What is a residential proxy?

Residential proxies provide the capability to select a desired location, such as a country, city, or zip code, enabling users to collect web data as if they were physically present in that area. Acting as intermediaries, residential proxies shield users from regular web traffic, serving as buffers that safeguard your online activities while concealing your actual IP address. Essentially, residential proxies offer alternate IP addresses assigned to users by the provider, granting a higher level of anonymity and flexibility in web data collection.

What are the benefits of using a residential proxy network?

Residential proxies give you the ability to access and scrape sophisticated target websites that your business would not otherwise have access to because of location-based blockades. You’ll be able to scrape, view information and collect data using real user IPs–see how your ads appear to consumers around the world, or what prices are being displayed to customers in another location. Send an increased number of concurrent requests meaning your data collection efforts will almost never be slowed down by proxies or target sites.

Make your residential proxies infrastructure unstoppable

Unmatched performance and scale

Global Reach & targeting

Access over 72 million residential IPs from 195 countries with precise targeting options including city, state, country, ZIP code, and ASN level - completely free.

Unlimited concurrent sessions

Powerful infrastructure allows customers to successfully scrape by providing limitless concurrent connections with zero code modification.

Ethically sourced proxies

Our residential proxies are sourced from peers who have explicitly agreed to participate, ensuring the highest ethical standards and superior quality. With just a few lines of code, you can integration our residential proxies with any application using any coding language.

• Manage your IPs from the Bright Data Control Panel or API
• Documentation for developers
• Supports third-party software integration
• Create and manage sub-users

Leading the way in ethical web scraping

Bright Data’s residential proxies are ethically sourced and meet compliance standards. Bright Data is fully committed to complying with all relevant data protection legal requirements, including the new EU data protection regulatory framework, GDPR, and the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) – respecting requests to exercise privacy rights.

Reliability & stability

Our SLA ensures optimal performance with minimal to no downtime. With 99.99% uptime, our infrastructure efficiently handles massive data volumes. You get 24/7 engineer support, 15-minute priority responses, and real-time access via Slack to keep your operations stable and optimized at scale. Last year, we processed over 5.5 trillion HTTPS requests, equating to more than 33 petabytes of data per month—almost twice the number of search engine queries performed in the same year. Everything just works.

Bright Shield

Bright Data leads the industry in ethics and compliance with a dedicated compliance department and the only VP of Compliance in web scraping. Our manual and automated checks ensure legal and compliant data collection, including safeguards like Bright Shield, which prevents any collection of PII. We help businesses avoid legal risks, particularly with residential IPs, and are the only provider offering concrete compliance evidence.

Exceeding Regulatory Standards

Bright Data protects data for over 20,000 organisations, ensuring top-level security. Our compliance includes ISO 27001 ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II, CSA STAR Level 1, and best practices to guarantee a safe environment for all clients.