ISP proxies: what you get
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Short version: an ISP proxy is one static IP that whois says belongs to a consumer internet provider. It's yours for the term you rent it, it never rotates, and you pick its country at checkout.
Good for
- Logged-in sessions and accounts you mean to keep
- Multi-step flows that break when the IP changes halfway
- Sites that block hosting ranges but punish rotation
- Residential-looking trust without residential latency
How it differs from residential
Residential rotates: usually a different real home IP on every new connection. ISP doesn't: you get one address, hosted in a data centre and registered to a consumer ISP. Residential is for looking like lots of people; ISP is for looking like the same person again and again.
Is it magic? No. Most filters check the network an IP belongs to, and an ISP IP passes that. A determined anti-bot vendor can still spot a hosted address from a home line by other signals.
What you choose when you order
- Plan: shared, dedicated or premium. See Shared, dedicated or premium?.
- Country. Picked at checkout, and the IP stays in it for the whole term. Some locations also let you narrow to a state or city; the order form shows when you can.
- Carrier. Pick a specific ISP, or Random.
- How many IPs.
- Term: 1, 2, 3 or 12 months, paid up front. Longer terms take a discount.
On proxies that offer them, a faster uplink or more concurrency can be added once the proxy is running: see Adding bandwidth, concurrency or speed.
What you pay for
Per IP, for the term. Dedicated and premium IPs have no traffic meter. The shared plan includes a small traffic allowance per IP, and traffic past it is billed per GB. Current prices, terms and allowances: ISP pricing.
Not the right fit if
You need thousands of different addresses. One static IP gets rate-limited eventually. Rotating residential, coming soon, is built for that.