Smartproxy, the provider of proxies and web scraping tools, has rebranded. From now on, it will be called Decodo. 

According to the provider, this rebrand aims to better align with shifting customer needs:

Smartproxy, the international provider of proxies and web scraping infrastructure, has released an e-commerce maturity index. 

The report compares the user experience of e-commerce stores across 40 countries in five continents. In particular, it considers the following areas:

1. Browsing – the ease of finding products.
2. Reviewing – the ability to learn about a product, compare it with others, and find reviews.
3. Investigating – the background information on products.
4. Expanding – additional services, financing options, and bundle deals.
5. Decisions – the ability to select various delivery options, set alerts, and get information about return policies.

Smartproxy rates and categorizes the countries by their level of maturity and strongest points. 

The report also includes a dynamic pricing index, which shows how widely e-commerce websites adopt variable pricing strategies. 

This evaluation is based on more than 245,000 data points drawn by continuously monitoring 12 products on each of 120 e-commerce stores (three per country).

Smartproxy, the international provider of proxies and web scraping infrastructure, has made two major updates in a week. The first involves a new format for the ISP proxy product. The second reviews mobile proxy rates, reducing them by up to 60%. 

New Product: Shared ISP Proxies

In addition to pool-based ISP proxies and dedicated lists, Smartproxy is introducing another format – shared ISP proxies. 

The product allows buying lists of ISP proxy servers that are shared among several users. Here are its main technical specifications:

• The US, UK, and France as available locations. Most of the IPs are in the US. 
• Sprint, Frontier, GTT & other ISPs. Smartproxy distributes the proxies automatically. 
• HTTP(S) protocol support. 
• Ability to rotate IPs use the same session as long as needed. 
• Unlimited threads.
• Up to unlimited traffic.

The main pricing format is pay per IP, but like with its shared datacenter proxies, Smartproxy also charges for traffic expenditure. Each plan gets 50 GB by default, with options to choose 100 GB, 300 GB, 1 TB, or unlimited traffic for an extra fee. 

Smartproxy, the international provider of proxies and web scraping tools, has reduced the rates of its residential proxy network. It’s also introduced two new enterprise plans.

The price reduction affects all packages and varies between 12% and 25%. What’s interesting is that the changes are more pronounced at 250 GB and up – usually, it’s the entry plans that see the biggest cuts. 

Furthermore, Smartproxy has added additional enterprise plans for two and five terabytes of data. This suggests that the provider is looking to attract more large-scale clients, in addition to making its offering more attractive overall. 

The updated pricing table looks as follows:

Compared to other mid-range providers like IPRoyal or SOAX, Smartproxy’s rates are now among the lowest:

Smartproxy, the international provider of proxies and web scraping infrastructure, has significantly reduced the prices of its mobile proxy service.

The change affects all plans, but it will mostly benefit customers who buy 8 GB of traffic or more:

The update makes Smartproxy’s mobile proxies some of the cheapest among major proxy providers:

Smartproxy, the international provider of proxies and web scraping infrastructure, has made its mobile proxies cheaper and more approachable.

First, the provider has introduced an option to pay as you go. It’s now possible to buy a gigabyte of traffic at a flat rate of $21 without subscribing. This traffic remains available for a year.

Second, Smartproxy has cut the prices of its subscription-based plans, making them up to 20% cheaper:

The change once again makes Smartproxy one of the best value options among major providers. It comes in response to the significant price cuts recently made by Bright Data and Oxylabs.

Smartproxy, the international provider of proxies and web scraping infrastructure, has launched a new product – Site Unblocker.

In a nutshell, it’s a remote web scraper that integrates as a proxy server. The motivation behind the service is to simplify work needed to extract a page’s HTML. 

To achieve this, Site Unblocker automatically selects the appropriate proxy type, applies request headers, and otherwise chooses a fingerprint configuration to open webpages without fail. It can also render JavaScript, allowing to forgo headless browser instances.  

These measures should let you consistently scrape challenging sites like G2 or Zillow with something as simple as a cURL request.

Smartproxy, the provider of proxies and data collection tools, has launched pay-per-IP pricing plans for its shared datacenter proxies. They’re meant to be a flexible option for budget-conscious customers. 

Before, Smartproxy sold full access to its pool of datacenter proxies based on traffic use. From now on, you’ll also have the option to buy a specific number of shared IPs. The new plans start from 100 addresses for $10, which translates to just $0.1/IP. They can scale to 4,000 proxies at an increasing discount.