Residential proxy
An IP address that belongs to a real household's internet connection, rented out by the gigabyte. Your request exits through somebody's home line and arrives at the target site carrying that home's address.
Why it costs you money
It is priced per gigabyte rather than per address, so your bill scales with how much you download rather than how many connections you open. A scraper pulling images or full HTML burns residential bandwidth many times faster than one pulling JSON, and the same job can differ tenfold in cost depending on what you request.
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Related terms
- Proxy poolThe set of addresses a provider can route you through. The advertised size is a vendor claim nobody outside can verify.
- Rotating proxyA connection that hands you a different address on each request, or on a timer. The default for scraping at volume.
- ISP proxyA hosted address registered to a consumer internet provider. Residential-looking identity at datacenter speed, and it stays yours.
- Bandwidth overageWhat a provider charges once you pass the gigabytes your plan includes. Often several times the headline rate.
- Mobile proxyAn address on a phone carrier's network, shared by thousands of real subscribers. The hardest to block and the most expensive.
- Success rateThe share of requests that get through. The number that decides everything, and the one no comparison table can give you.
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