Pay As You Go is a payment system allowing you to use residential proxies without a monthly subscription. You can access Pay As You Go on the dashboard and purchase GBs for Smartproxy's residential proxies with it.

This payment system is only available with Smart Wallet. Thus you have to top up your Smart Wallet, and only then you'll be able to use Pay As You Go. With Pay As You Go, 1GB costs $8.5 (note that one Smart Wallet credit equals one dollar), and you can purchase only one GB at a time. 

Keep in mind that you can't have a monthly subscription plan and Pay As You Go simultaneously. Learn more about Pay As You Go payment method.

Sure thing! Try our residential proxies with a 3-day free trial. Go to the Smartproxy dashboard, select a residential proxy plan, and opt for the trial version if you’re a new user. Enjoy 100 MB for 3 days, and after the trial period ends, your chosen plan will activate automatically, and you can cancel anytime before then. Please note that a 14-day money-back option doesn’t apply with a 3-day free trial.

We accept payments with credit cards, PayPal, Alipay, Google Pay, and Apple Pay. You can also pay with cryptocurrency for all products except ISP proxies and datacenter proxies (Pay per IP option).

All orders are processed by our online reseller Paddle – The complete payments, tax, and subscriptions solution for SaaS, which is a Merchant of Record for these orders. To contact Paddle’s support team, reach out via Paddle.net.

Residential proxies’ average response time and success rate provided on our website are based on Proxyway’s research. Proxyway is an independent educational platform dedicated to the research and testing of proxy providers and services that run requests from testing servers using a custom Python script and a global CDN as the target. Our shared DC and DDC proxies were tested using Python requests and time libraries by noting the time before sending a request and after receiving a response. We sent 500 requests per endpoint to the http://ipinfo.io/ip website. After receiving 500 HTTP 200 response codes, we divided the total time by 500 to determine the average response time. Requests were sent from the same country’s VPN as the endpoint. The test was conducted using a rotating session type with Python 3.9.6. version. Check the Python code example in our help docs.

1. Create your Smartproxy account, verify your email address, and navigate to the Residential Proxies tab on the dashboard's left-side menu.
2. Choose the subscription that matches your needs. You can opt for a 3-day free trial option, purchase the proxies using Smart Wallet credits or your preferred payment method. We accept various payment methods, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Amex, and you can stay safe and sound – 256-bit SSL protects your information.
3. And now you are ready to set up your proxies:

• Authenticate your proxies with username:password or whitelisted IPs.
• Select proxy location: random or targeting specific country, city, or US state.
• Choose session type: rotate IPs per request or keep one for up to 30 min.
• Pick output format: endpoint:port, HTTPS, or SOCKS5.
• Integrate proxies with your third-party software, bots, and scripts.
• Monitor statistics of traffic usage, requests, and top targets.

When in need, rely on our extensive help docs or drop a line to our 24/7 tech support.