Decodo: The Proxy Network Formerly Known as Smartproxy
If you have researched proxies any time in the last decade, you met Smartproxy: the provider that sat in the sweet spot between budget resellers and enterprise pricing. Decodo is that same company and network under its new name, tens of millions of residential IPs across most of the world, plus ISP, mobile, and datacenter options, and ready-made scraping APIs for teams who would rather receive parsed data than manage the plumbing.
The short version
Decodo covers the full proxy stack: residential IPs from real devices for the hard targets, ISP proxies that pair datacenter speed with residential trust, mobile IPs for the hardest, and cheap datacenter IPs for volume work. On top sit scraping APIs that handle rotation, blocks, and parsing for you. Pay as you go options, a free trial, and a money back window make it easy to test against your actual targets, and self-serve dashboards keep small projects viable, not just enterprise contracts.
One provider, every proxy type
Matching proxy type to target is most of proxy strategy, and Decodo's range means you do it inside one account. Residential IPs make your requests look like real households, which is what search engines, sneaker sites, and social platforms force you into. ISP proxies hold a stable identity with datacenter speed, ideal for account management. Mobile IPs carry the trust of carrier networks for the most defended targets. And plain datacenter IPs handle the high volume, low resistance work at a fraction of the cost. Geotargeting reaches down to country and city level across the network.
Or skip the plumbing entirely
The scraping APIs are the quiet star for data teams: send a URL, get back structured results, with proxy rotation, browser fingerprinting, retries, and unblocking handled on Decodo's side. Per-request pricing turns an unpredictable infrastructure problem into a line item, and for common targets like search results and ecommerce pages the output arrives parsed. If your goal is the data rather than the craft of scraping, this tier of product is usually the honest answer.
Who it fits
Scraping and data teams tracking prices, search rankings, or inventory, growth teams running multi-account operations alongside antidetect browsers, ad verification and brand protection work, and automation builders whose bots need to look like people. The pay as you go entry also fits hobbyists and small tools that only need a few gigabytes a month, a segment many premium networks have abandoned.
Before you commit
Residential traffic is metered by the gigabyte, so estimate volumes before pointing a firehose at it, and push bulk work to datacenter IPs where the per-gigabyte anxiety disappears. The rebrand from Smartproxy occasionally confuses documentation searches, older tutorials reference the old name, same product underneath. And as with any proxy provider, respect the terms of the sites you touch, sustainable scraping is polite scraping.
Where it shines
- Full range: residential, ISP, mobile, datacenter
- Scraping APIs that return parsed data
- Pay as you go entry, free trial included
- Country and city level geotargeting
- Long track record as Smartproxy
Worth knowing
- Residential gigabytes add up on heavy jobs
- Old Smartproxy docs can confuse searches
- Premium tiers exist for a reason, budget IPs are budget
Common questions
Is Decodo the same network as Smartproxy?
Yes, Decodo is Smartproxy rebranded, the same company, network, and dashboard lineage under a new name.
Which proxy type should I start with?
Datacenter for easy targets and volume, residential when you get blocked, ISP for stable logged-in sessions, mobile only when nothing else passes. Start cheap and escalate.
Proxies or the scraping API?
If you want raw control and have scraping code already, proxies. If you want data with minimum engineering, the API tier removes rotation, blocking, and parsing from your plate.
Bottom line
Decodo keeps what made Smartproxy the default mid-market recommendation: real network quality without enterprise gatekeeping. Take the trial, run it against the exact targets that block you today, and let your success rate make the call.