Proxies · billed per GB of traffic
Residential proxies
Traffic exits from addresses that internet providers assigned to households. Sites that classify visitors by network type see an ordinary consumer connection.
What it is
A gateway that assigns an exit address per connection, or holds one address for a sticky session. You choose rotation behaviour per request through the credentials you send.
Billing is by traffic moved, request and response bytes together. That makes page weight, not request count, the number that decides your cost, so measure it before you scale.
Every residential address comes from a participant who opted in. The conditions are set out on the sourcing page, written so a reviewer can check each claim.
Good for
- Collecting public pages that vary by visitor location, such as localised prices and search results.
- Verifying how an advert or listing renders to a visitor in another country.
- Workloads with many distinct targets, where one address per site is the point.
Not for
- Long-lived logged-in sessions that need one address for weeks. A static ISP proxy is the better fit.
- Bulk downloads of large files. Per-GB billing makes them the most expensive way to move bytes.
Specification
| Metered by | GB of traffic, request and response |
|---|---|
| Protocols | HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 where your plan lists them |
| Session control | Rotating per request, or sticky for a set duration |
| Authentication | Username and password; IP allow-list where enabled |
Prices, limits and country coverage for your account are shown in the dashboard before you pay. See how pricing works.
How to evaluate it
- Run your own targets for a week and record success rate per target, not an average across all of them.
- Weigh a typical page end to end, including images and scripts you do not need. Blocking them is the cheapest saving available.
- Check whether your plan states a sticky-session limit before you design around one.
Works well for
E-commerce price intelligence
Track competitor prices, stock and listings per market, the way a local shopper sees them.
Ad verification
See your adverts the way a visitor in each market and network sees them.
Public web data for AI
Collect public pages for training, evaluation and retrieval, with a provenance trail a data-governance review can follow.
Test it on your own targets.
Create an account, run the measurement harness against your real workload, and read the numbers before you commit to anything.