Databay sells rotating proxies. Founded 2022, headquartered in Wyoming. The network is 34 million residential IPs from real users who opted in through a partner app and are paid for the bandwidth they share, plus 80 thousand datacenter IPs and 800 thousand mobile carrier IPs across 200+ countries. Pricing is $0.50 a gigabyte, the same number whether you scrape London or Lagos.
Most proxy vendors don't publish their real prices. The numbers on the homepage are a starting point; the rate you actually pay shows up after a sales call, varies by country, and depends on what your purchasing department can argue down. We don't do that. The price on /proxies is the price you pay, anywhere we ship traffic, with no surcharge for the harder-to-source markets.
What we sell is access to the public web from a lot of different IP addresses. The customers who actually care: researchers checking how a paywall renders for a Berlin reader. E-commerce teams price-monitoring competitors that block datacenter ranges. Ad-verification firms confirming a Mexican campaign actually delivered to Mexican IPs. Security analysts pulling threat intel from regions where their corporate IP is geo-blocked. The proxies are the tool. The access pattern is the product.
We bet on three things mattering more than they look. Transparent supply: every residential IP comes from a real user who opted in to a partner app and is paid in real money for the bandwidth they share. Predictable pricing: one rate card, no per-country surcharge, no negotiated tier (because if we negotiated we'd have to charge full price to someone else first). Fast time-to-first-request: signup to working proxy URL inside five minutes. The first two we feel good about. The third we still want lower.
The team is small and distributed across four time zones. Most of what you read on this site (including every blog post) is written by these four people. Each blog post's byline links back here.
Content Manager
Maria is the Content Manager at Databay, where she covers proxy technology, web scraping techniques, and online privacy. With a background in technical writing and digital marketing, she turns complex networking topics into practical, actionable guides for developers and data teams.
Technical Writer
Lena is a Technical Writer at Databay specializing in integration guides and partner content. She helps users get the most out of Databay proxies by documenting step-by-step workflows with popular tools and platforms.
DevOps Engineer
Daniel is a DevOps Engineer at Databay with expertise in network infrastructure, proxy rotation systems, and large-scale data collection pipelines. He writes in-depth technical guides on IP management, scraping architecture, and security best practices for developers building production-grade crawlers.
Product Marketing Manager
Sophie is the Product Marketing Manager at Databay, focused on how businesses use proxy technology for competitive intelligence, ad verification, and international market research. She brings a strategic perspective on proxy use cases across e-commerce, travel, and digital advertising.
Every residential IP we sell comes from a real user who installed a partner app, read an opt-in screen written in plain language, and is paid in real money (not free trial credit) for the bandwidth they share. We don't route traffic through users who didn't actively say yes. Our Acceptable Use Policy explicitly bars credential stuffing, piracy, fraud-as-a-service, CSAM, and a long tail of other abuse patterns. Customers agree to the AUP before they can place an order.
Abuse complaints land in a dedicated Trust & Safety inbox monitored by people, not a triage queue. The full AUP, refund policy, and our KYC/AML stance are published in the Legal Documents section; nothing is gated behind a sales call.
Three inboxes for three audiences. Support replies inside a couple of business hours on weekdays; sales gets back to you the same day. General is what's left; we read it.
Expert guides on proxies, web scraping, and data collection.
Learn how to scrape Amazon proxies effectively. Covers detection evasion, proxy selection, request patterns, and scaling strategies for product data.
Proxy vs VPN compared across architecture, encryption, speed, privacy, and use cases. A clear decision matrix to choose the right tool for your needs.
A plain-spoken safety audit of free proxy lists: what can go wrong, what actually does, and how to use free proxies without handing over credentials or browsing...
Join 8,000+ users using Databay's rotating proxy infrastructure for web scraping, data collection, and automation. Access 34M+ residential, datacenter, and mobile IPs across 200+ countries with pay-as-you-go pricing from $0.50/GB. No monthly commitment, no connection limits - start collecting data in minutes.
