The short answer
- 1 NodeMaven Best for session continuity Visit site
- 2 Decodo (ex Smartproxy) Best for AI tool integrations Visit site
- 3 Oxylabs.io Best for enterprise AI workloads Visit site
17 best proxies for ChatGPT and AI tools, compared
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| 1 | 4.7/5 | $2.20 / GB | 88% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Sticky sessions quoted up to 24 hours with unlimited concurrent sessions, plus 30M+ residential IPs across 195+ locations. Good for this job
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| 2 | 4.6/5 | $0.08 / GB | 100% | HTTP(S), SOCKS5 | ||
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115M+ residential IPs in 195+ locations, sticky IPs held up to 30 minutes, and published LangChain, LlamaIndex and n8n integrations. Good for this job
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| 3 | 4.4/5 | $0.40 / GB | 100% | — | ||
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175M+ residential IPs across 195 locations with EU AI Act alignment stated and 24/7 support; residential starts at $6/GB on Starter. Good for this job
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| 4 | 4.3/5 | $0.02 / month | 100% | — | ||
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Permanent free plan with 10 proxies, 80M+ rotating residential IPs, sticky ISP sessions and thread limits from 500 to 3,000. Good for this job
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| 5 | 4.2/5 | $2 / GB | 80% | HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Sticky sessions up to 7 days and unlimited concurrent requests on one residential-and-mobile plan, though coverage is 38+ countries. Good for this job
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| 6 | 4.1/5 | $0.50 / GB | 88% | HTTP(S) | ||
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100M+ residential IPs across 195+ countries with 1-120 minute sessions and 2M+ mobile IPs on 120+ carriers; HTTP(S) only, no SOCKS5. Good for this job
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| 7 | 4.0/5 | $0.30 / GB | 96% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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47M+ residential IPs across 220+ locations at $0.30/GB with HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5, though mobile reaches only 20+ countries. Good for this job
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| 8 | 3.9/5 | $0.35 / GB | 90% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, HTTP/2 | ||
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30M+ residential IPs across 170+ countries with unlimited sessions and concurrent connections for approved use cases, plus rollover GB. Good for this job
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| 9 | 3.8/5 | $0.90 / GB | 86% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Unlimited concurrent sessions across 195+ countries with HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 on a 0.6s average residential response, but no mobile proxies. Good for this job
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| 10 | 3.6/5 | $0.06 / GB | 100% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries with country, state and city targeting and HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5; no session length published. Good for this job
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| 11 | 3.5/5 | $2 / GB | 88% | SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Sticky IPs up to 72 hours, unlimited concurrent connections and 190+ countries, but the residential pool is given as 20M+. Good for this job
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| 12 | 3.3/5 | — | 81% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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80M+ residential IPs in 190+ regions with HTTP(S)/SOCKS5 across rotating, static and ISP lines; no free trial and no refunds. Good for this job
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| 13 | 3.2/5 | ₽490 / day | 83% | SOCKS5, HTTP | ||
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Mobile proxies with unlimited traffic, HTTP and SOCKS5 and up to 250 simultaneous connections per proxy, but coverage is 30+ countries. Good for this job
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| 14 | 3.0/5 | $0.63 / GB | 86% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Residential, mobile and ISP from $1.00/GB across 190+ locations with country, city and ASN targeting; no session length published. Good for this job
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| 15 | 2.7/5 | $5 / proxy | 85% | — | ||
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$5 per proxy/month residential across 150+ locations and 7M+ IPs, but the pool is small and no session length is published. Good for this job
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| 16 | 2.5/5 | $2 | 82% | HTTP/S | ||
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60-minute sticky sessions and no concurrency limit on private IPs, but no country count is published and pricing pages disagree. Good for this job
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| 17 | 1.8/5 | $1 | 82% | — | ||
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Shared and dedicated datacenter proxies at $1.00-$1.80 with unlimited bandwidth; shared IPs and datacenter ranges are what AI services challenge. Good for this job
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Ordered by how well each provider fits this job, from the figures the providers publish, our review scores and reader votes — see our methodology.
Why an AI service cares where you are
An AI service uses your IP address for more than analytics. It is a signal for whether the product is offered in your country, which payment methods are allowed, how much free capacity you get, and whether the account looks like it belongs to one person or a farm. Large language models are expensive to run, so free tiers and trial credits attract automated abuse. The service therefore watches the network the request arrives from, not just the text you type.
“ChatGPT not available in your country” can come from several layers: the edge network refusing the region, the sign-up flow, the billing system, or a model or feature that is limited separately. A proxy changes the apparent source of the request. It does not change the country on your payment card, the language in your browser, the phone number on the account, or the history of the account. If those signals disagree, the proxy has made the account look stranger, not safer.
Without a proxy, the failure is usually plain. A web request returns a page saying the service is unavailable in your region; an API call returns a 403 with a country or access message; a shared address that many people have used returns a captcha or a verification loop. Streaming is a separate issue. A chat answer is held open over one connection, so a route that drops or changes address mid-answer loses the response even when the first request succeeded.
The practical point is that a proxy is a routing tool, not an entitlement. Use one when you need the request to leave from a particular country or network, or when you need to separate API traffic from browser traffic. Do not use one to paper over an account that is already inconsistent. That is especially true when you are trying to access ChatGPT from another country: the network route is only one of several signals.
Residential against datacenter for AI tools
Datacenter proxies come from cloud and hosting address ranges. They are cheap, fast and easy to control, and they are also easy to identify. AI services see a lot of automation from those ranges, so a datacenter address is more likely to meet a verification wall, a captcha, or a straight block. That does not make every datacenter address useless. A clean, dedicated address used for modest server-to-server API traffic can work where the service accepts it. The mistake is assuming it will work because the proxy responds to a ping.
Residential proxies use addresses assigned to consumer internet providers. They sit in the same pools as ordinary household traffic, so they are less obviously automated, but they are not magic. They can be slower, they are usually metered by bandwidth, and the quality depends on how the provider sources consent. Static residential or ISP proxies sit in between: a stable address registered to an ISP rather than a hosting company. For a long chat session, that stability is often more useful than a large rotating pool.
Mobile addresses are a third category. They are shared behind carrier-grade NAT, so many real users sit behind the same address, and that can make them look ordinary. They are also expensive and can change without warning. For a single ChatGPT session, mobile is usually overkill. For a workflow where the service is unusually sensitive to datacenter ranges, it may be the only category that gets through, but it is not a default choice.
There is no universal best proxy for ChatGPT; the address has to match the job. For chat, choose a stable address in a supported country and keep it for the life of the account session. For API work, match the address type to the load. One person asking questions is not the same as a queue of automated calls; concurrency limits and per-IP rate limits start to matter. If you are comparing paid providers, read the [provider reviews](/reviews/) for how they source addresses and whether they offer sticky sessions, rather than judging by pool size alone. The best proxies for ChatGPT are the least conspicuous addresses that stay put and have enough capacity for the job, not the ones with the largest number on the sales page.
Keeping one country for a whole session
A chat is a session, not a series of unrelated requests. The browser holds cookies, the service holds a conversation token, and the network holds a connection open for streamed answers. If the egress address changes country between one message and the next, the service sees a session that appears to have moved house in seconds. That is a common trigger for a re-check, a captcha, or a lockout. The same applies to an API client that refreshes a token from one country and sends completions from another.
Use a sticky session. Many proxy services put a session identifier in the username, for example a username that contains a fixed string, and keep the same exit address for as long as that identifier is reused. The exact syntax comes from the provider; the principle is the important part. Set the sticky lifetime longer than the longest conversation or batch you expect, including the time a streamed answer can stay open. If the session expires halfway through, the next request may leave from a different city.
Keep the browser profile with the session. Do not switch from a normal profile to a private window, clear cookies, or change the proxy in the middle of a conversation unless you intend to start again. Check the exit address before you log in and after you have loaded the service. A command such as curl -x http://user:pass@host:port https://api.ipify.org?format=json gives you the address the outside world sees. The [what-is-my-ip tool](/what-is-my-ip/) gives the same check from a browser. If the two disagree, a system proxy, an extension, or IPv6 is bypassing the route.
DNS and IPv6 are the usual leaks. A proxy may carry IPv4 traffic while IPv6 goes direct, so the service sees a different address family. WebRTC can also reveal a local address in some browser configurations. Disable IPv6 on the test machine or route it through the proxy, and check that the browser is not using a direct connection for DNS. Consistency matters more than perfection: one country, one address, one browser profile, one payment story. Do not pretend to be in Germany if the account, card and language all say otherwise; pick a story that is true enough to survive a check.
How to route a browser or an API client
For a browser, the simplest route is the operating system or the browser’s own network settings. In Firefox, open Settings, go to General, find Network Settings and click Settings, then choose Manual proxy configuration. Enter the HTTP proxy host and port, tick the option to use the same proxy for HTTPS, and enter a SOCKS5 host and port if that is what you have. Chrome generally follows the operating system proxy on desktop; separate profiles are better than changing the proxy in the middle of a logged-in session. If the proxy needs a username and password, use the browser’s authentication prompt or a trusted extension, not a random extension from a search result.
Test the route before you open the AI service. For an HTTP proxy with credentials, run curl -x http://user:pass@host:port https://api.ipify.org. For SOCKS5, use curl --socks5-hostname user:pass@host:port https://api.ipify.org; the h in socks5h asks curl to resolve DNS at the proxy rather than locally. If the command fails with 407, the proxy wants authentication. If it fails with a TLS error, the proxy may be intercepting traffic; stop and do not enter credentials.
For API clients, environment variables are the quickest route when the library honours them: export HTTPS_PROXY='http://user:pass@host:port' and export HTTP_PROXY='http://user:pass@host:port'. Add NO_PROXY='localhost,127.0.0.1' so local calls do not go through the proxy. A direct curl call makes the route explicit: curl -x $HTTPS_PROXY https://api.openai.com/v1/models -H 'Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY'. If that works but the SDK does not, the SDK is ignoring the environment or using its own HTTP client. That is common enough that an OpenAI API proxy setup should be tested with the same library that will send production traffic.
In Python, the OpenAI client accepts an http_client. Build an httpx.Client with the proxy URL and pass it in: import httpx; from openai import OpenAI; client = OpenAI(api_key='...', http_client=httpx.Client(proxy='http://user:pass@host:port')). In Node, set a global dispatcher with undici: import { ProxyAgent, setGlobalDispatcher } from 'undici'; setGlobalDispatcher(new ProxyAgent('http://user:pass@host:port'));. Then create the client as usual. Percent-encode special characters in the username or password, and keep secrets in environment variables rather than shell history. Set a read timeout long enough for streamed responses; a proxy that is stable for a short request can still drop a long stream.
Free proxies and account verification
Free proxy lists are public lists of addresses that anyone can use. That is the whole problem. The same address may be used by hundreds of people, it may be scanned and blacklisted within hours, and the operator can see the hostnames you connect to even when HTTPS protects the content. A public proxy can block, throttle or inject responses. It can also present a certificate warning; if you click through it, the proxy can read what you send. A free proxy is fine for testing whether a route works or fetching a public page. It is not fine for an API key, a session cookie or a password.
Account verification is where free proxies do the most damage. Sign-up flows watch for addresses that have already been used for many accounts, addresses from hosting ranges, and addresses that change country during the flow. A free proxy combines all three. The captcha gets harder, the phone check fails, and the account is flagged before it has done anything. The same applies to “free ChatGPT proxy” sites and unofficial mirrors: many are not proxies at all, but third-party front ends that collect prompts, email addresses and sometimes credentials. If a site asks you to paste an OpenAI key into a page that is not the official API, close it.
Use the [free proxy list](/free-proxy-list/) to see what public addresses look like and the [proxy checker](/proxy-checker/) to test whether one is alive, but treat both as diagnostics. They do not make a shared address suitable for a logged-in session. For account creation, use a normal connection in a country where the service is offered, or a paid static address you control. If you would not send your bank password through an address, do not send an API key through it either.
Terms of service and what breaking them costs
Using a proxy is not automatically illegal. In many countries it is ordinary network routing. What can be illegal is fraud, unauthorised access, payment evasion, or breaking sanctions and export controls. What is more likely, and often cheaper for the service to enforce, is a breach of the provider’s terms. AI services commonly restrict circumventing availability rules, creating multiple accounts to evade limits, sharing credentials, scraping at scale, and using the service to break the law. Those are contract and account issues first, not criminal ones. This is not legal advice; local law and the provider’s current terms decide the specifics.
The cost of a breach is usually practical rather than dramatic. The account is suspended, the API key is revoked, the organisation loses access, and prepaid credit may be lost. Conversation history and files can become inaccessible. A payment dispute may follow if the service decides the account was used to evade billing. For a business, the bigger cost is often the data: prompts, uploads and outputs may be caught by a suspension at the wrong moment, and the processing terms may not cover the country you routed through.
The awkward part is that a proxy can make a legitimate travel problem worse. If you are temporarily in a country where a feature is not offered, a corporate VPN or a proxy may restore access, but it can also look like evasion if the account’s billing country, phone number and usual location do not match. Ask the provider’s support route first if the account matters. Do not create a second account to get around a regional limit; that is exactly the pattern abuse systems are built to catch.
Mistakes that get an AI account locked
Most locks are not caused by one clever detection. They are caused by a pattern that looks like automation or evasion. The common mistakes are predictable:
- Rotating the address on every request. A conversation that changes country between messages looks like a session hijack. Use one sticky exit for the session and, where possible, for the account.
- Using a public free proxy for login. Shared addresses are already associated with abuse, and the proxy operator may log the credentials. This is the fastest route to a verification loop.
- Running many accounts through one address. Link analysis does not need a perfect signal; a single address used by ten new accounts is a strong one. Separate legitimate identities, and do not create extra accounts to evade limits.
- Retrying a 429 or 403 in a tight loop. A 429 is a rate limit; hammering it turns a short wait into a block. Read
Retry-After, back off with jitter, and reduce concurrency. A 403 is often a country or address block; changing the proxy every second makes the pattern worse. - Letting IPv6 or WebRTC leak. The proxy carries IPv4 while the browser goes direct over IPv6, so the service sees two locations. Disable or route IPv6 and check the egress address from the same browser profile.
- Mixing payment, phone and network countries. A card from one country, a phone from another and an address from a third is not a travel story; it is a mismatch. Keep the account’s story consistent.
- Scraping or bulk-generating at consumer-chat concurrency. API traffic has its own limits. A proxy does not add capacity; it only changes the source address. If you need more throughput, use the provider’s approved limits, not more addresses.
If an account is already locked, stop changing the network. Repeated attempts from new addresses usually extend the problem. Use the provider’s appeal or support route, explain the access issue plainly, and keep the same egress for the reply. Prevention is less exciting than a new proxy pool: one stable address, one consistent account story, modest concurrency and respect for rate-limit headers. That is what keeps a session alive long enough to finish the answer.
What to look for
- Countries that are actually supported
- Availability is the whole problem: the address has to be somewhere the service serves.
- Residential against datacenter
- Datacenter ranges are the ones most often met with a verification wall on AI services.
- Session length
- A session that changes country mid-conversation triggers a re-check and sometimes a lockout.
- Connection stability
- Streamed responses hold a connection open, so a drop loses the answer.
- Capacity for API traffic
- Routing automated API calls is a different load from one person chatting, and concurrency limits start to matter.
Every provider, in order
1. NodeMaven — Best for session continuity
4.7 / 5 for this job · from $2.20 / GB
NodeMaven sits first because the problem this job poses is continuity, and it publishes the longest sticky window in this table: up to 24 hours, with unlimited concurrent sessions. A streamed answer holds one connection open for the length of the reply. If the exit address changes country while that stream is being written, the service re-checks the session, and a re-check mid-answer can end in a lockout rather than a retry. A window measured in hours rather than minutes removes that failure mode.
The rest of the record supports the same argument. Sticky sessions are sold alongside residential, mobile and ISP proxies under one account, targeting reaches 190+ countries down to ZIP level on the provider's figures, and protocols are HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with UDP confined to ISP. ISP plans carry unlimited traffic and a 99.9% uptime guarantee, which matters if an agent is polling an API for hours and you do not want bandwidth metered per token. One number to treat carefully: mobile pool size is given as 250K by the provider and 295K+ in third-party records.
The catch is cost and entry. Billing is per GB from $2.20, which is reasonable for chat traffic and punishing for high-volume automation, and there is no free trial — the 750 MB option is a $3.50 paid demo, with a third-party write-up saying the free-trial route is limited to registered companies that pass KYC. Smaller locations are reported to be uneven in depth, and refunds are pro-rated rather than full.
Key features
- Sticky sessions up to 24 hours, unlimited concurrent sessions
- Residential, mobile and ISP proxies in one account
- 190+ countries for geo-targeting down to ZIP level (provider figure)
- ISP plans: unlimited traffic, 99.9% uptime guarantee
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5; UDP on ISP
- From $2.20/GB; 750 MB demo costs $3.50
Best suited for: long chat and agent sessions that must hold one country's address for hours without a mid-conversation re-check
2. Decodo (ex Smartproxy) — Best for AI tool integrations
4.6 / 5 for this job · from $0.08 / GB
Smartproxy, now Decodo, takes second place for the part of this job that is not about the address at all: wiring a tool or an agent to a proxy without hand-rolling the client. The record lists SDKs, MCP, CLI, n8n, LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations plus 50+ browser and tool integrations. If you are building against an AI endpoint from a framework, that is fewer moving parts than a bare host:port, and it is why the integrations line is the one being earned here.
The pool holds up too. Residential is quoted at 115M+ IPs across 195+ locations, with targeting down to city, ZIP and ASN — useful when an AI service is served in one country and you need an address that matches. Rotating and sticky sessions are both offered, and HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 are supported, so older SOCKS5-only clients still work. Uptime is stated at 99.99% and residential response time under 0.5s, both provider figures.
The awkward part is session length. Sticky IPs hold for up to 30 minutes, which is fine for a single streamed reply and less fine for a multi-hour agent loop, where you will rotate mid-task. Commercially, the 3-day free trial and the 14-day money-back option are mutually exclusive, refunds are capped by traffic percentage, and the $4/GB pay-as-you-go rate is wallet-only and cannot be combined with a subscription. Note also that the company became Decodo in April 2025 and that smartproxy.org is an impersonator with no connection to it.
Key features
- SDKs, MCP, CLI, n8n, LangChain and LlamaIndex integrations
- 115M+ residential IPs across 195+ locations (provider figure)
- Sticky sessions up to 30 minutes; rotation per request
- City, ZIP code and ASN-level targeting
- HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 support
- Officially became Decodo in April 2025
Best suited for: teams wiring an existing AI framework or automation stack to a proxy through maintained integrations rather than custom code
3. Oxylabs.io — Best for enterprise AI workloads
4.4 / 5 for this job · from $0.40 / GB
Oxylabs is here for procurement rather than for a single chat window. Every product and every tier carries a published unit rate, so a budget for API-driven AI traffic can be modelled before anyone gets on a call, and volume discounts are visible and consistent: residential falls from $6/GB on Starter to $2.5/GB at enterprise level. That predictability is the argument at position three, and it is why enterprise buyers end up here rather than with a cheaper per-GB headline.
The pool is quoted at 177M+ IPs in total, 175M+ of them residential, across 195 locations, with one subscription carrying the whole catalogue. The compliance paperwork is unusually specific: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 on three named products, SOC 2 Type II on two named endpoints, GDPR compliance and EU AI Act alignment stated, plus technology E&O and cyber insurance across all products. For an AI workload that has to pass a security review before it runs, that file is the product.
The catches are entry cost and scope. The only free entry is $5 in welcome credits, under a gigabyte of residential traffic at Starter rates; the cheapest paid plan is $30/month and enterprise begins at $2,500/month through sales. VAT may apply on Starter, Basic and Flexible, so the headline rate is not always the invoice, and bitcoin is not accepted. Certifications are per product, not company-wide. On the AI job specifically, note that its cheapest tier is datacenter, and datacenter ranges are the ones AI services most often meet with a verification wall regardless of vendor.
Key features
- 177M+ IPs total, 175M+ residential, across 195 locations (provider figures)
- Residential from $6/GB on Starter down to $2.5/GB at enterprise level
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 on three named products
- SOC 2 Type II on two named endpoints
- GDPR compliance and EU AI Act alignment stated
- Enterprise plans from $2,500/month; $5 welcome credits
Best suited for: organisations that must clear a security and compliance review before routing AI or API traffic through a proxy
4. Webshare.io — Best free entry point
4.3 / 5 for this job · from $0.02 / month
Webshare earns fourth place on the strength of an entry point nobody else in this list matches: a permanent free plan with 10 proxies and no credit card. For this job that is best read as a configuration test — a way to point your client, SDK or browser automation at a proxy and see the request shape before any money moves. It is not a production route to an AI service, and the reason is in the product split: the free tier sits in the datacenter pool, and datacenter ranges are exactly the ones AI services most often answer with a verification wall.
What you buy after that is cheap and legible. Rotating residential starts at $3.50/month, static residential at $6.00/month, the datacenter product at $2.99/month, with per-IP pricing falling from $0.0299 to $0.0179 as volume grows and a stated 30% saving on yearly billing. Rotating residential targets country, state, city, ZIP code and ASN, carries 80M+ IPs, and offers HTTP and SOCKS5 endpoints on the same credentials, with IP authorisation as an alternative to username and password. Bandwidth tiers run 250GB to unlimited and thread limits 500 to 3,000 — the latter is the line that matters if you are routing concurrent API calls rather than one person chatting.
Read the footnotes. The unlimited bandwidth claim carries an asterisk pointing to a Fair Usage Policy. The provider's own pages give both 195 countries and 50+ locations, so the real footprint is hard to pin down, and the static residential list names Comcast and AT&T then says "& more", so a specific carrier cannot be checked before buying. The 99.7% success rate and 99.97% uptime are the provider's, with no independent verification alongside them.
Key features
- Permanent free plan: 10 proxies, no credit card
- Rotating residential from $3.50/month; static residential from $6.00/month
- Per-IP pricing falls from $0.0299 to $0.0179 with volume
- Rotating residential: country, state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting
- Thread limits 500 to 3,000; bandwidth 250GB to unlimited under a Fair Usage Policy
- HTTP and SOCKS5 on the same credentials; IP authorisation available
Best suited for: testing a client or automation stack against a proxy at zero cost before committing to a paid pool
5. AnyIP.io — Longest sticky session windows
4.2 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
AnyIP.io holds the longest published sticky window in this table at up to seven days, which is the whole reason it sits at five. For a chat or agent session that reasoning applies directly: the exit address does not move for a week, so neither the country nor the carrier changes underneath an open stream. Smart Sessions keep the IP inside the same carrier and area, which is the behaviour a consumer-facing AI service tends to notice least.
The commercial shape is unusual and mostly in your favour here. Residential and mobile proxies sit on one plan at one price, with only bandwidth metered, and unlimited IP rotation and unlimited concurrent requests are included rather than charged as extras. The pool is quoted at 100M+ residential and mobile IPs, with a stated ~98.6% request success rate and ~0.6s average response time, HTTPS and SOCKS5 support, filtering by country, ISP, region and precise GPS coordinates, and IP collision prevention as standard. Unused data rolls over to the next billing cycle on every plan.
The catch is geography. Thirty-eight-plus countries is a short list, and for AI tools availability is the whole problem — if the service you need is served somewhere not on that list, none of the session length helps. The advertised $2/GB is the Enterprise rate: Micro is $25 for 5GB with extra traffic at $5/GB, Basic $80 for 20GB with extra at $4/GB. There is no free trial, the Micro plan is the entry point and it is paid up front, crypto payments fall outside the refund policy, and team seats are capped at 2, 5 and 10 before Enterprise.
Key features
- Sticky sessions up to 7 days
- Residential and mobile proxies on one plan, bandwidth the only meter
- 100M+ residential and mobile IPs (provider figure)
- Unlimited IP rotation and unlimited concurrent requests
- Filtering by country, ISP, region and GPS coordinates
- 38+ countries; Micro plan $25 for 5GB
Best suited for: work that needs one address held for days at a time in a country the provider covers, with concurrency left unmetered
6. Novada — Best mobile carrier coverage
4.1 / 5 for this job · from $0.50 / GB
Novada makes the list at six on carrier breadth rather than session length. Mobile inventory is presented separately from residential: 2M+ mobile IPs across 120+ carriers. That matters because mobile addresses are shared, reassigned and rotated by the carrier itself, so they collect a different kind of history from a residential line, and services that challenge automation tend to be slower to flag them. If a target is hostile to residential ranges, a carrier address is the alternative to test.
Everything else is published in reasonable detail. Residential is quoted at 100M+ IPs over 195+ countries with city-level targeting and country-level counts for the US, Brazil, the UK, Canada and France, plus 99.9% uptime and sub-0.5s response as provider figures. Session windows are stated plainly: 1–120 minutes on residential, and 360-minute — six-hour — sticky sessions on rotating ISP. Pricing starts at $1.3/GB for residential, $1.5/GB for mobile and $0.65/GB for rotating ISP, with a $10 credit requiring no card and a 10GB new-user residential pack for $10.
Two things to weigh. Protocol support is listed as HTTP(S) only, with no SOCKS5 alongside it, which rules it out for tooling that speaks only SOCKS5. And the 120-minute residential cap is the point where a long conversation can find itself on a new address mid-stream; the six-hour ISP window is the better fit for that. The headline 99.99% success rate is given overall but 99% for rotating datacenter, Unlimited Proxies, IPv6 Proxies and Datasets have no published price and go through an account manager, and the free trial covers the Scraper API rather than the proxy pools.
Key features
- 2M+ mobile IPs across 120+ carriers (provider figure)
- 100M+ residential IPs over 195+ countries with city-level targeting
- Residential sessions 1–120 minutes; 360-minute sticky on rotating ISP
- Residential from $1.3/GB; mobile from $1.5/GB; rotating ISP from $0.65/GB
- HTTP(S) support listed; no SOCKS5 stated
- $10 credit with no card, plus a 10GB new-user pack for $10
Best suited for: reaching targets that reject residential ranges, where a carrier-issued mobile address is the more durable option
7. Proxy-Seller — Best low-cost residential
4.0 / 5 for this job · from $0.30 / GB
Seventh, and it earns the low-cost line: residential is listed from $0.30/GB, which for ChatGPT and AI tools is close to a rounding error, because a text conversation moves kilobytes rather than megabytes. The record gives 47M+ rotating residential addresses across 220+ locations — the widest residential spread in the bottom half of this table.
For AI work the useful detail sits elsewhere. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 with a RESTful API, IP whitelisting and SDK support means automated API traffic can be routed the same way the browser is, and the declared 1 Gbps IPv4 channel across 600+ networks speaks to the part of this job people underestimate: a streamed answer holds a connection open, so throughput and drop behaviour matter more than they do for a single page fetch. The provider declares 99.7% uptime, 99.5%+ connection success and roughly 0.35s residential response.
The catch is mobile, and it is a real one. Mobile reaches 20+ countries against 220+ for residential, on Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange. Mobile addresses tend to survive scrutiny longer than residential or data centre ranges, so when a service decides it does not like an address, the fallback is narrower here than the residential headline suggests. Data centre is available from $0.02/IP, but those ranges are the ones AI services most often meet with a verification wall. Every performance figure quoted is the provider's own, with no independent test cited, so plan as though the real numbers are somewhat worse.
Key features
- Residential from $0.30/GB; IPv4 from $0.49/IP; mobile from $10/IP
- 47M+ rotating residential IPs across 220+ locations, provider-declared
- Mobile coverage in 20+ countries on Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 with RESTful API, IP whitelisting and SDK access
- 1 Gbps IPv4 channel across 600+ networks
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015; DPA/SCC ready; GDPR, CCPA and ePrivacy compliant
Best suited for: for country-accurate ChatGPT sessions where the per-gigabyte price matters more than a large mobile footprint
8. ProxyEmpire — Unlimited concurrent sessions
3.9 / 5 for this job · from $0.35 / GB
Eighth, and the reason it is on this page at all is the session line: unlimited sessions and unlimited concurrent connections for approved use cases. AI work fans out. One assistant session, a handful of API workers and a browser farm at the same time will hit a concurrency cap on a plan that never mentions one, and that is the kind of limit you discover at the worst moment. Ask what "approved" means before committing.
The wider record fits the job better than a scraping card would suggest. Rotating mobile runs to 170+ countries on 4M+ addresses, which is broad for mobile and matters because mobile addresses are the ones AI services tend to trust longest. Residential covers 170+ countries with targeting down to city, ISP, ASN and ZIP, so a session can be pinned to one place and kept there rather than drifting. Rollover bandwidth is the other practical point: unused gigabytes never expire. HTTP/2 sits alongside HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5.
The catches accumulate. Coverage is uneven — 62 data centre countries and 24 static ISP against 170+ for residential and mobile — and dedicated mobile reaches only 5+ countries and 50+ locations, with city targeting reduced to country, city and carrier. Unlimited bandwidth runs from $200/day with no rollover, a different product from the GB plans and easy to buy by mistake. The $1.97 trial excludes static ISP and data centre and includes unlimited residential only on request. And the site quotes its Trustpilot score as both 4.6 and 4.5 from the same 100+ reviews, which is sloppy rather than sinister, but it is sloppy.
Key features
- 30M+ residential IPs and 4M+ mobile IPs across 170+ countries
- Unlimited sessions and concurrent connections for approved use cases
- Rollover bandwidth; unused GB never expire
- Residential targeting by country, region, city, ISP, ASN, OS/TCP and ZIP
- HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 and HTTP/2 with a public API and endpoint generator
- No contracts, no monthly minimums, all plans prepaid
Best suited for: for parallel ChatGPT and API workloads that would trip a concurrency cap elsewhere
9. FlyProxy — Best for parallel streaming
3.8 / 5 for this job · from $0.90 / GB
Ninth, under the parallel streaming line, and that line holds: unlimited concurrent sessions is stated by both the provider and the third-party listing, which is rare agreement in a record this contradictory. Streamed answers keep a socket open for the length of the reply. Where connections are capped, the second and third conversation queue behind the first, and the delay looks like a slow model rather than a slow proxy.
The country data is what to read, because it is third-party rather than self-declared: success rates from 96.8% in Mexico to 98.7% in Germany, and average response times from 0.52s in Germany to 1.00s in Mexico, with the United States at 98.4% and 0.65s. Coverage runs to more than 195 countries and regions. Residential pricing falls to $0.90/GB at the 10,240 GB tier, though at 20 GB it is $2.50/GB and at 50 GB $2.40/GB, so the cheap number is not the one most buyers see. Address lifetime is around 24 hours, long enough to hold one conversation in one country.
Two problems. There are no mobile proxies in the line-up at all, so the address type that survives longest on suspicious services is unavailable. And there are no refunds once products are sold, stated by the provider. Pool size is given as over 100 million by the provider and 69 million by a third-party listing; protocols and dashboard availability also disagree between the two; and the third-party listing says there is no free trial while the provider advertises 500MB through sales. When a record contradicts itself this often, buy the smallest tier first.
Key features
- Unlimited concurrent sessions, stated by the provider and a third-party listing
- 195+ countries and regions, with state and city targeting in third-party data
- Third-party country success rates from 96.8% in Mexico to 98.7% in Germany
- Response times from 0.52s to 1.00s across tested countries
- Residential at $0.90/GB on the 10,240 GB tier; $2.50/GB at 20 GB
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5; nine antidetect browser integrations
Best suited for: for holding several streamed AI conversations open at once without a connection cap
10. ProxySale.com — Widest country range
3.6 / 5 for this job · from $0.06 / GB
Tenth, and the country count is the argument: 86M+ residential addresses across 200+ countries on the provider's own count, with country, state and city targeting on the residential product. Availability is the whole problem with AI tools. If the address is not somewhere the service operates, nothing else about the proxy matters, and a wide list is how you reach the smaller markets without hunting.
The mechanics are ordinary and adequate: HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 on residential, billing by usage from $0.5/GB, static residential at $5/IP, static data centre at $3/IP. The Unlimited Residential plan carries no cap on IPs or traffic with random and sticky rotation, but it is billed at $69.68 per day, a poor fit for a workflow that is busy for two hours and idle for ten. The Web Scraper API bills only for successfully delivered results and carries a 30-day zero-setup trial, though that trial covers the API and not the proxy network.
The catches are worth stating plainly. The service is not available in mainland China, by the provider's own policy, so a China-located session is off the table. Uptime at 99.9%, success at 99.5% and response under 0.6s are all provider-declared with no third-party audit shown, and an unverified success rate is the number that decides whether a session holds or runs into a verification wall.
Key features
- 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries, provider-declared
- Country, state and city targeting on residential
- Residential from $0.5/GB, billed on usage
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 on the residential product
- Unlimited Residential at $69.68/day with random and sticky rotation
- Not available in mainland China, by provider policy
Best suited for: for reaching AI services in markets a narrower network will not cover
11. GonzoProxy — 72-hour sticky IPs
3.5 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
Eleventh, and the 72-hour sticky line is the one that matters most for a chat session. A conversation that changes country mid-thread triggers a re-check, and a re-check can become a lockout. Sticky sessions claimed up to 72 hours across 20M+ addresses in 190+ countries mean the address a session starts on is the address it finishes on.
Other parts of the record suit automation. Unlimited concurrent connections on every plan removes the cap question for API workers. Targeting goes down to city, state, continent, ZIP code and ASN, so a session can be pinned precisely rather than to a country. Traffic never expires and rolls over to the next plan. Access is instant with no KYC, and the provider states a first-deposit bonus matching up to $500.
The catches are sharp. Mobile proxies cover Poland and Ukraine only, so mobile as a fallback for a stubborn service is effectively absent unless you need one of those two markets. There are no detailed per-request logs in the dashboard, no browser extension and no native desktop app. The demo is not free — $1.99 for 0.3 GB, with a separate trial row at $4.50 for 1 GB. Two published residential ladders quote different per-GB rates for the same volumes, from $6.5/GB at 1 GB down to $2.25 or $2.5 at 1 TB depending on which list you read. Published speed and success figures, including a 0.47s response time, are the provider's own and are not independently verified.
Key features
- Sticky sessions claimed up to 72 hours; rotating and sticky both offered
- 20M+ residential IPs across 190+ countries
- Unlimited concurrent connections on every plan
- Targeting by country, city, state, continent, ZIP code and ASN
- Traffic never expires and rolls over to the next plan
- Residential from $6.5/GB at 1 GB; two published ladders give $2.25–$2.5/GB at 1 TB
Best suited for: for long ChatGPT conversations that must not change address partway through
12. Nsocks — Best for profile work
3.3 / 5 for this job
Last, and the profile-work line is about identity rather than speed. Nsocks sells rotating, static, data centre, ISP and unlimited proxies as separate products on separate billing, which is the arrangement you want when one ChatGPT session should sit on one address while a batch of API calls rotates through others. Integrations cover most major antidetect browsers plus Playwright, Selenium and an API, and the dashboard reports traffic statistics.
Pool and coverage are claimed at 80M+ residential addresses across 190+ country and city-level regions, with country, city, ISP and ASN targeting reported by third parties. Protocols are HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, so streamed responses over HTTPS are not a problem in principle. Uptime is declared at 99.95% and the provider lists 3,500+ clients.
The record is thinner than the others and the weaknesses are structural. There is no free trial, so there is no way to judge pool quality before paying, and the provider states it does not refund products sold — those two together mean your first payment is the test. The home page quotes two different pool sizes, 80M+ and 90M+, which is careless on the number a buyer checks first. The company dates from 26 August 2024 on third-party records, so the track record is short, and the pricing record carries no per-GB figure at all, which means the cost of routing API traffic at volume has to be established before it can be compared with anything above it.
Key features
- 80M+ residential IPs claimed, with 90M+ also quoted on the provider home page
- 190+ country and city-level regions
- Rotating, static residential, data centre, ISP and unlimited sold as separate products
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5; antidetect browser integrations plus Playwright, Selenium and API
- 99.95% uptime, provider-declared
- No free trial and no refunds on products sold
Best suited for: for keeping separate AI accounts on separate, stable addresses
13. MobileProxy.Space — Mobile address durability
3.2 / 5 for this job · from ₽490 / day
MobileProxy.Space sits here because a mobile address is the type that lasts longest against an AI service's checks. Carrier-grade NAT puts thousands of ordinary phone users behind the same address, so a platform that blocks it outright loses real customers, and that tolerance is what a long ChatGPT session or a run of API calls needs. The product line is mobile proxies plus dedicated datacenter proxies under one account, with HTTP and SOCKS5 available.
Billing suits short work: mobile plans are rented by the day from 490₽/day with unlimited traffic rather than charged per gigabyte, and the minimum rental is one day. Rotation runs on a timer or by hitting an API link, which is the part to think about before pointing a conversation at it — a session that changes country mid-thread triggers a re-check, so pin the address for the duration. The provider states up to 250 simultaneous connections per mobile proxy, and up to 5 per port on backconnect. There is an API and an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor, Python, Node.js, PHP and cURL, which is a more direct fit for tool-driven AI work than a browser extension.
The catch is price and consistency. Third-party write-ups flag the prices as relatively high, and some customers have reported problems with geographical locations. There are reports of laggy proxies and occasional late-night maintenance windows, and the published numbers do not agree with each other: third-party records give 30+ countries against the provider's 53, a 2M+ pool against 267,370,000 addresses, and a trial of 2 hours in one record against 3 hours from the provider. Declared performance is an average ping of 348 ms, a 3.24 second response time and 10 Mbps down, with the provider noting roughly 4 Mb/s when the device is remote. A streamed answer will arrive slowly at those figures; it should at least stay connected.
Key features
- Mobile proxies from 490₽/day with unlimited traffic
- Minimum rental period of one day
- IP rotation on a timer or by hitting an API link
- Up to 250 simultaneous connections per mobile proxy
- HTTP and SOCKS5
- API plus an MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and common languages
Best suited for: keeping one durable mobile address pinned through a long AI chat session
14. Floppydata — Crypto-funded bulk traffic
3.0 / 5 for this job · from $0.63 / GB
Floppydata is the cheapest route on this list to a large volume of residential or mobile traffic, and it takes cryptocurrency without a card. Rotating traffic starts at $1.00/GB across residential, mobile and datacenter, and the bulk tiers are published openly: 20% off at 96 GB and 30% off at 120 GB. At the 120 GB tier the mobile and residential lines both work out at $2.07/GB, which is the figure that matters if the plan is to push a lot of automated AI requests through consumer-grade addresses.
For this job the useful part is targeting and payment. Country, city, ASN and IP-type targeting means the exit can be placed somewhere the service actually operates, which is the whole availability problem. Cards run through Stripe, and more than 50 cryptocurrencies are accepted including USDT, BTC, ETH, LTC and SOL. There is a client API at api.floppydata.net authenticated with an X-Api-Key header, useful for routing scripted calls. The provider claims SOC 2, CCPA and GDPR compliance and a 95% clean IP rate.
The catch is age and evidence. The company dates from April 2024, so the operating history is short. Documentation is thin for advanced setups such as custom rotation logic, which is precisely what a stable AI session needs, and there is no phone support — live chat, email and Telegram only. The 100 MB free trial per proxy type is a connectivity check, not a load test. Uptime of 99.99%, sub-0.3-second response times and a 65 million IP pool are provider claims; the same record also gives 190+ locations while third-party data says 195 countries. Treat the performance numbers as marketing and the published per-GB prices as the real information.
Key features
- Rotating traffic from $1.00/GB across residential, mobile and datacenter
- 20% off at 96 GB, 30% off at 120 GB, custom beyond 120 GB
- Country, city, ASN and IP-type targeting
- Cards via Stripe plus 50+ cryptocurrencies including USDT, BTC, ETH, LTC and SOL
- Client API at api.floppydata.net with X-Api-Key authentication
- 100 MB free trial for each of residential, datacenter and mobile
Best suited for: crypto-funded bulk traffic where the bill is measured in gigabytes rather than seats
15. ASocks.com — Cheapest per-proxy billing
2.7 / 5 for this job · from $5 / proxy
ASocks.com is on this list because it bills per proxy rather than per gigabyte, and at $5 per proxy per month for residential and corporate lines it is the cheapest way here to hold a fixed set of addresses open. For AI work that means a known number of accounts, each with its own stable exit, at a predictable monthly cost. Mobile proxies are $15 per proxy per month. Volume discounts start at 10 proxies with 5%, 50 with 10% and 100 with 15%.
The provider describes its own infrastructure with clean addresses, 150+ locations, 7M+ IP addresses and a 99.7% connection success rate, plus 24/7 support with an average response under 10 minutes. Own infrastructure is worth something on AI services specifically, because shared datacenter ranges are the ones most often met with a verification wall. Long sessions also benefit from a flat per-proxy arrangement: nothing is metered, so a streamed response that holds the connection open costs the same as a short one.
The catch is that every headline figure — 99.7% success, 150+ locations, 7M+ IPs, 100,000+ clients, the G2 rating — is provider-reported and unaudited. There is no published pool or country breakdown to check against independent data, and no session-length or concurrency figure in the record, which are the two things a long conversation or a burst of API calls will test first. Mobile at $15 against $5 for residential and corporate is a three-fold jump for the address type that survives best, so budget for it if the datacenter lines start hitting walls. Per-proxy billing also does not scale gracefully into metered API load; it suits a fixed roster of accounts.
Key features
- Residential and corporate proxies at $5 per proxy/month
- Mobile proxies at $15 per proxy/month
- Volume discounts of 5% from 10 proxies, 10% from 50, 15% from 100
- 150+ locations and 7M+ IP addresses, as claimed by the provider
- Own proxy infrastructure with clean addresses
- 24/7 support with a stated average response under 10 minutes
Best suited for: holding a fixed roster of AI accounts on their own addresses at a flat monthly cost
16. Live Proxies — Private IP allocation
2.5 / 5 for this job · from $2
Live Proxies is here for the private allocation model: the provider says the IPs it gives you are unique and shared only with you. On an AI service, an address nobody else is hammering is less likely to arrive already flagged, and for a long conversation that matters more than raw pool size. The provider also states no concurrency limit, unlimited threads and unlimited requests, which is the right shape for routing automated API calls rather than one person typing.
Session handling is spelled out: 60-minute sticky sessions on rotating residential and 30-minute sessions on rotating mobile. A 30-minute mobile window is short for a streamed response that runs long, so the residential line is the safer of the two for chat work. Unused bandwidth rolls over to the standby plan, activation is quoted at around 10 minutes though the network may take up to 20, and the dashboard, API access and IP whitelisting are included. Payments go through Stripe with cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
The catch is the paperwork. The home page prices static residential at $65.00/plan while the pricing page marks it permanently unavailable, and starting prices of $45.00, $65.00 and $55.00 do not reconcile with "B2C plans starting from $70" on the pricing page. The free trial goes to custom plan users after an agreement; B2C buyers are told to buy a small plan instead. SOCKS5 is listed for B2B only, so a B2C stack needing it is out of scope. Geography is described as available countries or state-level options with no count, and state IPs are US only. The B2B enterprise tier runs on a 10M+ IP pool from $2K a month.
Key features
- Private IP allocation, with addresses the provider says are shared only with you
- No concurrency limit, unlimited threads and unlimited requests
- 60-minute sticky sessions on rotating residential, 30 minutes on rotating mobile
- Unused bandwidth rolls over to the standby plan
- SOCKS5 on the B2B tier only, HTTP/S on B2C
- B2B enterprise tier on a 10M+ IP pool from $2K per month
Best suited for: buyers who want an address no one else is using and no ceiling on concurrent API calls
17. ChangeMyIP.com — Cheap shared datacenter IPs
1.8 / 5 for this job · from $1
ChangeMyIP.com is the cheapest entry point here at $1.00 for a shared HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy, with dedicated HTTP at $1.80, SOCKS5 at $2.20, ShadowSocks at $2.20, Trojan at $3.00, DNS proxy at $2.00 and Wireguard VPN at $4.00. Bandwidth is unlimited on the plans it sells, ports are quoted at 1Gb/s, activation is instant and there is no contract. The protocol range is unusually wide for the price, and crypto payment runs through Zonda alongside cards and PayPal.
What it will not do is get past an AI service's checks reliably. These are datacenter addresses, and datacenter ranges are the ones most often met with a verification wall — shared tiers put multiple users on the same IP, and the provider itself says performance can suffer on busy servers. Shared bandwidth is a poor host for a streamed response that holds a connection open. If the job is a single scripted call against an endpoint that does not challenge the address, the price is hard to argue with; if it is a logged-in ChatGPT session, expect to be asked to verify.
Other limits are stated plainly enough. Torrents and paypal.com are blocked at the proxy level on every product. A $10 minimum order applies even if you want one $1.00 shared proxy, so the real entry cost is ten times the headline. The 30-day money-back guarantee does not apply once the service has been used and is limited to bugs or slow performance. "Fully anonymous and undetectable" is unverified marketing with no published independent test, and should be read as such. The provider says it has sold HTTP proxies and SOCKS5 for more than twelve years.
Key features
- Shared HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies at $1.00
- Dedicated HTTP at $1.80, SOCKS5 at $2.20, Trojan at $3.00, Wireguard VPN at $4.00
- Unlimited bandwidth with 1Gb/s ports
- Protocol range covering HTTP, SOCKS5, ShadowSocks, Trojan, DNS proxy and Wireguard
- Instant activation with no contract
- $10 minimum order on every purchase
Best suited for: cheap single-IP automation against endpoints that do not challenge datacenter ranges
ChatGPT and AI tools proxies: questions we get
Do I need a proxy if ChatGPT already works on my connection?
No. A proxy adds a hop, another failure point and another place where credentials can leak. Use one only when access, routing or separation of traffic genuinely requires it.
Can a VPN replace a ChatGPT proxy?
A VPN also changes the apparent country, but it usually gives you a whole-device route rather than a per-application or per-session exit. That is easier for a browser and less precise for API traffic. Both can breach a service’s terms if they are used to evade availability rules.
Why does ChatGPT still say it is not available in my country after I connect a proxy?
The exit IP may still be in an unserved country, or the browser may be using a cached page, IPv6 route or a different proxy setting. Account region, payment country and phone number can also keep the restriction in place. Check the actual egress address before changing anything else.
What is the difference between HTTP and SOCKS5 proxies for AI tools?
An HTTP proxy handles HTTP and HTTPS requests, usually through a CONNECT tunnel, and is what most API clients expect. SOCKS5 is lower-level and can carry any TCP connection. With curl, use socks5h when you want DNS resolved at the proxy rather than on your machine.
Should I use a rotating or a sticky proxy for ChatGPT?
Sticky, for chat. A conversation should keep one egress address for its whole lifetime, and ideally for the account’s lifetime. Rotating addresses are for independent requests that do not share cookies or a session; they are a poor fit for a streamed conversation.
Does a proxy slow down streamed AI answers?
It can add latency and jitter, depending on distance and how loaded the proxy is. Streaming is sensitive to connection drops as well as bandwidth. A stable route with moderate latency is usually better than a fast route that resets.
Can I use a free proxy to sign up for ChatGPT?
Not safely. Public proxies are shared, often already flagged, and may be operated by someone who logs the traffic. Sign-up through one is a common way to meet a harder verification loop or an immediate lock.
How do I set a proxy for the OpenAI API in Python?
Create an httpx.Client with the proxy URL and pass it to the OpenAI client as http_client. Environment variables work only when the HTTP library honours them, so passing the client explicitly is more reliable.
Why am I getting 403 or 429 errors through a proxy?
A 403 often means the country, address range or account is blocked; a 429 means you have hit a rate or concurrency limit. Read the response body and Retry-After header before retrying. Swapping proxies will not fix a 429 caused by sending too many requests.
Is using a proxy to access ChatGPT illegal?
In most places, using a proxy is legal in itself. Breaching a service’s terms is a contract issue, not automatically a crime. Fraud, payment evasion, unauthorised access and sanctions breaches are separate matters and can be criminal, so check local law and the current terms.
Can several AI accounts share one proxy address?
They can, but it creates a correlation signal and makes a lock more likely to affect all of them. If the accounts are legitimately separate, give them separate egress addresses. Do not create extra accounts to get around usage limits.
Do I need residential proxies for the OpenAI API?
Not always. A clean datacenter address can work for modest server-to-server traffic if the service accepts the range. Residential addresses are less likely to meet a verification wall, but they cost more and can be less stable, so test with the traffic pattern you actually plan to send.
Other jobs people buy proxies for
- Web scraping
- SEO and rank tracking
- Ad verification
- Price monitoring
- Multi-account management
- Antidetect browsers
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