If you have been around this industry for a while and the name Decodo means nothing to you, here is the missing piece: this is Smartproxy, rebranded.

Worth knowing, because a lot of older comparison articles still reference the old name, and the reputation attached to it transfers.

Decodo has also grown well past what proxy alone would describe.

The Scale

The headline is 125 million plus IP addresses across the whole platform. Broken down, that is over 115 million residential addresses across more than 195 locations, over 10 million mobile IPs described as ethically sourced, plus ISP and datacenter tiers.

Uptime is quoted at 99.99%, which is a meaningfully different claim from the 99.9% most providers put up. That extra nine is roughly the difference between eight hours of downtime a year and fifty minutes.

The Web Scraping API Is the Real Story

Raw proxies solve exactly one problem: the address you appear to come from. They do nothing about JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHAs, browser fingerprinting or any of the other defences a serious target puts up.

Decodo's Web Scraping API takes the whole problem. You send a URL, it handles rotation, retries, rendering and unblocking, and you get the page back.

The practical effect is on maintenance rather than capability. Anyone can build a scraper. Keeping it working for a year as targets change their defences is the expensive part, and that is the work this removes.

Our guide to scraping without getting blocked covers what that maintenance actually involves, which is useful context for judging whether the API earns its price for you.

Ethically Sourced, Stated Plainly

Decodo says its IPs are ethically sourced and puts that in the product copy rather than a buried policy page.

This is not only a moral point. A pool built from people who knowingly opted in is more stable than one assembled through undisclosed bundling, because the supply side is not constantly trying to remove itself. Devices stay online, antivirus software does not clean them up, and addresses do not appear on blocklists once somebody notices what is happening.

Free Tools and a Trial

There is a free trial and a set of free tools on the site, which together mean you can evaluate properly before paying.

Pricing is published across tiers, per gigabyte for rotating pools and per IP for static, so the maths is available upfront rather than after a call.

Who It Fits

Decodo suits teams who want proxies and unblocking from one vendor, anyone building AI or data pipelines that need reliable web access, users who need genuinely broad geographic coverage, and organisations that have to answer questions about where their IPs come from.

Who Might Look Elsewhere

If all you need is a handful of cheap IPs for light personal use, this is more platform than the job requires and the pricing reflects that.

Pure bulk scrapers optimising purely for the lowest per gigabyte rate can find cheaper elsewhere, though usually at the cost of the success rate that makes cheap gigabytes worth having.

Final Verdict

Decodo is one of the strongest all round platforms in this market, and the rebrand has not changed what made the old name work.

A very large, broadly distributed pool, four proxy tiers, a genuine scraping API that removes the maintenance burden, a clear position on sourcing and a trial so you can check rather than trust.

Start with the trial on the Scraping API rather than the raw proxies. That is where the value concentrates, and it is the fastest way to tell whether this platform fits the way you work.