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Index › Products › Decodo – formerly Smartproxy · October 2026 Edition

1 category · Named, not ranked

Decodo – formerly Smartproxy

2Judge labels

1First choices

0Negative labels

2 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Decodo – formerly Smartproxy was named 1 time in Proxy and web data, where Decodo led with 41%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business9 of 98

under the label threshold

Mid-market29 of 92

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In proxy and web data · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Decodo – formerly Smartproxy for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Proxy and web data providers	Data platform	0%	29 of 92	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Decodo at 41%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Decodo – formerly Smartproxy yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Decodo – formerly Smartproxy across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	Alternative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase1 label1

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained1 labelNone

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 1 of the 1 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Decodo (which rebranded from *Smartproxy*) is the ideal mid-tier sweet spot” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · alternative

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Decodo – formerly Smartproxy, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Decodo – formerly Smartproxy was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Proxy-Cheap2 of 21Not among the top eight

Bright Data2 of 20Not among the top eight

Oxylabs2 of 20Not among the top eight

Webshare2 of 20Not among the top eight

DataImpulse1 of 20Not among the top eight

IPRoyal1 of 20Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Decodo – formerly Smartproxy. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 2 of the 2 answers that named Decodo – formerly Smartproxy and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

aimultiple.com2

dataimpulse.com2

decodo.comYour site2

accio.com1

brightdata.com1

chromewebstore.google.com1

cnet.com1

comparitech.com1

digitaljournal.com1

github.com1

Eleven of the thirteen domain citations in answers naming Decodo – formerly Smartproxy came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

aimultiple.com/residential-proxy-providers2

accio.com/biz-cheap/cheap-residential-proxies1

brightdata.com/blog/comparison/bright-data-vs-oxylabs1

brightdata.com/blog/proxy-101/best-datacenter-proxies1

brightdata.com/blog/proxy-101/best-proxy-providers1

brightdata.com/blog/proxy-101/best-residential-proxy-providers1

chromewebstore.google.com/detail/decodosmartproxy-extensio/hdemabfejemmmicoabglpocdmmkjphp1

cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/best-proxy-servers1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

decodo.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Decodo – formerly Smartproxy takes 0% of first choices and Decodo takes 41%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “proxy network”

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not in the top ten

Position for “best proxy network”

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not in the top ten

Organic visits to its site: about 49,580 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 6,987 · 260 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 4,911
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 469 clicks and $3,857 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

88 ads · 62 text, 18 image, 8 video · 22 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2025, as Data Troops, UAB, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 43 in the year, 45 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 29 of 92 in proxy and web data

Segment leader

41%

Decodo

First choices: 1 across its categories
Named in: 2 answers
Its own site cited: in 2 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on decodo.com

1,966

subdomains included

Content

718

counted in the table below

Documentation

793

Product · Integration

19 · 59

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	390	54	2026-09-29	Proxy and web data
Glossary or explainer	263	4	2026-09-16	DLP, ETL
Comparison	46	16	2026-09-30
Case study	12	undated
Webinar or virtual event	3	undated
News or press	2	0	2026-06-03
Conference or event	1	undated
Report or ebook	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-30Puppeteer vs playwright comparison
2026-09-29Ai agent development tools blog
2026-09-28Isp vs residential proxies comparison
2026-09-25Ipv4 vs ipv6 comparison
2026-09-24Nitter is dead blog
2026-09-24Browser mcp blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page decodo.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Follow Decodo – formerly Smartproxy

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The company

Decodo – formerly Smartproxy is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: All-in-One Proxy & Web Scraping Platform
decodo.com
For: AI agents and speed-first systems
decodo.com
Price stated: Starts from $2 / GB decodo.com
Starting price: 0.02 decodo.com
Free plan or trial: Start for free; Free Trials; 14-day money-back option decodo.com
Integrations claimed: 3 decodo.com/case-studies
Certifications: ISO/IEC 27001:2022EWDCI Certified
Hosting: GlobalUnited StatesUnited KingdomNetherlandsGermanyCanadaFranceChina
Customers named: NovabeyondRoiDynamicCyberegPCMagTechRadarZDNetCyberNewsAIMultiple

What Decodo – formerly Smartproxy's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: decodo.com, decodo.com/scraping/web/pricing, trust.decodo.com, decodo.com/use-cases/rag, decodo.com/case-studies. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Decodo – formerly Smartproxy by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Decodo – formerly Smartproxy is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Decodo – formerly Smartproxy, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.