NullVault or Decodo, which is better for scraping?
We would say NullVault, and you are reading that on NullVault’s own site, so weigh it accordingly. On the figures that are checkable, we are cheaper per gigabyte, we do not require ID, and we offer rotating and sticky sessions with country targeting across residential, ISP and mobile pools.
Decodo, which is what Smartproxy is now called, has a wide feature set and a great deal of published documentation, and some teams value that highly. Documentation does not make the underlying addresses perform better, but it does make a team faster, and that is a real advantage rather than a nothing.
Where they beat us
They take card payments and issue conventional invoices, which we do not. If you need a receipt for an expense report or your finance team will not process crypto, that decides it regardless of price per gigabyte. They also have years of independent reviews behind them and we do not.
The test that actually settles it
Run both against the same URLs and compare successful response rate, latency, how often you see a CAPTCHA, and total cost for the same work. That measurement beats anybody’s opinion including ours, it takes an afternoon, and both of us sell small enough quantities to make it cheap.
Worth knowing
This is a comparison written by one of the two providers being compared. Treat it as our argument, not as an audit, and run the test above before committing to volume.
Other questions
These answers describe how the NullVault proxy network works in practice, across residential, ISP, mobile, datacenter and IPv6 pools.