IP reputation
IP reputation is what a target site already thinks of an address before you use it. Proxy Compare tracks 42 providers, read 5 Oct 2026, and none publishes a score for its own addresses. The nearest recorded facts are the sourcing model and the pool claim, which 30 providers state.
Why it costs you money
You inherit the behaviour of everyone who used the address before you. This is the mechanism behind the residential price premium: a home connection carries a clean history that a rack of datacenter addresses does not, and the cheaper address is cheaper because more people have already burned it.
See it in the data
Related terms
- Exit nodeThe address a target website actually sees. Everything before it in the chain is invisible to the site you are fetching.
- Ban rateThe share of requests a target site refuses. The number that decides real cost, and the one nobody publishes.
- Subnet diversityHow spread out a pool's addresses are across networks. A large pool inside a few subnets behaves like a small one.
- ASNThe number identifying who owns a block of IP addresses. It is the first thing bot detection checks about you.
- Every term we define
Questions
Can a provider promise me clean addresses?
No, and none of the 42 providers here publishes a reputation score for its own pool, read 5 Oct 2026. Reputation is what the target site thinks, and it moves with whoever used the address before you did.
What can I check instead?
The sourcing model and the pool claim. 30 of the 42 publish a size, read 5 Oct 2026, and this site's sourcing pages record what each provider says about where the addresses came from.
Do fresh addresses behave better?
Sometimes, and only until they are used. A pool that rotates across many ranges spreads its history thin; one concentrated in a few ranges carries the history of everyone who came before.