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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](https://cdpfleet.com/app#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](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/cases/resi-tiers-mix) has the program in five languages.

## Read more

-   Tiers, token syntax and the balance: [Residential proxy](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/proxies#residential) and [/residential-proxy](https://cdpfleet.com/residential-proxy).
-   Rules per host: [proxy\_rules](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/proxies#rules) and [case 07](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/cases/per-host-proxy-rules). Bytes you don't load cost nothing: [case 08](https://cdpfleet.com/docs/cases/bandwidth-diet).

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