The latest guides, research, and updates from the Proxidize team.
Yazan Sharawi on Sep 19, 2026IPRoyal sells several products with different billing units: rotating residential traffic by the gigabyte, rotating mobile traffic by the gigabyte, dedicated mobile access by proxy and time, ISP and datacenter IPs by proxy and term, and Web Unblocker by successful request. That makes a single “IPRoyal price” misleading.
Stay in the loop
Subscribe for the latest news & updates.
Yazan Sharawi on Sep 15, 2026Bright Data combines raw proxy networks, browser infrastructure, unlocker APIs, scraper APIs, and datasets in one broad platform. That breadth can be valuable, but it is not the only sensible purchasing model for a small scraping team. A team that already owns its Python collector or Playwright workers may care more about the first payment, unused traffic, standard proxy access, and a predictable residential rate. Another team may want a smaller managed scraping plan that removes more engineering work.
Read postYazan Sharawi on Sep 15, 2026Decodo is the current name of Smartproxy, so those names do not represent two providers. The company completed the rebrand in April 2025, while existing accounts, subscriptions, and proxy configurations continued under the new brand. This guide compares eight current alternatives to Decodo's rotating residential product.
Read postYazan Sharawi on Sep 14, 2026Decodo, formerly Smartproxy, does not have one universal price. It sells rotating proxy traffic, shared and dedicated IP allocations, managed access, and scraping APIs. The number on the homepage only makes sense after you identify the product, billing unit, allowance, and commitment behind it.
Read post
Zeid Abughazaleh on Sep 14, 2026Slow proxy traffic usually comes from routing, connection setup, destination responses, content transfer, or client load. Measure Domain Name System (DNS), connection, first-byte, and transfer timings while changing one variable at a time. Reuse suitable connections, remove unnecessary assets, and test lower concurrency before replacing the proxy.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Sep 11, 2026A proxy pool is a collection of proxy routes from which an application or managed gateway selects a route. Good management assigns suitable exits, preserves sticky sessions, monitors valid results, quarantines weak routes, and limits retries. Use a managed gateway for simpler operations, or maintain endpoints directly when route-level control matters.
Read post
Navya Donkena on Sep 11, 2026Residential proxies with Puppeteer let you run browser automation through residential IP addresses instead of your own IP or a data center address. You can configure them in Puppeteer using the --proxy-server argument and page.authenticate(), then verify the connection with an IP-checking endpoint. Proxidize lets you connect residential proxies to Puppeteer and use features such as IP rotation, sticky sessions, and location targeting.
Read postYazan Sharawi on Sep 10, 2026AI teams use proxies to route public-web collection through suitable IP types, locations, and sessions. The proxy is only the network layer: it does not discover sources, grant permission to collect them, clean HTML, remove duplicates, preserve provenance, or turn pages into training-ready records.
Read postYazan Sharawi on Sep 10, 2026Raw proxies and scraping APIs can both help a team collect public web data, but they are different purchases. A raw proxy supplies the network route. Your team still operates the HTTP client or browser, retry policy, extraction, validation, scheduling, and storage. A scraping API accepts a URL or collection task and manages some combination of routing, retries, rendering, extraction, and delivery.
Read postZeid Abughazaleh on Sep 10, 2026An Internet Protocol (IP) address used by a proxy is clean when evidence shows low known abuse risk. Its network classification and geolocation should support the provider's claims. Cleanliness does not guarantee website acceptance, so test representative requests and validate returned content on the intended target.
Read postYazan Sharawi on Sep 10, 2026Oxylabs does not have one universal price. It sells raw proxy access, fixed proxy allocations, managed web access, a scraping API, hosted browser infrastructure, AI extraction tools, and datasets. Each product uses a different billing model.
Read postReady to launch?
For teams that depend on stability, not luck.
