Pay-As-You-Go Proxies With No Monthly Minimum

Updated August 7, 2026 · 8 providers checked against their own pricing pages

6 of the 8 providers here sell residential traffic with no monthly commitment, at $0.49 to $7.35 a gigabyte — and at 2 of them that is the most expensive rate the provider publishes, not the cheapest. That is the single most misread thing about this category. Buying without committing does not buy you a lower rate; it buys you a smaller minimum purchase, which is a different and often more valuable thing when the project is small. The premium runs from 1.6 times at Bright Data to 2.0 times at Decodo. Every figure below is quoted from the provider’s own page and dated.

A per-gigabyte rate on its own is not a price. Every rate on this page is printed with the volume and the commitment that unlock it, because in this category the advertised figure is almost always the cell in a tier table that sits behind the largest plan a vendor sells — and at one provider here, behind a coupon code as well. Rates are for rotating residential traffic unless the product name says otherwise; static, ISP and datacenter proxies are priced per IP per month and scraping APIs per request, and none of those is converted into a per-GB figure here.

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Who sells traffic without a commitment

Ranked by the no-commitment rate, cheapest first, with each provider’s own best committed rate beside it so the premium is visible rather than implied. Zyte sells without a commitment and prices requests rather than bandwidth, so it appears here with no per-gigabyte figure rather than with an invented one.

Providers that sell no such option

Oxylabs and Webshare publish only monthly plans with included allowances. That is a normal way to sell infrastructure and nothing here treats it as a fault; it simply sets a floor on the smallest project each will take.

• Oxylabs: Every residential plan on the product page is a monthly billed subscription with an included allowance; no pay-as-you-go residential rate appears anywhere on either page. Smallest published purchase $30. Its own words: “Starter 5GB $ 6 / GB $ 30 billed monthly VAT may apply”
• Webshare: Every residential row is a monthly billed plan with an included allowance. There is no per-GB rate on the page detached from a plan, but the smallest plan is a single GB, which makes the effective minimum unusually low. Smallest published purchase $3.50. Its own words: “1 GB Save 50% $7.00 $3.50 /GB $3.50 $7.00 billed monthly”

Where a monthly plan starts to win

The break-even is arithmetic on each provider’s own three published figures: its no-commitment rate, the rate on its largest published plan, and that plan’s monthly amount. Below the volume shown, paying as you go costs less in total despite costing more per gigabyte. It is not a recommendation and it assumes you would use every gigabyte the plan carries, which is the assumption most likely to be wrong.

• Decodo: $4 a GB with no commitment against $2 on a $2,000 a month plan. The saving is $2 a gigabyte, so the plan covers itself at roughly 1,000 GB a month.
• Bright Data: $4 a GB with no commitment against $2.50 on a $1,999 a month plan. The saving is $1.50 a gigabyte, so the plan covers itself at roughly 1,333 GB a month.

The smallest cheque each provider will take

For a project measured in a handful of gigabytes this matters more than the rate does. A provider charging twice as much per gigabyte but selling a single one is cheaper than a provider charging half as much and asking for a hundred.

• Webshare: $3.50 — its smallest published plan, the smallest published residential plan. Its own words: “1 GB Save 50% $7.00 $3.50 /GB $3.50 $7.00 billed monthly”
• Decodo: $4 — its no-commitment rate is $4 a GB.
• IPRoyal: $7.35 — its no-commitment rate is $7.35 a GB.
• Oxylabs: $30 — its smallest published plan, the cheapest published residential plan. Its own words: “Starter 5GB $ 6 / GB $ 30 billed monthly VAT may apply”

What the same providers charge at a real volume

For contrast, here is what each of these providers charges for the 100 GB the index prices, by whichever published route is cheapest. In most cases the answer is a plan rather than the no-commitment rate, which is the whole point of the break-even above.

• Evomi: $49 via Core Residential, pay as you go.
• Bright Data: $400 via Residential proxies, pay as you go.
• Decodo: $275 via Residential, 100 GB.
• SOAX: $300 via Builder.
• IPRoyal: no published rate at that volume; its cheapest published entry is $5.51 a GB.
• Zyte: no published rate at that volume; its cheapest published entry is not stated.

How this is verified

Every rate on this page was read from the provider’s own pricing page and is stored with that page’s URL, a verbatim quote, and the date it was checked (most recent: August 7, 2026). Where a provider publishes no rate at a volume, we say so instead of extrapolating one from a rate it publishes somewhere else. A rate the provider itself prefixes with “from” is printed as a floor, because that is the provider’s own distinction and not ours. Where a provider is currently discounting, both its list rate and the rate you can actually pay today are printed, and the ranking follows the one you can actually pay. Totals are arithmetic on published rates and published tier allowances only. See our editorial standards and how we verify.

Which providers are in it. The residential-proxy and web-data providers an English-speaking buyer is most likely to shortlist, chosen before any rate was read and not filtered afterwards. A provider whose rate card is unreadable or whose product is not purchasable stays out rather than being listed as though it were an option, and the reason is recorded in `removed` rather than left as a silent gap.

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