ISP Proxies: Speed & Reliability Combined

An ISP proxy (also known as a static residential proxy or residential ISP proxy) is a residential IP acquired directly from an Internet Service Provider. While they are hosted in data centers with all the speed and reliability benefits, their IPs are provided by ISPs, so they seem like regular internet users.

Every ISP proxy server is leased directly from ISPs, which host them on data centers. ISPs, however, have the power to assign IPs to devices, so they can assign household IPs to their proxies. As such, when you buy an ISP proxy, you get a combination of datacenter and residential proxies, receiving the benefits of both while getting none of the drawbacks.

Regular datacenter proxies are created in a server with a single parent device providing IP addresses to the entire pool, making them easy to detect since websites can see that the traffic is coming from a server. Static ISP proxies use the same process, but the ISP provides household IPs, making it seem as if the traffic is coming from a regular device, making them perfect for more demanding use cases such as web scraping.

A residential proxy is created in household devices by users who want to share their internet traffic. Maintaining the same IPs is difficult as users can freely disable the service, their internet, or the device and the internet speed isn’t always crisp. ISP proxies (also called static residential proxies) get their IPs directly from ISPs, so they’re no different from a residential proxy in that regard, however, they are sourced from servers, which are completely stable and have top-notch internet speeds.