Pay Per GB Proxies

This is a provider-specific characteristic. For instance, at Byteful, your residential and mobile bandwidth never expires and stays on your account forever. This allows you to pause and resume at a later stage without worrying about any rigid timeline.

It depends on the proxy type you get with the per-GB pricing structure and the proxy provider. For example, residential and mobile proxies can rotate IPs with every request, after a set duration, or at node failure, as configured.

Typically, yes. Streaming and downloading might consume large amounts of data compared to lightweight scraping that returns JSON output. However, the real comparison depends on the actual scraping workflow and the streamed/downloaded media elements of a web page.

Data expiration policies depend on the proxy provider. For instance, Byteful offers never-expiring data that stays on your account indefinitely. On the other hand, a few providers have a credit system that expires GBs after a certain period, generally 30 to 60 days after purchase.

This is again something that varies by provider. However, most of the entry-level per-GB plans fall under 10 gigabytes. Still, there are providers like Byteful (us!) that allow users to start with as low as 1GB residential and mobile proxy plans.

Depending on the provider, your account could auto-top up upon reaching a preset threshold, or it may stop working until a manual refill. At Byteful, a proxy account simply stops processing requests when it runs out of data.

Actually, yes. However, the number of users sharing a single plan most certainly varies among providers. In this context, Byteful places no limit on the number of team members who can share a pay-per-GB plan.

Yes! The price per GB decreases as you purchase more data at a time. For example, at Byteful, a 1 GB residential proxy plan costs $3.25, which drops to $1.75 for a 5 TB package. This is particularly rewarding, as we also offer never-expiring bandwidth.

Legacy and modern sites both support IPv4 connections. Also, they are shared among hundreds of users at a time, making them less likely to be banned. IPv6, on the other hand, is comparatively cheap; however, it only works with select websites offering dedicated IPv6 support.

Not directly. But in some cases, issuing new IPs may reload resources that were otherwise cached, increasing the total data consumption. Sticky sessions, on the other hand, reduce this overhead because a single IP remains active for longer.

But ultimately, it all boils down to the target, as sticky sessions or IP rotation might affect the success rate and, by extension, indirectly influence total data consumption, since failed requests also consume data due to additional TLS handshakes, retries, or redirects.