United States Proxies

What United States proxies are and how to target the country and its cities

A United States proxy is an intermediary that owns or routes through an IP address physically located in the US, so the website you reach sees an American IP instead of your own. Sites read that IP to decide your location, then serve the prices, currency, language, promotions, stock levels and search results they show to US visitors. Without a US IP you are stuck looking at whatever your real location is served, which is useless if you need American data. With Proxy Rotator you do not chase a list of US IPs and ports; you point every request at one gateway, gateway.proxyrotator.com:8080, and choose the United States as your country in the dashboard. The gateway then exits your traffic through a US IP. On many networks you can go a level deeper and target a specific US city, which is what you want for local search results, store-level inventory, or regional pricing that differs between, say, the Northeast and the West Coast. City targeting is selected in the dashboard alongside the country; there are no special URL parameters to memorize and nothing to hard-code into your scraper.

Which US IP types are available, including real ISPs and carriers

Every plan gives you all four IP types in the United States, so you choose the one that fits the target rather than the one that fits a price tier. US residential IPs come from real home broadband connections on the country's major providers, including Comcast Xfinity, AT&T, Spectrum and Verizon Fios, which is why they read as ordinary American households and pass scrutiny on sites that distrust data centers. US mobile IPs route through the national cellular carriers, namely Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, and because a single carrier IP is shared by many real phones at once, these are the toughest for a site to block without hurting genuine users. US datacenter IPs come from hosting infrastructure and trade some disguise for speed, making them the efficient pick for high-volume work against targets that tolerate hosting ranges. US IPv6 IPs draw on a vast address space for the widest spread on IPv6-ready targets. You can read more on each type's dedicated residential, mobile and datacenter page, but the point is that all of them live in one plan at the same price, so you can mix them across US jobs freely.

Top use cases for the US market

The United States is the world's largest e-commerce and advertising market, which shapes what people use US proxies for. Retail and limited-release monitoring is huge: tracking American product launches, sneaker and apparel drops, and stock on major US storefronts demands IPs that read as local shoppers, and rotating residential or mobile US IPs spread the requests so no single address trips a limit. Ad verification is another core case, where brands and agencies load US ad placements from real American IPs to confirm their creatives appear correctly and to catch fraud or misplacement that only shows to US viewers. SERP and SEO work relies on US proxies too, because Google and other engines tailor results by location, so checking American rankings, local packs and featured snippets requires a US, and often a city-level, vantage point. Market research rounds it out: pulling US pricing, catalog and review data at scale for competitive analysis. These map onto our broader ad verification, SEO monitoring, price monitoring and market research guides.

The US cities you can target

For country-level work, selecting the United States is enough. But a lot of valuable American data is local, and that is where city targeting earns its keep. On supported networks you can aim at major metros such as New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Dallas, each of which can return different local search results, regional promotions and store availability. New York and Los Angeles are the two largest media and retail markets, so they are common defaults for ad verification and local SERP checks. Chicago anchors the Midwest, Miami covers the Southeast and a large bilingual audience, and Dallas represents a fast-growing Southern market. Picking a city in the dashboard tells the gateway to exit through an IP in that metro, so your results reflect what a user there would actually see rather than a generic national average. If your target only varies by country, skip the city and just select the United States. Need a different market in the same plan? See our United Kingdom proxies and Canada proxies.