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Residential proxy tiers: from $5 down to $0.50 per GB

The cdpfleet residential proxy now has four price tiers — $5, $2.50, $1 and $0.50 per GB — paid from one prepaid USD balance. Pick the tier per token, and mix tiers in one session with proxy_rules.

2026-10-16

The cdpfleet residential proxy lets a session browse from a residential IP without a proxy account of your own: you send a cdpfleet-resi token as proxy, and the traffic is billed per GB from a prepaid balance. Until now there was one price. There are now four tiers, so bulk traffic doesn't have to cost as much as the pages that matter.

The tiers

• Tier 1 — $5.00/GB, the default: cdpfleet-resi… or cdpfleet-resi-tier-1….
• Tier 2 — $2.50/GB: cdpfleet-resi-tier-2….
• Tier 3 — $1.00/GB: cdpfleet-resi-tier-3….
• Tier 4 — $0.50/GB: cdpfleet-resi-tier-4….
• Exit country and sticky sessions work on every tier, e.g. cdpfleet-resi-tier-4-country-us-session-cart1-lifetime-30; device OS targeting (-os-…) on Tier 1 and 2. The pools behind each tier can differ and may change.

One balance for all of them

• Traffic (up and down, 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes) is paid from one prepaid USD balance, and each GB is charged at the tier of the token that carried it. The balance doesn't expire.
• Every account starts with $5 free credit — 1 GB on Tier 1, or 10 GB on Tier 4. Top up any amount from $10 on the dashboard's Proxies page.
• When the balance is used up, launches with a token return 402 proxy_balance_exhausted. Usage is metered about once a minute, so a running session may go up to $0.50 past zero before it is ended; that comes off your next top-up.
• GET /v1/me/proxy-balance shows the balance, today's usage per tier in bytes and USD, and the price of each tier.

Mix tiers in one session

• A token can be the session's proxy or a single rule's proxy in proxy_rules. Keep the pages that decide whether a scrape works on Tier 1 and send image and static-file hosts through Tier 4:
• "proxy": "cdpfleet-resi-country-us", "proxy_rules": [{ "hosts": ["*.cloudfront.net", "static.*"], "proxy": "cdpfleet-resi-tier-4-country-us" }]
• Measured on a Wikimedia Commons gallery, images were about two thirds of the bytes, and moving their hosts to Tier 4 cut the cost of a load by about 60 %. The billed bytes per tier matched what the browser counted — case 51 has the program in five languages.

Read more

• Tiers, token syntax and the balance: Residential proxy and /residential-proxy.
• Rules per host: proxy_rules and case 07. Bytes you don't load cost nothing: case 08.