Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) Review 2026 ✓

Key takeaways

The TL;DR. 6 headline facts about Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) pulled from our test rig + their public documentation.

• ▸Decodo (rebranded from Smartproxy in April 2025) runs a 125M+ IP pool spanning residential, mobile, and ISP networks across 195+ countries with state, city, and ASN-level targeting — the same backend infrastructure customers used pre-rebrand, just with a new dashboard skin at dashboard.decodo.com.
• ▸Entry pricing starts at $3.75/GB on the 3 GB residential plan and scales to $2.00/GB at the 1 TB tier; pay-as-you-go residential is $4/GB with no monthly commitment, undercutting Bright Data's $8.40/GB PAYG and Oxylabs' $8/GB starter rate by roughly half.
• ▸Decodo publishes a 99.95% success rate on its residential network and backs it with a 14-day money-back guarantee plus a 3-day / 100 MB free trial — short enough to be a real constraint if you're benchmarking against NodeMaven's 2 GB trial, but enough to sanity-check a scraper.
• ▸The self-serve flow is the actual differentiator: credit card, no KYC, no sales call, no minimum commit — you can go from signup to a working residential IP in roughly 60 seconds, which is structurally impossible at Bright Data or Oxylabs above the entry tier.
• ▸2025-26 product velocity is heavy on the AI stack: native MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT agents, n8n nodes, LangChain integration, and the AI Parser that returns structured JSON from raw HTML — features Webshare and IPRoyal haven't shipped.
• ▸Trust gaps remain honest: no SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 certification yet, Cloudflare-fronted targets see noticeably higher block rates than NodeMaven or the Bright Data Unblocker tier, support is chat-and-ticket only (no dedicated CSM under enterprise), and rebrand-era docs still contain stale Smartproxy URLs in places.

The verdict

Independent nightly benchmarks since March 2024 — here's where Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) lands.

What we think after testing Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)

Editorial review by Maya Cortez · last tested May 31, 2026

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) Platform Walkthrough

Watch our hands-on walkthrough of Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) — dashboard, API, real workload, the bits the marketing pages skip.

Live performance

Numbers from our continuous test rig — same workloads, every month.

Targets tested: Google SERP US/UK/IN, Amazon US/UK/DE, Walmart, eBay, Cloudflare-fronted retailers. Concurrency: 200. Run nightly since Mar 2024. Full data in our methodology page →

Performance vs the market

How Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) compares to the directory-wide average across our four standard target panels. = market average, bar fill = Decodo (formerly Smartproxy).

Sample size: 120+ providers with published benchmark data. Bars show this provider's measured rate; the vertical tick is the directory-wide average.

IP pool size — ranked

Where Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) ranks against the largest networks in the directory. Bars are scaled to 226M.

Bars rank total advertised IP pool size. Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) publishes 125M+ IPs (residential + mobile + ISP) — see the full breakdown in the specs above.

Pricing

Volume discounts apply across types. Prices in USD, parsed May 31, 2026.

Proxy types offered

3 types available. Pricing varies by type and volume.

Features & integrations

What's included out of the box.

Network & infrastructure

How the pool is built, refreshed and addressed.

SDK, API & integrations

Languages, endpoints and tooling shipped out of the box.

Code examples

Drop-in snippets to start using Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) from your stack. Replace USER, PASS and the gateway with what you get from your dashboard.

# pip install requests
import requests

proxy = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
resp = requests.get(
    "https://httpbin.org/ip",
    proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
    timeout=10,
)
print(resp.json())

// npm install undici
import { fetch, ProxyAgent } from "undici";

const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent("http://USER:[email protected]:7777");
const resp = await fetch("https://httpbin.org/ip", { dispatcher });
console.log(await resp.json());

curl -x http://USER:[email protected]:7777 \
  https://httpbin.org/ip \
  --max-time 10

# scrapy-rotating-proxies works with any provider gateway
# settings.py:
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    "scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware": 400,
}
HTTP_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
HTTPS_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"

// npm install playwright
import { chromium } from "playwright";

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  proxy: {
    server: "http://gate.smartproxy.com:7777",
    username: "USER",
    password: "PASS",
  },
});
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto("https://httpbin.org/ip");
console.log(await page.locator("body").innerText());
await browser.close();

Need more? Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)'s official docs have language-specific quickstarts and SDK references.

Use-case suitability

How well this provider performs by workload, scored 1–10 from our test rig.

Independent benchmarks

Last run 2026-05-06

Compliance & privacy

Auditable certifications, sourcing and data-handling posture.

Support & account

How they pick up the phone — and who answers.

Add-ons & products

Sister products and operations resources.

Company & resources

Who builds and operates this product.

Key markets covered

195+ countries served. City & ASN targeting available.

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) vs alternatives

How Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) stacks up against the closest providers in our directory. Tap any column header to read that review.

How to get started with Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)

A 5-minute walkthrough from sign-up to your first successful request. Total setup time: ~10 minutes.

1. 1

   Create an account and claim the free trial without a sales call

   Go to dashboard.decodo.com, register with email + card (no company verification, no KYC docs, no scheduled demo), and activate the 3-day / 100 MB residential trial from the Free Trial banner on the dashboard home. The card is required for fraud screening but isn't charged until you pick a paid plan. If you ever held a Smartproxy account, the same credentials log you straight into the Decodo dashboard — the migration was server-side.

2. 2

   Pick a network and provision a proxy user under Residential → Proxy Setup

   From the left nav, open Residential → Proxy Setup. Create a sub-user with a username/password pair, then choose endpoint type: gate.decodo.com:7000 for rotating IPs (new IP per request) or gate.decodo.com:10001-10010 for sticky sessions held up to 30 minutes. For city-level or ASN targeting, append parameters to the username: user-USERNAME-country-us-city-newyork-session-abc123. The Endpoint Generator tab builds the string for you if you'd rather click than concatenate.

3. 3

   Wire up the MCP server for Claude, Cursor, or ChatGPT agents

   Under Integrations → MCP Server, copy the Decodo MCP config block and paste it into your claude_desktop_config.json or Cursor MCP settings. The server exposes scrape, parse, and unblock tools that your LLM can call directly — meaning an agent can request a Cloudflare-protected page and get clean HTML back without you writing a proxy client. For n8n, install the official Decodo node from the community nodes registry; for LangChain, pip install decodo-langchain and pass the proxy session into the standard WebBaseLoader.

4. 4

   Enable the AI Parser or Site Unblocker for hard targets

   Plain residential rotation handles ~80% of targets, but Cloudflare, DataDome, and PerimeterX-fronted sites need more. Toggle Site Unblocker under Scraping APIs — it adds JS rendering, fingerprint rotation, and CAPTCHA solving, billed per successful request rather than per GB. For structured extraction, the AI Parser endpoint accepts a URL plus a target schema in plain English ("extract title, price, sku, stock") and returns JSON. Both are billed separately from the residential GB pool, so monitor the Usage Statistics panel.

5. 5

   Set spend caps, sub-users, and rotate keys before scaling

   Before pointing production traffic at it, set a hard usage cap under Account → Usage Limits — Decodo will hard-stop traffic at the cap rather than auto-billing overages, which is the opposite of Bright Data's default. Create per-environment sub-users (dev, staging, prod) so a leaked credential only burns one bucket, and rotate the API token under API → Tokens every 90 days. Webhook alerts at 50/80/95% consumption are configurable under Notifications.

Stuck? Check Decodo (formerly Smartproxy)'s documentation or email us.

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