobile with prices read from vendor pages, IPv6 reachability measured across 40 targets, and proxy code for six stacks.