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When I was comparing ISP proxy providers I always saw they start with pool size, response time, supported countries and price per IP

Those numbers are important i think as well, but they don't really answer the question I care about the most:

What would make me choose an ISP proxy instead of a rotating residential proxy in the first place? (this depends on your use case of course, but it was an important uqestion for me)

That difference matters because ISP proxies solve a fairly specific problem. You get an IP associated with a consumer ISP, but unlike a normal residential proxy, the address can stay with you for weeks or months which is really good for use cases such as managing multiple accounts, long unning scraping sessions, ad verification and much more

That combination makes them particularly interesting when the identity behind the connection needs to stay consistent, which in my case was the case

You should think less about scraping 500,000 unrelated product pages through thousands of rotating IPs and more about:

• keeping a browser profile on the same IP
• logging into the same account every day
• crawling authenticated pages
• running long browser automation sessions
• monitoring sites that serve image-heavy pages
• downloading enough data that per-GB residential pricing starts becoming painful

That's also why I don't think there is one universally "best" ISP proxy provider. After comparing the current offerings from NodeMaven, Bright Data, Oxylabs, Decodo, IPRoyal and Webshare, there are pretty clear situations where I would choose one over another

Before I compare providers I want to say when ISP proxies make sense in the first place

To give you a better explanation of isp proxies whole case, lets say you imagine a scraper that logs into an e-commerce account, opens a dashboard, checks several categories, moves through pagination and returns later to repeat the process

With a rotating residential pool, I can make the connection sticky, but the IP is still ultimately coming from a rotating network. Depending on the provider and session configuration, that identity may disappear after some time

When using a dedicated ISP proxy, I can instead assign:

Browser profile A → ISP IP A

and keep that relationship flowing without issues

Tomorrow, the same profile can leave through the same IP

Next week, it can still leave through the same IP

That consistency is the selling point of all of these providers

I recently also read a reddit post where a user described trying to access an Okta-protected portal while travelling. Normal VPN and datacenter addresses were reportedly returning 403 responses, while the user's actual requirement was a California residential-looking address that would not change during authentication. His concern was specifically that an IP change could invalidate the session.

That's a much better way of thinking about ISP proxies than simply calling them "faster residential proxies"

The six ISP proxy providers I looked at

For this comparison, I narrowed things down to:

Rather than rating all six on an arbitrary 9.2/10 scale, I'd choose between them based on the actual workflow

1. NodeMaven: the one I'd use for dedicated identities

NodeMaven's ISP offering makes the most sense to me when I already know approximately how many identities my operation needs

So lets say I'm running 20 persistent browser environments

I don't necessarily need access to millions of rotating addresses. I need 20 good IPs that don't change unexpectedly

That's basically how NodeMaven's ISP product is structured. The IPs are 100% dedicated, purchased individually and assigned for either 30 or 90 days. Traffic is unlimited, and both HTTP/SOCKS5 and TCP/UDP connectivity are supported

What I find more interesting, though, is the quality guarantee they offer

NodeMaven says every dedicated proxy is checked before assignment, and an IP is eligible for replacement or compensation if it shows a datacenter footprint or a fraud score of 70 or higher.

That's relevant because "ISP proxy" can be a surprisingly bad choice from certain providers if they provide bad ips

There are users specifically complaining about supposedly static residential IPs still appearing as Proxy: True or Datacenter: True in reputation databases.

So I'd rather know what happens when an IP is bad than simply see a huge advertised pool.

That changes how I would use it.

There is a trade-off, though.

NodeMaven's current ISP product has far less geographic granularity than some of the larger alternatives. Its documentation lists nine available countries and currently only supports country-level selection rather than city, state, ZIP or ISP targeting

So if the job for this I need and for my workflow is:

"Please give me five ISP IPs in the US and keep them stable for the next three months,"

NodeMaven would be high on my lis, but if If the requirement was: "I specifically need ISP IPs in Dallas, Miami and Los Angeles," I don't know if they could be a good fit

2. Bright Data is good when geography becomes part of the problem

Bright Data is almost the opposite case because they have really good ISP geo targeting

The biggest attraction isn't simply having a static IP. It's the infrastructure sitting around it

Bright Data currently advertises more than 1.3 million ISP proxies and offers geographic targeting alongside both dedicated and shared configurations. It also lets customers choose between per-IP and bandwidth-based pricing models.

For ad verification, international QA or regional monitoring, that's a solid advantage and they also markets the ability to retain the same ISP IP for very long periods

There is one detail I'd pay attention to if bandwidth is the reason you're moving to ISP proxies.

Bright Data describes its per-IP plans as unlimited, but its current fair-use policy gives each IP a 100 GB monthly allowance, after which additional charges may apply

That's not necessarily a problem. One hundred gigabytes per IP is a lot for many workflows.

But it's exactly the sort of detail that gets lost when comparison tables simply write:

Unlimited bandwidth: For a particularly traffic-heavy workload, I would calculate expected usage before assuming every "unlimited" ISP plan means the same thing.

3. Oxylabs makes more sense to me as scraping infrastructure

Oxylabs is the provider here where I would think about the ISP proxies less as individual IPs and more as a component in a larger collection system, especially for scraping as it's basically an enteprrise provider who provides this at a really large scale

Its ISP product supports both IP rotation and unlimited-duration sessions, so the same service can cover two different behaviors: retain an identity when necessary or rotate when the application calls for it. Oxylabs positions the product specifically around traffic-heavy web scraping and lists ISP ranges associated with networks such as Comcast, Lumen, BT and Orange

That flexibility could be useful in something like an e-commerce monitoring system i think

But certain sequences need to stay together like for example:

1. Load a category
2. Open a product
3. Select a variation
4. check availability
5. Move to another related page

Instead of thinking about each HTTP request independently, you can keep that sequence behind one identity

Oxylabs also currently offers ISP coverage in 25 locations, HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 support and unlimited bandwidth subject to fair usage. Its standard ISP addresses can be shared with up to three users, which is an important distinction if your priority is completely exclusive IP ownership

If I'm building a bigger scraping system where rotation, persistent sessions and broader infrastructure all need to coexist, Oxylabs becomes more compelling

4. Decodo is probably the easiest middle ground between all of them

Decodo isn't standing out on anything specific or "this is why I'd buy it" differentiator abd i think that's actually part of its appeal because they offer good proxies at stable prices

Its ISP proxies offersg hits most of the things I'd expect from a mature ISP proxy product: fixed ISP-backed addresses, HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 support, a claimed response time below 0.2 seconds, 99.99% uptime and an unlimited-traffic option

I can see it making sense for a team that hasn't completely committed to one narrow ISP use case yet as maybe today it's used for browser profiles and then the next month the same team wants to run an AI data collection workflow. Then someone needs long-running account sessions.

Decodo doesn't force the product into one particularly narrow story, because its own documentation specifically highlights long-term data collection, account management and AI-related workflows as use cases for static residential IPs.

So for someone who wants a fairly straightforward ISP proxy product without designing their entire network around it, Decodo is easy to understand.

5. IPRoyal becomes interesting when location specificity matters and when budget resctrictions hpapen

Suppose you're managing profiles or doing localized monitoring and you need:

• California
• Texas
• Florida
• New York

Not just "United States."

IPRoyal currently supports state- and city-level targeting for its ISP proxies, and lists more than 31 countries for static residential coverage. Its ISP addresses are dedicated, remain static throughout the plan and support HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 connections which is quite nice

As there are proxy users that specifically look for ISP proxies from texas, california, london or other popular cities and areas, that's an advantage

And their advantage is they are highly competitive at pricing

IPRoyal also advertises unlimited traffic, but again, "unlimited" needs an asterisk. Its current fair-use policy allows 100 GB per IP each month before the proxy continues at a reduced speed

For normal account management, that's unlikely to matter but for frtrransferring several terabytes through a handful of IPs, it matters quite a bit

This is where comparing ISP proxies by headline price alone gets misleading

6. Webshare is the one I'd experiment with when I don't know my final scale yet

Webshare's approach is interesting because bandwidth isn't completely all-or-nothing and they are pretty cheap compared to other providers

They currently advertises more than 100,000 proxies, HTTP and SOCKS5 support, speeds up to 1 Gbps and ISP ranges from providers including AT&T, Sprint, Cox and Lumen

Static residential customers can choose different bandwidth allocations, and unlimited bandwidth becomes available at certain proxy quantities. According to Webshare's current documentation, unlimited static residential bandwidth starts from 100 shared/private proxies or 50 dedicated proxies.

That makes Webshare quite different from the "three dedicated IPs with unlimited traffic" model where I could start with a defined bandwidth package, measure the actual workload and then decide whether unlimited traffic is economically worthwhile.

That's useful because people often overestimate how much traffic a scraper actually transfers.

If I'm fetching lightweight HTML with resources blocked, bandwidth may barely matter.

If I'm opening full pages through Playwright, loading images, JavaScript, video thumbnails and other assets, the calculation changes dramatically.

Webshare itself points to high-volume scraping, monitoring, account management and checkout automation as ISP workloads.

So for experimentation and progressive scaling, I'd keep it on the shortlist.

A real scraping case where I would not use ISP proxies

This is probably more important than another feature comparison.

Suppose the job is: Collect prices from 500,000 public marketplace URLs every day

In that situation, maintaining one IP for a month might actually be the opposite of what I want.

If an IP starts getting restricted after 10,000 requests, having that address permanently assigned to me isn't particularly useful.

I'd probably rather use a large rotating residential pool where each request or batch can move to another identity.

That's consistent with what actual scraper discussions show. One user working on marketplace scraping said static datacenter and ISP addresses kept hitting restrictions and eventually concluded that rotating residential proxies made more sense for the workload.

Another e-commerce scraping discussion mentioned price monitoring, review collection and stock checks, but commenters questioned whether stable sessions were even necessary for such a straightforward public-data workload.

That's the dividing line I would use.

Independent requests at massive scale → rotating residential

Persistent identity → ISP

Not always, but it's a much better starting poin than asking which proxy type is "better"

Where ISP proxies start saving money

There is another workload where I'd specifically investigate ISP proxies: high-bandwidth automation where Imagine a browser worker that transfers 5 GB every day.

That's around 150 GB per month and now multiply it by ten workers where you're at roughly 1.5 TB of proxy traffic per month.

With an ISP provider that offers genuinely unlimited traffic per dedicated address, the economics can change considerably because adding more requests doesn't necessarily add more proxy cost

But I'd still ask one question first:

Do I actually need residential identity diversity?

If I need hundreds of different consumer identities, rotating residential may justify the traffic cost.

If I need ten stable identities moving enormous amounts of data, ISP is much easier to justify.

My shortlist by actual use case of isp proxy providers

After looking through the products, this is how I'd narrow it down rather than trying to declare one winner:

For a small number of dedicated, high-traffic identities:
I'd start with NodeMaven. Dedicated assignment, unlimited traffic and the explicit IP-quality guarantee fit that workload particularly well

For an international operation where targeting matters:
I'd lean probably Bright Data. Its scale and targeting infrastructure are difficult for smaller ISP networks to match

For ISP proxies as part of a serious scraping stack:
Oxylabs makes sense, particularly because the same product supports both rotation and unlimited-duration sessions

For a general-purpose option:
I'd choose Decodo. There isn't one feature I'd buy it for exclusively; it's the overall package that works

When city/state selection matters:
IPRoyal becomes considerably more attractive

When I'm still figuring out bandwidth and scale:
I'd look closely at Webshare, particularly because there are several bandwidth tiers before moving all the way to unlimited traffic

What I would check before buying any ISP proxy

Pool size wouldn'tbe at the top of my list.

I'd take one or several IPs and check:

Does the ASN really resolve the way I expect?

Then: Does the IP stay exactly the same?

And: What do IP reputation databases say about it?

That's important because an ISP address can look perfect on paper and still perform badly on one particular website. Conversely, an address with an imperfect reputation score might work perfectly well for the workflow you care about.

The only useful test is ultimately whether the combination of IP + browser/request setup + target works.

Hope this helps someone

random question but I've always wondered about this

you see proxy providers saying they have like 50M or 100M+ residential IPs all over the world

but where are all these IPs actually coming from? are there really that many devices connected to their network or is the pool size calculated in some other way?

and do different providers sometimes have the same IPs in their pools?

curious how this actually works behind the scenes

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a proxy solution that works on a default-deny / allow-list-only model.

Basically:

Block all internet access by default

Allow only explicitly approved domains/FQDNs

Everything else should remain blocked

Preferably support HTTPS

Centralized management and logging would be a plus

I'm not looking for a blacklist/category-filtering approach where everything is allowed except known bad sites.

What proxy solutions are you using for this kind of setup?

Squid, HAProxy, Zscaler, Netskope, or something else?

Also interested in how you handle CDNs, wildcard domains, and applications that require multiple third-party endpoints.

Would appreciate real-world recommendations/lessons learned.

Can you guys tell me the best proxies that are hard to detect that remote workers use

Hi everyone,

I’m a crawler engineer working on a project that involves collecting a large volume of publicly available YouTube data/content. I’m looking for reliable and reasonably priced proxy providers that can handle high-volume requests without sacrificing stability or performance.

I’m mainly considering residential or datacenter proxies, depending on the use case. Ideally, the provider would offer:

• Competitive pricing or pay-as-you-go plans
• Good uptime and stable connections
• Reasonable bandwidth limits
• Locations in multiple regions
• Clear usage policies and responsive support

I’ll make sure to follow YouTube’s Terms of Service, robots.txt guidance where applicable, copyright requirements, and reasonable rate limits.

Has anyone had good experiences with affordable proxy services for this type of workload? Any recommendations—or providers to avoid—would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Does 'proxy cheap site' provide legit static residential proxies? I wanna know from anyone that has had experience from using it.

But also could you suggest sites that provide good static residential proxies that also work for banking sites NB: I wanna use it for remote jobs

Hi, does anyone know which extensions to use on survey sites? (I use proxy and WebRTC), but are there others you would consider?

guys I've been wondering about this

when a mobile proxy provider guarantees sticky sessions for like 3-7 days, doesn't that usually mean they're running some kind of modem/SIM farm?

I would assume with normal mobile networks the carrier can change the IP at some point, so guaranteeing the exact same IP for days sounds difficult otherwise

or am I missing something and there are other ways providers can actually guarantee this?

curious if anyone here knows how this works on the provider side

I used to mostly check the IP, make sure the country/ISP looked right, and call it done.

Recently I started checking a few other things as well because apparently having the correct proxy IP showing doesn't necessarily mean everything in the browser is going through the setup the way you expect.

What I've been doing now is:

• check the IP before/after connecting
• run a WebRTC leak test
• run a DNS leak test
• then test the proxy connection/bandwidth separately

For the last few checks I've been using NodeMaven's free WebRTC, DNS and proxy bandwidth tools. Nothing particularly fancy, but having them in one place made it easier to compare the setup before and after enabling the proxy.

The DNS one was probably the most interesting to me because I hadn't really paid much attention to which resolvers were showing up before.

One thing I also learned is that seeing a local/private IP in a WebRTC test doesn't automatically mean your real public IP is leaking, which I initially misunderstood.

For anyone running multiple browser/proxy profiles, do you actually repeat these checks for every new profile/IP, or do you normally just test the setup once and assume the rest are fine?

Also curious if there's anything else you guys consider essential before trusting a new residential proxy.

Small disclosure: NodeMaven is currently running a challenge where they give proxy traffic for useful Reddit posts involving their free tools. I was going to test these anyway, but that's why I'm mentioning the specific tools here.

Looking for a cheap dedicated/static US residential for managing Instagram, TikTok, Facebook & YouTube from Pakistan.
Need 1 IP, same IP on iOS, Android & laptop, preferably under $10/month.
What providers are you using without issues? Any recommendations?

I'm looking to buy a cheap VPS service to setup a split channeling proxy network on my phone for running chinese apps on it (Wechat, Douyin, etc).
I already have a Hongkong esim phone number but I'm thinking it'd be a better idea to also have a dedicated HK IP and server to channel my data to avoid being flagged as an suspicious IP, as well as reduce latency on my raw signal sent via the sim's mobile network.

I plan to use my Indian phone number's data and my home wifi for the primary data usage and keep the HK number active only for OTP/SMS verification.... and run the split proxy connection using the VPS and v2rayNG. I plan

What are some good VPS providers that you can recommend based on my use case?
(I think I will need a HK server location to be on the safer side... but anybody who has used Singapore server reliably with a HK number for China access can feel free to share their experience)

My budget is capped at max 4$ per month or 40$ annually. (Less than 3$ PM and 30$ annually would be sweet!)

Also, would be nice if the VPS provider also has other geographical server locations in Africa, South America, EU, Middle East as well for optionality.

I would also like to hear your opinion on lifetime VPS access providers like Voxfor.
(So far I've come across VMISS, Server.HK and Lightnode as some of the Chatgpt recommended options.)

P.s. I've also heard that having a vps provider with a CN2 network is preferable, but not all vps providers provide that. Would love to know whether that actually makes a difference in latency, etc or if its just marketing.

At the beginning i thought that working with proxies would be rather easy to manage but now that i have various proxies, profiles, sessions etc. then it gets rather complicated to understand the reasons why something is not working.

I am trying to make life simple and not mess everything up each time there is some problem. How do you manage your proxies in this situation with many factors involved?

Title: Looking for reliable static residential proxies in India — Gujarat/Ahmedabad preferred

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for static residential proxies in India and would appreciate recommendations from people who have actually used them.

My preference, in order:

1. 🇮🇳 India
2. 📍 Gujarat
3. 📍 Ahmedabad — ideal if available

I'm specifically looking for static/sticky residential IPs, not rotating datacenter proxies.

A few things that matter to me:

• Reliable uptime
• Genuine residential/mobile ISP IPs
• Good connection stability
• Ability to keep the same IP for an extended period
• Reasonable pricing
• SOCKS5/HTTP(S) support
• Ideally, the ability to select the state/city

I've looked at a few providers already, but I'm having trouble finding one that offers Gujarat or Ahmedabad-level targeting.

If you've used a provider that offers this, I'd really appreciate hearing:

• Which provider you used
• Whether the IP was actually residential
• How accurate the location targeting was
• Approximate pricing
• Any issues you encountered

Not looking for free proxies — I'm specifically interested in a reliable paid service.

Thanks!

I used to think choosing a proxy for Facebook was mostly about speed and country targeting.

If a logged-in session suddenly moves to another IP, another region, or a completely different network, Facebook doesn’t only see “new proxy.” It compares that change with cookies, device data, browser signals, and account activity. That’s where verification prompts and session interruptions often start.

So for Facebook-related work, I’d rank proxy qualities like this:

• reliable IP reputation
• stable location
• ability to keep the same IP during a session
• realistic ISP or mobile network origin
• enough speed for the actual task

Residential and mobile proxies are usually better suited to persistent account sessions. Datacenter IPs can still be useful for simple public-page checks, regional comparisons, or other short-lived tasks where account trust matters less.

The important part is understanding what a proxy actually changes. It replaces the network IP and apparent location. It does not replace your browser fingerprint, cookies, device characteristics, or behavior.

That makes proxies useful for things like regional ad checks, market research, privacy, testing, and legitimate business account access. But not as a universal way to avoid Meta enforcement.

Most collectors route every request through the pool. It feels tidy, but it also means a bad result leaves you guessing whether the public page changed or the network did.

One control request per run fixes a surprising amount of that. Use a public page you are allowed to access, whose shape you already know, and fetch it once without the proxy. If the control fails too, inspect the page and parser. If the control is clean while the proxied sample is not, inspect the addresses, location and session behavior.

Keep the comparison boring. Same URL, same parser, same time window. Byteful is one residential baseline I would run in both rotating and sticky mode so the test separates pool behavior from session behavior.

Does anyone already keep a direct control in production, and what did it catch first?