Types of Proxy Servers

Residential Proxies

Residential proxies use IP addresses assigned by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to real household connections. These IPs are tied to physical locations and appear identical to regular consumer internet users, making residential proxies one of the most trusted and hardest-to-detect proxy types available.

Because they originate from genuine home networks, residential proxies are highly effective at bypassing modern anti-bot and fraud-prevention systems. Most websites rely on IP reputation, ASN profiling, and behavioral analysis to identify automated traffic. Residential IPs naturally blend into real user traffic, resulting in significantly lower block rates compared to datacenter proxies.

This makes residential proxies especially valuable for scraping highly protected websites, performing competitor and market research, verifying localized search results, monitoring geo-targeted advertisements, and accessing region-restricted content.

Datacenter Proxies

Datacenter proxies use IP addresses hosted on cloud servers and enterprise data center networks. They offer extremely high speeds, predictable latency, and virtually unlimited scalability, making them the most cost-efficient proxy type for large-volume automation and data collection.

Because datacenter IPs originate from commercial hosting providers, they are easier for websites to identify compared to residential or mobile IPs. Modern anti-bot systems frequently flag entire data center ASNs, which can result in higher block rates on protected websites.

Datacenter proxies are ideal for high-volume scraping, price monitoring, public data aggregation, SEO rank tracking, site testing, and any use case where speed and cost efficiency matter more than human-like identity.

They are not recommended for account logins, checkout flows, social media automation, or websites with aggressive bot protection.

Mobile Proxies (4G / 5G)

Mobile proxies use IP addresses assigned by cellular carriers and shared by thousands of real mobile users. They provide the highest trust level of any proxy type, as mobile carrier IPs are naturally associated with large, constantly changing pools of real devices.

Because of this shared carrier infrastructure, mobile IPs are extremely difficult for websites to reliably block without risking disruption to legitimate mobile users. As a result, mobile proxies achieve the lowest block rates on the most restrictive anti-bot systems.

Mobile proxies are the premium choice for sneaker and ticketing automation, social media management, app scraping, and accessing highly protected platforms.

They are the most expensive proxy type and are typically used selectively for the most difficult targets rather than for large-scale scraping.

Rotating Proxies

Rotating proxies automatically change the outgoing IP address on each request or at defined intervals. This rotation distributes traffic across many identities, preventing rate limits and significantly reducing the risk of bans during large-scale scraping operations.

Rotating proxies are commonly combined with datacenter or residential networks for SERP scraping, price intelligence, public data mining, and crawling tasks where session persistence is not required.

They are not recommended for workflows that require stable logins or multi-step sessions.

SOCKS5 Proxies

SOCKS proxies provide protocol-agnostic traffic routing at the socket level.

They support both TCP and UDP traffic and can proxy applications beyond standard web browsers.

SOCKS5 proxies are widely used for gaming, custom bots, torrent clients, and application-level automation where HTTPS proxies are not sufficient.

ISP Static Proxies

ISP static proxies, also known as static residential proxies, are IP addresses assigned by real Internet Service Providers but hosted on dedicated high-performance servers.

They combine the legitimacy of residential IPs with the speed, stability, and uptime of data center infrastructure.

Unlike rotating residential proxies that frequently change IP address, ISP static proxies provide a persistent, long-lasting IP identity. This makes them ideal for workflows that require consistent sessions, stable account access, and predictable performance.

Because these IPs belong to real ISP addresses rather than commercial hosting networks, they maintain significantly higher trust levels and far lower block rates than datacenter proxies — while still delivering superior speed and reliability compared to traditional residential connections.