Why this comparison exists
The question showed up repeatedly in support and in Search Console. People still type "Proxynade vs Smartproxy," so the old name stays in the title. Smartproxy has rebranded its residential offering under Decodo; the pricing pages I checked reflect that. Verify on their current site before buying.
The useful comparison is not provider name against provider name. It is route behavior against the page that pays the bill: status codes, retries, usable rows, and billed bytes.
Residential GB pricing differs by tier
Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) residential proxies start from $2.75/GB at the 100 GB tier, with pay-as-you-go at $4/GB, as listed on their pricing page. Proxynade Volume Residential is $0.89/GB; Premium Residential is $5.00/GB. Both are billed per transferred byte.
Volume Residential is the plan to run when the target is not particularly hostile and the budget constraint is GB cost. Premium Residential is the plan when the target blocks datacenter and commodity residential exits and you need a smaller set of higher-quality routes. The $5.00/GB number only makes sense when retries on cheaper lines already burned the budget.
Static IP costs go the other direction
Smartproxy lists static residential from $0.27/IP as of the page I checked. Proxynade Static ISP proxies are pay-per-IP with unlimited bandwidth; the per-IP rate is higher at smaller quantities. If the project is purely a static residential IP count, that is not the fight to pick here.
Static ISP pays off when one IP runs continuous traffic over a long period and per-GB billing would overtake the flat IP cost. Short-lived sessions with low request volume usually stay cheaper on rotating residential.
Smartproxy's product surface is wider
Smartproxy's residential page offers country, city, ZIP, and ASN targeting, plus HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 with rotate-per-request and sticky sessions up to 30 minutes. That is a wider selector set than Proxynade publishes today. Procurement teams that need ZIP-level targeting and a named enterprise contract have a reason to look there first.
Proxynade session control lives in the username string: base user, plan token (volume, premium, or datacenter), optional country-<cc>, and optional lifetime-<minutes> rotation window. Datacenter lines skip the lifetime token. The gateway is http://proxynade.net:2555 with username/password auth.
App counters and provider counters do not match
The dashboard network logs show host, outcome, latency, and byte totals. Usage logs export as CSV. These are per-connection records, not sampled estimates.
App-level counters typically show rows kept. Provider-side counters show bytes moved: CDN thumbnails, failed TLS attempts, retries, and blocked pages all count. A browser-heavy run that looks clean in the scraper report can be ahead on the bandwidth bill for exactly this reason. Write down both numbers before scaling any run, on any provider.
Smartproxy says users can monitor traffic usage, requests, and top targets. Check what granularity their dashboard exposes before assuming the number matches what you would log on the app side.
First run before the bigger plan
Smartproxy mentions a 14-day money-back option. Read the current terms before pushing real traffic through any provider. For a first run: cap the job, record provider-reported bytes beside app-reported bytes, and keep the failed-request notes separate before buying the larger plan. That check takes one run and saves the argument later.
Comparison at a glance
| Factor | Proxynade | Smartproxy / Decodo |
|---|---|---|
| Volume Residential | $0.89/GB | From $2.75/GB (public page) |
| Premium Residential | $5.00/GB | Varies by plan tier |
| Static ISP | Pay-per-IP, unlimited bandwidth | From $0.27/IP (public page) |
| Session control | Username token: plan + country + lifetime | Rotate-per-request or sticky up to 30 min |
| Usage logs | Per-connection: host, outcome, latency, bytes; CSV export | Traffic usage and top targets in dashboard |
| Targeting depth | Country | Country, city, ZIP, ASN |
Smartproxy figures are from their public pricing pages and may change. Verify before deciding.
Proxynade vs Smartproxy FAQ
Is Smartproxy the same as Decodo? Smartproxy rebranded its residential proxy offering under the Decodo name. The product surface is the same; check the current pricing page for whichever brand you are purchasing through.
What is Proxynade Volume Residential priced at? $0.89/GB billed per transferred byte.
Where does Proxynade log proxy traffic? The dashboard network logs show host, outcome, latency, and byte totals. Usage logs export as CSV. Both are per-connection, not sampled.
When does static ISP beat cheap GB pricing? When a workflow needs one stable IP across many requests, static ISP pays per IP with unlimited bandwidth. If the session is short and retries are rare, per-GB residential is usually cheaper.
How does Proxynade session control work in the username? The expanded username carries routing options: base user plus plan token (volume, premium, or datacenter), optional country code, and optional lifetime-<minutes> rotation window. Datacenter lines skip the lifetime token.