How many gigabytes?
Type how many pages you will fetch, how big each response is and how long the job runs. You get the total in gigabytes, what it costs on residential proxies at $2.99 per GB, and what the same days would cost on the three products that are billed by time instead.
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20.00 GB, $59.80 on residential.
10,000 pages x 1 requests x 2,000 KB = 20,000,000 KB = 20.00 GB (18.63 GiB in binary units). Over 30 days that is 0.667 GB a day.
| Product | Billed by | What this job would buy | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | Gigabyte, $2.99 per GB | 20.00 GB exactly; sold as 20 GB | $59.80 ($59.80) |
| Datacenter | Time, $1.79 per IP per 31 days | 1 IP for 30 days at $1.73 each | $1.73 |
| ISP | Time, $5.00 per IP per month | 1 IP for 1 month | $5.00 |
| Rotating IPv6 | Time, $0.012 per thread per day | 100 threads for 30 days | $36.00 |
Residential: the first figure is the exact cost of the gigabytes, the bracketed one is the price of the whole gigabytes you would buy (1 to 1,000 GB per order, top-ups later, and the bandwidth never expires). Datacenter is prorated from $1.79 per 31 days and sold in terms of 7, 14, 31, 62, 93, 186, 365 days; ISP is sold by the month, so 30 days is rounded up to 1 month; rotating IPv6 is sold in terms of 7, 14, 30, 60, 90 days. The three are unlimited bandwidth, so their figures do not move with the page count, only with the days, IPs and threads.
The formula
total KB = pages x requests per page x average page size (KB) total GB = total KB / 1,000,000 (1 KB = 1,000 bytes, decimal gigabytes) total GiB = total KB x 1,000 / 1,073,741,824 (binary, what some tools display) cost = total GB x $2.99 per GB (residential, billed per decimal GB)
What this tool does
A residential proxy is billed by the gigabyte, so before you buy you want to know how many gigabytes a job will burn. This page multiplies the number of pages by the requests each page needs and by the size of one response, and turns the total into gigabytes and a price at the live rate of $2.99 per GB, read from the same configuration the order form uses. The three products that are billed by time, ISP, datacenter and rotating IPv6, are shown underneath at the same number of days, computed by the same price functions as checkout, so the comparison is honest to the cent.
Read the result in two steps. First the gigabytes: if they look too high, the page size is usually the reason, because a browser downloads everything on a page while a scraper that fetches HTML only moves a small fraction of that, so measure one real response and use that number. Then the comparison: a cheaper figure on a time-billed product only matters if the target accepts that kind of address. Sites that block hosting ranges leave you with residential whatever the sum says, and bulk transfer from a tolerant target is wasted money on residential. The comparison guide explains which product fits which target, and the API returns live usage for a residential plan so you can check the estimate against reality.
How is the bandwidth worked out?
Pages multiplied by requests per page multiplied by the average size of one response in KB, divided by 1,000,000, gives decimal gigabytes (1 KB = 1,000 bytes, 1 GB = 1,000,000 KB). Residential bandwidth is billed in those decimal gigabytes, so the figure is the one that matters for the price.
Why is the default page size 2,000 KB?
It is an assumption for the example, not a measurement. A full browser load of a modern page, with images, scripts and fonts, often comes to a couple of megabytes. A fetch of the HTML alone, which is what most scrapers do, is usually well under 100 KB, so measure one real response and type that in.
What does residential bandwidth cost?
$2.99 per GB, bought in whole gigabytes from 1 to 1,000 per order, and it never expires. The calculator shows the exact cost of the gigabytes your job needs and the price of the whole gigabytes you would buy to cover it.
Why do the other three products not change with the page count?
ISP, datacenter and rotating IPv6 proxies have unlimited bandwidth and are billed by time: per IP per month, per IP per term, or per thread per day. Their cost depends on how many days the job runs and how many IPs or threads you use, not on the gigabytes. They are the cheaper choice for bulk transfer when the target accepts them.
Which product should I pick?
It depends on the target, not on this sum. Residential is for sites that block hosting ranges or check whether you look like a person. Datacenter and ISP are for targets that accept a static address, and rotating IPv6 for targets that take IPv6 and need a new address every request. The comparison guide goes through each one.
Is anything I type here stored?
No. The numbers are used to render this one response and are not written anywhere, and public pages set no cookie. The privacy page lists everything the site stores.
Buy bandwidth on residential proxies, or compare with ISP, datacenter and rotating IPv6. Everything here is also available through the API.