Unlimited Plans: When Flat-Rate Beats Pay-per-GB

The default model is pay-per-GB. You top up a USD balance with crypto, buy data at the published rate per GB (volume discounts apply automatically at larger amounts, up to 30% off at the largest tiers), and the data sits in your account until you use it. Balance and GB never expire. The full purchase flow is covered in buying GB.

Unlimited plans invert this. Instead of paying for data, you pay for time: a fixed window during which you can move as much data as your speed tier permits. When the window ends, so does the plan — there is no leftover data to carry forward.

• Pay-per-GB — cost tracks usage exactly, nothing expires, ideal when usage is irregular or hard to predict.
• Unlimited — cost is fixed per hour, day, week, or month regardless of volume, ideal when you keep the connection busy most of the time.
• Both speak HTTP, HTTPS (CONNECT), and SOCKS5 on the same endpoint, with rotating or sticky sessions.

Unlimited plans come in three speed tiers, and the tier determines which durations you can buy.

• 200 Mbps — sold in hourly blocks only.
• 400 Mbps — sold in daily, weekly, or monthly blocks.
• 1 Gbps — also daily, weekly, or monthly.

An unlimited plan issues its own credentials, separate from your pay-per-GB credentials. Traffic on the unlimited credentials never touches your GB balance, and traffic on your regular credentials never counts against the unlimited window. Each plan has an auto-renew toggle: leave it on for continuous operation, switch it off to let the plan lapse at the end of the current period.

Current rates for every tier and duration are listed on the Unlimited Proxies page in the dashboard.

The decision reduces to one comparison: what would your expected data volume cost at the per-GB rate, versus the flat price of the unlimited window covering the same period.

break-even GB = flat plan price ÷ your effective per-GB price

expected GB in the period > break-even GB  → unlimited wins
expected GB in the period < break-even GB  → pay-per-GB wins

Use the discounted per-GB price previewed on the Plans page (volume discounts can shift the break-even point meaningfully), and the tier prices on the Unlimited Proxies page. For a sense of scale: 200 Mbps sustained works out to roughly 90 GB per hour as a theoretical ceiling, and 1 Gbps to several hundred GB per hour — but real workloads with request overhead, target-site latency, and idle gaps land far below the ceiling. Base your estimate on measured usage, not the cap.

• Favors flat-rate: continuous large-scale collection, sustained media or file transfer, long-running pipelines that keep the link busy around the clock.
• Favors per-GB: bursty jobs that run for an hour and stop, low-volume API polling, occasional manual sessions, anything under a few GB per day.

If you have no usage history yet, how much bandwidth do you need walks through estimating data consumption per workload type before you spend anything.

The hourly 200 Mbps tier doubles as a cheap trial of the whole model. Instead of guessing whether flat-rate pays off, measure it.

1. 01Buy one hour of 200 Mbps on the Unlimited Proxies page.
2. 02Run your real workload against the unlimited credentials for the full hour.
3. 03Note how much data you actually moved and whether the speed cap constrained you.
4. 04Multiply out to a day, week, or month and run the break-even formula above before committing to a longer window.

Once a plan is active, its credentials appear in the proxy generator as a second credential source. Pick unlimited instead of pay-per-GB, then generate lines in any supported format exactly as usual — rotating or sticky, geo-targeted, up to 50,000 lines. See the proxy generator guide for formats and options.

The speed tier is a cap, not a guarantee. It is the maximum throughput your account is allowed, and whether you reach it depends on factors outside the billing model: the exit IP's own connection, distance to the target, and how many parallel connections your tooling runs.

• Residential exits are real household connections — per-IP throughput and latency vary. Sustained high aggregate throughput usually requires concurrency across many rotating exits, not one fast pipe.
• A single-threaded download will rarely saturate a 1 Gbps cap on its own.
• Unlimited windows expire on schedule whether you used them or not, unlike pay-per-GB data, which never expires. Idle time is paid time.
• Pay-per-GB accounts default to 200 Mbps; a one-time upgrade to 1 Gbps exists on the Add-ons page if speed, not billing, is your actual constraint.

Finally, the plan model changes nothing about acceptable use. Flat-rate bandwidth is still subject to the Acceptable Use Policy — respect target sites' terms and rate limits regardless of how much data your plan allows you to move.