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Residential Proxy Traffic Costs: Estimate Usage at $1 per GB

Compare prepaid packs, estimate usage from recorded traffic and distinguish list size from traffic balance.

By Krantz 4 min read

Krantz residential proxy traffic costs $1 per GB in every current pack. It is prepaid, has no expiration and is separate from desktop software licenses. Estimate cost from the traffic a representative operation actually uses.

A generated proxy list and a traffic pack describe different things. A long list does not establish a large balance, and a large balance does not promise unique permanent IP addresses.

Buy traffic rather than a count of lines

Generation produces connection configurations for your application. A pack adds traffic to the account balance. The service currently supports up to 1,000 lines in one generation.

HTTP or SOCKS5 selects the proxy protocol. Rotating or sticky selects session behavior. Neither setting changes a list of configurations into a desktop subscription.

Current pack arithmetic is straightforward:

TrafficCurrent price
1 GB$1
10 GB$10
50 GB$50
100 GB$100
500 GB$500

The price per GB is the same across these packs. Choose a pack around your intended usage, rather than an assumed volume discount.

Estimate cost from a representative task

Start with a small operation that resembles the application, concurrency and destinations you intend to use. Record its settings and review the account’s usage after the operation.

If a representative task uses 2 GB and you plan five similar tasks, a first estimate is 10 GB, or $10 at the current rate. This is illustrative arithmetic, not a measured workload.

A webpage’s displayed size or a local file’s size is not necessarily the account’s recorded proxy traffic. Application activity and retries can make a simple size-based forecast misleading.

Review actual usage rather than treating the example as a guarantee. A changed application, destination or retry configuration can produce a different result for a later run.

Choose a pack and review usage

Use the current product page to select a pack and confirm its displayed total before paying. Traffic is added after the purchase is confirmed; the generator’s line count is a separate choice.

Because purchased traffic does not expire, an unused remainder stays available. That does not make the current balance a recurring monthly allowance or a guaranteed number of tasks.

The usage API exposes dated balance deductions in UTC. Use that recorded metric when comparing time windows, and distinguish it from the number of generated batches or exported lines.

For continuity-sensitive tasks, read the sticky-session guide before choosing settings. For scripted generation, the related API guide explains small requests and output formats.