Residential Proxies

Residential proxies are proxy servers that use real IP addresses assigned by internet providers to home users. Your request goes from your app to the proxy, the proxy forwards it to the target site, and the response comes back the same way. The site sees the provider's residential address, not your own IP. Because the address belongs to a real home connection on a real ISP network, the site treats the traffic as an ordinary visitor rather than automation, which is the main difference from datacenter proxies. The IPs in our pool are sourced ethically and lawfully.

Yes, when used for lawful purposes and within the terms of the sites you work with. Legality depends on how you use them and on the laws in your country or target region. Residential proxies are commonly used for market research, brand protection, ad verification, and ethical web scraping. Use of ProxyWing is governed by our acceptable use policy, and you are responsible for staying compliant with the laws that apply to you.

Residential proxies are safe when they come from a responsible provider and are used within applicable policies and laws. What makes a provider trustworthy: IPs sourced ethically and lawfully, login and password authentication, and no logging of your traffic. Free or unknown proxies carry real risk, because you cannot verify where the IPs come from or what happens to the traffic that passes through them. ProxyWing runs managed access controls and monitored infrastructure, with abuse prevention and account safeguards in place.

It depends on whether you need to spread requests across many IPs or hold one address. Rotating sessions give you a fresh IP per request, which suits wide data collection, price monitoring, and large-scale scraping. Static sessions hold one IP for the length of a session, with a TTL you set yourself: up to 1000 minutes on Standard and up to 7 days on Premium. Use static for logins, checkout flows, and account management, where the IP should stay stable. A quick guide: bulk scraping - rotating. Account management - static Ad verification - static within a region. In the API, static sessions are referred to as sticky sessions.

Residential proxies fit any task where traffic needs to read as an ordinary home user: • Web scraping and public data collection at scale, with a clean IP per request. • Multi-account management, with a separate residential IP per profile and fewer bans. • Ad verification, checking how ads render by country and city and spotting click fraud. • Price and competitor monitoring across regions and marketplaces. • SEO monitoring, reading search results the way real users in a region see them. • Access to geo-restricted content for testing and research. • Brand protection, tracking counterfeits and unauthorized sellers. ProxyWing supports all of these scenarios on both plans.

Residential proxies are much harder to detect than datacenter proxies, because the addresses belong to real ISP networks rather than hosting ranges. Detection is still possible when request patterns look abnormal: unusual request frequency, atypical browser fingerprints, or aggressive behavior. You lower the risk with sensible IP rotation, reasonable intervals between requests, and correct headers. Our pool of 70M+ IPs spreads your traffic across many addresses, which reduces the chance of any single IP being flagged.

Channel speed averages up to 300 Mbps, higher in well-connected regions and lower in others. Actual speed depends on the target region, the session type (rotating or static), and current pool load. Speed matters because it affects success rate on scraping jobs and the throughput of automated tasks. A large IP pool helps keep performance stable, since load is spread across millions of addresses rather than concentrated on a few.

ProxyWing covers 190+ countries, with real residential IPs across every major region: North America, Europe, and Asia among them. You can target by country, city, and ISP (the specific operator). One thing to keep in mind: the finer your geo-targeting, the smaller the available pool at that level, so for most tasks country-level targeting gives the best balance of precision and pool size. Drop down to city or operator when the task genuinely needs it.

Traffic use depends on the task: the number of target pages, request frequency, and the average weight of each response. As a rough guide, light HTML scraping runs about 1 to 2 MB per request, while media-heavy pages use more. The practical approach is to start with a smaller amount, measure your real consumption, and scale from there. Since ProxyWing traffic never expires, you can buy a larger volume without risk of losing unused gigabytes, and larger volumes get automatic discounts. If your task is unusual, contact support and we will help you size it.

Your traffic never expires. There is no monthly reset and no subscription, so unused gigabytes stay in your account until you use them, whether that is next week or a year from now. This means you can buy in bulk with confidence, take advantage of volume discounts, and use the traffic at your own pace. You can also turn on auto top-up from your balance or card so you never run out mid-task.

Yes. ProxyWing works with any tool that supports HTTP, HTTPS, or SOCKS5, including Scrapy, Selenium, Puppeteer, Playwright, anti-detect browsers, and custom scripts in Python, Node.js, or any other language. Integration uses standard connection parameters: host, port, username, and password, with no extra SDK to install. You will find setup examples for popular tools in your ProxyWing dashboard.

On iPhone: Settings to Wi-Fi, tap your network, scroll to HTTP Proxy, choose Manual, and enter the host and port; add your username and password for authentication. On Android: Settings to Wi-Fi, press and hold your network, choose Modify Network, open Advanced Options, set Proxy to Manual, and enter the host and port. Both devices use the same credentials from your ProxyWing dashboard. Full step-by-step guides are in our blog.

Use a VPN to protect general browsing traffic on a device. Use residential proxies when your workflow needs rotating or static real IP addresses, location targeting, or integration with tools and scripts. A simple rule: personal privacy points to a VPN. Business tasks, automation, and multi-accounting point to proxies. If you need both, ProxyWing also offers a residential VPN service built on residential IPs.

ProxyWing does not run free trials, demos, or trial periods. Because traffic is priced per GB and never expires, the low-risk way to test the service is to buy a small amount, such as 1 GB, and run it against your real task. If it fits, top up for more and take advantage of volume discounts. There is nothing to subscribe to and nothing to cancel.

ProxyWing accepts 100+ cryptocurrencies, cards (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, Discover), and options including Klarna, Kakao Pay, and UPI. Crypto support is broad, which suits users who prefer to pay that way. You top up your account balance and can enable auto top-up so traffic never runs out mid-task.

ProxyWing gives you 70M+ residential IPs across 190+ countries on two plans, with country, city, and ISP targeting included, rotating and static sessions with custom TTL, HTTP and SOCKS5 support, and traffic that never expires. Our own monitoring shows a 99.5% success rate, 0.6s average response time, and 99% uptime. We are in the process of obtaining our SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications, and support is available 24/7 via live chat, Discord, and Telegram. Start with 1 GB and scale as you grow.

Yes. ProxyWing has a full REST API for provisioning and account management. You can order traffic, top up a service, read traffic usage, set auto top-up, and generate ready-to-use proxy lists with country, city, and ISP targeting and rotating or sticky sessions. Requests go over HTTPS to one base URL with Bearer-key authentication. Order and top-up writes are idempotent, and the rate limit is 600 requests per minute. Get your API key in the dashboard under Account, and see the full reference in our API documentation.