Per GB · every request on a meter you can check
Residential proxies
Your requests leave through ordinary home internet connections, and the address changes as you go.
Per GB, by the size of one order
- 1 GB$5.50/GB
- 10 GBPopular$3.95/GB
- 1000 GB$1.75/GB
Pay as you go, crypto or card. Ask within 30 days of a top-up and the unused part goes back the way you paid. How we meter and refund
When it fits
- A site shows captchas, blank pages or blocks as soon as your traffic comes from a server.
- You want a different address on each request, so no single IP collects too many hits.
- Your jobs come in bursts: a big run one weekend, nothing for a month. You pay per gigabyte, so a quiet month costs nothing.
- You collect from shops, marketplaces or search results that check what kind of network a visitor is on.
Better elsewhere
You need a specific country, region or city. Residential has no location setting; the pool picks the exit address.
Look at DatacenterA login or session has to keep the same address for days or weeks.
Look at ISPThe site does not block server traffic at all. A datacenter IP is quicker and is rented per IP, which suits steady work.
Look at Datacenter
What you get
Rotate or stick
Randomize IP gives every request a new address. Sticky IP holds one address for as long as the network can keep it. You switch between the two in the dashboard.
Billed for traffic only
You pay per gigabyte used. There is no charge per IP, per port or per thread.
A meter you can check
Every request is logged with its byte count. Timeouts, resets and our own gateway errors appear on the log at zero, so you can add up the bill yourself.
Billing
You are billed for bytes, and you can see every one
Residential traffic is metered per request. Timeouts, resets and errors from our own gateway are billed at zero and still appear on the log, so the number on your invoice is one you can reconstruct yourself.
Last 6 of 1,284 requests
- 0417shop.exampleUS2001,842,208
- 0418api.exampleDE2002,914,020
- 0419shop.exampleUS5020↳ connection reset, not billed
- 0420cdn.exampleGB2003,061,730
- 0421shop.exampleUS2001,613,884
- 0422api.exampleDE5040↳ timed out, not billed
Connect in minutes
The service page for your residential traffic in the dashboard shows its host, port, username and password. Paste them into a snippet below and run it twice. With Randomize IP on, the address it prints should change.
curl -x http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT https://ipv4.icanhazip.comimport requests
proxy = 'http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT'
proxies = {'http': proxy, 'https': proxy}
response = requests.get('https://ipv4.icanhazip.com', proxies=proxies)
print(response.text)const { ProxyAgent } = require('undici');
const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent('http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT');
(async () => {
const response = await fetch('https://ipv4.icanhazip.com', { dispatcher });
console.log(await response.text());
})();HOST, PORT, USERNAME and PASSWORD are placeholders. The real values for each service are on its page in your dashboard, with the protocols its port accepts.
Each snippet asks ipv4.icanhazip.com which address it sees, so a successful run prints the proxy’s IP.
How Residential compares
| Line | Residential (this page) | ISP | Datacenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| What a website sees | A home broadband connection | An address registered to a consumer ISP | An address registered to a hosting company |
| Billed by | Traffic, per GB | Per IP, for a fixed term | Per IP, for a fixed term |
| Price | $5.50/GB$1.75/GB from 1000 GB | $3.20/IP$1.50/IP from 500 IPs | $1.90/IP$0.89/IP from 500 IPs |
| Term | No fixed term | 30, 90 or 365 days. Longer terms cost less per day | 30, 60, 90 or 365 days. Longer terms cost less per day |
| Shared or dedicated | No choice here. IPs come from the rotating pool | Dedicated, or shared by up to 3 customers | Dedicated, or shared by up to 3 customers |
| Location choice | None. The pool picks the exit | Country, region, city and provider | Country, region and city |
| IP rotation | A new IP per request, or sticky | None. One fixed IP for the term | None. One fixed IP for the term |
Questions about Residential
Can I choose which country my requests come from?
No. Residential has no country, region or city setting, and the pool decides the exit address. If location matters, ISP and datacenter IPs can both be chosen by country, region and city.
How is traffic counted?
Each request is logged with its own byte count, and your bill is the sum of those rows. The honesty page walks through the meter, including which requests are billed at zero.
What is the smallest amount I can buy?
1 GB of traffic. Your balance tops up from $5, and whatever you leave unspent stays on the account.
Could I get the same IP twice?
It can happen. The pool is shared and addresses are handed out per request. If you need one address you can count on for weeks, ISP proxies are made for that.
Does a bigger order lower the rate?
Yes. The price per gigabyte steps down as a single order grows, reaching $1.75/GB at 1000 GB. The step depends on the size of that one order, so several small orders are each priced as small orders.
Should my first project use residential?
Only if the site blocks servers. When you are unsure, try a datacenter IP first. If it gets blocked, switch lines; your balance stays on the account for the next order.
Not sure Residential is the right one?
Say what you are trying to reach and we will tell you which product to buy, or that you do not need one at all.