Decodo review: Smartproxy’s new name, priced from $3.75/GB

Decodo pricing for each proxy type

Decodo’s cheapest residential plan works out at $3.75 per GB before VAT, on 3 GB a month. The “from $2/GB” headline is the 1 TB Enterprise rate. Monthly plans renew automatically.

• Residential: 3 GB for $11.25, then down to $2.75 per GB on the 100 GB plan ($275).
• Mobile: 2 GB for $7.50 with the 50% discount shown on the price list, then the same per-GB rates as residential. The pool lists 10M+ IPs from 700+ carriers, which is the network to use when an offer changes from one US carrier to another.
• ISP, dedicated IPs: 3 IPs for $9.99, falling to $2.50 per IP at 200 IPs.
• Datacenter per GB: 10 GB for $6 ($0.60 per GB), down to $0.45 per GB at 1,000 GB.

Cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay, Alipay in Asia and crypto through CoinGate are accepted. Crypto is not available for shared-IP ISP and datacenter plans, and wire transfers are for Enterprise deals only.

Pay as you go or a monthly plan

Residential and mobile pay as you go costs $4 per GB, and that traffic stays usable for 12 months. Unused gigabytes on a monthly plan are lost at each renewal, unless you upgrade. Pay as you go also cannot run alongside an active monthly subscription on the same account.

At $4 per GB, pay as you go beats the 3 GB plan for anyone using less than about 2.8 GB a month, which covers most manual link checks. A monthly plan makes sense once automated checks run every day.

What counts as traffic at Decodo

Decodo bills upload and download data, including headers and cookies. A 403, 404, 503 or any other non-200 response from the target website counts toward your traffic. Errors generated by Decodo itself, such as a 502, do not. HTTPS also adds TLS overhead that is billed with each request.

A script that keeps retrying a dead affiliate link, or an offer page that blocks bots, can drain a plan without producing a single useful check. Blocking images and stopping on the first error keeps the bill down.

Decodo’s free trial and refund policy

Decodo offers a 3-day trial with 100 MB on every proxy type except dedicated ISP and dedicated datacenter. It needs a card, PayPal or Google Pay, may show a $1 pre-authorization, and the chosen plan starts automatically when the trial ends.

Taking the trial removes the 14-day refund on that product. Without a trial, a refund needs a first self-service purchase, no crypto payment, no Enterprise plan, and less than 20% of the plan or 1 GB used, whichever comes first. On the 3 GB plan, that limit is 0.6 GB. Refunds arrive within five business days.

Targets Decodo blocks by default

Residential proxies block banking and crypto finance, government sites, entertainment such as Netflix, Apple and Google app stores, ticketing, gaming, mailing, streaming, business and telecom sites. Mailing, streaming, business and telecom can be unblocked with a rotating residential subscription after ID verification, which takes an ID document and a selfie, or a KYB form for companies.

Decodo does not define “streaming” or “gaming”, so a tube site or a casino offer could fall under them. Ask support before paying if those are the pages you need to check. Google stays reachable on residential plans from 3 to 100 GB and on pay as you go.

Is Decodo legit?

Decodo is run by UAB “Data troops”, company code 305893779, in Vilnius, Lithuania, and has been operating since 2018. It only uses decodo.com and decodo.cn: smartproxy.org and smartproxy.cn are impersonators.

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