Published 2026-10-05
How many GB of residential proxy traffic do you need?
Buying by the gigabyte is only cheap if you know how many gigabytes you use. Measure, then multiply.
Step 1: measure one page
Load the page through your tool with images and media blocked, and read the total transferred bytes from your browser’s network panel or from your HTTP client’s response size. Do this for five typical pages and take the average.
Step 2: count your requests
Pages per run times runs per month. Add 10 to 20 percent for retries, as a planning allowance and not as a measured figure, then replace it with your own failure rate after the first week.
Step 3: turn it into a price
Gigabytes times the per-GB rate for the volume you buy. At 10 GB the rate is $3.95 per GB, so $39.50. The calculator on this site does the rung lookup for you.
A worked example with stated assumptions
Suppose a page is 200 KB with media blocked, you fetch 50,000 pages, and you allow 15 percent for retries. That is 50,000 times 200 KB, which is 10 GB, plus 1.5 GB, so about 11.5 GB. Round up to the next order you can afford and keep the remainder for next month.
Frequently asked questions
Do headers and TLS add to the count?
Yes, a little. Measuring through the proxy at the network layer gives the closest figure to what the meter sees.
Try it for $5
Minimum top-up is $5. Run your own target through it before you scale.