Byteful's biggest quarter yet started with becoming Byteful.
In the very quarter of our rebrand, we got something to remember it by forever. Proxyway named us Newcomer of the Year in the Proxy Service Awards 2026. The award recognises the depth of our team, the platform we've built, and the Rust-based infrastructure behind our benchmark-leading latency.
That's the moment. Now for the momentum.
A Dashboard Worthy of the Name
We rebuilt our dashboard alongside the rebrand, and this wasn't to match the new name. It's a reflection of the journey so far, something we'd envisioned for a long time, shaped by thousands of hours inside the product and your feedback. This is how we always wanted Byteful to look.
Inside you'll find a design overhaul, consistent tables across the platform, a product-first structure, contextual code examples built from your actual account configuration, and real-time API analytics for live debugging.
The Fastest Mobile Proxy Network Arrived (Officially)
In May, we launched our mobile proxy network, and right away, it made a mark. In Proxyway’s Proxy Market Research 2026, Byteful recorded the fastest mobile response time globally at 0.48s, with our UK pool clocking 0.40s, the fastest single mobile pool of any provider tested.
The network has over 6 million monthly IPs across 650+ mobile carriers, covering 1,500+ cities in 190+ countries. We're extending the same pro-consumer model from our residential product to mobile, making us the first major mobile proxy provider to offer non-expiring data. The bandwidth you buy stays yours until you use it.
Rotate per request or hold sticky sessions, connect over HTTP, HTTPS, or SOCKS5 with no concurrent connection caps, and split usage across team members, projects, or applications with our Proxy User system.
Soon after launch, we found a way to make targeting even sharper. Both the dashboard and API now surface live node counts as you refine your selection by country, region, city, carrier, or any combination. You see exactly how many nodes match your criteria, so you can gauge pool size and fine-tune your targeting before generating credentials.
Pricing starts at just $4.25 per GB with no throttling or usage limits, and bespoke pricing is available for volumes above 5TB.
One Checkout, Bigger Discounts
Needed proxies in multiple locations? Previously, there was a separate checkout and a separate subscription for each. Each purchase stood alone, so bundle discounts your combined order would have earned were missed.
Now, one order covers them all. Check out multiple locations for a product in a single go, and larger orders qualify for better discounts regardless of how many locations they span. Reconfiguring existing services works the same way, so managing a multi-region setup is just as smooth as buying a single one.
Cleaner Hostnames, Clearer Usage
If you've ever scrolled through your network activity and spotted the same domain across dozens of entries. It is each with a slightly different hostname, you know the extra work it took to piece your usage together.
So we made the view smarter. Hostnames that belong to the same domain are now grouped together, and those with unique parts, such as a UUID, display in one of three simple formats: hostname.TLD, www.hostname.TLD, or *.hostname.TLD.
The result is a much clearer picture of your usage. If you're sending a large number of requests, you may notice the dashboard getting faster as we group more hostnames.
Every Failed Request Now Explains Itself
Debugging proxies can be frustrating. We knew it, so we overhauled our error codes to be both more fine-grained and easier to understand. Hover over any code in the network observability section of the dashboard to see exactly what it means, or check our documentation for the full list of error references.
Then we went a step further. Our proxies now return headers that let you correlate requests in your client with what you see in the dashboard: the request ID is in x-byteful-request-id, and the error code is in x-byteful-status-code. No more cross-referencing. The response tells you what happened, right where it happened.
Combined with our live activity overview, we believe this gives you best-in-class observability into why requests fail. Less guesswork, faster fixes.
The API Never Misses an Update
Plenty of you interact with Byteful entirely through the API, which is why we make sure every update we ship lands in both. If it's on the dashboard, it's in the API. That's the standard we hold ourselves to, and this quarter was no different.
Mobile proxies are fully supported, with new endpoints and the customer object updated to include mobile proxy information, so you can integrate mobile traffic into your systems the same way you already manage the rest.
The hostname grouping runs through analytics as well. High-cardinality hostnames are summarised in the *.hostname.TLD format, which means faster observability performance if you're working with lots of logs. Finally, debugging got sharper too, with proxy error codes and request IDs now returned directly in response headers.
Q3 2026 Is Already in Motion
Our developers have been heads down on some genuinely impactful work, and we're sure these will deliver exceptional value to your workflows. Here's a sneak peek:
- TCP Fingerprint Spoofing (Joe): TCP fingerprinting detects proxies by spotting mismatches between a proxy server's TCP characteristics and the operating system your client declares. Our spoofing eliminates that mismatch, making requests through our ISP and Datacenter proxies much harder to detect.
- Role-Based Access Controls (Denver): Teams sharing a single account will soon have proper organizations. Every member joins with their own login and role-based access. API keys will carry fine-grained permissions of their own, so agents and automated systems get scoped access too. Built for businesses where multiple people shouldn't share a single login.
- UDP and DNS Upgrades for Datacenter and ISP (Max): SOCKS5 UDP transport to unlock real-time traffic, streaming, DNS, and gaming workflows. Plus, the re-architected DNS resolution stays consistent with your proxy path. Currently being trialed with enterprise customers ahead of a wider rollout.
Got an idea you’d love to see in Byteful? 🤩 Feel free to reach out at [email protected]. We’re building this together, and your feedback is what keeps us moving forward.
