Pricing

$1 per GB.
No subscription.

Buy $50 of bandwidth and use it over a year if that is how long it takes. Nothing renews, nothing expires, and you are metered at the gateway for exactly what you send.

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Residential Proxies most popular $1.00/ GB

Purchased balance does not expire, so you can add bandwidth when needed and use it at your pace.

  • Rotating & sticky sessions
  • HTTPS recommended; SOCKS5 & HTTP available
  • $50 minimum purchase
  • No recurring subscription
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Reseller API $1.00/ GB, from

White-label the network and sell proxy access under your own brand.

  • Fully brandable, zero PacketStream mentions
  • $500 minimum purchase
  • Automated provisioning, balances & usage
  • $1/GB wholesale bandwidth
  • Set your own retail pricing
  • We support you; you support end customers
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Rotating and sticky sessions use the same $1.00/GB residential rate. Not sure how many GB you need? Try the bandwidth calculator.

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$100.00

Estimate uses the advertised residential rate; your billed total follows gateway-metered usage.

Web data APIs

Search API $2.50/ 1,000 searches

Live Google results as JSON or Markdown. Each successful search costs $0.0025.

  • Web, news, shopping, places, autocomplete, Scholar & AI Mode
  • Country, language & location targeting
  • Same price for every type and option
  • Failed searches are free
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Fetch API $2.50/ 1,000 pages

Read a public web page as Markdown. Each page that returns content costs $0.0025.

  • Main content, title & final URL
  • Static HTML; JavaScript is not run
  • Long pages are read in parts, billed per part
  • Errors are free, including site errors
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MCP Server $2.50/ 1,000 tool calls

Google search and page reading for AI agents. Each successful tool call costs $0.0025.

  • Claude Code, Codex CLI, Cursor, VS Code & more
  • API key or OAuth sign-in
  • Listing the tools is free
  • Failed tool calls are free
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One API key works for all three. Calls draw from the same balance as proxy bandwidth, with the same $50 minimum purchase. Each key allows 20 requests per second, with bursts of 200. More about the Search API, the Fetch API and the MCP server. Moving off Google Custom Search? Read the migration guide.

Earn with PacketStream

Bandwidth Sharing +$0.10per GB shared

You are paid for traffic routed through your connection — this is money in, not a plan you buy.

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  • Windows, macOS, Linux & Android
  • USD payouts through PayPal
  • $5 minimum cashout
  • Processed within one week
  • 3% PacketStream cashout fee
Payment methods

Credit card or PayPal

These are the standard publicly available ways to add balance. The standard customer minimum is $50; the reseller minimum is $500.

Larger purchases

Bank transfer by approval

Contact sales; bank transfer may be approved at PacketStream’s discretion.

Refunds

Refund requests

Contact support within 24 hours of purchase to request a refund of the remaining account balance.

All prices are in USD. Proxy bandwidth is billed per GB metered through the gateway. API calls are billed per successful call. Questions? Talk to us or submit a trial request.

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How PacketStream compares.

PacketStream vs. Bright Data

One $1/GB rate with no subscription, versus $8/GB pay-as-you-go or plans from $499 a month.

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PacketStream vs. Oxylabs

Prepaid $1/GB with no subscription, versus monthly plans at $2.5 to $6/GB.

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PacketStream vs. IPRoyal

One $1/GB rate at any volume, versus tiered pay-as-you-go rates that start at $7.35/GB and stay above $1/GB even at 10 TB.

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PacketStream vs. SOAX

A flat $1/GB balance that does not expire, versus monthly plan fees and credits that expire.

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PacketStream vs. SerpApi

$2.50 per 1,000 Google searches with no plan, versus monthly plans at $9.17 to $25 per 1,000.

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PacketStream vs. Firecrawl

Pay only for successful calls, with no plan and a balance that does not expire, instead of monthly credit plans.

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PacketStream Search API vs. DeepSeek Search API

Live Google results with news, shopping, places and AI Mode, versus a list of pages from DeepSeek's own search engine.

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PacketStream Fetch API vs. DeepSeek Fetch API

Residential IPs, country targeting, paging and the final URL and status, versus a URL in and a title and Markdown out.

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