Rotating Residential Proxies, Real Home IPs Billed by Traffic
Exit from real home broadband connections in 180+ countries and regions. Rotate on every request, on a timer, or keep a sticky session. Pay per GB, and your traffic never expires.
Residential Proxy Pricing
One price per GB, set by how much you buy. The whole order is billed at the tier it falls in, so the more you buy, the less every GB costs.
- Traffic never expires
- No subscription, no auto-renewal
- Any amount from 2 GB, priced by tier
What is a Rotating Residential IP?
A residential IP comes from a pool of real home broadband connections. Each exit IP belongs to an actual household and is assigned by a real ISP, so websites see an ordinary home user.
Instead of one fixed address, you draw from the whole pool. Every rotation is a new identity, which is why residential IPs are billed by traffic rather than per IP.
Rotate the Way Your Task Needs
Rotation is set in the proxy password, so you can run different modes side by side with the same account.
Per request
Every request exits from a new IP. Built for scraping and price monitoring.
Timed rotation
Keep one IP for the interval you set, such as 10 minutes or 2 hours, then switch.
Sticky session
Hold the same IP for as long as the home connection lasts, for signups, logins, and other multi-step flows.
What can you use Residential Proxies for?
Built for work that needs many fresh, authentic identities instead of one stable address.
Web data collection
Collect public data at scale. Rotation spreads requests across real home IPs, so rate limits and blocks stop being a bottleneck.
Price and SEO monitoring
See prices, search results, and listings the way local shoppers see them, city by city.
Ad verification
Check that ads render correctly in each market and catch fraud that hides from datacenter traffic.
Social media account registration
Sign up new accounts from fresh home IPs, with a sticky session to finish the verification flow on one address.
Multi-region content checks
Test localized sites, apps, and region-locked content from 180+ countries and regions.
# Rotating, United States
curl -x http://USER:PASS-US@HOST:PORT https://api.ipify.org
# Sticky session, Los Angeles
curl -x socks5h://USER:PASS-US_city_LosAngeles-a1b2c3d4@HOST:PORT https://api.ipify.org
Plug It Into Any Tool
You get a host, a port, a username, and a password. HTTP and SOCKS5 share the same port, so it works in curl, Python, Node, browsers, antidetect browsers, and scrapers without an app.
- Country, state, and city targeting
- Entry gateways in several regions for lower latency
- Usage and balance in your dashboard
Residential Proxies are proxy access only and are not available in the Surflare app.
Read the setup guide →The Three Dedicated IP Types at a Glance
Two dimensions explain almost everything: how the IP is registered (what platforms see) and where it physically comes from (what determines speed and authenticity).
| Datacenter IP | Static ISP IP (also known as static residential IP) | Rotating Residential IP | |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP registration (whois / ASN) | Hosting / datacenter | Business or residential broadband ISP | Residential broadband ISP |
| Physical source | Datacenter servers | Registered as residential, mostly hosted in datacenters | 100% real home broadband users |
| Platform trust | Lowest. Hosting ranges are easily flagged | High and stable. Residential registration, exclusively yours, no shared abuse risk | High. Real home IPs, per-IP reputation depends on pool quality |
| CAPTCHA rate | High. Social and e-commerce sites challenge often | Low | Lowest. You look like a regular home user |
| Speed | Fastest, datacenter bandwidth | Fast, datacenter-grade stability | Slower, limited by home broadband |
| Does the IP change? | Fixed | Fixed | Configurable: per request, timed, or sticky session |
| Billing | Monthly, per IP | Monthly, per IP | By traffic (per GB) |
| Cost | Lowest | Medium | Highest |
| Best for | API integrations, automation, fixed-IP allowlisting | Account nurturing, stores, payments, AI tools | Account creation, scraping, ad verification |
| Surflare product | Datacenter IP | Static ISP IP | Residential IP |
The pattern is simple. More authentic means more expensive and slower. Datacenter is the fast and cheap end, residential is the most authentic end, and ISP is the balance point between them.
Frequently Asked Questions
Start With a Few GB, Scale Anytime
Buy once, use until it runs out, and top up with the same credentials.
