Essential
10 GB
Lightweight tasks
$1.25
per GB
Data valid 31 days
Databay's shared datacenter proxy pool provides 80,000+ rotating IPs, country and continent targeting, HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5. Plans are billed per GB from a 10 GB order; this is not a dedicated or static-IP allocation.
Pay as you go, no monthly commitment.
Every volume step lowers the unit rate.
Essential
Lightweight tasks
$1.25
per GB
Data valid 31 days
Standard
Daily workloads
$1.00
per GB
Data valid 31 days
20% less than 10 GB packageAdvanced
Demanding automation
$0.75
per GB
Data valid 31 days
40% less than 10 GB packageTitan
High-throughput jobs
$0.70
per GB
Data valid 31 days
44% less than 10 GB packageProfessional
Enterprise traffic
$0.55
per GB
Data valid 31 days
56% less than 10 GB packageMaster
Best rateMaximum allocation
$0.50
per GB
Data valid 31 days
60% less than 10 GB packageIncluded with every option
Pay once · No auto-renewal
Custom volume
Custom volume pricing with dedicated support included.
Pay once. Top up when you are ready.
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A shared proxy routes customer traffic through an outbound address or pool that more than one authenticated customer may use. Shared describes how the resource is allocated; it does not mean the proxy is free or open to the public, and it does not tell you whether the exit is datacenter, residential, or mobile.
Databay provides a rotating shared datacenter proxy pool of 80,000+ published IPs. Plans are billed by transferred bandwidth rather than by address. The gateway selects a live exit according to location, session settings, availability, plan limits, and service protections; customers do not receive a permanent or exclusive IP.
| Decision factor | Shared rotating pool (Databay) | Dedicated static address |
|---|---|---|
| Allocation | Provider-managed pool available to multiple authenticated customers | One customer under the provider's contract |
| Billing | Transferred GB | Usually per address and billing period |
| Continuity | Gateway-selected; connection reuse or a sticky setting can request temporary continuity | Address remains stable under the replacement policy |
| Typical fit | Authorized independent requests where pool breadth and bandwidth cost matter | A system you control that requires one fixed, allowlisted route |
| What to measure | Valid responses, exit distribution, latency, and contention at the intended load | Availability, replacement time, capacity, and failover behavior |
A sticky session is not a dedicated proxy: it requests temporary exit continuity, subject to live availability. If a system you control requires a fixed allowlisted route, choose a product that contractually allocates a dedicated address.
For a provider-neutral allocation checklist, controlled pilot, and normalized cost model, read the shared versus dedicated proxy comparison.
Cheap datacenter proxies at Databay run from $1.25/GB on the 10 GB entry package down to $0.50/GB on the 1 TB tier, billed per GB with no subscription and 31-day validity. The rate ladder between them is on the pricing cards above, and every figure on this page is a published price, not a promotional footnote.
| Package volume | Datacenter | Residential |
|---|---|---|
| 10 GB | $1.25/GB | $2.25/GB |
| 1 TB | $0.50/GB | $0.90/GB |
Cheap has a reason, and it is structural rather than suspicious: server bandwidth in commercial data centers costs a fraction of compensated opt-in residential bandwidth. The same structure is the tradeoff. Hosting IP ranges are published, so destinations classify them easily, which is why the honest pitch for this product is throughput per dollar on authorized, tolerant workloads rather than acceptance everywhere. When a target consistently challenges hosting-network requests, the answer is the residential comparison, not a workaround.
Databay publishes ~780ms as a network comparison figure for its server-hosted datacenter exits, not as a destination-specific guarantee or SLA. Server routes can reduce the access-network delay found on participant or carrier connections, but the gateway, exit, route distance, congestion, destination, and client connection reuse all affect observed performance. Benchmark the approved workload before choosing a plan.
Client
your code or browser
Databay gateway
gw.databay.co:8888
Datacenter exit
hosted subnet address
Target
approved destination
credentials: USER-zone-datacenter:PASSWORD
Pool, country and session mode ride in the username flags, so the client configuration never changes — only the credential string does.
Databay datacenter proxies include 80K+ rotating IPs across major markets, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 support, and volume pricing from $0.50/GB. Use this lower-cost network for compatible collection, monitoring, and testing workloads.
80,000+ published datacenter addresses are available through the shared gateway, subject to live availability, plan limits, and service protections.
~780ms is the currently published network comparison figure, not a target-specific SLA. Route, exit, connection reuse, destination, and load can change observed latency.
At $0.50/GB on the 1 TB volume tier, shared datacenter bandwidth can lower transfer cost for compatible high-volume workloads. Packages start at 10 GB.
Select proxies across key markets with country and continent-level precision. Same intuitive targeting interface across all Databay proxy types.
Create an account, choose a plan, and configure a proxy-aware client with the gateway credentials shown in the dashboard.
Datacenter proxies can add hosting-network routes to authorized monitoring, QA, research, and data-ingestion workloads. Prefer official APIs, feeds, exports, and licenses. When direct requests are permitted, compare the published $1.25/GB entry tier and $0.50/GB 1 TB tier with the actual valid-response rate and engineering cost of your workload.
Each card links to a guide for defining scope and controls. A 403, 429, CAPTCHA, or challenge is a stop or backoff signal. Do not change proxy type or identity to route around it; review authorization and use an official source.
Authorized collection from approved APIs, feeds, and public sources where hosting-network routing is accepted. ~780ms is a published comparison figure, not a target-specific guarantee. Web scraping guide →
Check localization, availability, redirects, and rendering on properties you control from selected countries. Record locale, device, timestamp, and observed route because an IP alone does not reproduce an end user. Website monitoring guide →
Use licensed feeds, merchant APIs, or authorized public-page samples for price and availability research. Stop on access controls and never put credentials or payment data into an unapproved workflow. E-commerce guide →
Confirm campaigns, placements, landing pages, and creative rendering you own or are authorized to assess. Prefer platform preview tools and avoid billable impressions or clicks. Ad verification guide →
Collect approved listings, reviews, and public datasets across markets. For high-volume research from sources that permit hosting-network requests, datacenter bandwidth can keep transfer cost predictable. Market research guide →
Add regional samples to availability, latency, localization, and certificate checks on properties you control. A proxy route does not reproduce an end user's device or last mile. Website monitoring guide →
They can provide network routes for sources you are authorized to retrieve. Prefer licensed datasets, official APIs, feeds, exports, and first-party repositories. Public accessibility alone does not establish copyright permission, contractual permission, privacy compliance, or a right to automate.
For defensive QA on systems you control, our dated lab research documents observed headless-browser signals and TLS fingerprints, with explicit limits.
The full spec sheet: protocols, sessions, authentication, targeting, and limits. Everything an engineering team needs before integrating.
| Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 |
|---|---|
| Concurrent Sessions | Subject to plan and service protections |
| Authentication | Username/Password, IP Whitelist |
| Session Options | Gateway-selected exits and requested continuity, subject to connection reuse and availability |
| Geo-Targeting | Country and continent targeting |
| Avg. Latency | ~780ms median response |
| Data Validity | 31 days per package, one-time purchase |
| API Access | Full REST API with docs |
| Uptime | 99.9%+ target, tracked on status.databay.com |
Databay publishes datacenter coverage in markets including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Spain, Poland, Japan, and Brazil. Availability and geolocation can change. Confirm current country and continent options in the dashboard and treat ~780ms as a published comparison figure, not a destination-specific guarantee.
Route distance can affect latency, but peering, congestion, gateway load, the destination, and connection reuse also matter. Choose a country only when the authorized test requires that network-origin input, then benchmark the actual endpoint.
The largest published datacenter pool, for US campaign, localization, and catalog QA. Use official APIs, previews, and feeds where available.
A UK pool for content and catalog QA. A proxy route does not reproduce a viewer's device, account, consent state, or last-mile connection.
A German-market pool for localization and catalog QA. A German exit does not represent Austria or Switzerland.
A French-language content and catalog pool. Confirm current country options before a location-sensitive test.
A Spanish country-level pool. Record locale, account, device, address, and timestamp.
A Polish country-level pool; it does not represent Central Europe generally.
A Brazilian country-level pool; it does not represent Latin America generally.
A Japanese country-level pool. Prefer official APIs, previews, and feeds.
Full coverage map with per-country IP counts is available at Proxy Locations. Need a country not listed? Contact us; we add new regions based on customer demand.
Datacenter proxies provide hosting-network origins, with a published ~780ms comparison figure and $0.50 per GB on the stated 1 TB tier. Verify current pricing and benchmark the authorized workload. Residential and mobile products provide different network origins, not universal trust or access advantages.
| Feature | Datacenter | Residential | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price (per GB) | $0.50 (1 TB) | $0.90 (1 TB) | $2.50 |
| IP pool size | 80,000+ | 34,000,000+ | 800,000+ |
| Country coverage | Key markets | 200+ | 155+ |
| Avg. response time | ~780ms | ~1.1s | ~1.8s |
| Network origin | Hosting ASN | ISP-classified range | Carrier-classified range |
| Best for | Authorized hosting-origin monitoring and data transfer | Authorized ISP-origin geo QA | Authorized carrier-origin app and campaign QA |
| Destination treatment | Target-specific; no access guarantee | Target-specific; no access guarantee | Target-specific; no access guarantee |
| Concurrent connections | Plan-governed | Plan-governed | Plan-governed |
Datacenter can fit when an authorized workflow permits a hosting-network route and a measured benchmark supports the published price and latency tradeoff.
Use mobile or residential only when an authorized test specifically requires that network origin. A destination refusal is not a reason to switch classes.
Budget datacenter proxies reduce the infrastructure bill for pipelines measured in terabytes because server-hosted bandwidth costs less than compensated residential or carrier traffic. The per-GB gap against residential is tabled at the top of this page. What the headline rate cannot tell you is whether the cheaper gigabyte converts into valid responses on your approved targets, so size the purchase from a measured benchmark rather than the price ladder alone.
Compare valid responses, bytes, latency percentiles, destination policy, retries, and engineering time. Network class alone does not predict acceptance, and a blocked request must not trigger identity switching. Run a small authorized benchmark before selecting a plan.
Choose from the documented network-origin requirement, current product terms, and a small authorized benchmark. Neither class guarantees acceptance, performance, or access.
Still weighing the two? The full residential vs datacenter comparison covers pricing, detection, and a use-case decision matrix side by side.
One endpoint, any language. Add our datacenter proxies to your existing code with a few lines.
Common HTTP clients can use HTTP or SOCKS5 when their library and dependencies support it. Authentication, DNS, TLS, and connection reuse differ by client, so verify the current documentation and test a non-sensitive endpoint you control.
import requests
username = "USER-zone-datacenter"
password = "PASS"
proxy = "gw.databay.co:8888"
proxies = {
'http': f'http://{username}:{password}@{proxy}',
'https': f'http://{username}:{password}@{proxy}'
}
# With country targeting (US)
# username = "USER-zone-datacenter-countryCode-us"
response = requests.get(
'https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace',
proxies=proxies,
)
print(response.text)
# Rotating datacenter proxy via cURL
curl -x http://USER-zone-datacenter:PASS@gw.databay.co:8888 \
https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace
# With country targeting (US)
curl -x http://USER-zone-datacenter-countryCode-us:PASS@gw.databay.co:8888 \
https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace
# Sticky session (10 minutes)
curl -x http://USER-zone-datacenter-sessionId-abc123:PASS@gw.databay.co:8888 \
https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace
const axios = require('axios');
const { HttpsProxyAgent } = require('https-proxy-agent');
const username = 'USER-zone-datacenter';
const password = 'PASS';
const proxy = 'gw.databay.co:8888';
const proxyURL = `http://${username}:${password}@${proxy}`;
const httpsAgent = new HttpsProxyAgent(proxyURL);
const response = await axios({
method: 'GET',
url: 'https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace',
httpsAgent,
proxy: false
});
console.log(response.data);
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
class Program
{
static async Task Main()
{
string username = "USER-zone-datacenter";
string password = "PASS";
string proxyUrl = "gw.databay.co:8888";
var handler = new HttpClientHandler
{
Proxy = new WebProxy
{
Address = new Uri($"http://{proxyUrl}"),
Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password)
},
UseProxy = true
};
using var client = new HttpClient(handler);
var resp = await client.GetAsync("https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace");
Console.WriteLine(await resp.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
}
}
Applications with compatible HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy support may use Databay datacenter credentials. The listed browser-profile tools are examples, not a version-by-version guarantee; verify vendor documentation and use profiles only for authorized account separation and QA:
Buy cheap datacenter proxies directly from the Databay dashboard: 80K+ published datacenter IPs across key markets from $0.50/GB at the stated 1 TB tier, with packages starting at 10 GB. Residential and mobile products provide different network origins; they do not guarantee greater anonymity or destination acceptance.
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