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Every Proxy Type, Explained

Residential, mobile, ISP, datacenter, rotating, SOCKS5, HTTP and IPv6 — nine proxy types, what each actually costs, how much anti-bot trust it carries, and the workloads it wins.

Residential Proxies

Real consumer ISP IPs — highest trust, best for hardened targets.

Price: $1.75 – $15 / GB
IP trust: Very high

Web scrapingSocial mediaE-commerce

Mobile 4G / 5G Proxies

Carrier-grade NAT IPs shared by thousands of real phones.

Price: $6 – $30 / GB
IP trust: Highest

Instagram & TikTok automationAccount farmingApp testing

Datacenter Proxies

Fast, cheap server IPs for high-throughput, low-defence targets.

Price: $0.30 – $3 / IP / month
IP trust: Low

Bulk crawlingAPI accessInternal tooling

ISP / Static Residential Proxies

Residential ASN, datacenter speed, static IP you keep.

Price: $2 – $8 / IP / month
IP trust: High

Long-lived accountsSneaker coppingMarketplace sellers

Rotating Proxies

A new exit IP on every request or every N minutes.

Price: Per GB or per request
IP trust: Depends on pool

Large-scale scrapingSERP harvestingPrice monitoring

SOCKS5 Proxies

Session-layer tunnel for any TCP or UDP traffic.

Price: Same as the underlying IP type
IP trust: Protocol, not IP type

UDP workloadsGamingTorrenting

HTTP / HTTPS Proxies

Application-layer proxies with header control and caching.

Price: Same as the underlying IP type
IP trust: Protocol, not IP type

Web scrapingSERP APIsHeader-level geo targeting

IPv6 Proxies

Enormous, dirt-cheap address space for IPv6-ready targets.

Price: $0.01 – $0.10 / IP / month
IP trust: Low to medium

Mass account creation on IPv6 sitesBulk crawlingLoad testing

Shared vs Dedicated Proxies

Who else is using your IP — and what their behaviour costs you.

Price: Shared from $0.30 · dedicated from $1.50 / IP
IP trust: Dedicated: high · shared: variable

Budget crawling (shared)Accounts & checkout (dedicated)

How to choose a proxy type in 30 seconds

Start with the target, not the price. If the site runs a serious anti-bot stack (Cloudflare Bot Management, DataDome, PerimeterX, Kasada) or is a consumer platform like Instagram, Amazon or Google, you need residential or mobile IPs. If it is an internal API, a B2B site or a partner feed, datacenter proxies do the same job for a tenth of the cost.

Then ask whether the workload is stateful. Anything with a login, a cart or an ad account needs a static identity — ISP static residential. Anything stateless and high volume wants rotation — rotating residential or datacenter.

Protocol comes last. SOCKS5 when you need UDP or non-HTTP traffic; HTTP when you want per-request geo and session control.

Next: browse proxies by use case, compare antidetect browsers, or see the provider reviews.