Pay-as-you-go proxy IPs: an elastic and scalable traffic billing model

Why traditional proxy IP packages always cost you money?

Many users have encountered such a scenario: at the beginning of the month to buy 20G traffic package, the results of the actual use of only 3G, the remaining 17G expired for nothing; or temporary need to deal with urgent tasks, the package traffic but early exhaustion. This kind of"If you can't use it all, waste it. If you can't use it all, add more money."The fixed package model is like buying a bucket of water that will go bad if you don't finish it, and buying a new bucket if you want to drink more.

The core reason for this predicament is that traditional proxy IP service providers use thePrepaid Traffic Package Model. Users need to anticipate future usage, but when there are fluctuations in actual business, they either pay for idle traffic or are forced to interrupt their tasks. This model is especially unfriendly to teams with testing projects, ad-hoc crawling needs, or erratic business volumes.

How pay-per-use models can break the deadlock

ipipgo's flexible traffic billing model revolutionizes the 'buy now, use later' game. Just like household utility bills are billed based on actual degrees, proxy IP services are billed based on theActual traffic consumption is billed to the nearest MB. Users don't need to buy traffic packages in advance, the system counts the usage in real time and generates the bill automatically after the task is finished.

This model has three core strengths:

- Zero Waste Mechanism: Use as much as you want, no anxiety about zeroing out traffic at the end of the month

- Emergency response capacity: In the event of temporary high traffic demand, the system automatically expands capacity without manual intervention.

- Cost transparency: Real-time traffic monitoring panel in the background with hourly consumption data updates

Key to the technical realization of ipipgo

To achieve true flexible billing, service providers must have three hard skills:
1. Massive IP resource pool: ipipgo covers 90 million residential IPs in 240+ countries and regions, with dynamic IP pools that support switching in seconds.
2. Precision metering systems: Adopt carrier-grade traffic auditing, error rate control within 0.1%
3. Intelligent scheduling engine: Automatically match the optimal node according to the user's business type to avoid ineffective consumption of traffic.

For example, in an e-commerce price monitoring project, when using traditional packages, the average daily consumption of 2.3G traffic, but when encountering promotional days, the traffic will surge to 15G. After accessing ipipgo elasticity mode, the daily cost is reduced by 40%, and the automatic expansion of capacity to ensure the continuity of business in the peak period, the overall expenditure is reduced by 28%.

Four types of scenarios are best suited for flexible billing

According to user-measured data, these business types have the most significant savings:

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Will I be disconnected if I use too much traffic?
A: ipipgo adopts the credit limit mechanism and supports flexible overdraft when the account balance is sufficient, and the system will remind the dosage in real time via SMS/email.

Q: Is it suitable for small traffic users?
A: There is no minimum consumption threshold for the flexible model, and there have been cases where a user used only 37MB of traffic in a single month and was billed at the rate of $0.0037/MB, with a total expenditure of less than $0.14.

Q: How to prevent abnormal traffic consumption?
A: Console can be setUsage warning thresholdsrespond in singingautomatic fusing mechanismWhen the traffic reaches the set value, you can choose to suspend the service or switch to manual review.

How to start your first flexible spending

Using the ipipgo resilience model takes only three steps:
1. Select "pay per volume" billing method when creating an account
2. Generate an API key in the console or download a dedicated client
3. Automatic start of measurement by the system at the time of initiation of the operational request

Recommended for first time usersTraffic Monitoring Kanban, observing the consumption of different lines of business in real time. For users with long-term stable usage, the system will proactively suggest switching to the reserved capacity discount mode in the 3rd month to further reduce the unit cost.