Nyxon vs Bright Data, Oxylabs and Decodo: proxy pricing compared (2026)

Bright Data, Oxylabs and Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) are the three names most people meet first when they search for proxies, and for good reason: they are large, established and well documented. They are also expensive, and their pricing models are built for companies with procurement departments. This is a comparison of what you actually pay, using each provider's public pay-as-you-go list prices as verified in July 2026, against Nyxon's live catalog.

Residential proxies, per GB

• Nyxon: $0.20 (Budget pool) or $1.20 (premium pool with city, state and ASN targeting)
• Bright Data: $8.40
• Oxylabs: $8.00
• Decodo: $4.00

That is not a typo. On the budget pool the gap to Bright Data is 42 times. Even the premium pool, which matches the enterprise providers on targeting depth, is 3 to 7 times cheaper. The pools themselves are not exotic: everyone in this industry is reselling capacity from a handful of upstream networks on carrier peering. The difference is margin and sales overhead, not the IPs.

Mobile proxies, per GB

• Nyxon: $1.25 (global 4G/5G), $1.60 (USA)
• Bright Data: $9.00
• Oxylabs: $9.00
• Decodo: $3.75

Mobile is where the enterprise premium is steepest, because the pools are scarcer and the buyers are usually social-media teams with budgets. Nyxon's mobile exits are real carrier IPs behind carrier-grade NAT, sticky for up to 24 hours.

Datacenter proxies, per GB

• Nyxon: $0.36 (IPv4), $0.10 (IPv6)
• Bright Data: $0.50
• Oxylabs: $0.65
• Decodo: $0.60

Datacenter is a commodity and the prices show it. The IPv6 pool is the cheapest traffic Nyxon sells and is worth a test on any target that is reachable over IPv6, which includes most large sites.

Minimum spend and credit rules

• Nyxon: $1 minimum top-up, credit never expires, no subscription
• Bright Data: $10 minimum, monthly billing cycles
• Oxylabs: $30 minimum, monthly
• Decodo: $9 minimum, monthly

Minimums are small print with big consequences. A monthly plan you forgot to cancel is a real cost; traffic that expires at the end of the month is a real cost. Nyxon has neither. You top up a balance and spend it whenever, on whichever pool, at the live per-GB rate.

Payment and identity

• Nyxon: BTC, ETH, LTC, SOL, USDT, XMR. No card, no KYC.
• Bright Data, Oxylabs, Decodo: card or invoice, account verification, and in Bright Data's case a compliance interview for many use cases.

This is a genuine fork in the road. If you are a company that needs a vendor onboarding form, a signed DPA and an invoice with a VAT number, the enterprise providers are built for you. If you are a developer, a small team or an operator who wants to top up and go, they are friction you are paying a premium for. Nyxon is built for the second group and does not pretend otherwise. No KYC does not mean no rules: there is an acceptable-use policy, an abuse desk with a 24-hour SLA, and every plan is metered and attributable.

What the enterprise providers offer that Nyxon does not

Comparisons that only list prices are useless, so here is the other column.

• Scraping products beyond proxies. Bright Data and Oxylabs sell hosted scrapers, unblocker APIs, headless browser farms and pre-collected datasets. Nyxon sells proxies.
• Enterprise contracts. SLAs with penalties, dedicated account managers, procurement paperwork, invoicing terms. Nyxon has human support 24/7 on live chat and email, and a reseller program, but not a sales organisation.
• Pool exclusivity options. Enterprise tiers can reserve capacity or buy dedicated subnets at scale. Nyxon offers dedicated ISP IPs and unlimited residential servers, but not multi-million-IP reservations.
• Documentation volume. The big three have years of SDKs and integration guides for every tool. Nyxon's documentation is growing; the gateway itself is standard HTTP and SOCKS5, so anything that speaks a proxy speaks Nyxon.

If you need those things, pay for them. If you need proxies, you are being asked to pay for them anyway.

Same targets, same success

The uncomfortable truth of this industry is that a residential exit is a residential exit. Whether the site accepts it depends on the pool being clean and first-hand, and on everything your client does around the IP. Nyxon's residential and mobile pools sit on tier-1 carrier peering, are never resold second-hand, and rotate out exits that get flagged. Residential exits publish a 99.9% request success rate.

You do not have to take our word for it: every new account gets a free residential trial, and the proxy tester shows you exactly which exit you got and how fast it answered. Run the same target through the trial and through a competitor's trial, and buy whichever one works, at whichever price you prefer paying.

Prices are public pay-as-you-go list rates verified in July 2026 and may change; Nyxon prices are live from the catalog at [nyxon.sh/pricing](/pricing).