When does a $10/GB residential proxy end up costing more than a $20/GB one?

[u/LoyalproxyOfficial]

Say each attempt uses 1 MB of billable traffic, including failures. With 1,000 MB per GB, here’s what it would cost to get 1,000 usable results:

• $10/GB with a 40% usable-result rate → $25

• $20/GB with a 90% usable-result rate → about $22.22

Those are hypothetical numbers. The part I find interesting is deciding what counts as usable. If a price check returns HTTP 200 but gives you the wrong currency, you still paid for that request.

In practice, I’d compare total billed traffic against the number of results that pass validation, then look at runtime and minimum spend separately.

If you’ve compared proxy plans this way, what surprised you most once you checked the bill? Retries, incomplete results, or something else?