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Residential
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- HTTP and SOCKS5
South Africa · Gauteng · The Drift
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Residential IPs with a The Drift exit in South Africa. Pay as you go, no subscription, and a balance that never expires. From $0.44/GB.
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The place
Where The Drift sits
The Drift is the 351st-largest listed city in Gauteng and the 10193rd-largest in South Africa.
It sits 25 km northwest of Johannesburg, in the north-west of Gauteng, up at 1,422 m.
Local clocks run on Johannesburg time (Africa/Johannesburg).
The nearest big city is Krugersdorp, 8.9 km to the southwest.
The Drift marked on South Africa, Johannesburg shown for scale.
When a The Drift exit is worth asking for
What a The Drift exit buys you over any other South Africa address is locality, not identity. A site that only reads the country treats The Drift and Johannesburg identically, and the great majority of geo-checks work exactly that way.
The difference shows up on local questions: search results with a map pack, stock in nearby stores, delivery windows, prices that vary by area. For those, request The Drift. For everything else a plain South Africa exit does the same job with none of the supply constraints.
City-level residential supply moves week to week everywhere, ours included. If nothing is live in The Drift the moment you ask, the reliable fallback is a South Africa exit, and the free South Africa list shows the public pool measured live.
Get started
Pick your The Drift proxy
Residential is the product with The Drift city targeting, on its Premium pool. ISP and mobile are South Africa-level options on a static or carrier IP, for when the country is enough.
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
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
Residential Premium
What Premium adds in The Drift
Lite reaches the country and rotates, so anything finer than that, The Drift included, is Premium's targeting.
ISP targeting
13,800+ networks
State or city
26,000+ cities
Sticky sessions to 24 hours
3 min to 24 h
Device OS
4 platforms
Exclusions
Country, state, city, network
IP whitelist
150 IPs per plan
SOCKS5 with UDP
HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, UDP
Per-plan statistics
30-day window
Trust
Who you are buying from
Same network, same team and same terms behind every page on this site, The Drift included.
Rated by paying customers
114 reviews on Trustpilot, 92% of them five-star. The badge links to the live profile, judge for yourself.
Real people, around the clock
Live chat sits on every page, bottom right. Ask about The Drift targeting before you pay and a person from the team that runs the network answers, whatever the hour.
Terms that do not trap you
Pay as you go, no subscription, and a balance that never expires. Not ready to spend? The free South Africa list is public and measured around the clock.
Nearby
The closest cities to The Drift
The closest places we also cover are Muldersdrift (0.5 km), Muldersdriseloop (0.8 km), Zonnehoeve (4.7 km). In all, 68 listed places sit within 20 km. Each has its own page and its own city-level targeting.
Muldersdrift 0.5 kmMuldersdriseloop 0.8 kmZonnehoeve 4.7 kmRuimsig 5.2 kmSonnedal 5.4 kmKings Kloof 6.5 kmKrugersdorp 8.9 kmSilverfields 9.5 kmProtea Ridge 9.6 kmKrugersdorp North 9.6 kmHelderkruin 9.9 kmLewisham 10 km
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FAQ
The Drift proxy questions, answered
Can I get a proxy with a The Drift IP address?
Residential plans support city-level targeting, so you can request The Drift specifically, or widen the same request to Gauteng without changing plans. What is live in any one city moves constantly, for every provider; the South Africa country exit is the request that never depends on one place.
Where is The Drift?
In Gauteng, South Africa, 25 km northwest of Johannesburg. The local timezone is Johannesburg time (Africa/Johannesburg). It lies up at 1,422 m.
Is a The Drift IP different from any other South Africa IP?
To a site that reads only the country: no. The Drift and Johannesburg look identical there. To anything local, map results, stock, delivery estimates, the city is exactly the difference, and that is the one case worth paying the supply constraint for.
What if The Drift has nothing live when I ask?
Then take Gauteng as a whole, or the South Africa country exit. Single-city supply is fluid in this whole industry, and we would rather hand you the wider fallback in one click than promise a specific street and miss.
Place data: GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Map outline: Natural Earth. Population figures are the dataset's listed values, not proxy counts.