Proxies for AI agents. An egress the web trusts.
An AI agent that browses, buys or books is only as capable as the IP it acts from. A residential exit is what lets it move through the real web instead of hitting a wall of blocks meant for datacenter bots.
What fits
2 products fit, best first
ResidentialRecommended for AI agents
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
From
$0.44/ GB
Mobile
Real 4G and 5G carrier IPs
- Rotating, or sticky up to 7 days
- Country targeting
- Billed per GB, no subscription
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5
From
$1.50/ GB
- Residential proxies
- The default egress for an agent: a real home IP means the sites it visits judge its behaviour, not its network, which is the difference between an agent that completes a task and one that gets challenged at every step.
- Mobile proxies
- For the hardest targets, a carrier IP shared by many real users that sites are reluctant to block, worth it when an agent has to act on a platform that treats everything else as suspect.
An agent inherits the reputation of the IP it runs from
An autonomous agent usually runs on a server, which means it acts from a datacenter address, the single most flagged kind of IP there is. However clever the agent, a site that screens by network sees a hosting range and treats it as a bot before the agent does anything at all.
A residential exit removes that network tell. The agent still has to behave plausibly, but it is now judged on what it does rather than dismissed for where it connects from, which is what lets multi-step tasks, logging in, navigating, completing a flow, actually run to the end.
One agent, one identity
Continuity matters more for agents than for scrapers. A task that spans a login, a session and several pages breaks the moment the IP changes underneath it, so an agent usually wants a sticky residential session or a static ISP address that holds for the whole run, not per-request rotation.
Where you are fielding many agents at once, give each its own exit. Ten agents behind one address look like one confused user; ten agents on ten residential IPs look like ten ordinary people, which is the whole point.
How to set up proxies for AI agents
- 1
One line per agent
Give every agent its own line, so no two agents ever share an address.
- 2
Hold the address for the whole task
Add stickyMinutes long enough for the task; Premium holds one address for up to 1,440 minutes. For an agent that keeps an account for weeks, rent a static residential address instead.
- 3
Match the browser to the exit
If the agent drives a browser, set the browser's time zone and language to the exit's country. Sites compare both with the address.
- 4
Check the exit before the first step
Send one request through the line to the IP lookup: the address should be residential and in the country you chose.
AI agents: what goes wrong, and the fix
- The agent is logged out halfway through a task
- The exit changed under the session. Use a sticky line, or a static residential address for agents that work for days.
- Every step meets a CAPTCHA
- The agent connects from a datacenter range. Move it to a residential or mobile line.
- Two agents get linked to each other
- They share an address or a browser profile. Give each agent its own line and its own profile.
- The site shows the wrong country
- The browser's time zone or language contradicts the exit. Set both to the exit's country.
Setup guides and tools
FAQ
AI agents questions, answered
Why does an AI agent need a proxy?
Because it usually runs on a server, and a server's datacenter IP is flagged by default. A residential proxy gives the agent an ordinary-looking address so sites judge its behaviour instead of blocking its network on sight.
Should an agent's IP rotate or stay fixed?
Stay fixed for the length of a task. Agents do multi-step work, login, navigation, checkout, and a changing IP breaks the session. A sticky residential session or a static ISP address is the right shape; per-request rotation suits stateless scraping, not agents.
Can I run many agents at once?
Yes, and each should have its own exit. Many agents sharing one IP correlate straight back to each other. One residential address per agent keeps them independent, the same principle as one proxy per antidetect-browser profile.
Can an AI agent use a SOCKS5 proxy?
Yes. Every line answers HTTP and SOCKS5 with the same login, so the agent's HTTP client or browser can use whichever it supports.
Is there an MCP server for assistants?
Yes. Our MCP server gives an assistant a free proxy list, a proxy checker and an IP lookup as tools; the setup for each assistant is on the AI tools page.
Related: AI scraping, Web scraping.