Recommended for Web scraping
Residential
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- 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
Scraping fails for one reason above all others: too many requests from one address. Rotating residential IPs spread the load so a crawl looks like many visitors, not one, and finishes instead of getting blocked.
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Recommended for Web scraping
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The obstacles a scraper meets, rate limits, CAPTCHAs, sudden bans, are overwhelmingly responses to one address making too many requests too fast. Sites count per IP, so the fix is structural: reduce the requests any single address makes by spreading them across a pool.
That is what a rotating residential proxy does. The same total volume, distributed across thousands of real home IPs, means no single one crosses the threshold that trips a defence, and the crawl that used to die at a few thousand requests runs to completion.
The right proxy depends on what you are scraping. A site that screens datacenter ranges needs residential; one that only rate-limits may be fine on cheaper datacenter IPs; one behind a serious anti-bot stack is often better handed to the scraper API than fought directly.
The honest rule is to start with the cheapest option that survives the target and move up only when it does not, rather than paying for residential on a source that never needed it. The free proxy list is there for a first probe before you commit.
FAQ
Rotating residential for defended sites, datacenter for undefended ones, and the scraper API when you would rather not manage proxies at all. The target decides: start cheap and move up only when a source blocks the cheaper option.
Almost always because too many requests come from one IP. Sites count per address, so a single proxy pulling volume gets rate-limited or CAPTCHA'd. Spreading the crawl across a rotating pool is the structural fix.
Residential is billed per gigabyte of traffic, so cost tracks how much you fetch, and the balance never expires. Fetching only what you need, skipping images you will not parse, keeps it low. See the pricing page for the current per-GB rate.
Related: AI scraping, AI agents.
The vocabulary this job runs on, defined in plain language.
Web scraping
The automated collection of data from websites, the single most common reason people use proxies at scale.
Rate limiting
A site's cap on how many requests one source may make in a window, the most common obstacle a scraper meets.
Rotating proxy
A proxy setup that assigns a different IP address to each request or on a timer, spreading traffic across a pool so no single address draws attention.
Anti-bot system
A layered defence, network, fingerprint and behaviour checks combined, that sites use to separate automation from real users.
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Residential from $0.44 per GB, pay as you go, and the balance never expires.