Everything you need,
in one page.
How proxies work, how to authenticate, which protocols we support, and every term used elsewhere on this site — condensed rather than spread across a dozen pages.
- 01
Start a trial
$1 unlocks a working allocation across every product. No sales call, card to credentials in under two minutes.
Start a trial → - 02
Get your credentials
Host, port, username and password appear in your dashboard the moment your allocation is provisioned — or immediately, for residential.
See what you get → - 03
Pick a product
Static ISP addresses for anything that must hold a session. Rotating residential for scraping at volume.
Compare products → - 04
Send your first request
Point any tool that accepts a proxy string at the gateway below — curl, your own code, or a browser automation stack.
curl -x "http://user:[email protected]:8080" \
-s "https://api.ipify.org?format=json"import requests
proxies = {
"http": "http://user:[email protected]:8080",
"https": "http://user:[email protected]:8080",
}
r = requests.get("https://api.ipify.org?format=json", proxies=proxies)
print(r.json())import { HttpsProxyAgent } from "https-proxy-agent";
const agent = new HttpsProxyAgent(
"http://user:[email protected]:8080"
);
const res = await fetch("https://api.ipify.org?format=json", { agent });
console.log(await res.json());proxyURL, _ := url.Parse("http://user:[email protected]:8080")
client := &http.Client{
Transport: &http.Transport{Proxy: http.ProxyURL(proxyURL)},
}
resp, _ := client.Get("https://api.ipify.org?format=json")How proxies
actually work.
A proxy is a middleman. Normally your request goes straight to a website and the site sees your address. Routed through a proxy, the site sees the proxy's address instead — the reply comes back the same way, and as far as the destination is concerned, that's who asked.
That matters because sites treat an address as an identity, and push back when one behaves unusually:
- Rate limits. A thousand requests from one address gets blocked; spread over a thousand addresses, each looks ordinary.
- Geography. Prices, search results and availability differ by country — seeing what a shopper in Tokyo sees means appearing to be in Tokyo.
- One-per-person limits. Drops and ticket releases allow one checkout per address. More addresses, more chances.
- Multi-accounting. Platforms link accounts that share an address; separate addresses keep them separate.
The two products on this site differ in exactly one thing: whose network a lookup says the address belongs to. ISP addresses are registered to a real consumer provider but run on our infrastructure — residential-looking, datacenter-fast. Residential addresses are real home connections, borrowed — the hardest to detect, billed by the gigabyte rather than per address. The full breakdown, including which sites need which, is on the comparison table.
Authentication
& protocols.
Every product supports the same two ways in, and the same three protocols:
- Username and password — sent with every request, works from anywhere.
- IP whitelist — authorize your own source addresses once and skip sending credentials at all.
HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 are all supported on every product — point whatever you already run at the gateway.
- AdsPower
- GoLogin
- Multilogin
- Dolphin Anty
- Selenium
- Puppeteer
- Playwright
- Scrapy
- Proxifier
- SwitchyOmega
- Postman
- n8n
Standard HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, so anything that accepts a proxy string works. These are the ones with a setup guide.
Glossary.
- ASN
- Autonomous System Number — the ID of a network on the internet. AS7922 is Comcast. Sites use it to guess whether a request came from a person or a server.
- CIDR / prefix
- A block of addresses written as 8.8.8.0/24. A smaller number after the slash means a bigger block — a /24 is 256 addresses, a /16 is 65,536.
- Datacenter (DC) proxy
- An address that belongs to a hosting company, not a consumer ISP. Fast and cheap, but a site that checks the ASN can tell it isn't a home connection.
- Exit IP
- The address a destination site actually sees. If it matches your own address, the proxy is not proxying.
- Fingerprint
- The combination of details a browser reveals beyond its IP — screen size, fonts, timezone, WebRTC, GPU — often unique enough to identify a specific machine.
- ISP proxy
- An address registered to a real consumer provider (Comcast, AT&T) but hosted on our infrastructure, so it looks residential and runs at datacenter speed.
- Residential proxy
- A real home connection used as an exit. Hardest to detect since it's indistinguishable from an ordinary user, billed by the gigabyte rather than per address.
- Rotation
- How often the exit address changes. ISP addresses are static for the term you bought; residential can rotate per request or hold a sticky session.
- Sticky session
- A residential connection held on one exit address for a set window (up to 24h here) instead of rotating on every request — needed for anything that logs in.
- SOCKS5
- A proxy protocol that handles more than just web traffic, unlike HTTP proxies. Supported on every product alongside HTTP and HTTPS.
- IP whitelist
- An alternative to a username and password: authorize specific source IPs to use your allocation without sending credentials on every request.
- Latency (p50)
- Round-trip time in milliseconds. p50 means the median request — half were faster, half slower. Lower is better.
- WAF
- Web Application Firewall — a shield in front of a site (Cloudflare, DataDome, Akamai and similar) that inspects traffic and decides what to block.
- Success rate
- The share of requests against a real target that complete without being blocked or challenged — what the status page measures, not a synthetic ping.
Still have a question
Read the FAQ.
Billing, refunds, protocols and limits — answered in full on the pricing page.