Proxy Types
Different types of proxies enable varying levels of anonymity, speed, and scalability depending on the use case. We benchmarked residential, datacenter, mobile, and rotating proxies to help users select the best fit for their data operations.
Best Search Engine Proxies: Benchmark
Search engines are among the toughest targets our team scrapes at AIMultiple. Google, Bing, and Yandex flag and throttle automated queries within a handful of requests from the same address, so a proxy that sails through an ordinary website can still stall on a results page. We benchmarked top providers through residential IPs to all…
Best Proxy Manager Tools
Proxy manager refers to two different tool types: Tools were included based on: Pricing and protocol support change frequently; verify the vendor page before purchase. These tools sit in front of services you host and route inbound requests to them. They do not provide proxy IPs. Nginx Proxy Manager (NPM) is an open-source (MIT) web…
Best Free Proxy Services
If you need a proxy without paying, we cover two free routes: We rank options by how often IPs refresh, protocol support (HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5), and access limits: If free proxies aren’t reliable enough, the cheapest paid options start at $6 for 10 GB of datacenter traffic. If you’re willing to create an account, several…
Proxy Server Types: Explained & Compared
Proxy servers are grouped by six criteria: traffic flow, IP source, anonymity level, protocol, rotation, and cost. The choice that matters most for web scraping and privacy is the IP source, with residential, datacenter, mobile, and ISP proxies differing in speed and price. The origin of the IP address determines how easily a website can…
Shared Proxies: Benchmark Results & Providers
Shared proxies are the entry point for most scraping operations; they’re cheap enough to test with and abundant enough to scale. That trade-off plays out differently depending on which proxy type you’re buying. In our benchmark across residential, datacenter, and mobile shared proxy networks, the performance spread between providers was wide in some categories and…
Best Video Proxies: Benchmark Results
High latency, bandwidth bottlenecks, and aggressive IP blocking make video data extraction one of the most challenging tasks. A standard proxy setup often can’t keep up with the advanced anti-bot measures used to protect streaming content. If you want to watch a blocked or geo-restricted video, use a free web proxy tool rather than a…
Best Enterprise Proxy Servers
We tested the best enterprise proxy service providers with 30 million requests, across 100,000 parallel requests, to identify the most reliable options for large-scale operations. See the top performance leaders based on our benchmark. Detailed reviews for all providers are included below. All benchmarked providers delivered a high success rate (at least ~80%) and fast…
Anonymous Proxies: Levels & Providers
When providers advertise anonymous proxies, they usually mean proxies that conceal the user’s IP address. These are technically elite proxies, not the intermediate anonymous type that reveals itself as a proxy. The intermediate level mainly appears on free proxy lists. A proxy is a middleman between you and a website. Your request goes to the…
Best High Speed Proxies Based on Our Benchmark
The fastest proxy is not always the one with the lowest response time. In real-world scraping and automation, speed is important, but requests must finish reliably. A provider that seems fast on its own but fails more often can cause more retries. We evaluated proxy providers on two metrics: average response time, which shows raw…