Proxy use cases: match each job to an IP type and a billing unit
Residential and mobile are billed per GB, ISP and datacenter per IP per month. The right choice depends on how many addresses a job needs and how much traffic each one moves.
Which proxy for which job
Start from what the job asks of the connection: an address that never moves, a carrier network, or breadth across many households.
| Job | Proxy | Session | Billing and why |
|---|---|---|---|
| Social accounts used in the app | Mobile | Sticky, up to 60 min | Per GB. A carrier IP matches how the apps are used; one session key per account. |
| Brand and client accounts run from a desk | ISP | Static for the rental | Per IP, $2.00 a month. One fixed address per account, unlimited traffic. |
| Rank tracking and local search results | Residential | Rotating, or sticky per check | Per GB. Many household exits in the searcher’s country. |
| Sneaker queues and checkout | ISP | Static for the rental | Per IP. One stable identity per task from queue to payment. |
| Release and restock monitors | Datacenter | Static | Per IP, $1.20 a month. Fast and unmetered, kept away from checkout IPs. |
| Price and catalogue collection | Residential | Rotating | Per GB. Datacenter is cheaper where the target allows it. |
| Ad and placement checks by country | Residential | Sticky, about 10 min | Per GB. See what people in that country are served. |
| QA of your own site from another country | Residential or ISP | Sticky or static | Per GB for a quick look, per IP for repeatable tests. |
One balance covers every proxy type, so a team can mix them without separate subscriptions.
Use-case guides
TikTok proxies
What TikTok reads besides the IP, one account per mobile IP, Shop by market, and a traffic calculator.
SocialInstagram proxies
Meta’s account-integrity rules, one static ISP IP per client account, and what Instagram’s warnings usually mean.
RetailSneaker proxies
How draws and checkpoints work in 2026, ISP for checkout, datacenter for monitors, and how to tell a real ISP IP.
SearchSERP proxies
Rank tracking after num=100 and the JavaScript requirement, matching IP and parameters, and the request math.
Per GB or per IP?
An ISP IP costs $2.00 a month with unlimited traffic. At residential and mobile rates of $4.80 down to $2.70 per GB, the same $2.00 buys between 0.42 and 0.74 GB. So if a job needs one fixed address that moves more than about half a gigabyte a month, the per-IP product is cheaper.
Per GB wins the other way round: when a job needs hundreds of different addresses, rotation on every request, or countries where static IPs are scarce. A rank tracker spreading 300,000 requests a month across a country has no use for 100 fixed IPs.
A worked example, using a planning figure rather than a measurement: ten app accounts at 200 MB a day each move about 59 GB a month, which costs about $229 at the $3.90 tier. Ten accounts on ISP cost $20 a month at any traffic. Mobile still makes sense for accounts that live on phones; ISP makes sense for accounts run from a desk.
What we do not support
A proxy changes your network, not anyone’s rules. Accessing resources that are prohibited by law or by our terms is blocked at the gateway, and these uses are not supported on any product:
- Ban evasion, bought engagement and bulk-operated or fake accounts.
- Ticket bots and getting around ticket purchase limits.
- Getting around age verification or other protections meant for children.
- Credential stuffing, account takeover and attack traffic of any kind.
- Collecting personal data without a lawful basis.
Use-case questions
Mobile for accounts that live in an app, ISP for accounts or tasks that need one fixed address, residential for anything that needs many household IPs, and datacenter for fast unmetered work on targets that allow it. The table at the top maps the common jobs.
When one fixed address moves more than about 0.4 to 0.75 GB a month: $2.00 for an ISP IP buys that much residential traffic at our rates. For rotation or many addresses, per GB is the better fit.
Yes. One dashboard and one balance cover residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter, and residential and mobile gigabytes never expire.
Ban evasion, fake engagement, ticket bots, getting around age checks, credential stuffing and any attack traffic, and collecting personal data without a lawful basis.