Every category where a model named 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	15%	2 of 92	5%	21	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for 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 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	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	1	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	2	0	0	2
Mistral Small	0	0	1	1	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Kimi K2	0	2	0	0	2
GLM 4.7 FlashX	1	1	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	2	0	1	0	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	0	0	1

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

Direct10 labels6

Paraphrase6 labels5

Comparative17 labels1not counted in share

Budget-constrained10 labels2

Scale-constrained6 labelsNone

Negative6 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative55 labels in all, every segment counted; 13 of the 15 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.

“For most mid-market B2B companies, Smartproxy (Decodo) offers the best combination of network quality, feature set, and pricing” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Proxy and web data · direct prompt · first choice

“For most mid-market B2B companies, Smartproxy (Decodo) offers the best combination of features, pricing, and ease of use” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Proxy and web data · direct prompt · first choice

“I recommend focusing on providers like Smartproxy or Rayobyte due to their mid-market positioning” MiniMax M2.5 · Proxy and web data · direct prompt · first choice

“Winner at small scale: Smartproxy. No minimum commitment, lowest per-GB rate.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Proxy and web data · paraphrase 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.

“free tiers from providers like Luminati or Smartproxy, but these often come with limitations in terms of speed and IP pool size” Mistral Small · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Smartproxy, over the 55 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Smartproxy was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Bright Data46 of 5516Compare →

Oxylabs46 of 5514Compare →

SOAX20 of 550Compare →

IPRoyal19 of 551Compare →

Decodo17 of 553Compare →

Webshare17 of 553Compare →

NetNut16 of 550Not among the top eight

Zyte API13 of 551Not among the top eight

Apify11 of 550Not among the top eight

ScraperAPI10 of 551Not 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 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 42 of the 55 answers that named Smartproxy and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

brightdata.com26

proxyway.com24

me.pcmag.com20

aimultiple.com17

thunderbit.com17

decodo.com13

dataimpulse.com12

oxylabs.io12

proxy-cheap.com11

scrapehero.com10

162 of the 162 domain citations in answers naming Smartproxy came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

me.pcmag.com/en/proxy/22143/the-best-proxies-for-202420

proxyway.com/research/proxy-service-awards-202413

thunderbit.com/blog/best-enterprise-proxy-services12

brightdata.com/blog/comparison/bright-data-vs-oxylabs10

aimultiple.com/proxy-providers9

cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/best-proxy-servers9

proxyway.com/research/proxy-market-research-20249

decodo.com/blog/best-proxy-providers8

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

smartproxy.ai is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Smartproxy takes 15% 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

Searches for its name, Google: 5,400 a month (“smartproxy”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 27 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 1,862 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 186 · 7 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 398
Paid Google search: No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none

Ads on Google

None found in Google's ad transparency records for the US

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

15%

rank 2 of 92 in proxy and web data

Segment leader

41%

Decodo

First choices: 13 across its categories
Named in: 55 answers
Its own site cited: in 42 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 smartproxy.ai

284

subdomains included

Content

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

5 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	2025-11 to 2026-10	Latest	Categories named
Blog	6	undated
Report or ebook	1	undated

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page smartproxy.ai 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. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Smartproxy

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

Smartproxy (now Decodo) 2Smartproxy (Decodo) 1Smartproxy/Decodo 1

Follow Smartproxy

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

Smartproxy is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Best Global Residential Service Provider
smartproxy.ai
For: businesses and individuals
smartproxy.ai
Price stated: Pricing $-/GB smartproxy.ai
Starting price: $-/GB smartproxy.ai
Free plan or trial: Free Trial smartproxy.ai/products/static
Hosting: 200 countries200+ countries200 regions worldwideUSEU-5key APAC markets
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations, certifications, customers

What Smartproxy's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: smartproxy.ai, smartproxy.ai/products/static. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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 Smartproxy'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 Smartproxy, 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 Smartproxy by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where 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 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Smartproxy 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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Smartproxy is among the products AI models recommend 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/smartproxy--proxy-networks-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three 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/smartproxy--proxy-networks-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three 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/smartproxy--proxy-networks-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three 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.