beginnerProxy types
Residential Proxy
An IP address assigned by an ISP to a real home connection, rented out through a proxy network.
Residential proxies route your traffic through devices on genuine consumer internet connections. Because the IP belongs to a real ISP subscriber, target sites see traffic that is indistinguishable from an ordinary visitor, which makes these proxies the hardest tier to detect and block. They are correspondingly the most expensive per gigabyte, and are usually billed by bandwidth rather than by IP.
In practice
- A scraper rotating through 50,000 US residential IPs to collect retail pricing
- An ad verifier checking a campaign as it appears to a household in Berlin
Common use cases
Web scraping protected targetsAd verificationPrice monitoringSneaker and ticket purchasing