Cheap Residential Proxies: Flat $0.55/GB, Pay As You Go
Cheap residential proxies at a flat $0.55/GB: the same rate at 25 GB or 5120 GB, no tiers, no subscription. 9M+ rotating IPs across 90+ countries with free country targeting. Need city-level targeting? See Premium Residential.
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Residential Flex
Plans & pricing
One flat rate
Every GB costs the same.
No volume tiers and no rate changes between 25 and 5120 GB.
Flat unit price
$0.55/ GB
Choose bandwidth
Use a common amount or fine-tune in 5 GB increments.
Pool, country and session mode ride in the username flags, so the client configuration never changes — only the credential string does.
Why Are These Cheap Residential Proxies Actually Reliable?
Residential Flex costs a flat $0.55/GB because of what it leaves out, not because the IPs are worse: same ethical opt-in sourcing as our premium pool, but country-only targeting, a 30-minute sticky cap, and a best-effort SLA instead of an enterprise one. The result is a measured ~95% success rate at roughly one-fifth of typical pay-as-you-go residential pricing.
Compare current provider terms rather than headline prices: volume thresholds, validity, included features, taxes, and service protections can change the effective cost. Databay Flex publishes $0.55/GB from 25 GB through 5120 GB under the current plan terms.
Flat $0.55/GB at every order size: no volume tiers, no teaser pricing
~95% average success rate, published honestly (premium pool: 99.2%)
Same opt-in, compensated IP sourcing as Premium Residential
31-day data validity, stated up front
Don't take the pool quality on faith: we publish independent measurements of residential IP reputation. See the Residential Proxy IP Reputation study (1,000 IPs sampled across 25 ASNs, methodology included), or test any exit IP yourself with the free proxy checker.
Built for budget. Built for volume.
Flex is sourced from a curated subnetwork of our residential pool, optimized for bulk operations where country-level targeting is enough.
Engineered for budget workloads
Same protocols, same dashboard, same API as Premium Residential, sourced from a leaner pool optimized for high-throughput bulk operations.
HTTP, HTTPS & SOCKS5: full protocol support
Country-level targeting included free
REST API and dashboard access
9M+ IPs sourced from ethical opt-in users
80% cheaper than Premium Residential PAYG
Premium Residential PAYG runs $2.75/GB. Flex runs a flat $0.55/GB: same dashboard, same billing, same authentication. Switch any time.
Start at 25 GB ($13.75) and scale to 5120 GB ($2,816) per order. 31-day data validity. Buy more anytime: no subscription, no auto-renewal.
Start at 25 GB ($13.75)
Scale up to 5120 GB ($2,816) per order
31-day data validity
Pay-as-you-go, no monthly commitment
Pay As You Go: No Subscription, No Monthly Minimums
Residential Flex is pure pay-as-you-go: a one-time order of 25 to 5120 GB at $0.55/GB, valid for 31 days, with no subscription, no auto-renewal, and no monthly minimum. When the data runs out or expires, nothing keeps billing unless you enable optional Auto Top-Up, and you re-order only if you want to.
Order once. Pick any size from 25 GB ($13.75) to 5120 GB ($2,816). The entry point lets you test the pool without a plan or a card on file.
Use it for 31 days. Rotating or sticky sessions on the full pool; unused data expires after 31 days, stated here, not buried in terms.
Nothing renews. An order is an order, not a subscription you must remember to cancel. Re-order only when you actually need more.
Card payments accepted
Current payment methods shown in the dashboard at checkout
Bank wire for larger orders
Where Flex differs from Premium Residential
Residential Flex vs Premium Residential, feature by feature
Feature
Residential Flex
Premium Residential
IP pool
9M+
34M+
Countries
90+
200+
Country targeting
Yes
Yes
City / state / ZIP / ASN targeting
No
Yes
Sticky session cap
30 minutes
120 minutes
Average success rate
~95%
99.2%
Average latency
~2s
~1.1s
Service profile
Flat-rate, best-effort pool
Standard residential pool
If you need city-level targeting or 120-minute sticky sessions, look at Premium Residential. If you're doing bulk data collection where country-level targeting is enough, Flex was built for you.
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
string username = "USER-zone-residential_FLEX";
string password = "PASS";
var handler = new HttpClientHandler
{
Proxy = new WebProxy
{
Address = new Uri("http://gw.databay.co:8888"),
Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password)
},
UseProxy = true
};
using var client = new HttpClient(handler);
var content = await client.GetStringAsync("https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace");
Console.WriteLine(content);
Which Tools Work With Residential Flex?
Applications with compatible HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy support may use Flex credentials. The listed tools are examples, not a version-by-version compatibility guarantee; verify current vendor documentation and test a non-sensitive endpoint you control:
Use official APIs, feeds, exports, and licensed datasets first. Where direct access is permitted and the requirement needs an ISP-classified country sample, Flex offers the published flat per-GB price without city-level targeting. A block, 429, or CAPTCHA is a stop or backoff signal, not a reason to change exits or products. Full guides: web scraping · SEO monitoring · e-commerce.
Permitted Public-Data Samples
Collect only approved fields within a source-level request budget, with caching, provenance, and global backoff.
Search QA
Prefer official search APIs and first-party console exports. For permitted spot checks across the published 90+ markets, record query, locale, account, device, timestamp, and route.
Regional Monitoring
Add a country-classified network sample to systems you control; confirm important findings with independent synthetic and real-user monitoring.
Authorized Price Research
Use merchant APIs or licensed feeds where possible. A country exit is only one input and does not reproduce account, device, address, tax, inventory, or personalization.
Licensed Data Pipelines
Retrieve sources covered by a license or documented permission, retain provenance and deletion obligations, minimize personal data, and measure data quality rather than raw request volume.
Ethically Sourced. Publicly Governed.
Flex runs on the same consent-based network as Premium Residential: the discount comes from the feature set, never from sourcing shortcuts.
Published sourcing disclosure Databay states that partner applications present a consent flow, compensate participation, and allow revocation. Review the sourcing and consent model and request diligence materials when required.
A budget-tier rotating residential proxy product at a flat $0.55/GB, sourced from a 9M+ IP pool across 90+ countries. Designed for bulk operations where country-level targeting is enough.
How is Flex different from Premium Residential?
Premium Residential has 34M+ IPs in 200+ locations with city/state/ZIP/ASN targeting, 120-minute sticky sessions, and a 99.2% success rate. Flex has 9M+ IPs in 90+ countries, country-only targeting, a 30-minute sticky cap, and a ~95% success rate. On price: Flex is $0.55/GB flat, while Premium starts at $2.75/GB PAYG and bottoms out at $0.90/GB on the 1 TB plan.
Can I target cities or ZIP codes with Flex?
No. Flex supports country-level targeting only. If you need city, state, ZIP, ASN, GPS, or continent targeting, use Premium Residential.
Why is Flex cheaper than Premium Residential?
Flex is sourced from a smaller, more focused subnetwork of our residential pool. The smaller pool, country-only targeting, capped sticky sessions, and best-effort SLA let us offer the lower price point.
How long can I hold the same IP with Flex sticky sessions?
Up to 30 minutes per session. Premium Residential supports up to 120 minutes.
Do I need a subscription?
No. Flex is pay-as-you-go. Buy 25 to 5120 GB per order with 31-day data validity. Re-up any time.
How do I switch between Premium Residential and Flex?
Both products share the same Databay account, dashboard, and credentials. To route a request through Flex, set the zone parameter in your proxy username to -zone-residential_FLEX.
Are cheap residential proxies reliable?
They can be, when the low price comes from reduced features rather than a dirty pool. Flex uses the same opt-in IP sourcing as our premium residential network and runs at a ~95% success rate. The price difference comes from country-only targeting, a 30-minute sticky cap, and a best-effort SLA, not from resold or botnet IPs. Be wary of providers whose "cheapest" headline rate only applies at 500 GB+ tiers.
Is pay-as-you-go cheaper than a residential proxy subscription?
For variable or bursty workloads, yes: you pay only for the bandwidth you order, with no monthly fee while you sit idle. Subscriptions win only when a provider discounts them heavily and your usage is perfectly steady. Flex is pay-as-you-go at a flat $0.55/GB, so there is no subscription to compare against and no auto-renewal to remember to cancel.
What is the cheapest way to buy residential proxies?
Match the tier to the job. If country-level targeting is enough, a budget pool like Residential Flex at a flat $0.55/GB is the cheapest genuine residential option; budget competitors often gate their sub-$1 headline rates behind 500 GB+ commitments. If you need city/ZIP/ASN targeting or maximum success rates, premium volume plans (e.g. $0.90/GB at 1 TB) cost less per successful request on hard targets.
Should I use Residential Flex or datacenter proxies for bulk scraping?
Depends on the target. Datacenter proxies are cheaper ($0.50/GB at 1 TB) and faster, but they exit from published cloud IP ranges that protected sites challenge more often. Residential Flex costs $0.55/GB flat and exits from home ISP addresses that sites classify as ordinary consumer traffic. Rule of thumb: start on datacenter for unprotected targets, and move the domains that consistently block cloud ranges to Flex.
What payment methods do you accept?
The dashboard shows the payment methods currently available for the account and order at checkout. Contact support before ordering if a bank transfer or a specific payment rail is required.
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