Recommended for Instagram
Mobile
Starting at
$1.50/ GB
- Real 4G and 5G carrier IPs
- Rotating, or sticky up to 7 days
- Country targeting
- Billed per GB, no subscription
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5
Social · Instagram
Buy Instagram proxies. Mobile lasts longest.
Instagram blocklists hosting ranges aggressively, so the question is not which proxy is fastest, it is which kind of address the platform is unwilling to ban.
From $0.44/GB · pay as you go · balance never expires
What works on Instagram
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Residential
Starting at
$0.44/ GB
- Real-device IPs in 200+ countries
- Rotating or sticky sessions
- State, city and ISP targeting on Premium
- Pay per GB, balance never expires
- HTTP and SOCKS5
ISP
Starting at
$0.65/ GB
- IPs registered to real ISPs
- Rotating per GB, or static per IP
- Unlimited bandwidth on static IPs
- Datacenter speed
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5
- Mobile 4G and 5G
- Lasts longest for serious multi-account work. Carriers put thousands of real users behind each address through CGNAT, so Instagram cannot hard-ban it without hitting real customers.
- Clean residential, sticky
- The sensible default for the bulk of accounts, one sticky address per account.
- Static ISP
- For a small number of long-lived accounts that need the same address every session.
Why carrier-grade NAT is the entire argument for mobile
A mobile carrier assigns one public address to thousands of subscribers at once. Banning that address means banning a slice of a mobile network, which Instagram is extremely reluctant to do because the collateral damage is real users. You are not buying speed, you are buying that reluctance.
It follows that mobile is wasted on work nothing is defending. If clean residential is holding, mobile is money spent on trust you already had.
Hosting ranges are the fastest way to lose an account
Instagram blocklists hosting and datacenter ranges aggressively, and a free proxy is almost always one of those. A free address usually earns a checkpoint on the first login rather than after a hundred actions, which is why the cheap route costs accounts rather than saving money.
One sticky address per account is the working rule. Accounts that share an address get actioned together when one of them trips something.
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FAQ
Instagram proxy questions, answered
What is the best proxy for Instagram accounts?
Mobile 4G or 5G for serious multi-account work, because carrier addresses are shared with thousands of real users and cannot be hard-banned. Clean residential is the sensible default for most accounts.
Can I use free proxies for Instagram?
Realistically no, not for running or automating accounts. Most free proxies are datacenter IPs on ranges Instagram blocklists, so they usually earn a checkpoint immediately.
How many accounts per IP?
One is the safe answer. Accounts sharing an address get actioned together, so the saving on addresses is paid for in accounts.
Terms on this page, explained
The terms that decide how Instagram treats your traffic.
Mobile proxy
A proxy that routes traffic through an IP address assigned by a mobile carrier to a phone or cellular modem, carrying the strongest trust of any proxy type.
Sticky session
A rotating-proxy feature that keeps you on the same exit IP for a set duration so a multi-step task can complete without the address changing underneath it.
Browser fingerprinting
Identifying a visitor from the combination of subtle browser and device traits, a layer of detection that survives changing your IP.
IP reputation
The accumulated trust score a site or third-party service assigns to an IP address based on its network, history and behaviour.
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