
These also offer a proxy rotator add-on to automatically rotate the data center IPs. Its pool of over 2 million data center IPs that aren’t shared but dedicated for your exclusive use, also support the SOCKS5 protocol. Also these static ones support the SOCKS5 protocol, unlike the standard rotating ones that don’t. Oxylabs claims these give you the best of both data center and residential proxies, in terms of speed and resilience. The proxy provider also offers static non-rotating residential proxies that it procures straight from ISPs. These residential proxies rotate IPs at every request to ensure the target cannot block you. Oxylabs claims that their residential proxies include mobile IPs as well, but the service provider doesn’t give you the option to choose them specifically for your tasks. However these residential IPs use backconnect gateway servers and you’ll have to manually modify this address to add parameters for targeting information. In addition to the country and city you can also target proxies based on the ASN (autonomous system number). Oxylabs (opens in new tab) has an extensive network of over 70 million residential proxies that cover all the countries and cities in the world. The plans are on average more expensive than many of its peers, but will seem reasonable particularly to large scale proxy users and those with very specific requirements.


In addition to the standard monthly subscriptions, Bright Data also offers a pay-as-you-go plan. The service also has multiple payment plans to accommodate different users. While the service advertises a base rate for all types of proxies, specifying additional parameters such as the targeting levels has an effect on the final cost of the proxy. However, all the features and dexterity comes at a price. The service also has a comprehensive support infrastructure with multiple avenues of help including video tutorials and webinars. The Proxy Manager can help you define rules for IP rotation, blacklist IPs that give bad results, optimize bandwidth usage by routing some requests through your regular non-proxied connection, and more.īright Data’s residential proxies support all the main protocols including HTTP, HTTPS and even SOCKS5. To use its proxies, you can use the Proxy Manager, which is an open source tool that can be installed on top of Windows, macOS and Linux for free. If you have very specific targeting requirements, you’ll appreciate Bright Data's support for ASN (Autonomous System Number) in addition to the usual targeting options such as country, state, and city. Bright Data also sells mobile IPs that cost more than the usual residential IPs but are more resilient and will work on particularly difficult to please targets. In addition to rotating residential IPs, the service also offers static ones, which are a group of 6 to 100 residential addresses for your exclusive use that haven't been previously used with your target domain. The first that strikes you about Bright Data (opens in new tab) (formerly Luminati) is its huge proxy pool of over 72 millions IPs. You can use the extension to again narrow down the location and type of proxy you want and even choose the authentication mechanism.

If you plan to use the proxy to browse the web, Smartproxy also has extensions for both Chrome and Firefox. Depending on these, the dashboard will show the appropriate proxy gateway that you can then use in your apps and tools. You can however filter down the proxies based on a couple of useful parameters such as the location, and the type of session (rotating or sticky). By default, Smartproxy displays all the different gateways for the countries and cities that it supports. You can select the proxy you want to use from a list of backconnect gateway servers in your dashboard. Smartproxy limits plans by bandwidth but allows you to run an unlimited number of concurrent threads. While this can be disadvantageous as you can get flagged IPs, the provider ensures its quick rotation policy ensures its proxies don’t get banned. Its pool of over 40 million rotating residential IPs comes from desktop and mobile devices and is shared between all the users. You can get both residential and data center proxies from Smartproxy (opens in new tab).
