Proxy Types

Sep 25

As AIMultiple’s CTO, I lead data collection from thousands of websites. To identify reliable residential proxy providers, we benchmark across 10 vendors and process 2,880 requests per day, or 86,400 over a 30-day period. While we analyze the main providers (both rotating residential proxies and static residential proxies) in detail further down, the table below…

Best Dedicated Proxies

When you buy dedicated proxy services, you get exclusive access to a private dedicated IP that isn’t shared with other users. Unlike shared proxies, dedicated proxy servers offer more stability and higher success rates. In this guide, we compare the best dedicated proxies across residential, ISP, and datacenter categories to help you find the most…

Static Proxies: What They Are & the Best Providers

Static proxies use an IP address that remains the same rather than changing with each request or session. In practice, the term usually refers to datacenter proxies and ISP proxies (static residential proxies), because both are designed for long-lived identity and stable sessions. A static proxy is a proxy server that assigns you a single…

Best US Proxies: American Proxy Servers

Finding a reliable US residential proxy is critical for navigating high-traffic sites like Amazon, eBay, and Walmart. We tested and ranked the top US proxy services across 100+ unique URLs every 15 minutes to measure real-world success rates and speed. Based on our benchmark, here is which provider to choose for your specific objective: See…

Feature Comparison

We Tested the Best SOCKS5 Proxies

SOCKS5 providers differ in which proxy types carry it, which ports they allow, and whether UDP works. The full methodology is below. Cost efficiency changes with usage; the cheapest proxy provider at 10 GB is not the cheapest at 1 TB. Find your monthly volume on the x-axis before comparing: Bright Data SOCKS5 proxy connections…

We Benchmarked the Best Datacenter Proxy Providers

We evaluated top datacenter proxy providers with 15,000 requests to assess speed, reliability, and cost across search, e-commerce, and social media sites. Review the performance of leading datacenter proxies by success rate and response time. Results update every 15 minutes for major sites. More info in the methodology. The table includes both shared datacenter proxies…

Best Static Residential Proxies

We benchmarked the leading ISP proxy services against 1,800 URLs from major e-commerce domains, resulting in 28,800 requests. See the top ISP proxies based on our benchmark results: Compare the top ISP proxy providers’ response times in our benchmark: The graph below shows the pricing shift for different ISP proxies. For further details, see our…

Best Rotating Proxies: Residential & Mobile

We benchmarked major rotating proxies (residential, datacenter, and mobile) using over 200,000 requests, including 100,000 parallel requests, for major e-commerce and social media sites. See the top solutions based on our tests and follow the links to learn more from these vendors: To avoid detection, use IP signatures that resemble those of genuine mobile users.…

Best Mobile Proxies: Tested & Ranked

We tested the top mobile proxies using 18,000 requests, analyzing their success rates, speeds, rotation capabilities, sticky sessions, and targeting options (country, state, carrier, and GPS). Compare leading mobile proxy providers on real mobile endpoints. The chart shows the success rate (the share of requests that returned a valid mobile page, 2xx/3xx, a correct mobile…

Aug 21

IPv6 Proxy Providers: Pricing & Performance

An IPv6 proxy routes traffic through an IPv6 exit address, but IPv6 support does not mean the same thing across proxy providers. A vendor may support IPv6 on its residential network, expose both IPv4 and IPv6 through a mixed pool, or allow users to request IPv6 addresses. This benchmark measures residential proxy performance. Use it…