A US residential proxy gives you an address from an American internet provider, so US sites treat your requests as a visit from the United States. Use it for jobs that need an American view: prices and stock on US stores, local search results, and checks in one state or city.
Free US proxies are no substitute. On October 22, 2026, 1,699 of the 1,706 working ones on our free list were already flagged as proxies, and most ran on hosting networks. Our residential proxies target the US from $0.50/GB for one GB.
Which networks does a US residential address come from?
A residential address belongs to the provider that connects the home. RIPEstat, the RIPE NCC's routing database, shows how many IPv4 addresses each US company announces to the internet across its networks:
Those totals cover more than homes. AT&T and Verizon also run large business and mobile networks, so not every address is residential. Homes themselves connect mostly by cable and fiber: the FCC counted 135 million fixed connections in June 2025, 55.2% over cable and 28.5% over fiber.
About 62% of US users can also use IPv6, the newer address system, APNIC Labs measured in the 30 days to October 19, 2026.
What does a US address change?
Sites read your address to decide where you are. Google's help page says "IP addresses are roughly based on geography", and your location "helps to show you nearby results". An address in another country shows you that country's version of a page.
A US address makes these jobs possible:
- Price and stock checks. See the prices, offers and stock that stores show to shoppers in the US.
- Search results. Track rankings and local results as an American user sees them.
- State and city checks. See what a site shows in one state or one city, with Residential Premium.
- Ad checks. Confirm that a US campaign shows in the US, and how.
Residential Lite targets the country at the lowest rate. Residential Premium adds state, city and ISP targeting.
What does a US proxy not do?
A proxy changes your address and nothing else. A site that forbids proxies forbids this one as well, and its rules apply to your work. Detection services also list residential proxies: MaxMind's Anonymous IP database has a flag for them. Our guide to how websites detect proxies explains the other checks.
Why do free US proxies fail?
Our collector reads the free proxy lists published online. Since May 13, 2026, we have seen 396,781 US addresses on those lists, and 208,181 ever worked. On October 22, 1,706 were working:
The other 212 ran on other networks, among them home providers such as Cox, with 69. A free proxy is fine for testing your code. Our free proxy list for the US shows the working ones, and our page on US proxies covers the paid options.
How much traffic does a US job need?
Size it from the pages you load. HTTP Archive's Web Almanac 2024 measured the median desktop page at 2,652 KB and the median mobile page at 2,311 KB. One GB therefore covers roughly 380 full desktop page loads.
A job that skips images and scripts needs far less. Load twenty typical pages through the proxy, read the traffic it used in the dashboard, and multiply.
How do you buy it here?
- Top up your balance. Pay by card from $10, or with crypto from $3. The balance never expires.
- Pick the pool. Residential Lite targets the US as a country from $0.50/GB for one GB, falling to $0.44 per GB at volume. Residential Premium adds state, city and ISP targeting from $1.00/GB.
- Set the session. Rotate the address on every request for data collection, or hold one address with a sticky session of 3 minutes to 24 hours on Premium.
Which one should you buy?
For most US jobs, buy Residential Lite with the US as the country. Free US proxies lose: almost all are flagged, and most are hosting servers. Choose Premium when the job needs a state, a city or a provider. Our page on the cheapest residential proxies compares other sellers' prices, and our residential proxies page has our full price list.
What this page could not check
- We tested no speed, success rate or block rate, on any network, ours included.
- We do not publish which US networks our own exits come from, or how many there are.
- Announced address space includes business and mobile lines, and is not a count of homes.
- The free proxy figures come from one day and one IP reputation check.
- We will check every number on this page again by January 22, 2027.
Sources
- RIPE NCC, RIPEstat routing-status and as-overview data, read October 22, 2026.
- FCC, "Internet Access Services: Status as of June 30, 2025", May 2026.
- APNIC Labs, IPv6 use per country, data to October 19, 2026.
- Google Search Help, "Understand and manage your location when you search on Google", read October 22, 2026.
- HTTP Archive, Web Almanac 2024, Page Weight chapter, December 30, 2024.
- MaxMind, GeoIP Anonymous IP database documentation, read October 22, 2026.
- HProxy, residential pricing page and payment options page, read October 22, 2026.
- HProxy, free proxy measurement for the United States, October 22, 2026.
