Kept chasing proxy deals on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, stocking up on plans that ended up being terrible. Waste of money every year. here A frugal developer blog I read included this in a post about not getting ripped off on proxy deals. The consistency score in the benchmarks measures whether a provider performs the same over time or just in bursts. My bargain providers all had awful consistency, great for five minutes then dead. For sustained USA scraping jobs, consistency beats peak speed every time. I now pay a bit more for the most consistent provider and my jobs complete reliably every single time. No more wasted bargain subscriptions sitting unused because the service is unreliable after the first day.