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Buying Bandwidth: Plans, Volume Discounts, and Auto-Replenish

Platform guidesUpdated: August 20265 min read

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The platform sells bandwidth in two steps: crypto deposits fund a USD balance, and that balance buys GB of proxy data at the published rate per GB. This guide covers the quick plans, custom amounts, the automatic volume discounts that cut the rate by up to 30%, and the auto-replenish setting that turns every deposit straight into data.

One property shapes every buying decision here: nothing expires. Balance waits until you spend it, and GB waits until you use it. That makes larger, less frequent purchases the sensible default — you capture the volume discount without any use-it-or-lose-it risk.

01 Balance first, GB second

Your account holds two separate things: a USD balance and a pool of GB. Deposits go into the balance — crypto only, with BTC, ETH, USDT and more than 50 other coins accepted across multiple networks. Buying data is a second, deliberate step: you convert balance into GB at the published rate per GB. The deposit flow itself — picking a network, per-network minimums, invoice countdowns — is covered in the crypto deposit guide.

The two-step model has a practical reason: it decouples the deposit decision from the plan decision. You can fund the account once and spread that balance across several purchases as your needs become clear; a deposit never commits you to a specific plan.

02 Quick plans and custom amounts

The Plans page offers five presets — 10, 50, 100, 250 and 500 GB — plus a custom field that accepts any amount from 1 GB up (1 GB is the smallest purchase the server accepts). Presets and custom purchases draw from the same balance and follow the same discount curve; the presets are shortcuts, not separate products.

  1. 01Fund your balance if it does not already cover the purchase.
  2. 02Open the Plans page in the dashboard.
  3. 03Pick a quick plan or enter a custom GB amount — the minimum is 1 GB.
  4. 04Check the live price preview — any volume discount is already applied to the figure shown.
  5. 05Confirm the purchase. The GB is added to your data pool and drawn down as your proxies move traffic.

If you are unsure how much to buy, start smaller — you can always buy again — and spend ten minutes estimating your bandwidth needs before a big job. Text-heavy scraping and media-heavy work consume data at very different rates.

03 How volume discounts work

Discounts are automatic — there are no codes to apply. Buy a larger amount and the effective per-GB rate drops, up to 30% off at the largest tiers.

The exact tier boundaries are not something you need to memorize. The Plans page previews the live discounted price before you commit, so enter a custom amount and watch the total — nudging the number up often lowers the effective rate enough to make the larger purchase the better deal.

Note

Because GB never expires, buying ahead at a discount carries no expiry risk. The only cost of a large purchase is that the funds are locked into data instead of staying flexible in your balance.

04 Auto-replenish turns deposits into data

Buying data is normally a second, deliberate step after a deposit credits. Auto-replenish removes it: with the setting on, every credited payment is converted to GB at the current rate the moment it lands. A top-up sent at 3 a.m. becomes usable data without you signing in to spend it.

  • On every credited deposit — the payment lands, the balance converts to GB, and your proxies keep moving traffic without a second step.
  • When you switch it on — whatever balance is already sitting on the account converts immediately, so turning the setting on never leaves money idle.

One floor applies: a conversion only happens when the balance covers at least 1 GB, the same minimum every purchase clears. A smaller leftover balance is left alone and converts as soon as the next deposit pushes it over the line. The setting lives on the Plans page and can be switched off at any time.

Warning

Auto-replenish reacts to deposits, not to an emptying data pool. It cannot notice that a job is about to run dry, and it cannot deposit for you — an empty balance still means failed requests until you top up. Before a long unattended run, size the purchase up front with estimating your bandwidth needs.

05 Nothing here expires

Balance never expires. GB never expires. There is no monthly cycle, no reset date, and no minimum-activity requirement. An account can sit idle for six months and come back to exactly the data it left.

This is the main structural difference from subscription-style proxy pricing, where unused data typically vanishes at the end of each billing period and you pay whether you used the service or not. Pay-per-GB means irregular usage costs nothing during the quiet stretches.

One exception worth knowing: if you push sustained heavy traffic every day, metering by the GB stops being the cheap option. That is what the flat-rate unlimited plans are for — time-based tiers with their own credentials, priced by speed and duration rather than volume.

06 The refund tradeoff

Deposits are non-refundable once credited. Crypto transfers are irreversible by design — there is no chargeback mechanism and no way to claw back a confirmed transaction. The refund policy spells this out.

The never-expiring balance is the deliberate counterweight. An unspent deposit is not lost money; it is money waiting, and you are never forced to convert balance into data on a schedule. That protection has limits, though: your access token is the only credential and cannot be recovered if lost — the balance goes with it — and suspension for policy violations comes without refund. Keep the token safe (see account security) and stay inside the rules, and an unspent deposit stays usable indefinitely.

  • Deposit roughly what you expect to spend in the foreseeable future, not your entire runway.
  • On a new account, make a small first deposit, buy a small amount of GB, and verify the proxies fit your use case before committing larger sums.
  • Suspension for Acceptable Use Policy violations does not come with a refund — read the policy before running anything you are unsure about.

If anything about a deposit or purchase looks wrong — an invoice that did not credit, a balance that does not match — contact the support tickets page in your dashboard with the details before sending anything else.