Sticky Residential Proxies
Hold the same real residential IP for the length of a session instead of rotating mid-flow. Our sticky residential proxies pin one ISP-assigned home address from a 95M+ pool to your session for a set duration, so a login, checkout or account action runs from a single stable IP from start to finish. Anything that breaks the instant the IP changes, like a logged-in dashboard or a multi-step cart, stays intact because the address never moves out from under you.
Same IP per session 95M+ residential IPs Trusted since 2014
Built for sessions that must not change IP
When a task remembers state across requests, the IP has to stay put. Sticky residential holds one real home address for the whole flow.
Same IP for the session
Your session stays pinned to one residential address for a set duration, so a cookie, login token or cart that is tied to an IP keeps working across every step.
Stable logins, no re-auth
Sites that flag a mid-session IP change as suspicious see one steady consumer connection, so logged-in actions and account dashboards do not trigger security checks.
One identity per account
Pin a distinct sticky IP to each profile you manage so every account keeps a consistent home address instead of jumping between unrelated networks.
Reads as a real visitor
Every sticky exit is an ISP-assigned home address with clean consumer reputation, so even targets that reject datacenter ranges treat the session as an ordinary user.
Country and city targeting
Hold an IP in a specific country, and on residential down to a city, so the whole session runs from the exact location your account or task expects.
Switch to rotating anytime
Need a fresh IP per request for bulk crawling instead? Flip to rotating residential proxies from the dashboard without changing your code.
What sticky residential proxies are and how sessions hold
A sticky residential proxy assigns you one IP address from a real home connection and keeps your traffic on that same address for the length of a session rather than swapping it on every request. You connect to the gateway, the gateway pins a residential IP to your session, and every request you make for that duration leaves from the identical address. This is the deliberate opposite of rotating residential proxies, which hand out a new IP per request for spreading volume. Sticky exists for the tasks where changing IP partway through would break the work: anything that carries state from one request to the next, where the server expects the visitor it is talking to now to be the same one it was talking to a moment ago.
Because residential IPs ride real consumer devices and lines, a sticky session lasts for a set window rather than indefinitely. That window is plenty for the multi-step actions sticky is built for. When the duration ends, or when you ask for a new one, you simply start a fresh session on a new home IP. The point is not to keep an address forever; it is to keep it for exactly as long as one coherent task takes.
What sticky residential proxies are best for
Sticky residential earns its place on stateful work. Account logins and management are the headline case: signing in, navigating a logged-in dashboard, and performing actions all assume a stable IP, and many sites treat a sudden network change between steps as a hijack signal and force a re-verification or lock. Holding one home address keeps the whole session quiet. Social media operations lean on sticky for the same reason and add another: platforms tie trust to the network an account habitually uses, so pinning a consistent residential IP to each profile keeps every account looking like a real person on a real home line. Checkouts and multi-step forms need the IP to survive from the cart to the confirmation page, because a switch mid-flow can drop the session, reset the basket, or fail an anti-fraud check. And multi-step flows in general, from booking funnels to onboarding wizards to anything spanning several authenticated requests, depend on the address staying fixed so the server keeps recognizing the same visitor.
The unifying test is simple: if request two needs to be seen as the same visitor as request one, the job is sticky. If your work is instead a flood of independent requests with no shared state, like a large crawl or a SERP sweep, that is a rotating job and belongs on rotating residential proxies. For a broader look at scenarios where these account-level and verification tasks come up, see our social media management use case.
Why a residential IP makes the session credible
Holding an IP steady is only half the value; the other half is that the held IP is a genuine residential address. Account-protection systems weigh both how stable a session looks and how trustworthy its network is. A sticky datacenter IP keeps the address fixed but still carries the low trust of a hosting range, which many login and social platforms flag regardless of stability. A sticky residential IP combines steadiness with the clean reputation of a real ISP-assigned home line, so the session reads as a returning local user on a normal connection. That pairing is exactly what stateful, identity-sensitive tasks need: continuity that does not move, on a network that is trusted to begin with. As with any proxy work, pairing sticky residential with consistent browser fingerprints and human-like pacing keeps even well-defended account systems satisfied.
Where sticky residential sits among the proxy types
Sticky and rotating are two modes of the same residential network, not separate products, and both ship in every residential plan. Choose sticky when continuity matters and rotating when volume does; switch between them from the dashboard whenever the job changes. Every plan also includes datacenter, mobile and IPv6, so you can match the underlying type to the trust level each target demands. To weigh the two most common choices side by side, see our datacenter vs residential proxies comparison, or start from the residential proxies overview.
Sticky residential vs rotating residential
Both modes ship in every residential plan. Here is when each one is the right tool.
| Property | Sticky residential | Rotating residential |
|---|---|---|
| IP behavior | Same home IP held for the session | New home IP per request |
| Best for | Logins, checkouts, account management, multi-step flows | Large-scale scraping, SERP, ad verification, sneakers |
| Session continuity | Required, IP persists across steps | None needed, requests independent |
| Throughput | Bound to one IP per session | Highest, full pool in parallel |
| Pool | 95M+ residential IPs | 95M+ residential IPs |
| Protocols | HTTPS and SOCKS5 | HTTPS and SOCKS5 |
Hold one residential IP across a session
Grab your gateway host, port and credentials from your dashboard. Reuse the same session and every request leaves from the identical residential IP.
curl -x https://USER:PASS@gateway.proxyrotator.com:8080 https://api.ipify.org # run it again in the same session, the residential IP stays the same
import requests
# one Session reuses one sticky residential IP across requests
s = requests.Session()
s.proxies = {
"http": "https://USER:PASS@gateway.proxyrotator.com:8080",
"https": "https://USER:PASS@gateway.proxyrotator.com:8080",
}
s.get("https://example.com/login") # step 1
s.get("https://example.com/dashboard") # step 2, same residential IP
print(s.get("https://api.ipify.org").text) # the held IP
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. Need a fresh IP per request instead? Use rotating residential proxies.
Sticky Residential Proxies FAQ
What is a sticky residential proxy?
What is the difference between sticky and rotating residential proxies?
How long does a sticky residential session last?
Are sticky residential proxies good for managing social media accounts?
Can I keep the same IP for a login or checkout flow?
Can I target a specific country or city for my sticky IP?
Why use sticky residential instead of sticky datacenter proxies?
Which protocols and auth methods are supported, and how much does it cost?
Hold one real home IP for your whole session
Keep logins, checkouts and account flows on a single stable residential IP from a 95M+ pool across 195+ countries, over HTTPS and SOCKS5. Trusted since 2014, from $24.95/mo.