Residential proxies
The default for anything that scores visitors.
from $2.45 per GB
Residential detailsCompare · 4 networks · 15 criteria
Four networks, one wallet. Which one for this job?
The address decides how a target treats you: a household line, an ISP-registered block on a wired uplink, a datacenter range or a carrier's shared IP. Everything else, from the gateway syntax to the wallet, is the same. This page puts the differences side by side and prices three real workloads.
- 1walletOne prepaid balance funds all four networks
- 2hostnamesResidential and mobile pools; dedicated addresses are their own ip:port
- 24 hmax stickyOn the pools; static addresses never change
- ∞threadsNo concurrency cap on any network
01 — The matrix
15 criteria, four columns, no marketing adjectives.
What the address is, how it behaves, what it costs and what it is for. Every cell is a fact about the network, not a rating.
| Criterion | Residential | ISP | Datacenter | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What the address is | ||||
| Where it comes from | A household device on a consumer ISP, with the owner's consent | A block registered to a consumer ISP, hosted on a wired datacenter uplink | A range announced from a commercial facility | A carrier's 4G/5G network, behind NAT shared by thousands of subscribers |
| Pool size | 70M+ addresses in the rotating pool | 550K+ static addresses to order from | 550K+ dedicated addresses to order from | 4.9M+ carrier addresses in the rotating pool |
| Who else uses it | A shared pool; you hold one exit only for the length of a session | Nobody. The address is yours for the whole term | Nobody. The address is yours for the whole term | Pool: shared carrier NAT. Dedicated device: yours alone |
| How targets score it | Like a home visitor | Like a home visitor, with a datacenter's stability | As hosting: rate-limited or blocked on protected sites | The most tolerated traffic there is; blocking it blocks real customers |
| Behaviour | ||||
| Rotation | New exit on every connection, or held up to 24 hours with a session id | None. The IP is static | None. The IP is static | Pool: per connection or sticky. Device: on demand by link, API or timer |
| Targeting | Country, US state, city and ASN from the username | Country and city chosen at the order | Country and city chosen at the order | Country and carrier (ASN) on the pool; fixed on a device |
| Speed and latency | A household line; a few hundred milliseconds added | Wired uplink; the fastest residential-grade option | Wired uplink; the fastest of the four | Cellular; fine for pages and apps, not for bulk transfer |
| Concurrency | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Delivery | One hostname, parameters in the username | A list of ip:port:user:pass lines | A list of ip:port:user:pass lines | Pool: one hostname. Device: its own ip:port plus a rotation link |
| Money | ||||
| Billing unit | Per GB, tier set by the purchase size, never expires | Per address per term: 24 hours, 30, 60 or 90 days | Per address per term: 30, 60 or 90 days | Pool per GB; device per term from 24 hours to 90 days |
| Traffic | Metered, both directions | Unlimited | 100 GB per address each month, pooled across the order | Pool metered; device unlimited |
| Location pricing | One rate worldwide | By zone; the United States is the reference | By zone; North America is the reference | Pool: one rate. Devices by zone, cheaper outside North America |
| From | $2.45 per GB | $0.99 per address per month | $0.70 per address per month | $2.62 per GB; devices from $31.05 per month |
| Fit | ||||
| Best for | Scraping, SERP, ads, prices, travel, research | Accounts, checkout, anything that must keep one IP | Bulk collection from open sources, monitoring, QA | Social accounts, mobile ads and apps, the hardest targets |
| Avoid for | Logins that must never change address | Wide geographic sampling; one address is one place | Targets that fingerprint hosting ranges | Bulk transfer and raw throughput |
02 — Profiles
Trust, speed and control rarely come together.
Three qualities on a four-step scale, as we would describe each network to a colleague. The trade-off is the whole story: you pay for trust with speed or with control, never get all three at the lowest price.
ISP proxies
When one address must stay yours.
from $0.99 per IP per month
ISP detailsDatacenter proxies
Volume and speed where trust is not tested.
from $0.70 per IP per month
Datacenter detailsMobile proxies
The last word on protected, mobile-first targets.
from $2.62 per GB
Mobile detailsTrust = how protected targets treat the address. Speed = throughput and latency of the line. IP control = how much you decide when the address changes.
03 — Head to head
The four choices people actually hesitate on.
Each pair shares something that makes them look interchangeable. The lists say when they are not.
Residential vs ISP
Both look like a home connection. One rotates through many homes, the other is a single address that never moves.
Pick residential when
- You need many locations, cities or providers in one job
- Rotation on every request is the point
- Traffic is the natural unit of your work
Pick ISP when
- The same IP must survive for weeks or months
- Traffic is heavy or unpredictable and metering would hurt
- The other side whitelists your address
Residential vs Mobile
Same gateway syntax, different trust ceiling. Mobile costs more per GB and buys tolerance nothing else can.
Pick residential when
- The target is a website that scores visitors, not a mobile-first platform
- You need city or US-state targeting
- Cost per GB matters at volume
Pick mobile when
- The target is a social platform, an app or a carrier-gated service
- Residential exits get challenged where you work
- You want one device, one account, one phone-like footprint
ISP vs Datacenter
Both are static addresses on wired uplinks. The difference is what the address is registered as, and what that costs.
Pick ISP when
- The target scores visitors and flags hosting ranges
- Accounts, logins and checkouts live on the address
- Traffic must be unlimited on a residential-grade IP
Pick datacenter when
- The sources are open: APIs, sitemaps, catalogues, your own properties
- You want the lowest cost and the highest speed per request
- A pooled traffic allowance fits the workload
Datacenter vs Residential
The cheapest network against the most versatile one. The target decides, not the budget.
Pick datacenter when
- Nothing in the pipeline fingerprints hosting ranges
- Latency and throughput dominate
- You need fixed egress addresses to whitelist
Pick residential when
- Some targets block or challenge datacenter ranges
- You need exits that look local to a city or a provider
- Rotation must be wide, not just fast
04 — Cost of three real jobs
The same job, priced on each network.
Monthly cost at today's grid, United States reference zone for dedicated addresses, computed from the published tables. The cheapest column is only the right one when the target accepts that network.
| Workload | Residential | ISP | Datacenter | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 GB a month of page collection on mixed targetsPrices, listings and public pages across several countries, no login. | $154 / monthRotation on every request, any country; the reference when targets score visitors | $0.99 / monthOne static address, unlimited traffic; works only if the target tolerates a single IP | $0.70 / monthOne address with a 100 GB monthly pool; only for sources that do not block hosting ranges | $192 / monthCarrier IPs; justified only when the target is mobile-first |
| 20 accounts kept alive for 90 daysOne footprint per account, daily activity, the same country as the account. | $35 / monthAbout 1 GB per account per month on sticky sessions; the IP still changes at least daily | $18.81 / month20 static addresses on a 90-day term, 5 % volume discount, unlimited traffic | not suitedPlatforms flag hosting ranges on signup and login. | $1,242 / month20 dedicated devices, United States rate; other zones are cheaper |
| 1 TB a month from open APIs and cataloguesNothing in the pipeline fingerprints hosting ranges. | $1,020 / monthOnly if the sources score visitors; the volume tier applies to the whole purchase | $4.95 / month5 static addresses to spread requests, unlimited traffic | $6.65 / month10 addresses, 1000 GB pooled each month, 5 % discount; the network built for this | not suitedCellular throughput is not built for bulk transfer. |
Residential and mobile traffic never expires, so a quiet month costs nothing. Dedicated terms run whether you use them or not. Full pricing
05 — Switching
Changing network is a string change.
Same account, same wallet, same username parameters, same two protocols. A client that reads its proxy from configuration moves from one network to another without a code change.
- Residential and mobile: swap
res.formob., keep the username - ISP, datacenter and devices: paste the
ip:port:user:passline from your list - Session ids,
-cc-and-asn-mean the same thing on both pools - Whitelist once, and every endpoint accepts your servers without a password
# Residential pool, a new US household on every connection
http://USER-cc-us:[email protected]:9000
# Mobile pool, same parameters, a carrier IP instead
http://USER-cc-us:[email protected]:9000
# One of your ISP or datacenter addresses (from your list)
http://u7f3a9c:[email protected]:8000
# One of your mobile devices, rotated when you decide
http://d4c1e0:[email protected]:800006 — Questions
Before you pick.
Can I mix networks in one project?
Yes, and most serious pipelines do. One wallet funds all four; residential and mobile share one credential pair on two hostnames, dedicated addresses come with their own. Route by target: datacenter for open sources, residential for scored sites, ISP for accounts, mobile where nothing else passes.
Which network has the largest pool, and does it matter?
Residential, by far: 70M+ addresses, against 4.9M+ on mobile, 550K+ on ISP and 550K+ on datacenter, as of September 2026. Pool size matters where you rotate: the wider the pool in your target country, the less often a target sees the same address twice. On ISP and datacenter it means something else: you rent fixed addresses, so the figure is the inventory your order is drawn from, not something you rotate through. And a mobile address stands for many subscribers behind carrier NAT, so a smaller pool goes further there.
Which network is the cheapest per request?
Datacenter, by a wide margin, wherever the target accepts hosting ranges: a pooled allowance of 100 GB per address each month turns into a fraction of a cent per request. The moment a target blocks hosting ranges, the cheapest network becomes the one whose requests succeed, which is usually residential.
Which is the fastest?
Datacenter and ISP: both sit on wired uplinks in facilities on major exchanges. Residential adds the latency of a household line and mobile that of a cellular network, both fine for pages and APIs, neither meant for bulk transfer.
Do I need mobile proxies for social platforms?
Not always. Many accounts run well on ISP addresses in the account's country, at a fraction of the cost. Mobile becomes the answer when a platform challenges residential-grade addresses, when the audience is mobile-first, or when an account is valuable enough to deserve its own device.
Can I switch networks without changing my code?
Almost. Residential and mobile differ only by hostname. Dedicated addresses are their own ip:port, so a client that reads its proxy from configuration switches by changing one line. Session ids, protocols and authentication behave the same everywhere.
Is one network more private than another?
The gateway behaves the same on all four: it strips proxy headers and adds none, never terminates TLS, and stores what billing and abuse handling require. The difference is on the target side, in how the address is perceived, not in what we see.
Ready when you are
Try the network you picked on your real target.
Top up $20, run the job, and if the target disagrees with your choice, switch: the balance follows you to any of the four.