Proxy and web data providers · RankedSmartproxy
Smartproxy is a proxy and web data provider whose infrastructure is used to collect web data for competitive intelligence work · smartproxy.ai ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Decodo is first at 49%.
Decodo is first at 57%. 3 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Bright Data is first at 47%.
Why models recommend it
“### 1. The Balanced Choice: Smartproxy ... Choose Smartproxy if you want to get started quickly, need easy pricing, and require a friendly account manager.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Smartproxy — Best Overall Balance of Price, Performance & Support ... frequently the top choice for mid-market B2B companies”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“Recommendation: Start with a trial of Smartproxy. It offers the lowest friction to entry for a mid-market team”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Direct question · first choice
“I'd recommend starting with Smartproxy or Decodo”Kimi K2 · Direct question · first choice
What gives them pause
No model argued against it.
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Smartproxy, over the 51 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 10 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 21 | Compare → | |
| 26 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 23 | 0 | View → | |
| 18 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 16 | 1 | View → | |
| 16 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 12 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 1 | View → | |
| 9 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Smartproxy →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Smartproxy's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- businesses and individuals
- Price stated
- Pricing $-/GB
- Starting price
- $-/GB
- Free plan or trial
- Free Trial
- Hosting
- 200 countries, 200+ countries, 200 regions worldwide, US, EU-5, key APAC markets
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 28 of the 51 answers that named Smartproxy and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Eighty-six of the ninety-seven domain citations in answers naming Smartproxy came from a third party's page. Eleven were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
What it publishes
| 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.