ethically sourced Real ISP-assigned IPs from consenting consumer devices across 195 countries. Buy rotating residential proxies with city- and ASN-level targeting, 2xx-only billing. From $2.10/GB, pay as you go.
A residential proxy routes your traffic through a real IP address that an ISP assigns to a home internet connection, instead of a datacenter. Because the IP belongs to an actual household, target sites treat the traffic as an ordinary visitor rather than a bot or server.
Volume tiers apply automatically -- no sales call required.
| Monthly usage | Rate /GB | Saving |
|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go | $2.10 | -- |
| 100 GB+ | $1.65 | -21% |
| 500 GB+ | $1.40 | -33% |
| 1 TB+ | $1.10 | -48% |
One credential pair works across every option.
| Protocols | HTTP · HTTPS · SOCKS5 |
| Rotation | Per request, or sticky 1-30 min |
| Targeting | Country, state, city, ASN |
| Concurrency | Unlimited sessions on every plan |
| Auth | User:pass or IP allowlist |
Point your client at the gateway, pick a geo with a header, and go. Failed requests re-route through a fresh IP automatically and are never billed.
# Berlin residential IP, sticky sessioncurl -x "http://USER:PASS@gw.knoxproxy.com:7000" \ -H "x-kx-country: de" -H "x-kx-city: berlin" \ -H "x-kx-session: sticky-1" \ "https://www.otto.de/products"# -> 200 | 138 ms | residential | de-berlin| Task | Fit | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Price monitoring | BEST | Local IP reputation returns real localized prices |
| Multi-accounting | BEST | Sticky sessions plus clean per-profile IP separation |
| SERP tracking | GOOD | Works well -- datacenter is cheaper on permissive engines |
| Sneaker drops / checkouts | GOOD | Strong -- mobile scores higher on the strictest checkouts |
| Bulk QA / uptime checks | OVERKILL |
| Metric | Residential | ISP | Mobile | Datacenter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trust score | Very high | High | Highest | Low |
| Speed | Good | Excellent | Good | Excellent |
Real ISP-assigned IPs from consenting consumer devices across 195 countries. Buy rotating residential proxies with city- and ASN-level targeting, 2xx-only billing. All behind one gateway address, with the same credentials across every mode.
One credential does both. Append a session ID to your username to pin an exit for up to 30 minutes, or drop it for a fresh IP on every request. Every credential draws from a rotating residential proxy pool by default -- a static IP that never changes is the ISP product, not residential. One account runs thousands of parallel identities.
We measure success and latency against live targets across our monitored regions, counting only 2xx/3xx responses after built-in retries -- the way you would actually run it. Undated “99.9%” claims are marketing, not measurement.
The full technical surface -- targeting, protocols, auth, billing, and pacing -- in one glance.
Plain headers select any geo -- Country, state, city, ASN. Precision costs nothing extra.
One pool, one credential pair across HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5. SOCKS5 covers UDP, app-wide tunneling & proxy managers.
Username:password with flags embedded, or IP allowlisting with no credentials at all. Mix per project.
Blocked and failed requests are free and re-routed. Compare effective price -- list price divided by success rate -- not stickers.
No session cap. Start at 50-100 concurrent per worker, add 100-300ms jitter, scale until the target is the limit.
Devices join through consented SDK partnerships, are paid, and can leave anytime; bandwidth is used only when idle, charging, and on Wi-Fi. Sourcing is audited annually. Consent-based pools are stable and carrier-diverse -- they do not collapse when an app store purges a shady SDK.
How we source ethicallySourcing that survives an audit is sourcing that survives next year.
Do not overpay for trust you do not need. Match the network to the target and cut blended cost 30-60%.
Datacenter speed with residential trust -- the same static IP held for the full billing period with unlimited bandwidth. Ideal for long-lived logged-in identities and sessions that need stability.
$2.90/IPMobile proxies route through real 4G/5G carrier IPs behind CGNAT that rotate naturally -- the highest trust of any proxy type, hardest to block, from 195+ countries.
$4.50/GBDatacenter proxies from $0.60/GB across 50+ countries. Fast, cheap IPs for QA, scraping, and high-throughput jobs -- rotating per request or static dedicated.
$0.60/GBSee how proxies and VPNs actually differ in routing, scale, and cost -- and which one fits your use case.
Tested setups for the jobs residential proxies fit best -- each with a recommended stack, expected success rate, and working code.
A residential proxy routes your traffic through a real IP address that an ISP assigns to a home internet connection, instead of a datacenter. Because the IP belongs to an actual household, target sites treat the traffic as an ordinary visitor rather than a bot or server.
Collecting public web data from geo-sensitive targets -- price monitoring, SEO tracking, ad verification, market research -- where a real household IP returns accurate localized results and clears anti-bot checks that datacenter IPs fail.
Free trial, no credit card. City-level targeting and sticky sessions on every plan from day one.
| Use datacenter at $0.02/IP -- 100x cheaper |
| IP lifetime | Rotating / sticky up to 30 min | Yours for months | Rotating (CGNAT shared) | Yours for months (dedicated) |
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| Best for | Strict geo targets | Logins, long sessions | Mobile-first targets, strictest checkouts | Volume on permissive targets |
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| From | $2.10/GB | $2.90/IP | $4.50/GB | $0.60/GB |
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The proxy owns network identity; you own request identity. Real headers and a current TLS stack win the last points.
Rotating. Every request gets a fresh IP by default, or you can hold one sticky for up to 30 minutes. If you need a static IP that never changes, that's our ISP proxy, not residential.
From $2.10/GB pay-as-you-go, sliding to $1.10/GB at 1 TB/month, with successful-response-only billing. No minimum and no expiring traffic.
Sign up free with no credit card, and you're live in minutes on pay-as-you-go pricing. Add a payment method only when you're ready to move past the trial balance -- no sales call, no minimum commitment.
Yes, when ethically sourced and used for public-data collection within an AUP. The legality question is about the collection conduct, not the proxy; ours is opt-in, compensated, and audited.
Every IP joins through opt-in SDK partnerships with clear consent and compensation. Sourcing is audited annually.
Only successful (2xx/3xx) responses. Blocked and failed requests are free and retried through a fresh IP automatically.
Residential for strict, geo-sensitive targets; datacenter (100x cheaper) for permissive targets and your own QA. Many programs tier both -- datacenter first, residential on block.
Residential covers general web data collection at lower cost -- price monitoring, multi-accounting, and most anti-bot targets. Mobile costs more ($4.50/GB vs $2.10/GB) but wins on the strictest checkouts and app-only flows where residential IPs start to get flagged.
Residential proxies rotate through a shared pool and bill per GB, starting at $2.10/GB. ISP proxies are a dedicated static IP you hold for months and bill per IP, starting at $2.90/IP with unlimited bandwidth. Pick residential for rotation, ISP for a fixed identity.
No safe, reliable residential proxy is permanently free -- running a real IP pool costs money to source and maintain. What we offer instead is a genuine free trial: no credit card, real pool access, cancel anytime.