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How Many IPv4 Addresses Are There? Who Holds Them, Country by Country
There are 4,294,967,296 IPv4 addresses. Our count of the five registries' files shows who holds them, when each ran out, and how many users share each one.
November 8, 2026 · 9 min read
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ISP Proxy Price Study 2026: What 31 Sellers Charge per IP
ISP proxy prices in 2026 from 31 sellers' price lists: the median per IP at 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 IPs, minimum orders, shared vs dedicated, and the cheapest.
October 26, 2026 · 9 min read
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Independent Benchmark of Our Residential Network: Our Worst Number Was 60% on Google
ProxyVero measured our residential pool at 89.4% success and 60% on Google. We downloaded its full 50-provider dataset to find out whether 60% is bad.
September 8, 2026 · 9 min read
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We Pointed Free Proxies at 21 AI Sites: Which Edges Block Them, Which Wave Them Through, and the Four Kinds of Wall
A measured study, August 24, 2026: three runs of 50 free proxies from our own list, each sent to a dozen AI sites. Only 20 to 27 of 50 could carry HTTPS at all. claude.ai challenged 18 of 27, Character.AI refused half, Poe challenged a third, while DeepSeek, Civitai, Janitor AI, Mistral and x.ai let every one through, Hugging Face answered three with a 429, and Google Flow showed four a country page. The numbers, the four different walls behind them, and what they mean if you rely on free proxies.
August 24, 2026 · 13 min read
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Scraping API Price Spread: Costs Run 50x Apart for the Same Job
Four scraping APIs, converted to one number: dollars per 1,000 requests. The range runs from $0.0749 to $3.75, and on one vendor both ends of a 25x spread sit inside the same $30 plan.
August 11, 2026 · 10 min read
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Correcting Our Own Price Data: Four Errors We Found Re-Checking 20 Vendors
We re-verified all 20 residential proxy vendors we track against their own pricing pages on August 10, 2026, one week after the first capture. Four of our records were wrong, and one of them was wrong in the direction that suited us.
August 10, 2026 · 10 min read
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The Permanent Sale: 8 of 20 Proxy Vendors Are Discounting and Only 1 Says When It Ends
We re-read the residential pricing page of 20 proxy vendors on August 10, 2026. Eight were running a discount. One of the eight published an end date.
August 10, 2026 · 11 min read
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Headless Browsers Are Not Free: What Puppeteer Costs in Proxy Bandwidth
A headless browser downloads the whole page. The median page weighed 2,987 KB in October 2026, so 100,000 loads move about 306 GB of per-GB proxy traffic.
August 6, 2026 · 9 min read
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Free Proxy Source Quality Study: Half of 954,000 Proxies Never Worked
Our engine has checked 954,000 free proxies 426 million times across 116 source lists. Half never worked. The best list has a 24% hit rate, the worst 0.32%.
August 3, 2026 · 8 min read
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Residential Proxy Price Study 2026: What 58 Providers Charge per GB
Residential proxy prices in 2026 on 58 price lists, ours included: the median per GB at 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 GB, the spread and the fall since 2022.
August 3, 2026 · 12 min read
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Residential Proxy Supply Chain Economics: What the Person Supplying It Earns
Residential proxies are resold consumer bandwidth. We checked what the apps buying that bandwidth pay per GB, against what providers charge for it.
August 3, 2026 · 6 min read
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Scraping API Credit Multipliers: Why 250,000 Credits Buy Fewer Requests
Scraping APIs bill in credits, and one request can cost 1 credit or 75. We read the credit tables at ScrapingBee, ZenRows and ScraperAPI and did the arithmetic.
August 3, 2026 · 7 min read
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