A proxy and web scraping SaaS from Lithuania. Founded in 2018 as Smartproxy, the company later rebranded to Decodo. It brings together four proxy types — residential, ISP, mobile, and datacenter — along with scraping APIs for web, search, social media, and e-commerce, a Site Unblocker that gets past access restrictions, and a sub-user management API for teams, all in a single dashboard. In recent years it has built out an MCP server and n8n templates, positioning itself as the plumbing that lets AI agents fetch up-to-date web data on their own. The stated proxy pool is 125M+ IPs across 195+ locations.
Key Features
- Four proxy types under one contract: Residential proxies that route through ordinary home connections, ISP (static residential) proxies with fixed IPs, mobile proxies on carrier networks, and datacenter proxies that win on speed and cost. Choose residential or mobile when avoiding blocks matters most, ISP when you need a stable fixed IP, and datacenter when you want to keep the cost of high-volume access down
- Purpose-built scraping APIs: Beyond the general-purpose Web Scraping API, there are endpoints for fast search results (Fast Search API), e-commerce sites such as Amazon, and social platforms including Reddit, TikTok, and YouTube. JavaScript rendering and proxy rotation are handled on the service side, so there is no need to build your own retrieval stack
- Site Unblocker for restricted sites: A dedicated product for sites that block easily via CAPTCHA or bot detection, automatically adjusting headers, fingerprints, and retries. Billing is per request, so you use it only when you need it
- MCP server for AI agent integration: Add one configuration entry to an MCP-compatible client such as Claude Desktop, Cursor, or Windsurf, and your AI can run web searches, scraping, and e-commerce price lookups directly. More than 40 tools span five categories, and the MCP server itself is free to use
- AI Parser and no-code integrations: A free AI Parser extracts the fields you want from retrieved HTML as structured data. Templates and integrations for n8n and LangChain are available as well, so the service can be dropped into an automation flow without writing code
- Sub-user management API: Allocate purchased data volume and IPs across multiple sub-users and manage usage through the API. This suits team development, or agencies that need to carve out separate quotas per client
Pricing
Each product is billed on a different unit. The table below shows starting prices per product.
| Product | Billing unit | Starting price |
|---|---|---|
| Residential proxies | Per GB | From $2/GB |
| ISP (static residential) proxies | Per IP | From $0.27/IP |
| Mobile proxies | Per GB | From $2.25/GB |
| Datacenter proxies | Per IP | From $0.020/IP |
| Site Unblocker | Per request | From $0.95/1,000 requests |
| Web Scraping API | Per request | From $0.09/1,000 requests |
| Fast Search API | Per request | From $0.4/1,000 requests |
| AI Parser / MCP server | ─ | Free |
Monthly residential proxy subscriptions use a tiered structure where the per-GB rate drops as you buy more data.
| Plan | Monthly (excl. VAT) | Unit price |
|---|---|---|
| 3 GB | $11.25 | $3.75/GB |
| 10 GB | $35 | $3.50/GB |
| 25 GB | $81.25 | $3.25/GB |
| 50 GB | $150 | $3.00/GB |
| 100 GB | $275 | $2.75/GB |
Pay As You Go, which requires no subscription, costs $4/GB. New users get a 3-day free trial that includes 100 MB, and paid plans come with a 14-day money-back guarantee (free trial users are excluded). The MCP server can be tried for up to 2,000 requests without a credit card.
Pricing is current as of August 2026. Check the official site for the latest information.
Pros & Cons
✅ Pros
- Proxies, scraping APIs, and the unblocker live under one contract and one dashboard, so there is no need to sign up for separate services per use case
- Easy to start small. Residential proxies begin at $11.25 for 3 GB, and the scraping APIs bill in small increments of 1,000 requests
- The MCP server and AI Parser are free, so you can hand web data retrieval to an AI agent at no extra cost
- Being able to compare four proxy types lets you tune the balance between block resistance and cost for the specific sites you target
- A stated 125M+ IPs across 195+ locations makes region-specific retrieval straightforward
⚠️ Cons
- With many products and billing units, it is hard at first glance to tell which one fits your use case
- Usage-based billing means costs can balloon unexpectedly if you misjudge your targets or frequency. Caps and monitoring are yours to build
- The dashboard and documentation are primarily in English, and material in other languages is limited
- Scraping is subject to each site’s terms of service, copyright, and personal data protection rules. What a tool can do and what is legally or contractually permitted are separate questions
- Residential and mobile proxies cost more per unit than datacenter proxies, so high-volume retrieval demands careful cost planning
Comparison with Similar Services
| Criteria | Decodo | Bright Data | Oxylabs | Firecrawl |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Character | Proxies plus scraping APIs, integrated | Largest all-round data collection platform | Enterprise-leaning all-round platform | Specialized in web retrieval for LLMs |
| Proxy offering | Four types | Four types | Four types | None (retrieval API only) |
| Output format | HTML/JSON (structured via AI Parser) | HTML/JSON/datasets | HTML/JSON | Markdown/JSON |
| AI agent integration | MCP server, n8n, LangChain | MCP, various SDKs | API and SDK focused | MCP, various frameworks |
| Ease of starting | Small entry possible (from $11.25 for 3 GB) | Higher initial barrier, aimed at scale | Aimed at scale | Small entry possible |
Bright Data and Oxylabs lead on scale and feature breadth, but their plan structures are correspondingly heavy. Firecrawl commits entirely to Markdown output that is easy to feed an LLM, and does not deal in proxies at all. Decodo sits in between, fitting users who want the full range of proxy options but prefer to start small and pay only for what they use.
Who Is It For
- E-commerce operators and marketers who regularly gather structured data from the web for price research, stock monitoring, or competitive analysis
- Developers who want AI agents to fetch current web information without building a scraping stack themselves
- SEO and ad operations staff who need to check how search results or ads appear in specific regions
- Developers with hands-on scraping experience who want to switch proxy types depending on the target site
- Anyone looking to add a web data retrieval step to no-code automation in tools such as n8n
Summary
Decodo is a web data infrastructure that bundles four proxy types and purpose-built scraping APIs, and makes them callable from AI agents through an MCP server. It carries a track record going back to its Smartproxy days, and its strength is how small you can start — $11.25 for 3 GB of residential proxies, or $0.09 per 1,000 scraping API requests. The efficient path is to use the free trial and the free MCP server first to confirm your target sites can be retrieved, then pick a paid plan once you know the volume you need. Before you begin scraping, make a point of reviewing the target site’s terms of service and the relevant laws.