Company record · Operating since 2022

The people and rules behind Databay

Databay operates a rotating proxy network: 34 million residential IPs from people who opted in through a partner app and are paid for the bandwidth they share, plus 80 thousand datacenter IPs and 800 thousand mobile IPs across 200+ countries.

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34M+Residential IPs
800K+Mobile IPs
80K+Datacenter IPs
200+Countries covered

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Networks & pricing

What we sell, how we price it

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.

  • One rate card, no sales call to see it
  • No per-country surcharge, anywhere we ship
  • 34M+ residential IPs, every one opt-in
  • Working proxy URL in about five minutes
Operating principles

Three bets we made

We bet on three things mattering more than they look.

01

Transparent supply

Databay states that its residential supply uses disclosed partner-app opt-in and compensation; review the Trust Center for the current sourcing description.

02

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.

03

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. Judge for yourself on the live rate card.

Who it's for

Who uses rotating proxies

What we sell is access to the public web from a lot of different IP addresses. The proxies are the tool; the access pattern is the product. The customers who actually care:

Research teams

Checking how a paywall renders for a Berlin reader without leaving the office.

E-commerce teams

Price-monitoring competitors that block datacenter IP ranges outright.

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.

See how each pattern maps to a network on the proxy use cases page.

Editorial standard

Who writes this site

Everything published here, the guides, the free proxy list methodology, the IP-reputation research, carries a named byline. Three people write it, each in their own field, working with the same proxy network and probe pipelines the articles describe. Each byline links to a profile with that person's remit and full publication history, and the method behind every published number lives openly on our Trust page.

  • Michael Weber

    Network security & proxy technology

    Michael covers network security, web scraping and proxy technologies at Databay, with a focus on helping teams optimize data extraction while maintaining privacy and efficiency.

    Profile and published work

  • Robert Smith

    Software engineering & web scraping

    Robert is a software engineer and web scraping specialist. He writes the hands-on material on this site: setup walkthroughs, collection workflows, and the pipelines behind Databay's published datasets.

    Profile and published work

  • James Johnson

    AI & network security research

    James works on artificial intelligence and network security, analyzing how AI-driven technologies enhance proxy performance and security, from fingerprinting to IP reputation scoring.

    Profile and published work

Company record

Company facts

Founded
2022
Legal entity
WATTENNE INTERNATIONAL LLC
Headquarters
30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, USA
Network coverage
200+ countries
Residential IPs
34,000,000+ ethically sourced from opt-in users
Datacenter IPs
80,000+ across key markets, ~780ms latency
Mobile IPs
800,000+ genuine 5G/4G mobile network IPs in 155+ countries
Pricing
From a flat $0.55/GB (Flex) pay-as-you-go, no monthly commitment
Support languages
English, French, Spanish, Russian
Open data
The live free proxy list dataset, free to use under an MIT license with a public JSON/CSV/TXT API.
Trust & compliance

Ethical sourcing & compliance

We don't route traffic through users who didn't actively say yes, and the policies that enforce that are public. The full sourcing methodology, covering the opt-in flow, the consent language, payment and revocation, lives on our Trust page.

Opt-in, paid supply

Databay states that residential peers join through a disclosed partner-app consent flow and receive compensation. The Trust Center documents the current sourcing commitment; buyers should include it in provider due diligence.

Sourcing methodology

An AUP that names the abuse

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.

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Humans on the abuse inbox

Abuse complaints land in a dedicated Trust & Safety inbox monitored by people, not a triage queue.

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Public legal documents

The full AUP, refund policy, and our KYC/AML stance are published in the Legal Documents section; nothing is gated behind a sales call.

Legal documents
Contact

Contact

Three inboxes for three audiences. Support handles account and technical issues; sales answers pricing and enterprise questions. General is what's left; we read it.

From company record to first request

The published Flex rate is $0.55/GB. Create an account and receive a working proxy URL in about five minutes.

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Pricing, order minimums, and traffic validity vary by product.