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Buy residential proxies, rotating IPs by the gigabyte

This rotating residential plan lends you exits on genuine household broadband, metered by the gigabyte. There is nothing to order; your topped up credit covers it from the first request.

Spec summary

Price
$0.72 for 1 GB
How you pay
By data sent and received (GB)
Available in
60 countries
Location choice
Country, city
IP stickiness
Rotate each request or hold 90 min max
Connection types
HTTP, SOCKS5

Where this proxy shines

  • Price and stock data

    Gather public store listings on a timetable and verify local pricing via IPs in each region.

  • SERP tracking

    Run one keyword across many countries and cities to compare where you rank.

  • Ad verification

    Use regional IPs to view ads the way people there see them.

  • AI training data

    Split public document collection over a wide IP pool to keep load off any one address.

Residential proxies at a glance

  1. 1

    Fresh IP on every request

    Skip the session name and a fresh home IP handles every single request. It is the standard mode for wide request spreading.

  2. 2

    Keep one IP for a time

    Include a session name in your user name and one IP remains fixed for at most 90 minutes. Good for linked steps like signing in.

  3. 3

    Country and city targeting

    Set your location by writing country and city into your user name. Omit the city to receive an IP from anywhere in the country.

What a top-up buys

These figures use the entry price. Real usage varies with how many requests you send and how large they are.

Top upUsable amount
$20About 27.8 GB
$100About 138.9 GB
$200About 277.8 GB
$300About 416.7 GB
$500About 694.4 GB
$1,000About 1388.9 GB
$3,000About 4166.7 GB
$5,000About 6944.4 GB

Residential proxies: try a first request

To connect, fill in four values: host, port, user name plus token. In the sample below, a request goes out via a US IP and the reply shows that IP back.

curl

curl -x http://gate.proxytow.com:7000 \
  -U "user-country-ca:YOUR_TOKEN" \
  https://api.ipify.org?format=json

Swap YOUR_TOKEN for the token issued when you registered.

Residential proxies: what are they and how do their IPs differ?

With a residential proxy, each request leaves from a broadband connection belonging to an ordinary home subscriber. The destination sees what resembles someone browsing from their sofa, so the visit tends to be treated like ordinary traffic. The rotating version can swap that address on each request or hold it steady for a while.

Datacenter proxies come from hosting companies, which keeps them cheap and easy to scale, yet many sites label server ranges separately. ISP proxies lock a residential registered address to you month by month, and mobile proxies borrow addresses from cellular carriers.

Among these, rotating residential offers the widest freedom to change IPs and the finest location control. That makes it a sensible benchmark when you first compare proxy types. Billing follows actual traffic, so a small pilot costs very little.

Rotating residential proxies: which jobs suit them best?

The short answer: jobs that need many pages viewed from many places. Because the address changes per request, no single IP soaks up the load, and you can flip between countries and cities to see each regional version of a page. Repeating one task across several countries also turns regional differences into a tidy comparison table. Daily routines such as rank tracking can run on the same setup every morning.

Sometimes a sibling product is smarter. An account that should sign in through an unchanging address over many months is better served by ISP proxies. If you push huge volumes every day, the unlimited residential plan usually works out cheaper. Leave app testing to mobile proxies and bulk calls against lenient sites to datacenter proxies.

  • Search ranking checks per country
  • Price and stock tracking on stores
  • Ad placement audits by region
  • Public data scraping with Scrapy or Playwright
  • Viewing local pages city by city

Residential proxy cost: how is usage charged?

Residential traffic is priced at $0.72 per GB, and the amount actually transferred is subtracted from your credit. No separate order step exists, so you can connect whenever credit remains. Credit never expires, so there is no rush to burn through it. Watch the credit figure in the dashboard to decide when the next top up is due.

Here is a worked case. Load $100 and a 20% bonus lifts your credit to $120. Spent entirely on residential traffic, that buys about 166.6 GB. The $300 card carries a 30% bonus for $390 of credit, stretching to about 541.6 GB.

Skip media files and fetch just the documents that matter, and that credit stretches considerably. Top up bonuses climb along $100 +20%, $200 +25%, $300 +30%, $500 +35%, $1,000 +40%, $3,000 +45%, $5,000 +50%, so estimate a month of usage before choosing a card. Whatever is left can also pay for unlimited or ISP orders later.

Residential proxy targeting: how do location and sessions work?

Location and session live inside the username. Append country-us for a US exit, then city-new_york to narrow it to New York. Coverage spans 60 countries and 175 cities.

Leave out a session name and every request lands on a fresh IP. For flows such as logins or carts that need continuity, add a name like user-country-jp-session-shop1 and the same address sticks for up to 90 minutes. Change the session label and you hop to a new IP straight away.

Since nothing is ordered, switching location is just a matter of editing that string. When a task runs across several markets at once, keep a separate connection string per country so the streams stay tidy.

  • Rotation on every call: country code only
  • City level: add the city after the country
  • Sticky address: add a session label

How to buy residential proxies: what are the steps?

Residential proxies are ready the moment a top up lands. Funding happens in USDT on TRC20, anywhere from $20 to $10,000, and visitors from the 72 countries the World Bank groups as low or lower middle income may begin at $10.

Once your first deposit is credited, the support inbox opens in your account so questions can be sent right away. That token covers both signing in and proxy authentication, leaving less to remember.

  • At sign up, copy the access token starting with pw_ or download it to a .txt file, then tick 'I saved it'.
  • Choose an amount card in the dashboard and request a USDT (TRC20) deposit.
  • Send the exact amount, six decimals included, to the address shown. Each request remains valid for 60 minutes.
  • When the transfer is confirmed, the credit appears and residential traffic is usable at once.
  • Open 'Create access details', set the country, city and session label, then copy what it produces.

Residential proxy setup: how do I plug it into my tools?

Everything connects through the gateway gate.proxytow.com:7000, over HTTP or SOCKS5, whichever your software expects. Enter a location string like user-country-us-city-new_york as the username, and use your pw_ token as the password.

The 'Create access details' screen produces four formats at once, HTTP, SOCKS5, a colon separated line and a curl command, so setup is mostly copy and paste. In Python requests it goes into the proxies setting, in Playwright and Puppeteer into the browser launch options, while Scrapy reads it from the request meta.

Fire a single curl request first to confirm the exit IP and location, then attach the proxy to the larger job. Configuration slips show up early that way.

  • Python requests
  • Node.js
  • Playwright, Puppeteer
  • Scrapy, Selenium
  • curl
  • Browser extensions, antidetect browsers

Residential proxy worries: blocks, speed and refunds?

Sites usually welcome household addresses as everyday visitors, which helps keep blocks down. Space requests the way a person would, and if one address gets pushback, rename the session to move to a new IP and carry on. When challenge pages keep appearing, simply widening the gap between requests often fixes it quickly.

Because traffic travels over genuine home lines, plan for a little more headroom than a datacenter route. Choose an exit country near the target site and raise concurrency gradually to find the steady sweet spot. If responses slow mid run, open a new session to move onto another IP.

Your access token doubles as login key and proxy password, so store that registration file in a protected spot. Only a hashed copy sits on our side, so the original belongs to you alone. Any refund flows back into your credit, where any product can use it.

Residential proxies: quick answers

  • Why are residential proxies blocked less?

    Sites read them as a regular household connection, so mass blocks that hit server IPs seldom affect them. Pacing your requests extends their stable run.

  • How is GB usage counted?

    Every GB you upload or download comes off your balance. Fetching just the pages that matter, without images and video, cuts usage.

  • Is a city required?

    Setting a country works fine. Include a city only when the outcome varies between cities.

Make your first request from the right country today

Registration gives you a single token. Add funds starting at $20 and every proxy type draws from that shared balance.

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