what is bandwidth metering?
billing by the gigabytes that pass through the proxy rather than by address or by time.
the provider counts bytes in both directions at the gateway: request headers, response bodies, tls overhead, redirects, and everything you downloaded and threw away. it is the default model for residential, mobile and most datacenter pools because supply is metered upstream too. the consequence is that page weight is your cost. a headless browser loading images, fonts, video and a dozen third party trackers can burn tens of megabytes on a page whose useful json payload was 40kb. the controls that actually move the bill: block images, media and fonts at the request level, keep compression on, call json endpoints instead of rendering pages, cache so you never fetch the same url twice, and stop following redirects into heavy assets. the alternative model is flat, a dedicated server with unlimited bandwidth priced by mbps and duration, which wins past a certain monthly volume. myx sells both, per gb from $0.15 to $1.95 and unlimited residential from $1900.00 for 200mbps over 30 days.