Proxy use cases

What you are doing decides the proxy type, rotation strategy and budget you need.

A price-monitoring crawler that hits ten retail domains every hour has nothing in common with a single long-lived social account session — one needs a large rotating pool, the other needs one sticky IP that never changes. Each card below names the workload; pair it with the matching proxy type, then use our benchmark table to see which providers hold up on that kind of target.

Web scraping

Collect public data at scale without getting blocked.

Price monitoring

Track competitor pricing across regions in real time.

SEO & SERP tracking

Check rankings from any country or city.

Ad verification

See exactly what your audience sees, where they see it.

Social media

Run multiple accounts safely with clean, sticky sessions.

Sneakers & retail

Compete on limited drops with low-latency IPs.

Matching workload to proxy type

Web scraping & price monitoring: rotating residential for protected retail, datacenter for open APIs and sitemaps.
SERP & rank tracking: geo-targeted residential with per request rotation; check city-level targeting in each review.
Ad verification: mobile and residential IPs in the exact markets your campaigns run in.
Account management & retail: sticky ISP sessions plus an antidetect browser — the blog covers fingerprinting and leak testing in depth.

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