Residential proxies: how they work and how they are billed
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Residential proxies are coming soon and cannot be ordered yet. This article describes how they work.
Residential proxies route your requests through consumer broadband addresses belonging to peers who opted in to share bandwidth. You buy traffic, not addresses: each order adds gigabytes, and every request through the gateway draws them down.
Specification
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
Billing |
Per GB of traffic |
Minimum order |
1 GB, with no monthly minimum |
Authentication |
Username and password; IP allowlist where the proxy offers it |
Protocols |
HTTP and SOCKS5; HTTPS where the proxy offers it |
Sessions |
Rotating: each new connection can leave from a different address |
Location |
Network-wide; a country cannot be selected at checkout |
Rates and the volume ladder are on the residential pricing page. A larger order earns a lower rate per GB for that whole order.
Who it is for
Workloads where the target varies its answer by visitor or scores address reputation: price and assortment monitoring, search and marketplace measurement, ad verification. If a job must originate in one named country, or keep one address for hours, use ISP or datacenter instead. See Choosing a proxy type.