How should I choose a proxy plan and understand billing?
Choose by workload duration, target region, concurrency, and expected usage, then verify the billing unit, validity period, and renewal status. Prices, trial eligibility, and invoice rules can change, so treat the live purchase and account pages as the final source of truth.
Quick answer
First decide whether the workload consumes traffic, reserves fixed resources, or runs as an ongoing subscription. Then compare region, concurrency, validity, and expected usage. Do not choose by plan name or unit price alone; trial eligibility, live pricing, renewals, and invoice policies are governed by the purchase and account pages.
Trials and plan selection
Validate product fit before comparing plan sizes.
Validate at a small scale
If the current product or account is eligible, use a representative low-risk workload to test region, protocol, success rate, and traffic consumption.
Confirm trial eligibility on the live page or with an advisor
Traffic-based workloads
A traffic plan can fit variable request volume or multi-region access. Estimate payload size and total transfer instead of counting requests alone.
Check the traffic definition, concurrency, and validity together
Fixed resources or ongoing use
For a fixed egress or long-lived identity, compare resource quantity, duration, region, and renewal timing rather than focusing only on traffic.
Leave time to renew or replace critical resources
Traffic and balance
Separate usage allowance, account balance, validity, and charge records.
| Item | What it means | What to verify |
|---|---|---|
| Plan allowance | What it meansTraffic or resources already purchased and still available to use. | What to verifyRemaining allowance, measurement rules, validity, and current order status. |
| Account balance | What it meansFunds generally used for new orders or eligible renewals, not available traffic. | What to verifyAvailable balance, payment records, and eligibility for the current order. |
| Validity period | What it meansThe time window in which a plan or resource can be used. | What to verifyStart, expiry, and how unused allowance is handled after expiry. |
| Usage and order records | What it meansAccount records that explain actual consumption, purchases, and renewals. | What to verifyTime range, product, workload changes, and when the records were updated. |
Renewals and invoices
Confirm the order status and current on-screen rules before acting.
- 01
Review the order and subscription state
Confirm activation, expiry, available renewal controls, and whether balance or allowance is affecting current use.
- 02
Renew or add resources using the current controls
Do not assume every plan renews automatically. Verify the renewal state, payment method, and activation timing before critical work.
- 03
Check the new account records
Confirm the order state, validity, allowance, or balance has updated as expected before restoring high-volume work.
- 04
Submit order information through the invoice entry
Provide the business, tax, and order details requested there. Eligibility, invoice type, and processing time follow the rules shown at submission.
Final pre-purchase checks
Use the live page and order record as the final authority.
Before purchase, save or record:
- the product, target region, quantity or traffic, and validity period;
- the displayed billing unit, limits, and estimated amount;
- any renewal control plus activation and expiry timing;
- the current links, forms, and policy text for invoices, refunds, or other account rules.