Residential Proxies

Determining the best residential proxy depends on your specific needs, like preferred speed, geographic coverage, and available budget. Leading providers include Decodo, loved for its user-friendly dashboard, budget-friendly pricing, and #1 IP quality in the market. When shopping around for residential proxies, you should do your own research and test out different providers that offer residential proxies free trial.

Our dashboard is intuitive, and our quick start guide is full of helpful information, including practical explanations and detailed instructions. If you have any questions, our live chat is always just a click away!

Together with the Internet Infrastructure Coalition (i2Coalition), we have launched the Ethical Web Data Collection Initiative (EWDCI). This industry-led consortium will strengthen public trust, promote ethical guidelines, and help businesses make informed data collection choices.

Completely free proxies aren’t safe – there’s no guarantee that your data will not be shared with third parties. However, you can try our residential proxies with a 3-day free trial. Go to the Decodo dashboard, select a residential proxy plan, and opt for the trial version if you’re a new user. Enjoy 100 MB for 3 days, and after the trial period ends, your chosen plan will activate automatically, and you can cancel anytime before then. Please note that a 14-day money-back option doesn’t apply with a 3-day free trial.

Residential proxies are true mobile or desktop devices that act as your intermediary servers. They have all aspects of real internet users, such as ISP attribution, no subnetworks, or other tell-tale signs of a proxy network. Thus, you can scale any operation almost indefinitely, especially when you can access millions of these nodes.

What’s more – on Decodo residential proxy network, you’re allowed to send unlimited concurrent (simultaneous) connection requests. That means your scraper can access all the pages you need in no time. Advanced rotation is what makes our proxies unbeatable.

And if that wasn’t enough, with us, you’ll no longer need to import any proxy lists – all you need is a single endpoint.

The choice between a VPN and a residential proxy hinges on your use case. VPNs encrypt all internet traffic, providing comprehensive security and privacy, making them ideal for protecting sensitive data or accessing content securely. Residential proxies, however, offer IP addresses from real devices, which is beneficial for tasks like web scraping, managing multiple accounts, or accessing geo-specific content without detection. If anonymity and bypassing geo-restrictions are priorities without the need for full encryption, residential proxies are the best match. For secure, encrypted connections, choose a VPN service.

While residential proxies use IPs assigned to real residential devices, making them less detectable than datacenter proxies, they're not entirely immune to detection. Advanced websites and anti-bot mechanisms employ sophisticated methods to identify proxy usage, such as analyzing IP behavior patterns or cross-referencing known proxy IP databases. Therefore, although residential proxies offer a higher level of anonymity, you should always follow the recommendations on how to avoid CAPTCHAs and IP blocks while using proxies.

To determine our pool size, we multiply the number of daily IPs by the unique exit nodes each day and the number of days in a quarter. Consequently, the final result fluctuates monthly, influenced by the daily IPs and exit nodes.

Residential proxies’ average response time and success rate provided on our website are based on Proxyway’s research. Proxyway is an independent educational platform dedicated to the research and testing of proxy providers and services that run requests from testing servers using a custom Python script and a global CDN as the target. Our shared DC and DDC proxies were tested using Python requests and time libraries by noting the time before sending a request and after receiving a response. We sent 500 requests per endpoint to the http://ipinfo.io/ip website. After receiving 500 HTTP 200 response codes, we divided the total time by 500 to determine the average response time. Requests were sent from the same country’s VPN as the endpoint. The test was conducted using a rotating session type with Python 3.9.6. version. Check the Python code example in our help docs.

IP quality score provided on our website is based on research by Proxyway. Proxyway used the IPQualityScore database to check 10K US IPs and 20K IPs from various locations to determine the IP quality score. The fraud score was calculated based on factors like how many IPs were registered as proxies, abused, or blocked on various platforms. The average fraud score in the Global pool was 45.57, with Decodo’s IP pool being abused the least – 32.72.