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Residential vs ISP Proxies: Which to Use for Automation

5 min read

Residential and ISP proxies are the two workhorses of retail automation. They solve the same problem — looking like a real user — in two different ways. Picking the right one comes down to whether you need rotation and scale, or a single stable identity.

Rotating residential proxies

Rotating residential proxies route through millions of real consumer devices, assigning a fresh IP per request or per session. That breadth makes them ideal for high-volume tasks where being detected as a single repeated visitor would get you blocked.

  • Huge pool of real-user IPs
  • Per-request or sticky rotation
  • Billed per GB of bandwidth
  • Best for drops, monitoring and high-volume tasks

Dedicated ISP proxies

ISP proxies are static residential-grade IPs hosted on fast infrastructure. Because the address never changes, they're perfect for account-based flows where the site expects to see the same visitor every time.

  • Static, dedicated IPs
  • Residential trust at datacenter speed
  • Billed per IP per month
  • Best for checkout and account workflows

How to choose

Use rotating residential when volume and breadth matter, and dedicated ISP when stability and a consistent identity matter. Many operators run both: residential for discovery and monitoring, ISP for the final account-bound steps.

Put this into practice

Pick a plan in minutes, or talk to our team about your use case and volume.