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How far does 1 GB of proxy traffic go?

One GB of proxy traffic lasts about 47,600 page loads if your scraper fetches only the HTML, or about 509 if a browser loads each whole page, at the median page sizes in HTTP Archive's 2025 Web Almanac (21 KB of HTML, 1,963 KB in all, for a desktop inner page). ZenRows' own rule of thumb is 1,000 protected pages per GB. So 100,000 pages a month need about 2.1 GB of HTML, or 196 GB through a browser.

I scrape pages a month, loading , KB a page, through proxies.

100,000 pages at 21 KB each come to 2.1 GB a month. Cheapest residential traffic: PacketStream at $2.10 a month ($0.021 per 1,000 pages).

  1. PacketStream$2.10/mo$1.00 per GB. Pay as you go: $1.00 per GB; $50 minimum purchase, which never expires.
  2. Proxy-Cheap$4.50/mo$2.14 per GB. Monthly: $1.50 per GB, 3 GB minimum order.
  3. Rayobyte Premium$7.35/mo$3.50 per GB. Pay as you go: $3.50 per GB.
  4. Decodo$8.40/mo$4.00 per GB. Pay as you go: $4.00 per GB.
  5. SOAX$10.50/mo$5.00 per GB. Sandbox plan: $5.00 per GB, no monthly fee.
  6. IPRoyal$12.50/mo$5.95 per GB. Subscription: $5.95 per GB; traffic never expires.
  7. Bright Data$16.80/mo$8.00 per GB. Pay as you go: $8.00 per GB. $4.00/GB for the first 3 months with code RESIGB50.
  8. Webshare$27.50/mo$13.10 per GB. 10 GB for $27.50 a month.
  9. Oxylabs$30/mo$14.29 per GB. Starter: 5 GB for $30 a month.
  10. Massive$80/mo$38.10 per GB. Starter: 10 GB for $80 a month.
  11. Rayobyte Scale$100/mo$47.62 per GB. 6,600 GB for $100 a month. No location targeting; business verification first.

Each provider's cheapest published plan for that much traffic in a month, before VAT, monthly billing. Pages × KB a page, taking 1 GB as 1,000,000 KB. Real traffic runs higher: headers, TLS handshakes, redirects, retries and blocked pages all count. How plans are priced.

How many pages does 1 GB last?

Each request loadsPages per GB100,000 pages
HTML only
21 KB, median inner page		47,6002.1 GB
Whole page, in a browser
1,963 KB, median inner page		509196.3 GB
Whole home page, in a browser
2,860 KB, median home page		350286 GB
Protected page
ZenRows' rule of thumb		1,000100 GB

Desktop medians across the millions of sites HTTP Archive crawled in July 2025; page weight is the bytes transferred to the browser. A protected page is ZenRows' JavaScript rendering through premium proxies.

What does proxy traffic add per 1,000 pages?

Each request loadsAt $0.78/GBAt $7.00/GB
HTML only$0.0164$0.147
Whole page, in a browser$1.53$13.74

$0.78 and $7.00 per GB are the cheapest and dearest residential prices at 100 GB a month (Proxy-Cheap and Bright Data). A scraping API charges $0.19 to $1.50 per 1,000 plain pages at 100,000 a month, but it runs the browser, retries failures and gets past blocks for you; with your own proxies you pay for the traffic of every attempt. Compare both in the scraping cost calculator.

Quick answers

How long does 1 GB of residential proxy traffic last?

About 47,600 page loads when you fetch only the HTML of a typical page, or about 509 when a browser loads everything on it (HTTP Archive's 2025 medians). How many days that is depends on how many pages you scrape a day.

How many requests can you make with 1 GB of proxy traffic?

About 47,600 HTML-only requests at 21 KB each. With a browser, each page also pulls its scripts, styles and images: about 509 pages per GB at 1,963 KB. ZenRows puts it at 1,000 protected pages per GB.

How much bandwidth does web scraping use?

100,000 pages a month use about 2.1 GB when you fetch only the HTML and about 196 GB when a browser loads each page. Retries, redirects and blocked pages add to it.

How much do proxies cost per 1,000 pages?

At $0.78 to $7.00 per GB (residential, 100 GB a month), 1,000 HTML-only pages use $0.0164 to $0.147 of traffic, and 1,000 whole pages $1.53 to $13.74. A scraping API charges $0.19 to $1.50 per 1,000 plain pages at 100,000 a month, with retries and unblocking included.

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Page sizes: HTTP Archive, Web Almanac 2025: Page Weight, ZenRows pricing docs, read on 7 October 2026. Proxy prices checked on the date below.

Prices checked against each platform's own pricing page on .