Proxy use cases

Pick your job below to see the proxy type we recommend for it and how to configure it.

• Web scraping

  For most scraping jobs, rotating residential proxies work best: each request goes out from a different household IP, so no single address hits a rate limit. Datacenter proxies are cheaper and fine for sites that let anyone in, and mobile proxies are worth it only when a site challenges residential addresses too.

• SEO monitoring

  For rank tracking, pick rotating residential proxies with country and city targeting. Every search goes out from a household IP in the place you are measuring, so you get the results a local searcher gets, and no one address searches often enough to be throttled.

• Ad verification

  For ad verification, pick residential proxies in the country and city the campaign targets, plus mobile proxies for placements sold on phones. Opening the page from a local connection shows you the ad exactly as that audience receives it.

• Price monitoring

  For price monitoring, rotating residential proxies in the country whose prices you track work best. Shops set price, currency and stock by the visitor's IP and slow down anyone who opens lots of product pages, so a local IP that changes every request sees what a real shopper sees.

• Social media management

  For running several social accounts, give each one its own sticky residential or mobile proxy, located in that account owner's country. Each account then logs in from the same local IP every day, which is how a genuine user looks to the platform.

• Market research

  For market research, rotating residential proxies with country targeting fit best. They let your program read public reviews, listings and catalogues the way local visitors see them in each market, without any single IP being slowed down.

• Brand protection

  For brand protection, use residential proxies in each country where your products are sold. Counterfeit sellers and copycat sites often hide from visitors who look like companies, so your checks should come from ordinary household addresses in every market.

• Travel fare tracking

  For comparing flight and hotel prices, use rotating residential proxies in each country you compare. Travel sites adjust fares by the visitor's country and slow down repeated searches from one IP, so every search should come from a different local address.

• Localization testing

  For testing a site or app from abroad, residential proxies with country and city targeting are the right fit. Testers and automated tests open the product from a local IP and see the language, prices, payment methods and redirects that real local users get.

• AI data collection

  For gathering AI training data, use rotating residential proxies on sources that filter bots and unlimited datacenter proxies on sources that do not. Residential traffic gets through more places; datacenter traffic costs far less once the volume is large.