Pay As You Go Proxies: Buy GB, Not Subscriptions

Residential from $0.80/GB · wallet from $5 · nothing to cancel

Pay as you go at Quantum Proxies means you buy a block of gigabytes, use it at your own pace and never sign a subscription. Residential Basic costs $0.80–$1.00 per GB, mobile 4G/5G starts at $5 per GB, datacenter runs from $0.50 per GB and IPv6 from $0.08 per GB. Residential plans stay valid 90–360 days, wallet top-ups from $5 never expire, and there is nothing to cancel.

How pay as you go proxies work here

There are two ways to pay, and neither is a subscription. The first is a prepaid plan: you pick a product and a size, for example 25 GB of Residential Basic for $25, pay once, and the traffic sits in your account until you use it or the validity window closes. The second is the wallet: top up any amount from $5 and draw on the balance as requests go through; the balance never expires.

Nothing renews on its own. If you want a long job to keep running, you can enable auto-recharge, which reloads the wallet when it drops below a threshold you set, and you can switch it off at any time. Otherwise, when the traffic is gone, the account simply stops until you buy more. No invoice is generated in the background and there is nothing to cancel.

Residential pay as you go: $0.80–$1.00 per GB

Residential Basic is the core pay as you go product: 90M+ residential IPs in 200+ countries with city targeting, rotating or sticky sessions, HTTP and SOCKS5. Plans are 25 GB for $25, 50 GB for $50, 100 GB for $100, 500 GB for $450 and 1,000 GB for $800, so the per-GB price moves from $1.00 at the entry size to $0.80 at volume, and every plan stays valid for 90–360 days.

Residential Premium is the higher tier for targets that need a cleaner pool: 1 GB for $4 at the entry size, down to $2.50 per GB on the 100 GB plan at $250. New accounts can also test the residential pool with 100 MB free for 5 days, unlocked by SMS and with no card required.

Pay as you go mobile proxies

Mobile 4G/5G traffic is sold the same way: prepaid GB, no subscription, 90 days of validity. The plans are 1 GB for $5, 5 GB for $20 ($4/GB), 10 GB for $35 ($3.50/GB), 25 GB for $75 ($3/GB), 100 GB for $250 ($2.50/GB) and 500 GB for $1,150 ($2.30/GB). Every plan uses real carrier IPs with country, region, city and carrier targeting, rotating or sticky sessions up to 24 hours, over HTTP or SOCKS5.

Because the entry size is 1 GB, a pay as you go mobile proxy is a realistic way to test a consumer app or a social platform before committing to a larger block. Buy 1 GB, run the job, and scale to 25 or 100 GB only once you know the traffic works.

Datacenter and IPv6: pay per GB from $0.50 and $0.08

Datacenter proxies are priced per GB rather than per IP, which suits bulk fetching where identity does not matter. The entry block is 50 GB for $40, and the per-GB price falls to $0.50 on the larger 500 GB and 1,000 GB blocks. IPv6 traffic is cheaper still: it starts at $0.20 per GB on the 100 GB block and drops to roughly $0.08 per GB at 3,000 GB. Datacenter and IPv6 blocks are valid for 30 days.

ISP proxies are the one product that is not sold per GB. A dedicated static IP with unmetered bandwidth costs $3.80 per month for 1–10 IPs, down to $2.50 above 100 IPs, with 5–12% off for 60–120-day terms. It is still pay as you go in the sense that there is no auto-renewal: you buy a term and it ends.

When pay as you go beats a subscription

Pay as you go wins whenever usage is uneven. Bursty scraping jobs, a price-monitoring run that fires once a week, a research project that needs 40 GB this month and nothing next month: a subscription bills for the idle weeks, a prepaid block does not. Agencies running client work pay the same per-GB rate whether they have one client or ten, and can buy a separate block per project for clean accounting.

It is also the right model for testing. Buy 1 GB of mobile for $5 or 25 GB of residential for $25, learn whether the target accepts the IPs, and only then decide on volume. There is no annual lock-in to negotiate and no cancellation window to remember.

When a bigger prepaid plan beats pay as you go

If your volume is steady, the larger block is cheaper per GB and still involves no subscription. Residential Basic drops from $1.00 per GB at 25 GB to $0.80 per GB at 1,000 GB, a 20% saving over the same traffic bought in small pieces. Mobile falls from $5 per GB at 1 GB to $2.30 per GB at 500 GB, and datacenter from $0.80 to $0.50 per GB.

The trade-off is validity. A 1,000 GB residential plan must be used within its 90–360-day window, so the bigger block only pays off if you will actually consume it. A useful rule: estimate three months of traffic, buy the plan closest to that figure, and keep a small wallet balance for overflow.

Wallet, auto-recharge and payment methods

The wallet accepts any amount from $5 and the balance never expires, so it is the safest place to park money you have not yet allocated to a product. Auto-recharge is optional: set a threshold and a top-up amount, and the wallet refills itself when a long crawl runs low, which avoids a stalled job at three in the morning. Turn it off and the account goes back to strictly manual top-ups.

You can pay by card, PayPal or 300+ cryptocurrencies including USDT. Crypto payments require no KYC, which matters to teams that want to buy proxies without attaching a company card. Every purchase is one-off: no recurring billing agreement is created, whichever method you choose.

Price per GB by product

ProductSmallest planPrice per GB at entryPrice per GB at volumeValidity
Residential Basic25 GB – $25$1.00$0.80 (1,000 GB – $800)90–360 days
Residential Premium1 GB – $4$4.00$2.50 (100 GB – $250)Shown at checkout
Mobile 4G/5G1 GB – $5$5.00$2.30 (500 GB – $1,150)90 days
Datacenter50 GB – $40$0.80$0.50 (500 GB and 1,000 GB blocks)30 days
IPv6100 GB – $20$0.20≈ $0.08 (3,000 GB – $250)30 days
ISP / static residential1 IP – $3.80 per monthUnmetered (per IP)$2.50 per IP above 100 IPsMonthly, 5–12% off for 60–120 days
Wallet top-upFrom $5Product rate appliesProduct rate appliesNever expires

Frequently Asked Questions

Is there any subscription or recurring charge?

No. Every product is sold as a prepaid GB block or funded from a wallet you top up yourself. Nothing renews automatically unless you deliberately enable auto-recharge on the wallet, and you can switch that off at any time. There is no monthly commitment, no billing agreement and nothing to cancel when you stop.

Does prepaid proxy traffic expire?

Wallet balance never expires. Prepaid plans have a validity window: 90–360 days for Residential Basic, 90 days for mobile, 30 days for datacenter and IPv6 blocks. Buy the plan size you expect to use within that window and keep any extra money in the wallet, where it stays available indefinitely.

Can I buy mobile proxies pay as you go?

Yes. Mobile 4G/5G traffic starts at 1 GB for $5 with no subscription, and larger blocks go down to $2.30 per GB at 500 GB for $1,150. All mobile plans are valid 90 days and include carrier, country, region and city targeting with rotating or sticky sessions up to 24 hours.

Are datacenter proxies sold per GB too?

Yes. Datacenter traffic is metered per GB rather than per IP: the entry block is 50 GB for $40, and the per-GB price drops to $0.50 on the 500 GB and 1,000 GB blocks. IPv6 goes lower, from $0.20 per GB at 100 GB to roughly $0.08 per GB at 3,000 GB. Both are 30-day blocks with no renewal.

What is the minimum purchase?

The smallest wallet top-up is $5, and the smallest product plans are 1 GB of mobile for $5, 1 GB of Residential Premium for $4, 25 GB of Residential Basic for $25 and one ISP IP for $3.80 per month. New accounts can also test the residential pool with 100 MB free for 5 days, unlocked by SMS, no card needed.

Can I pay for proxies with crypto?

Yes. Alongside card and PayPal, Quantum Proxies accepts 300+ cryptocurrencies including USDT, with no KYC. Crypto top-ups land in the same wallet as any other payment and can fund every product. Because every purchase is one-off, paying with crypto does not create any recurring billing agreement.

How does auto-recharge work, and is it required?

Auto-recharge is optional and off by default. If you enable it, you set a wallet threshold and a top-up amount; when the balance falls below the threshold during a job, the wallet refills itself from your saved payment method. Disable it and the account returns to manual top-ups only, with no charges unless you make them.

What happens when my GB run out mid-job?

Requests stop being served until you add traffic. With a wallet balance or auto-recharge enabled, the job continues without interruption. Without either, buy another prepaid block or top up from $5 in the dashboard; credentials and whitelisted IPs stay unchanged, so the job resumes with the same configuration.

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