What is the real cost of an unlimited proxy plan?

For ProxyScrape’s 100 Mbps unlimited-bandwidth residential row, the observed checkout was $190 for 1 day, $617.50 for 7 days and $1,425 for 30 days. Dividing each checkout by its access term gives $190, $88.21 and $47.50 per access day. The plan matrix was retrieved on 2026-07-25T16:33:08.221Z. ProxyScrape pricing API evidence, retrieved 2026-07-25T16:33:08.221Z

The real cost is the committed checkout for a specific access duration and throughput ceiling. “Unlimited bandwidth” means the row does not meter transferred GB. It does not turn the price into a per-GB number, remove the access term or make every speed tier equivalent.

The dataset contains 68 rows whose pricing model is unlimited_bandwidth. Of those, 59 have a published checkout and 9 have no published price. ProxyScrape contributes an exact matrix of 18 rows: three access terms crossed with six throughput tiers. That matrix makes both dimensions visible without treating a missing value as permissive.

Normalize the access term first

The three 100 Mbps rows isolate the effect of commitment length:

Buying thirty copies of the observed 1-day row would compute to $5,700. The observed 30-day checkout is $1,425, a difference of $4,275, or 75 percent of the repeated daily total. This is a term comparison inside one provider and one throughput tier, not a claim that the longer plan is cheaper for a workload that only runs briefly. ProxyScrape pricing API evidence, retrieved 2026-07-25T16:33:08.221Z

The lower daily equivalent is purchased with a larger commitment. A buyer still pays the full $1,425 checkout for the 30-day row. The $47.50 figure is useful for comparing terms, but it is not a daily payment option in the dataset. ProxyScrape 30-day pricing evidence, retrieved 2026-07-25T16:33:08.221Z

Normalize throughput separately

Access duration alone is not enough. Within the 30-day family, the observed checkouts increase as the throughput ceiling increases:

The 30-day checkout range in those three named rows is therefore $1,425 to $5,537. The cost per Mbps-day range is $0.1846 to $0.4750. The lower capacity-normalized figure belongs to the larger checkout, so it must not be presented as the amount a small buyer can spend. ProxyScrape pricing API evidence, retrieved 2026-07-25T16:33:08.221Z

Mbps-day is only a price normalization. It does not claim that the workload will sustain the ceiling, that all targets will accept the traffic or that a megabit produces a fixed number of successful requests. The pricing dataset contains plan terms, not workload performance measurements.

There is no honest cost per GB without measured usage

A metered plan supplies a GB denominator. An unlimited-bandwidth plan deliberately does not. Dividing the checkout by an invented transfer amount would create a rate that is absent from both the dataset and the vendor evidence.

The buyer can calculate an effective cost per GB after the workload runs by dividing the checkout by measured transferred GB. That result belongs to that workload and time window. It is not a published plan rate and should not be used to rank a different workload without carrying the measured usage assumption.

This is also why the 9 unlimited-bandwidth rows without a public checkout remain “not published.” They cannot be assigned a zero price or folded into a permissive range. The absence of a price is a limit on the comparison.

Add the terms that can change the bill

ProxyScrape’s evidence explicitly marks concurrent connections as unrestricted for these rows. The rows still carry their throughput ceilings and access terms. Its terms also state that listed prices are net and applicable tax is added at checkout, so the published amounts above are pre-tax observations rather than universal card totals. ProxyScrape plan terms, retrieved 2026-07-25T16:33:08.221Z

The dataset records a 3-day conditional refund window for this family. That policy may affect purchase risk, but it does not reduce the checkout used in the calculations. ProxyScrape refund terms, retrieved 2026-07-25T16:33:08.221Z

The practical answer is to compare checkout, access days and the published substitute constraint. For the matched 100 Mbps rows, the real committed cost ranges from $190 for 1 day to $1,425 for 30 days, while the computed daily equivalent ranges from $47.50 to $190. Any cost-per-GB claim requires measured usage that the plan dataset does not contain. ProxyScrape pricing API evidence, retrieved 2026-07-25T16:33:08.221Z