Mobile proxies: what are they and which IPs do they use?
With a mobile proxy, traffic leaves through an address that a cellular carrier handed to a phone. Carriers commonly let many handsets share a few addresses through CGNAT, so sites are reluctant to block these IPs outright. As a result, mobile IPs rank among the most trusted proxy types.
If residential proxies ride on wired home lines, mobile proxies ride on phone data networks. Unlike datacenter or ISP proxies, which you buy per IP, these are consumed by the gigabyte. That makes it ideal for brief bursts of work exactly when they are needed.
Your requests blend in with real users on the same 4G and 5G networks, letting you see a mobile first service exactly the way its customers do. Reserving it for jobs that truly need a carrier address keeps spending tidy.