Every category where a model named Decodo 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	41%	1 of 92	0%	45	endorsed leader

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Decodo 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 across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	2	1	0	3
GPT-5.4 mini	0	3	0	3
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	3	0	4
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	2	0	4
Mistral Small	2	1	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	4	0	4
Llama 4 Maverick	3	0	0	3
Qwen 3.7 Flash	2	0	0	2
Kimi K2	2	1	1	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	3
GPT-6 Luna	2	2	0	4
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	2	0	4

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

Direct32 labels21

Paraphrase20 labels16

Comparative24 labels6not counted in share

Budget-constrained22 labels3

Scale-constrained1 labelNone

Negative8 labels5not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative107 labels in all, every segment counted; 40 of the 51 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.

“Go with Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) if you want the best balance of price, performance, and ease of use with ISO-certified compliance.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Proxy and web data · paraphrase prompt · first choice

“Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) - offers 115M+ IPs across 195+ countries, with a balance of enterprise capability and accessibility.” Llama 4 Maverick · Proxy and web data · direct prompt · first choice

“Oxylabs or Decodo tend to offer the best balance of reliability, support, and scalability without enterprise-level complexity” Claude Haiku 4.5 · Proxy and web data · direct prompt · first choice

“many independent researchers are moving toward mid-sized specialized providers (such as Decodo, Soax, or NodeMaven)” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Proxy and web data · negative prompt · first choice

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, over the 107 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Decodo was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Oxylabs81 of 10717Compare →

Bright Data71 of 10726Compare →

Webshare48 of 10715Compare →

IPRoyal44 of 1072Compare →

SOAX36 of 1070Compare →

DataImpulse27 of 1072Compare →

NetNut25 of 1070Not among the top eight

Smartproxy17 of 1072Compare →

Zyte API15 of 1071Not among the top eight

Apify12 of 1070Not 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. 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 107 of the 107 answers that named Decodo and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

decodo.comYour site65

proxyway.com61

brightdata.com60

aimultiple.com36

techradar.com34

cnet.com33

me.pcmag.com33

oxylabs.io28

proxidize.com28

thunderbit.com26

339 of the 404 domain citations in answers naming Decodo came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

decodo.com/blog/best-proxy-providers36

me.pcmag.com/en/proxy/22143/the-best-proxies-for-202433

cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/best-proxy-servers30

proxyway.com/best/proxy-service-providers22

proxyway.com/research/proxy-market-research-202419

aimultiple.com/proxy-providers18

brightdata.com/blog/proxy-101/best-proxy-providers18

proxy-seller.com/blog/best-proxy-providers-top-picks-full-comparison17

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Decodo stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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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

Searches for its name, Google: 6,600 a month (“decodo”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 40 a month
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

41%

rank 1 of 92 in proxy and web data

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 107 answers
Its own site cited: in 107 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.

Names read as Decodo

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Decodo; a claim can dispute any of them.

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) 11Decodo (formerly SmartProxy) 2Decodo (ex-Smartproxy) 1Smartproxy/Decodo 1

Follow Decodo

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Decodo 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: Choose a plan based on your scraping volume.
decodo.com/scraping/web/pricing
Price stated: Starts from $2 / GB; $0.27 / IP; $2.25 / GB; $0.02 / IP; $0.95 / 1K req; $0.09 / 1K req; $0.4 / 1K req; free decodo.com
Starting price: $0.02 / IP decodo.com
Free plan or trial: Start for free; Start free with Google; Free Trials; Start free trial; Start free plan; 14-day money-back option decodo.com
Certifications: Proxyway Best Value Provider 2025G2 Best Usability 2025G2 Best User Adoption 2025Best Usability 2025Best User Adoption 2025Best Value 2025ISO/IEC 27001:2022ISO/IEC 27001 SoA
Hosting: United StatesUnited KingdomTurkeyAustraliaChinaIndiaGlobal (EN)8 countries
Customers named: NovabeyondRoiDynamicCyberegLemong.aiSkaler.appBeOnStratalisQubit3 Technologies
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations

What Decodo's own pages state, read October 5, 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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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Decodo's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Decodo, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

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

where Decodo 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, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Decodo is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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AI models recommend Decodo first in Proxy and web data providers this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/proxy-networks/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/decodo--proxy-networks-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Proxy and web data providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Proxy and web data providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/proxy-networks/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/decodo--proxy-networks-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Proxy and web data providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Proxy and web data providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/proxy-networks/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/decodo--proxy-networks-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Proxy and web data providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Proxy and web data providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.