Decodo alternatives and competitors

Teams outgrow Decodo when its rate stops improving. Decodo runs from $3.75/GB at 3 GB to $2.75/GB at 100 GB, and past that the curve flattens. Webshare keeps going: $2.75/GB at 10 GB, $2.60/GB at 25 GB, and $1.40/GB at 3,000 GB, across an advertised 80M+ residential IPs in 195 countries.

At 10 GB the two are level. Above roughly 100 GB the gap becomes the reason to move, and at multi-terabyte volume Webshare is close to half the rate. Coverage is comparable, so this is mostly a pricing decision rather than a capability one.

Choose Webshare when your usage has grown past Decodo’s best tier and continues to climb. If you are still under 100 GB a month, the move will not pay for the migration.

Decodo’s value depends on picking a plan size roughly matching your consumption. When usage is unpredictable, that becomes a monthly guess, and unused bandwidth on a $275 plan is worse than a higher per-GB rate. IPRoyal sells with no contract at $7.35/GB pay-as-you-go for 1 GB down to $5.15/GB at 50 GB, or slightly less on subscription.

Those rates are clearly above Decodo’s, so this only makes sense when the alternative is systematically over-buying. It also means accepting the smallest advertised pool in this comparison at 64M+ rotating residential across 195+ countries, against Decodo’s 115M+.

Choose IPRoyal when your consumption varies enough that any fixed plan is wrong most months. Otherwise Decodo’s plans are better value.

Both Decodo and every other vendor on this page bill for bytes. TrueProxies also sells the other unit: unlimited bandwidth on a fixed duration, priced by speed tier from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps, alongside Residential IPv4 from $1.64/GB.

That matters for continuous work. A monitoring job or a long crawl that must sustain a rate is naturally described in Mbps, and pricing it in gigabytes turns a steady technical requirement into a variable bill. If you have been sizing Decodo plans by estimating monthly gigabytes and getting it wrong in both directions, the unit is the problem rather than the vendor.

Where Decodo is stronger: it advertises 115M+ IPs across 195+ locations with city and ZIP targeting, against 50M+ across 150+ countries here. If fine-grained geo-targeting is central to your work, that is a real reason to stay.

Decodo charges one rate regardless of destination. SOAX charges by country tier, advertising 155M+ IPs across 195+ locations with Tier 1 from $5.00/GB on the free Sandbox down to $0.85/GB on Enterprise, Tier 2 from $3.75/GB down to $0.55/GB, and Tier 3 from $2.00/GB down to $0.35/GB.

Against Decodo’s $2.75/GB best rate, Tier 3 traffic on a mid-level SOAX plan is dramatically cheaper, and Tier 1 traffic generally is not. The larger pool is a secondary benefit. This is worth the analysis only if you can produce a breakdown of your requests by destination country.

Choose SOAX when that breakdown skews to Tier 2 and Tier 3. If most of your traffic is US and Western European, staying on a flat rate is simpler and usually cheaper.

The reason to move from Decodo to Oxylabs is rarely price. Oxylabs starts at $6.00/GB on its $30/month Starter plan, above Decodo’s entire range, and only reaches $2.50/GB at $2,500/month with a 1 TB minimum. What you buy is the enterprise wrapper: SLAs, account management, procurement processes that a compliance team will accept, and an advertised 175M+ pool across 195+ countries.

That becomes the requirement when proxy access moves from a growth experiment to infrastructure the business depends on, or when a customer contract obliges you to name your subprocessors and their commitments. Those are organisational reasons rather than technical ones, and they are legitimate.

Choose Oxylabs when the guarantees are the deliverable. If nobody is asking for them, Decodo does the same job for less.

Proxy-Cheap advertises $1.50/GB at 3 GB, below Decodo’s best 100 GB rate of $2.75/GB, and $0.78/GB at 51 GB. For a cost-driven team on modest volume this is the cheapest option on the page by a clear margin, with an advertised 80M+ IPs across 180+ locations.

The trade-offs are consistent with the price. Coverage is the narrowest here, published bandwidth is capped under 100 Mbps, and success rate on defended targets is the variable that budget providers differ on most and disclose least. Against Decodo, you are also giving up ZIP-level targeting and unlimited concurrent sessions.

Choose Proxy-Cheap when cost dominates and the targets are undefended, and prove it with a matched test before moving volume.

Bright Data sits at the opposite end of the market from Decodo and is only the right move when advertised scale or the managed platform is the actual requirement. It publishes 400M+ rotating residential IPs across 195 countries, more than triple Decodo’s 115M+, plus unblockers, scraper APIs, and datasets that Decodo does not match in breadth.

Pricing reflects that: $8.00/GB pay-as-you-go list, and committed tiers at $7.00/GB ($499/month), $6.00/GB ($999/month), and $5.00/GB ($1,999/month). A 50% promotion via coupon RESIGB50 was displayed for three months. Even at the promotional $4.00/GB, that is above Decodo’s pay-as-you-go rate of $4.00/GB only at parity, and well above Decodo’s plan rates.

Choose Bright Data when you need the pool size or want to stop building collection infrastructure yourself. It is not a cost-motivated move from Decodo under any reading of the published rates.