Residential Proxies — Real Consumer IPs in 195+ Countries

What is a residential proxy?

A residential proxy is an intermediary server that borrows a real ISP-issued IP address to send your web request on its way. Instead of a request originating from a cloud data center, it appears to come from a normal residential broadband line in a specific city and country. That authenticity is the whole point: target sites treat the connection as an everyday visitor rather than automated infrastructure, so your success and completion rates climb.

Residential proxies are the backbone of legitimate large-scale data collection — the kind of automation businesses run every day to monitor prices, verify advertising, and gather public market data. ProxyGen provides this as clean, reliable infrastructure for bots and scrapers, and every use should respect the target site's terms of service, its robots.txt directives, and our acceptable-use policy. For a deeper primer, read what is a residential proxy on our blog.

How ProxyGen residential proxies work

Drop a single gateway endpoint into your HTTP client, scraper, or browser and choose how you want the pool to behave. Everything is controlled through simple username modifiers, so you can switch targeting and rotation without touching your core code.

• Rotating or sticky sessions: get a fresh IP on every request for maximum throughput, or hold a sticky IP for up to 90 minutes when a workflow needs a stable identity across multiple steps.
• Country and city targeting: pin your exit location to any of 195+ countries and drill down to the city level for locale-accurate results. Browse the full list on proxy locations.
• HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5: connect over whichever protocol your tooling prefers, with full support for authenticated and encrypted traffic.
• Matched DNS resolution: DNS lookups resolve through the same exit IP that carries your traffic, so there is no geo-mismatch between where your request appears to come from and where its DNS resolves — a common signal that trips up cheaper networks.
• Instant activation, no subscription, bandwidth that never expires: top up, start immediately, and keep unused gigabytes indefinitely. You only pay for what you consume.

Residential vs datacenter vs mobile

Each proxy type suits a different job, and picking the right one keeps both cost and success rate in balance.

• Residential — real ISP home IPs. The best all-round choice for scraping protected sites, ad verification, and locale-specific research where authenticity matters most.
• Datacenter — fast and inexpensive IPs from cloud ranges, ideal for high-volume requests against tolerant targets, but easier for sites to identify. Our static ISP proxies bridge the gap with datacenter speed and residential-grade trust.
• Mobile — IPs from cellular carriers, carrying the highest trust because thousands of real users share each one. Reach for mobile proxies on the most sensitive platforms. See our comparison of residential vs mobile proxies to choose.

Rule of thumb: start residential, move to mobile when a target demands the very highest trust, and use static ISP when you need a fixed, long-lived address.

What residential proxies are used for

Businesses rely on residential proxies for a wide range of legitimate, data-driven work. Common use cases include:

• Price monitoring — track competitor and retail pricing across regions to keep your own catalogue competitive.
• Ad verification — confirm that your campaigns render correctly and are free of fraud in each target market.
• Brand protection — detect counterfeit listings, unauthorized resellers, and trademark misuse at scale.
• SEO rank tracking — pull accurate, localized search results to measure how your pages perform city by city.
• Market research — collect public sentiment, catalogue, and availability data to inform strategy.
• Large-scale web scraping — gather structured public data reliably without being rate-limited by flagged IPs.
• Multi-account management — keep separate business profiles cleanly isolated; our guide to managing multiple accounts covers this in depth.

Every one of these is a legitimate business activity. We ask all customers to respect each target site's terms of service and robots.txt, and to operate within our acceptable-use policy — ProxyGen is data-collection infrastructure, not a tool for abuse.

How to get started

Integration takes minutes:

• Buy bandwidth. Top up your balance with crypto or card and see transparent residential proxy pricing before you commit. Bandwidth never expires, so there is no pressure to burn it.
• Drop in the endpoint. Paste the gateway host, port, and credentials into curl, a Python requests or Scrapy job, or your browser's proxy settings. Add username modifiers to select country, city, and sticky or rotating behaviour.
• Test it. Confirm your exit IP and location with our free proxy checker before you scale up.

Want to try before you buy? Grab a 200 MB free trial of residential bandwidth with no card required, and point it at a country page such as US residential proxies, UK residential proxies, or Germany residential proxies to see real results in your target market.

Why choose ProxyGen

ProxyGen is built for teams that measure success by completion rate and clean data, not by gimmicks. You get a large, well-maintained pool of genuine residential IPs across 195+ countries, matched DNS resolution that removes geo-mismatch signals, sticky sessions up to 90 minutes, and full HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 support — all on a pay-as-you-go model where unused bandwidth never expires. Pricing is honest and low, starting at $1.19/GB and dropping to $0.83/GB on your first order, with crypto and card both accepted. It is dependable automation infrastructure with the trust and success rates serious data work demands.

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