# Decodo: what it sells, price and AI features

URL: https://www.newsprint.com/companies/decodo/
Covers: April 2025 to Sept. 22, 2025
Updated: 2026-11-11
License: CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Cite as: Newsprint, "Decodo: what it sells, price and AI features", https://www.newsprint.com/companies/decodo/, updated 2026-11-11

> Decodo is on the social monitoring map. We record 2 dated launches and events for it. The latest is dated Sept. 22, 2025.

Proxy and scraping vendor (renamed from Smartproxy 2025). Web Data API (scrape/search/map/crawl) plus templates for TikTok, YouTube and Pinterest and an MCP server. Agent use: structured TikTok/YouTube pulls. Source: [decodo.com](https://decodo.com/).

## Facts

- Site: [decodo.com](https://decodo.com/)
- Founded: [2018](https://proxyway.com/reviews/smartproxy-proxies)
- Category: Social data APIs and scrapers
- Status: Active

## On the research maps

### [The social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-decodo)

Proxy and scraping vendor (renamed from Smartproxy 2025). Web Data API (scrape/search/map/crawl) plus templates for TikTok, YouTube and Pinterest and an MCP server. Agent use: structured TikTok/YouTube pulls. Source: [decodo.com](https://decodo.com/).

- Category: Social data APIs and scrapers
- Price: Web Data API: Free ($0, up to 10K pages), $19 (38K pages), $49 (122K), $99 (330K), $249 (1.2M), $499 (2.7M), $999 (6.2M), $1,499 (9.9M). No social-specific per-request price published; failed requests not charged.
- Platforms: TikTok and YouTube
- Scale: Established: a public parent, or a disclosed user or customer base (Site cites support of 135K+ clients (the former Smartproxy).)
- Founded: [2018](https://proxyway.com/reviews/smartproxy-proxies)

Sources: [decodo.com](https://decodo.com/), [decodo.com](https://decodo.com/scraping/web/pricing) and [proxyway.com](https://proxyway.com/reviews/smartproxy-proxies).

## Launches and dated events, newest first

### @decodo/mcp-server v1.0.0 published to npm

Launch, Sept. 22, 2025. First npm release of the Decodo MCP server; v1.6.0 on 2026-10-20.

Source: [npm registry](https://registry.npmjs.org/@decodo/mcp-server). From [the social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-decodo).

### Smartproxy becomes Decodo; scraping APIs merged into one universal scraper

Rebrand, April 2025. Smartproxy officially introduced Decodo (decodo.com); 85K+ users claimed.

Source: [Decodo blog](https://decodo.com/blog/smartproxy-is-now-decodo). From [the social monitoring map](https://www.newsprint.com/research/social-monitoring/#co-decodo).

## Methodology and corrections

How we track launches, and how to report an error: https://www.newsprint.com/updates/pr-software/#methodology