The main difference between residential and datacenter proxies lies in their origin. Residential proxies use IPs assigned by ISPs to real homes, making them highly anonymous and hard to detect. Datacenter proxies originate from cloud servers, offering extreme speed and lower costs but are easier for websites to identify and block.
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Choose residential proxies for high-security scraping and sneaker copping. Choose datacenter proxies for bulk, low-risk data extraction. You can compare the pricing of both types directly on our Provider list.
Data last verified: October 2026. Prices sourced from official provider websites.