Residential Proxies
Route your traffic through a 95M+ pool of genuine residential IP addresses assigned by internet providers to real homes in 195+ countries. Because the requests come from everyday consumer connections, they look like ordinary visitors and slip past the anti-bot systems that block datacenter ranges. Get a new IP per request or hold one with a sticky session.
95M+ residential IPs Country & city targeting Trusted since 2014
IPs that read as real people
Residential IPs carry the trust of a genuine home connection, so the hardest targets treat your traffic like any other visitor.
High IP trust
Each IP is a real address an ISP gave to a household, so it carries a clean consumer reputation that fraud scores and bot filters rarely flag.
City-level targeting
Pin your exit to a specific country, and on residential down to a city, so you see exactly the localized prices, ads and content a local user would.
Fresh IP per request
Spread a large job across thousands of distinct home IPs with one IP per request, so per-address rate limits never stop the crawl.
Sticky when you need it
Hold the same residential IP for a set duration to keep a login, cart or multi-step session stable instead of rotating mid-flow.
Huge, diverse pool
95M+ residential IPs spread across carriers and regions means low repeat rates and plenty of fresh addresses for big workloads.
One gateway endpoint
Standard HTTPS and SOCKS5 through a single host. Drop it into cURL, Python, Scrapy or your rotating proxy API in minutes.
What residential proxies are and where the IPs come from
A residential proxy routes your request through an IP address that an internet service provider has assigned to a real home connection. That is the whole point: the address belongs to a genuine consumer broadband or fiber line, not a server farm. When a site inspects the IP, it sees a normal household on a normal ISP rather than a block of addresses registered to a hosting company. This is the difference that lets residential traffic reach sites that quietly reject anything coming from a known datacenter range. The IPs are ISP-assigned, geographically spread across 195+ countries, and rotate from a 95M+ pool so any single home address only carries a small slice of your traffic.
Because each address has the reputation of an ordinary user, residential IPs sit at the high-trust end of the proxy spectrum. They are slightly slower than datacenter proxies because they ride real consumer lines, but that same property is exactly why they get through. Every proxy type is included in one plan at the same price, so you pick residential by the target, not the cost. If a target inspects the autonomous system, checks the IP against fraud databases, or fingerprints the connection, a residential exit reads as a person, not a bot.
What residential proxies are best for
Residential proxies earn their place on tasks where being seen as a real local user is the job, not a nice-to-have. Ad verification is a natural fit: to confirm a campaign actually renders to the right audience, and to catch competitor fraud or misplacement, you have to load the page from a genuine consumer IP in the target city, because ad servers tailor and sometimes hide creatives based on the viewer's network and location. Sneaker and limited-release buying leans on residential IPs because retail drop sites aggressively block datacenter traffic and rate-limit per address; a large rotating residential pool spreads attempts across many real homes. Review and reputation monitoring needs local exits to read the listings, ratings and seller content that marketplaces and app stores show differently by region. And social media management at scale depends on residential or mobile IPs, since platforms treat consumer addresses as trustworthy while flagging datacenter logins.
Other strong fits include localized SERP collection where you need to see results as a resident of a specific city, travel and fare checks that vary by the visitor's location, and brand-protection sweeps that hunt for counterfeit listings shown only to in-market shoppers. The common thread is geography and trust: when the answer changes depending on who and where the visitor appears to be, residential is the type that gives you the real one.
Detectability and how residential IPs stay under the radar
Anti-bot systems score an IP on signals like its autonomous system, whether it appears in datacenter blocklists, its history in fraud databases, and how it behaves over time. Residential IPs win on every one of those signals because they are, genuinely, residential. They are not listed as hosting ranges, they carry consumer reputation, and rotating across a 95M+ pool keeps any one address from drawing attention through volume. Detectability is never zero on the modern web, so the smart move is to pair clean residential IPs with sensible request pacing, real browser headers and city targeting that matches your story. Do that and even well-defended targets treat your sessions as ordinary visitors. For the very hardest targets, carrier-grade mobile proxies push trust even higher, while high-volume public scraping is faster on datacenter; residential is the balanced middle that covers most real-world jobs. Every type ships in one plan at the same price, so you choose by the target, not the cost.
Residential vs datacenter, mobile and IPv6
All four proxy types come in one plan. Here is where residential fits against the rest.
| Property | Residential | Datacenter | Mobile | IPv6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IP source | Real ISP home connections | Hosting / server ranges | Cellular carrier networks | Large IPv6 address blocks |
| Speed | Fast | Fastest | Moderate | Fast |
| Detectability / trust | Very high trust | Lower trust | Highest trust | Moderate trust |
| Pricing | One plan | One plan | One plan | One plan |
| Best for | Ad verification, sneakers, social, reviews | High-volume public scraping | The toughest, app-grade targets | Bulk IPv6-ready crawling |
Rotating or sticky residential?
Both modes ship in every residential plan. Choose rotating residential proxies when you want a fresh IP on every request for large crawls and parallel jobs, or sticky residential proxies when you need the same home IP to hold across a login, checkout or multi-step session. Switch between them from your dashboard without changing your code.
Send a request through a residential IP
Grab your gateway host, port and credentials from your dashboard, then route any request through it. The residential IP rotates automatically.
curl -x http://USER:PASS@gateway.proxyrotator.com:8080 https://api.ipify.org # run it again, you exit from a different residential IP
import requests
proxies = {
"http": "http://USER:PASS@gateway.proxyrotator.com:8080",
"https": "http://USER:PASS@gateway.proxyrotator.com:8080",
}
for _ in range(3):
r = requests.get("https://api.ipify.org", proxies=proxies, timeout=20)
print(r.text) # a new residential IP each time
Your real gateway host, port and credentials appear in your dashboard after signup. Prefer IP whitelisting? Add your server IP in the dashboard and drop the USER:PASS@ part.
Residential Proxies FAQ
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Get residential IPs that actually get through
Route your traffic through 95M+ real home IPs across 195+ countries, with a new IP per request or sticky sessions. Trusted since 2014, from $24.95/mo.