Buy residential proxies: Rotating proxies with country & city selection

What are residential proxies and their use cases

Residential proxies route through home internet IPs, appearing as ordinary household visitors to websites. This natural access makes them the first choice for teams needing authentic regional page views across multiple countries.

IPKite residential proxies are sold per GB. Your balance deducts only what you use, with no expiry on purchased traffic. No connection limits per account - scale from small tests to large scrapes using the same credentials.

When choosing residential proxies, consider geographic coverage, session types, and pricing structure. IPKite covers 174 countries with major city targeting, offering decreasing per-GB rates that scale from small tests to long-term operations.

• Web scraping: Collect publicly available product information, search results, and reviews that vary by country.
• Price comparison: Check the prices and stock of the same product across countries and cities.
• Ad Verification: Confirm Ads Are Displayed Correctly in Target Regions and Landing Pages Load Properly
• Account Management: Assign consistent regional addresses to each account for clean separation of access environments.
• Localization check: Ensure language, currency, and shipping guides are correctly displayed for each region.

Why rotating proxies are needed

Rotating proxies assign a new IP with each request. In collection tasks requiring many requests to the same site, requests are evenly distributed across a wide address pool, ensuring stable responses without overloading a single address.

With IPKite, you can switch between rotating and sticky sessions just by changing the proxy username - no need to modify the host or port. Without a session parameter, you get a new IP per request. Add a session parameter to keep the same IP for your desired duration. A single line change adapts to your workflow.

Rotating proxies yield better results when used with request intervals. Adding short intervals between requests and resending failed requests with new IPs improves success rates and saves traffic.

• Mass page collection: Rotating per request ensures wide address distribution.
• Checking Search Rankings: Using a new IP for each keyword ensures clean results by region.
• After login: Maintain the same IP with a sticky session to keep the flow uninterrupted.

How to Choose Residential, ISP, Datacenter, and Mobile Proxies

Choosing the right proxy type is easier when based on the reliability, speed, and cost structure required for your tasks. Residential proxies are ideal for natural addresses across wide areas, ISP proxies for long-term use of a single address, datacenter proxies for speed and cost efficiency, and mobile proxies for mobile network addresses. All products are purchased with the same balance.

View regional results with country and city targeting

Residential proxies cover 174 countries with city-level targeting for major locations. Append country code (cc) and city name to your username for localized IPs. Without location parameters, optimal IPs are automatically assigned from our global pool.

Country-level targeting is ideal for viewing language and currency-specific content, while city-level targeting suits location-dependent results like delivery areas, local ads, and map searches. You can also compare multiple markets within a single task by attaching different countries per request.

Narrow city targeting limits IPs to the area’s address pool. For bulk scraping, use country-level targeting and reserve city-level for location-critical tasks.

• Country Selection: Attach two-letter country codes in lowercase (e.g., cc-us, cc-de, cc-jp).
• City selection: Append city names in lowercase without spaces (e.g., city-newyork, city-london).
• ISP, Datacenter, Mobile: Select the country during purchase and use the assigned addresses as-is.

Difference between rotating and sticky sessions

Rotating sessions change IPs with each request, while sticky sessions maintain the same IP for a set time. Sticky sessions can be set from 1 to 1,440 minutes, suitable for tasks from quick cart checks to daily operations.

Sticky sessions are maintained separately for each sess value, allowing multiple fixed IPs to operate simultaneously across accounts or tasks. When the session ends or a new IP is needed, simply change the sess value to start a new session.

Proxy pricing calculation method

Residential proxy pricing is calculated by multiplying the number of GBs purchased by the per-GB rate for that bundle. For example, buying 10GB would be 10GB x $3.30 = $33.00. The more you buy, the lower the per-GB rate - a 10,000GB bundle costs just $1.10 per GB. You can enter any custom amount between 1 and 10,000GB.

• ISP Proxy: Pricing is based on the number of IPs multiplied by the duration. For a 90-day purchase, it’s $1.44 per 30 days.
• Datacenter Proxy: Calculated by IP count x period. $0.83 per 30 days for a 90-day purchase.
• Top-up bonus: For top-ups over $100, 20-50% is added to your balance based on the amount.

Steps to Start Using Proxies

Even if you're buying a proxy for the first time, you can send your first request within minutes. Create an account with a single account token, top up your balance, and purchase a product to get your connection details right away.

Start with small batches to test connections and site responses. Once you determine the required GB and regions, move to larger batches for cost efficiency. For top-ups over $100, bonuses are added, allowing you to lower costs further for big tasks.

• Create Account: Receive an account token and store it securely. Use this token to log in anytime.
• Top Up: Minimum $30 required. Use your balance to purchase any product.
• Product purchase: Residential by GB, ISP/datacenter by IP count & duration, mobile by duration.
• Check connection details: Verify username, password, address and port in member view.
• Region/Session Settings: Add country, city, and session values to the username for customized connections.
• Send your first request: Use a browser, cURL, or a script to verify the connection.

Developer API and tool integration

IPKite proxies support standard HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 protocols, compatible with cURL, Python requests, Node.js, headless browsers, scraping frameworks, browser extensions, and anti-detect browsers. Use port 7000 for HTTP, 7100 for SOCKS5.

Automate operations using the developer API. Generate API keys from your account to query balance, purchase history, and proxy lists via REST API. Easily set up notifications for low balances or display remaining traffic on your dashboard. Detailed formats and examples are in the API documentation.

API keys are only shown once during issuance, so it's best to save them immediately in environment variables or secret management tools. Separating proxy usernames and passwords into configuration files, rather than hardcoding them, allows easier adjustments for region or session values without modifying the code.