Decodo review (2026): premium-grade test results without premium minimums

Decodo pricing (as of October 2026)

Pay-as-you-go

$4.00/GB, bought one GB at a time³

Monthly plans

3 GB $11.25 ($3.75), 10 GB $35 ($3.50), 25 GB $81.25 ($3.25), 50 GB $150 ($3.00), 100 GB $275 ($2.75)³

Enterprise

From $2.50/GB (250 GB) to $2.00/GB (1 TB)³

Expiry

Subscription traffic doesn’t roll over; pay-as-you-go traffic lasts 12 months

Free trial

100 MB for 3 days³

Refund

First purchase only, within 14 days, if under 20% of the plan’s traffic is used³

Pay-as-you-go versus plans

Pay-as-you-go costs $4.00 per GB, bought one gigabyte at a time — exactly the market median entry price in Proxyway’s 2026 research^3,4. Monthly plans step down from $3.75/GB (3 GB) to $2.75/GB (100 GB), and Enterprise plans run from $2.50/GB at 250 GB to $2.00/GB at 1 TB³. At 100 GB a month that is $275, against $49 on Evomi’s Core plan, $100 at PacketStream and $200 at Rayobyte^5,6,7.

Expiry is the hidden cost

Subscription traffic doesn’t roll over, and pay-as-you-go traffic lasts 12 months. If your usage is lumpy, a plan sized for your busy months wastes money in quiet ones. Proxyway also notes that wallet balances are non-refundable², and the formal refund policy covers only your first purchase, within 14 days, if you’ve used under 20% of a regular plan’s traffic³.

The 3-day, 100 MB trial is small but real³: enough to check that your targets load, not to measure success rates at scale.

Targeting, protocols and sessions

Targeting

Continent, country, state, city, ZIP and ASN³

Protocols

HTTP(S) and SOCKS5³

Sticky sessions

Custom duration from 1 to 1,440 minutes (24 hours)⁸

Decodo has a full targeting menu — continent, country, state, city, ZIP and ASN — over HTTP(S) or SOCKS5³. Sticky sessions take any whole number of minutes from 1 to 1,440, so you can hold an IP for up to 24 hours⁸. (The pricing page mentions sessions of “up to 30 min”, apparently as a default; the session documentation is explicit about the 24-hour maximum.)

For most scraping and monitoring work that’s the complete set. The gaps are at the extremes: carrier-level targeting (Bright Data) and sessions longer than a day (IPRoyal).

Sourcing, KYC and trust

Former name

Smartproxy, renamed Decodo in April 2025¹

Pool

Claims 115M+ IPs in 195+ locations; Proxyway measured 2,853,543 unique IPs in 21 days²

KYC

Not mandatory for standard use²

Support

24/7²

Decodo claims more than 115 million IPs in over 195 locations; Proxyway’s 21-day sample found 2,853,543 unique IPs, second only to Oxylabs among the providers in this guide^2,9. KYC isn’t mandatory for standard use², so you can start in minutes. Support runs around the clock².

Independent performance evidence

The 0.53 s average was the fastest of the seven providers here that Proxyway tested in that round; Oxylabs came closest at 0.60 s with 99.93% success⁹. Evomi’s Core pool, tested separately in July 2026, scored 99.91% at 0.70 s¹⁰ — similar reliability at a quarter of the price, on roughly half as many unique IPs.

These figures come from Proxyway’s infrastructure test against a small page, not from hard targets. They tell you the network is fast and stable; they don’t tell you how it fares against a particular anti-bot system.

Third-party figures are snapshots from the stated date, on the tester’s targets and setup; see our methodology for how we use each source.

Pros and cons

Who should pick Decodo — and who shouldn’t

Pick it if

• Speed and reliability matter more than the per-GB price.
• You need state, ZIP or ASN targeting with sessions of up to 24 hours.
• You want to start without an ID check and with a single gigabyte.
• Your monthly volume is steady enough that plan traffic won’t go to waste.

Skip it if

• Price per GB is the deciding factor — Evomi and PacketStream cost a quarter as much.
• You buy occasionally and want traffic that never expires; IPRoyal, PacketStream and Evomi’s pay-as-you-go don’t expire.

Alternatives to Decodo

• Oxylabs review — a larger measured pool and similar results, subscription only.
• Evomi review — a similar July 2026 success rate at about a quarter of the price, on a smaller pool.
• SOAX review — comparable April 2026 results with country-tier pricing.

For the full picture, see the best residential proxies by use case, the price-per-GB tables and our index of all eleven reviews.