CleanProxies vs Decodo (Smartproxy): Prices and Features Compared (2026)

Decodo, the company formerly known as Smartproxy, is one of the most popular mid-market proxy brands, with ISP, residential, mobile and datacenter products and a polished dashboard. It's an easy first choice. It's also an expensive one once your usage grows. Dedicated ISP IPs don't drop below $2.00 even at 2,000 IPs, residential data is sold as monthly subscriptions that reset, sticky sessions top out at 30 minutes, and every price is shown before VAT.

This comparison sets CleanProxies against Decodo on the things that decide cost and results: carriers, speed, session length, data expiry and price at real volumes. Decodo's figures come from its own pricing pages, checked in October 2026 and linked below; its prices exclude VAT.

TL;DR

• CleanProxies wins on US ISP proxies. Dedicated IPs on named Tier-1 carriers (Cox, Spectrum, Frontier, Verizon, Comcast, RCN, AT&T and T-Mobile), 0 fraud score, unlimited bandwidth, 100Gbps ports and under 20 ms average latency, from $0.75/IP against Decodo's lowest $2.00.

• CleanProxies wins on residential and mobile. Residential as low as $0.63/GB (Decodo: $2.00), mobile as low as $0.79/GB (Decodo: $2.25 on a 50% promotion), and the data never expires.

• CleanProxies wins on sessions and simplicity. Sticky sessions up to 90 minutes vs 30, no subscriptions, no VAT surprises on the price page, and servers next to the proxies.

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CleanProxies vs Decodo at a glance

What ISP proxies are, and why carrier IPs matter

An ISP proxy is a static IPv4 address registered to a consumer internet provider and hosted on server hardware. Sites see a home-broadband carrier like Verizon or Cox in the ASN lookup and treat the request like a real household, while you get server speed and an IP that never changes. For logins, checkouts and account management, that combination is unbeatable, provided the IP is dedicated, clean and on a network fast enough to keep up.

CleanProxies: the US ISP proxy specialist

CleanProxies sells what it calls the cleanest ISP proxies on the internet, and its specialty is US ISP. Every ISP proxy is a real USA IP on Cox, Spectrum, Frontier, Verizon, Comcast or RCN, plus AT&T and T-Mobile. It runs on 100Gbps ports in Ashburn, Virginia, with under 20 ms average latency and 99.9% uptime, from the same team that runs BartProxies.

ISP proxies: 100% dedicated, 0 fraud score, unlimited bandwidth and threads, HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 with UDP, free replacements, instant delivery, as low as $0.75/IP.

ISP subnets: dedicated /24 blocks of 255, 510 or 1,020 IPs from $1.19/IP. See what ISP subnet proxies are.

Rotating residential: 50M+ IPs in 190+ countries, 19.7 million in the US, with state and city targeting and sticky sessions up to 90 minutes. As low as $0.63/GB, one-time purchase, never expires.

Mobile: 10M+ real 4G/5G IPs on AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon and more, rotating or sticky per request. As low as $0.79/GB, never expires.

Servers: VPS from $24/month and bare metal from $125/month in the same Virginia facility.

Support: 24/7 dedicated support at help@cleanproxies.com.

Decodo: what it sells, and where it falls short

Dedicated ISP. Decodo's ISP page lists dedicated IPs from $3.33 each (3 IPs) down to $2.00 each at 2,000 IPs, plus VAT, in 19 countries. It also sells shared static IPs, billed per IP or per GB.

Where it falls short: the lowest dedicated price, $2.00 at 2,000 IPs, is more than two and a half times CleanProxies' floor. Port speed, latency and uptime aren't on its pricing pages, and carriers aren't named.

Residential. Decodo's residential pricing lists monthly subscriptions at $3.75/GB (3 GB), $3.50 (10 GB), $3.25 (25 GB), $3.00 (50 GB), $2.75 (100 GB), $2.50 (250 GB) and $2.00 (1,000 GB), plus pay-as-you-go at $4/GB, all plus VAT. It lists 115M+ IPs with targeting down to ZIP and ASN.

Where it falls short: subscriptions reset monthly, sticky sessions top out at "up to 30 min," and the floor is more than three times CleanProxies'.

Mobile. Decodo's mobile pricing showed every tier at 50% off when we checked: $3.75/GB (2 GB) down to $2.25/GB (500 GB), from $7.50 to $4.50 before the discount, with 10M+ IPs, 700+ carriers and 160+ locations.

Where it falls short: even at half price, Decodo's lowest mobile rate is nearly three times CleanProxies' $0.79 floor.

Trials and refunds. Decodo's 3-day residential trial (100 MB) converts to a plan unless you cancel, and its 14-day money-back option is limited to a first purchase, excludes trial users and ends after 20% of a plan's traffic is used.

Network, speed and support

Price only matters if the proxies perform. CleanProxies runs its ISP proxies and subnets on 100Gbps ports in Ashburn, Virginia, one of the densest interconnection hubs in the world, with under 20 ms average latency and 99.9% uptime. IPs are screened for a 0 fraud score before delivery and replaced free if one is ever blocked or unusable. Support is available 24/7 at help@cleanproxies.com, from the same team that runs BartProxies. Decodo's pricing pages don't list port speeds, latency or an uptime figure, so if those matter to your workload, ask before you buy.

Why CleanProxies skips datacenter proxies

Decodo also sells shared and dedicated datacenter proxies, per its datacenter pricing. CleanProxies deliberately doesn't. Datacenter IPs are announced by hosting companies, and protected US sites distrust those ranges first; Cloudflare found AWS and Google Cloud alone originated a quarter of global bot traffic in 2025. CleanProxies puts its effort into IPs that sites actually trust: named US consumer carriers for ISP proxies, real households for residential and real 4G/5G carriers for mobile.

What the numbers mean in practice

At 1,000 ISP IPs, CleanProxies is less than half the price, before Decodo adds VAT. At 1,000 GB of residential, it's $1,160 less, and you keep any GB you don't use.

Session length changes success rate. A 30-minute sticky session can drop mid-checkout or mid-pagination on a slow flow. CleanProxies holds the IP for up to 90 minutes, and for anything longer you move to a dedicated ISP IP with no session limit at all.

Subscriptions waste money in quiet months. If your scraping volume swings, a monthly plan that resets charges you for traffic you never use. CleanProxies GB are a one-time purchase that waits for you.

Page weight decides per-GB cost. The median home page weighs 2.56 MB on mobile (HTTP Archive Web Almanac 2025). At that size, 1,000 GB is roughly 390,000 full page loads, so the $1,160 gap at that volume works out to about 0.3 cents on every page. Across millions of pages a month, that's your budget.

Key stats:

• Bad bots keep growing. The Thales 2026 Bad Bot Report puts bots at 53% of internet traffic in 2025 and bad bots at 40%, up 3 points in a year. More filtering means IP quality matters more than raw pool size.

• Hosting ranges get scrutinised. Cloudflare's 2025 Year in Review reports AWS and Google Cloud originated a quarter of global bot traffic, which is why sites trust consumer-carrier IPs over datacenter ranges.

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A habit worth dropping is buying a bigger monthly plan "just in case." With non-expiring GB and published volume pricing, you can buy exactly the headroom you need and keep it until you use it.

Which one should you pick?

Pick CleanProxies. It costs less on every product both sell, holds sessions three times longer, never expires your data and runs on a faster network:

Who CleanProxies is built for

• Checkout and drop teams who need clean US carrier IPs on a 100Gbps network.

• Account managers and agencies who want one dedicated, 0 fraud score IP per account, for as long as the account exists.

• Scraping teams with bursty volume who don't want monthly resets or 30-minute session limits.

• Anyone scaling past a few hundred IPs who wants published prices all the way to 10,000.

What to test before you commit

1. Map each Decodo product to its CleanProxies match: dedicated ISP to ISP proxies, residential to rotating residential, mobile to mobile proxies.

2. Check a sample with our free proxy checker: carrier, location, response time.

3. Run your longest sticky flow and see whether it completes inside the session window.

4. Price your real volume including VAT.

5. Export your new lines and convert them with the proxy list formatter; code examples are in How to Use Proxies with Python Requests, Playwright and Puppeteer.

6. Start with the $4.99 trial. The CleanProxies trial gives you 5 US ISP proxies for 1 hour, or 100 MB of residential or mobile data, with no subscription to cancel. Run a day side by side before you cancel your old plan.

CleanProxies pricing

The cheapest pricing in the market, all on one pricing page. For volumes above 10,000 GB or IPs, contact sales. Comparing more providers? Use our 12-point checklist.

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