24 use cases, each with the proxy type that fits, the volume to expect, and a tested setup. Find your workload below — from price monitoring to LLM-corpus collection.
6 tested guides
Large-scale extraction of public pages — the canonical proxy workload.
residentialGuide →Data MiningStructured field extraction into datasets, feeds, and warehouses.
residentialGuide →Lead GenerationCollect public business directories and contact databases at scale.
datacenterGuide →Real Estate DataAggregate property listings, prices, and availability from MLS and portals.
residentialGuide →Financial Data CollectionCollect market data, earnings reports, and financial filings at speed.
datacenterGuide →Email VerificationValidate email deliverability and inbox placement across providers.
datacenterGuide →4 tested guides
Track competitor prices across regions without geo-blocks or cloaking.
residentialGuide →Travel Fare AggregationCollect localized flight and hotel prices — the most aggressively geo-targeted vertical.
residentialGuide →Sneaker & Drop MonitoringReal-time inventory checks for limited-edition releases and drops.
mobileGuide →Ticket AvailabilityMonitor ticket platforms for availability and pricing across regions.
residentialGuide →6 tested guides
See ads as a real local user to catch fraud and confirm placement.
residentialGuide →Brand ProtectionDetect counterfeits, impersonation, and unauthorized resellers across markets.
residentialGuide →Market ResearchSample localized catalogs, pricing, and content across markets.
residentialGuide →SEO MonitoringLocalized rank tracking and SERP-feature audits at country/city level.
datacenterGuide →Social Media ManagementManage multiple accounts and scrape public social data at scale.
residentialGuide →Competitive IntelligenceMonitor competitor websites, features, and product changes over time.
residentialGuide →4 tested guides
Petabyte-scale corpus collection tuned for throughput and freshness.
datacenterGuide →AI Agents & MCPStable, sticky identities for autonomous agents and agentic browsing.
residentialGuide →RAG PipelinesReliable retrieval feeds for retrieval-augmented generation systems.
residentialGuide →ChatGPT Shopping DataStructured product data for AI shopping and comparison agents.
residentialGuide →2 tested guides
2 tested guides
The most common uses are web and data scraping, price monitoring, ad verification, SEO and rank tracking, brand protection, and market research. Each use case has a proxy type that fits best -- residential for geo-sensitive targets, datacenter for speed on permissive ones.
Residential proxies are the default for price monitoring because retail sites geo-target and cloak prices by visitor location, and residential IPs see the genuine local price without triggering anti-bot systems. Mobile proxies help on the hardest, app-exclusive targets.
Every use-case guide below opens with a recommended stack -- a primary proxy type plus optional and budget alternatives. If your workload does not match one of these cases exactly, the qualifier tool routes you to the right pool in three questions.
Yes. Every use-case page includes the recommended proxy type, expected success rate, a tested code setup, and compliance guidance -- so you can go from decision to running in minutes.
Yes. High-throughput datacenter and residential pools are used to build LLM training corpora and feed RAG pipelines, and sticky residential sessions give AI agents and MCP tools a stable identity across a multi-step browsing run -- all within our public-data-only acceptable-use policy.
Pick a workload, grab the tested setup, and run it on a free trial. Switch proxy types with a single flag as your needs change.