The short answer
- 1 Oxylabs.io Enterprise mobile reach Visit site
- 2 Decodo (ex Smartproxy) Cheap mobile per-GB Visit site
- 3 Novada Carrier-level mobile inventory Visit site
16 best proxies for TikTok, compared
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| 1 | 4.7/5 | $0.40 / GB | 100% | — | ||
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Mobile proxies start at $7.50/GB and the provider claims 195 locations and a 177M+ IP pool, though video traffic is costly. Good for this job
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| 2 | 4.6/5 | $0.08 / GB | 100% | HTTP(S), SOCKS5 | ||
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Mobile proxies from $2.25/GB, 195+ locations and sticky sessions up to 30 minutes suit TikTok's country and session needs. Good for this job
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| 3 | 4.5/5 | $0.50 / GB | 88% | HTTP(S) | ||
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2M+ mobile IPs on 120+ carriers, 195+ countries and mobile pricing from $1.50/GB cover country-by-country TikTok access. Good for this job
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| 4 | 4.4/5 | $0.35 / GB | 90% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, HTTP/2 | ||
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4M+ rotating mobile IPs across 170+ countries with rollover and unlimited sessions; dedicated mobile reaches only 5+ countries. Good for this job
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| 5 | 4.3/5 | $0.63 / GB | 86% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Mobile traffic is $2.36/GB at 96 GB and $2.07/GB at 120 GB across 195 countries, with a claimed 97% mobile trust score. Good for this job
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| 6 | 4.2/5 | $2.20 / GB | 88% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Sticky sessions up to 24 hours and 250K real-device 5G/LTE mobile IPs across 195+ locations, but the mobile pool is small. Good for this job
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| 7 | 4.1/5 | ₽490 / day | 83% | SOCKS5, HTTP | ||
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Mobile plans bill by rental period with unlimited traffic and 53 countries on the provider's count, though prices are flagged as high. Good for this job
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| 8 | 4.0/5 | $5 / proxy | 85% | — | ||
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Mobile proxies are $15 per proxy/month across 150+ locations, moving TikTok video cost off per-GB billing, but traffic terms are unstated. Good for this job
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| 9 | 3.9/5 | $2 / GB | 80% | HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Mobile and residential share one plan with sticky sessions up to 7 days and carrier-area Smart Sessions, but only 38+ countries. Good for this job
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| 10 | 3.8/5 | $0.30 / GB | 96% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Mobile proxies cover only 20+ countries against 220+ residential locations, though Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange are named carriers. Good for this job
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| 11 | 3.5/5 | $2 | 82% | HTTP/S | ||
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Rotating mobile plans with 30-minute sticky sessions and private IPs, but country coverage has no published count. Good for this job
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| 12 | 3.2/5 | $2 / GB | 88% | SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Provider claims 90% ban protection for TikTok and 72-hour sticky IPs, but mobile proxies cover only Poland and Ukraine. Good for this job
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| 13 | 2.8/5 | $0.02 / month | 100% | — | ||
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195 countries and rotating residential from $3.50/month, but no mobile proxy pool is listed for TikTok's mobile traffic. Good for this job
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| 14 | 2.7/5 | $0.06 / GB | 100% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries and city targeting, but no mobile product is listed and unlimited is $69.68/day. Good for this job
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| 15 | 2.5/5 | — | 81% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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80M+ residential IPs and 190+ country/city regions, but no mobile product is listed and there is no free trial or refund. Good for this job
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| 16 | 2.0/5 | $1 | 82% | — | ||
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Shared proxies at $1.00 with multiple users per IP and a $10 minimum, which is the opposite of what TikTok needs. 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 TikTok treats addresses the way it does
The best proxy for TikTok is not a single product; it is the address type, country and session behaviour that match the job. TikTok is built for a phone. The app sees an address as one part of a package: carrier or ISP, device model, SIM country, language, time zone, permissions, behaviour and account history. A proxy changes the network exit, not the phone in your hand. That is why a technically working proxy can still produce a feed in the wrong country or a verification prompt.
The address type matters because it sets expectations. A datacenter range is normal for servers, not for a handset scrolling at 11pm. Mobile carrier ranges are shared by many real people, which makes them less remarkable; residential ranges look like home broadband; ISP ranges are datacenter-hosted addresses registered to an ISP, so they can pass some checks and fail others. TikTok does not publish its scoring. Treat address quality as one signal to improve, not a switch that grants access.
Country is usually the reason for the proxy. The feed, sounds, comments, ads and Shop catalogue are local. TikTok uses the address, along with device and account settings, to decide what 'local' means. If the proxy says Germany and the phone's SIM, language and GPS say Brazil, the mismatch is the story. For viewing from another country, the cleanest test is a desktop browser with a proxy and no logged-in account; that answers 'what does the feed look like there?' without pretending the whole device has moved.
Session stability matters just as much as the address itself. A session that starts on one address and changes mid-scroll looks like a hijacked account or a travel pattern no person could make. Sticky sessions — keeping one exit address for minutes or hours — are the baseline for anything involving a login. Rotation has its place for read-only collection. It is a poor default for account management.
Mobile against residential for TikTok
For a TikTok account used on a phone, mobile proxies are the closest match to the traffic TikTok expects. The address comes from a carrier range, many subscribers share it behind carrier-grade NAT, and the app has no reason to see a datacenter. The awkward part is that shared carrier address is shared with everyone else on that proxy pool. If another user has been spamming follows from the same exit, the address may already carry a bad history. Mobile is plausible, not clean by default.
Residential proxies sit on home broadband addresses. They are usually cheaper per gigabyte than mobile, easier to hold static for long periods and better covered in country lists. For a TikTok Shop back office, a seller dashboard, or an account that mainly posts from a desktop, a static residential address in the right country is often the more practical choice. For a phone-only growth workflow, the address type is less convincing than mobile, though a well-kept residential address can still work.
ISP proxies are the middle ground: fast, static and hosted in a datacenter but registered to an ISP. They are useful when you need many stable addresses and low latency, particularly for browser work. They are not mobile addresses, and a determined platform can still see the hosting provider in the network data. Choose them for stability and price, not because they make a phone look like a phone.
For multiple accounts, the type matters less than the separation. One account, one sticky address, one browser profile or device space. Do not put five accounts behind one exit and hope the platform sees five people. Do not rotate a logged-in account through ten countries in an afternoon. If the budget only stretches to one shared pool, use it for viewing, not for a portfolio of accounts.
Why video traffic changes the economics
Text requests are small. Video is not. A normal TikTok session moves a few hundred megabytes an hour; higher quality and live streams push that up. Every byte crosses the proxy, so a plan priced per gigabyte turns an evening scroll into a meter running. This is the single most common surprise when a proxy that looked cheap on a text workload meets TikTok.
Three things follow. First, budget by gigabytes per account per day, not by the headline price of an address. Second, separate viewing from account work: a cheap static ISP or residential address can handle the management dashboard, while the phone that watches and posts needs enough throughput. Third, check what 'unlimited' means. Fair-use clauses, speed caps and connection limits often appear in the small print, and a capped line makes video stutter in a way that looks like a proxy failure.
Latency matters for live and for uploads. A mobile proxy on a congested carrier can have a plausible address and terrible jitter. If the job is TikTok Shop live selling, test throughput and upload stability before committing to a long session. The address is not the only bottleneck: the route between your phone, the proxy and TikTok's CDN determines whether the video loads in one second or five.
Caching does not rescue a per-gigabyte plan. The platform and CDN may cache popular video, but the proxy still carries the bytes from its exit to your device. Multiple accounts on one proxy also multiply the bill. If the proxy is metered, a household of accounts can burn through a monthly allowance faster than the account work justifies.
How to route a TikTok client through a proxy
Start by proving the exit address before opening TikTok. A terminal test removes the app from the equation:
curl -x http://USER:PASS@HOST:PORT https://ifconfig.mecurl --socks5-hostname USER:PASS@HOST:PORT https://ifconfig.me
The second command resolves DNS at the proxy, which avoids a local DNS leak. If the address returned is not in the country you expected, stop. Confirm it with the what is my IP tool and check the proxy's own status with the proxy checker. A proxy that fails a simple HTTPS request will not be fixed by the TikTok app.
On Android, the Wi-Fi proxy path is Settings > Network & internet > Wi-Fi > tap the network > Modify network > Advanced options > Proxy > Manual, then enter host and port. This only covers that Wi-Fi network and only apps that honour the system proxy. Mobile data has no equivalent menu; a local proxy client that creates a VPN interface, or a travel router with the proxy configured, is the usual route. On iOS, use Settings > Wi-Fi > the information button beside the network > Configure Proxy > Manual. Again, this is Wi-Fi only and the app may still use its own network stack.
On a desktop browser, keep each account in its own profile and give each profile its own proxy. Chrome can be launched with:
google-chrome --proxy-server='http://HOST:PORT' --user-data-dir='/tmp/tiktok-account-1'
Firefox has the same idea under Settings > Network Settings > Connection Settings > Manual proxy configuration. Do not reuse one browser profile for several accounts and assume separate tabs are separate identities. Cookies, storage and fingerprints are shared inside a profile.
Watch for QUIC and UDP. Much video traffic prefers QUIC over UDP 443. Many HTTP and SOCKS proxies carry TCP only. If pages load but video stalls, the proxy may be passing the API and failing the media path. Blocking UDP 443 at the router can force a TCP fallback, but it can also degrade the experience. A proxy that advertises UDP support is worth checking before blaming TikTok.
Finally, align the boring settings. Set the device time zone and language to the country you are presenting, and do not leave GPS on if the story is that the phone is elsewhere. None of this guarantees anything. It simply removes contradictions that make an address look staged.
Free proxies and TikTok
Free proxy lists are useful for one thing: seeing whether a host is alive. They are not a foundation for a TikTok account. Public proxies are shared by anyone who finds the list, often already blocked by major platforms, and frequently operated by someone with no accountability. The address may be a datacenter range that TikTok associates with automation. The connection may be slow, intermittent or silently logging metadata.
HTTPS protects the contents of a request from a passive proxy, but it does not hide the destination, the timing or the volume, and it does not stop a proxy from blocking, altering or redirecting traffic. A malicious exit can inject content into unencrypted requests, and a free proxy that asks you to install a certificate is asking for far more trust than it has earned. For TikTok Shop, payment details and seller login, that is an unacceptable trade.
If a free address is used at all, use it logged out, in a disposable browser profile, for a single check. Verify the exit with the free proxy list entry and the checker, then close the profile. Never use a free proxy for multiple accounts, never for Shop, and never for an account you would mind losing. The money saved is small; the downside is a locked account or a leaked session.
What the terms of service actually say
TikTok's terms are not a proxy manual, and they do not read like a list of allowed network configurations. They require accurate account information, prohibit automated access and scraping, and prohibit circumventing restrictions or using the service in ways that break the law. They also tie some features, including Shop, to your country, business details and eligibility checks. A proxy can change the network exit; it does not change the contract facts.
The legal question and the platform question are separate. Using a proxy is not, by itself, illegal in most places. Breaching a platform's terms is a civil matter between you and the platform: it can lead to removal, restriction or termination, but it is not the same as a criminal offence. What can cross into illegality is different: accessing accounts you do not own, scraping personal data at scale, committing fraud, evading sanctions, or misrepresenting a business to obtain Shop eligibility. Those are not 'grey area growth tactics'. This is general information, not legal advice.
Watch TikTok from another country to see the feed is usually a terms issue, not a crime. Running many accounts to manufacture engagement, or using a proxy to make a Shop application look like it comes from an eligible country, is a different category. TikTok may also act under broad safety and integrity clauses without needing to prove a specific proxy rule. The practical reading: a proxy can keep a legitimate workflow stable, but it is not permission and it is not a defence.
Mistakes that get a TikTok account restricted
Most restrictions come from a pattern, not a single request. The common mistakes are boring and repeatable.
- Changing address mid-session. A rotating proxy that hops countries while a logged-in account scrolls is the clearest self-inflicted wound. Use a sticky session for the whole login.
- One address for many accounts. Five accounts behind one exit look like one person with five profiles. Separate the addresses, the browser profiles and the device spaces.
- New account, fresh proxy, immediate action. A brand-new account that follows, posts and edits a Shop profile within minutes on a newly seen address has no history to support it. Let the account settle on a stable network before doing much.
- Datacenter addresses on a phone-only app. The address type is not proof of anything, but it is a contradiction. If the workflow is mobile, use a mobile or well-kept residential address.
- Mismatched device story. SIM country, GPS, language, time zone and payment method should not tell five different stories. A proxy fixes one layer; it does not fix the other four.
- Free or heavily shared exits. Someone else's strikes travel with the address. A cheap shared proxy can import a bad reputation before the first post.
- Automation that looks like automation. Identical comments, follow/unfollow loops and posting at exact intervals are behavioural signals. The proxy cannot make a bot look human if the actions do not.
- Ignoring verification prompts. A captcha or SMS check is a request for proof, not an obstacle to route around. Changing proxy again during verification usually makes it worse.
- Using the same proxy for Shop and personal accounts. Keep seller operations on a stable business address and separate from casual viewing. A Shop suspension is harder to unwind than a viewing block.
The thing people fear — a sudden ban — is usually preceded by smaller signals: a forced logout, a captcha on every open, videos that will not load, a Shop review that stalls. Treat those as warnings. Stop changing the network, return to one stable address in the right country, and fix the device story before adding more accounts. If you are choosing a provider, judge it on sticky sessions, country coverage, address type and the real cost of video, not on a headline pool size. The provider reviews are there for that comparison; the table above is the shortlist.
What to look for
- Mobile addresses
- TikTok is almost entirely mobile traffic, and a datacenter address is the least plausible thing it can see.
- Country coverage
- The feed, the available sounds and the ad inventory all change by country, which is often the reason for the proxy.
- Session length
- A session that changes address mid-scroll looks like a hijacked account.
- Traffic cost for video
- Video is heavy, so a per-gigabyte plan behaves very differently here than it does on text.
- How shared the address is
- A shared address on a platform this aggressive brings somebody else's strikes with it.
Every provider, in order
1. Oxylabs.io — Enterprise mobile reach
4.7 / 5 for this job · from $0.40 / GB
Oxylabs takes the top row on reach and procurement, not on being the obvious TikTok tool. One subscription opens the whole catalogue, and the record gives 177M+ IPs in total with 175M+ of them residential across 195 locations. For feed and ad checks that change by country, those 195 locations are the part that matters, and mobile proxies sit on the same subscription at $7.5/GB on Starter, falling to $3.5/GB at enterprise level.
Because TikTok is video, the per-gigabyte rate is the number that decides the bill. A scroll session pulling clips spends traffic in a way a text scrape never does, and $30/month on Starter buys about 4 GB of mobile traffic at $7.5/GB. Dedicated ISP proxies at $3/IP are the other route, for a login that has to keep one address. Compliance is itemised further than most: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 across three named products, SOC 2 Type II across two named endpoints, Technology E&O and cyber insurance across all products, GDPR and EU AI Act alignment, and 24/7 support.
The catch is entry cost and one missing figure. The only free entry is $5 in welcome credits — under a gigabyte of mobile traffic at Starter rates — the cheapest paid plan is $30/month, and enterprise starts at $2,500/month through sales. VAT may apply on Starter, Basic and Flexible. The record gives no mobile IP count, only total and residential pools, so the mobile inventory cannot be sized from the published figures, and certification scope is per product rather than company-wide.
Key features
- 177M+ IPs total, 175M+ residential, 195 locations (provider figures)
- Mobile proxies: $7.5/GB on Starter, $3.5/GB at enterprise level
- Dedicated ISP proxies from $3/IP
- Single subscription covering the whole product catalogue
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and SOC 2 Type II, each scoped to named products
- Free entry limited to $5 in welcome credits
Best suited for: enterprise teams that need country-level reach and audit paperwork more than a cheap mobile gigabyte
2. Decodo (ex Smartproxy) — Cheap mobile per-GB
4.6 / 5 for this job · from $0.08 / GB
Decodo, still sold under the Smartproxy name in most places, sits second on a published mobile rate of $2.25/GB — well under Oxylabs' $7.5/GB Starter figure, and quoted openly rather than through sales. On a target that is almost entirely video, a per-gigabyte rate is the whole economics of the job, so the split is worth knowing: residential runs from $2/GB and $3.75/GB at 3 GB, while mobile carries its own, higher rate.
Geography is where it earns the row. The residential pool is 115M+ IPs across 195+ locations, with targeting down to city, ZIP code and ASN — what you need when the feed, sounds and ad inventory you want to see only exist in one market. Sticky sessions hold an address for up to 30 minutes, and HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 are both supported. Half an hour covers a scroll without the address moving mid-session; it does not cover a whole-day account, and anything longer has to be built on rotation.
The awkward parts are contractual and financial. The 3-day 100 MB trial and the 14-day money-back option are mutually exclusive — using the trial removes refund eligibility — and refunds are first purchases only, capped at under 20% of a residential plan's traffic. Pay-as-you-go at $4/GB is wallet-only, sold a gigabyte at a time, and cannot be combined with a monthly plan. Headline rates exclude VAT, and the record carries no mobile pool size, only a from-price, so the mobile inventory cannot be checked against the rate.
Key features
- Mobile proxies from $2.25/GB
- Residential pool of 115M+ IPs in 195+ locations
- Sticky sessions up to 30 minutes
- City, ZIP code and ASN targeting; HTTP(S) and SOCKS5
- 3-day 100 MB trial or 14-day money-back, not both
- Officially renamed Decodo in April 2025
Best suited for: self-serve buyers who want a published mobile rate and city-level targeting without a sales call
3. Novada — Carrier-level mobile inventory
4.5 / 5 for this job · from $0.50 / GB
Novada sits third because its mobile inventory is described in the terms TikTok cares about: 2M+ 3G/4G/5G mobile IPs across 120+ carriers, sold from $1.5/GB. A carrier-level address is the closest a proxy gets to a real handset, and the carrier matters, because how a session is treated can depend on the network it appears to come from as much as the country. City-level targeting across 195+ countries makes the ad-check use case concrete: same app, same hour, different city, different ad inventory.
The surrounding figures are broad. Residential is put at 100M+ IPs in 195+ countries, with country-level counts published for the US, UK, Brazil, Canada and France. Residential sessions run 1–120 minutes, and rotating ISP proxies hold a 360-minute sticky session across 100+ countries — a more plausible length for a viewing session than per-request rotation. The $10 credit needs no card, and a 10GB new-user residential pack is sold for $10.
Two things to hold against it. The mobile pool of 2M+ is a small fraction of the 100M+ residential figure, so heavy concurrent mobile use will exhaust available addresses faster than the headline suggests. And the 99.99% success rate sits alongside a separately quoted 99% for rotating datacenter, so it does not clearly apply to every pool. Unlimited Proxies, IPv6 Proxies and Datasets are quote-only through an account manager, and the free-trial offer is limited to the Scraper API. Sessions cap at 120 minutes, so a day-long account session is out of reach.
Key features
- 2M+ 3G/4G/5G mobile IPs across 120+ carriers
- Mobile proxies from $1.5/GB
- 195+ countries with city-level targeting
- Residential sessions 1–120 minutes; rotating ISP sticky 360 minutes
- $10 credit with no card; 10GB residential pack at $10
- GDPR and CCPA compliance stated
Best suited for: work that has to appear on a named mobile carrier in a specific city
4. ProxyEmpire — Large rotating mobile pool
4.4 / 5 for this job · from $0.35 / GB
ProxyEmpire sits fourth on the size of its rotating mobile pool: 4M+ mobile IPs across 170+ countries, the broadest mobile coverage in this list by the provider's own count. Mobile targeting is country, city and carrier, so a session can be pinned to a market and a network rather than just a country code. Rates start at $4.50/GB on pay-as-you-go and fall with volume to $2.00/GB on the 1000 GB plan, and code EMPIRE50 takes half off eligible GB-based mobile and residential plans.
Two features suit video work specifically. Rollover bandwidth means unused gigabytes never expire, so a month where you watch less than you expected is not wasted money — a real difference from plans that reset. Unlimited concurrent connections on approved use cases allows several viewing sessions at once without the per-connection surcharge that usually follows. The $1.97, 150 MB trial is small but does not auto-convert into a subscription.
The catch is where the mobile range runs out. Dedicated mobile covers 5+ countries and 50+ locations, and drops targeting to country, city and carrier, so it is no substitute if you need a handset address in a smaller market; unlimited US 5G runs at $20/day or $250/month. Coverage is uneven overall — 62 datacenter countries against 170+ for mobile. Unlimited residential starts at $200/day with no rollover, and the discount code does not apply to flat-rate plans.
Key features
- 4M+ rotating mobile IPs across 170+ countries
- Mobile targeting by country, city and carrier
- Rollover bandwidth: unused GB never expire
- Rotating Mobile 1000 GB at $2.00/GB
- Dedicated mobile: 5+ countries, $20/day for unlimited US 5G
- EMPIRE50 takes 50% off eligible rotating mobile and residential plans
Best suited for: high-volume rotating mobile work where unused gigabytes must not expire
5. Floppydata — Cheap mobile video traffic
4.3 / 5 for this job · from $0.63 / GB
Floppydata takes fifth on the price of mobile video traffic specifically. Mobile at 96 GB is $226.56, or $2.36/GB, and at 120 GB it is $247.80, or $2.07/GB — the kind of tiering that only makes sense on a target where you know you will spend the gigabytes. The record also lists rotating traffic from $1.00/GB covering residential, mobile and datacenter, with 20% off at 96 GB and 30% off at 120 GB published as open tiers rather than a quote.
The stated mobile figure is a 97% acceptance rate as a real user, alongside a 95% clean IP rate across the pool, with 190+ locations and country, city, ASN and IP-type targeting. Card payments via Stripe and 50+ cryptocurrencies are accepted, and there is a 100 MB free trial for each of residential, datacenter and mobile, so a connectivity check costs nothing. SOC 2, CCPA and GDPR are stated.
The catch is commitment and maturity. The good mobile rate only arrives at 96 GB and above — roughly $226 before you see $2.36/GB — and the 100 MB trial tests connectivity, not load, so it will not show you how video behaves. The domain dates from April 2024, support is live chat, email and Telegram with no phone line, and documentation is thin for custom rotation logic. The record publishes no session or sticky-window detail, which matters more on TikTok than on a text scrape, and the 99.99% uptime and sub-0.3-second response claims are the provider's own.
Key features
- Mobile 120 GB at $2.07/GB, 96 GB at $2.36/GB
- Rotating traffic from $1.00/GB across residential, mobile and datacenter
- 100 MB free trial for each of residential, datacenter and mobile
- 95% IP clean rate and 97% mobile trust score (provider claims)
- 50+ cryptocurrencies plus card payments via Stripe
- SOC 2, CCPA and GDPR stated
Best suited for: bulk mobile video traffic where the per-gigabyte rate only becomes worthwhile above 96 GB
6. NodeMaven — Long mobile sticky sessions
4.2 / 5 for this job · from $2.20 / GB
NodeMaven takes sixth because of one number: sticky sessions of up to 24 hours, with unlimited concurrent sessions. On TikTok the failure that matters is an address changing mid-scroll, which reads as a hijacked account. A day-long sticky window on a mobile address is the closest thing here to a phone that stays on one network — long enough to browse, post and check an account without the session resetting underneath.
The mobile pool is 250K real-device 5G/LTE IPs by the provider's count, against 295K+ in third-party records — either way far smaller than the 30M+ residential pool, so mobile capacity is the constraint rather than territory. Mobile average speed is quoted at under 0.6s. Targeting reaches 190+ countries down to ZIP level, traffic rolls over on both pay-as-you-go and monthly plans, and cashback runs up to 10% on standard plans.
The awkward part is price and entry. There is no free trial: $3.50 buys a 750 MB paid demo, and a third-party write-up puts the free-trial route behind company KYC. With a from-price of $2.20/GB and mobile sitting above residential, video traffic adds up fast, so the long sticky session is best spent on accounts you actually care about rather than on throughput. Refunds are pro-rated rather than full, and smaller locations are reported to be uneven in depth, so a day-long session in a thin market may be harder to place than the 190+ country count implies.
Key features
- Mobile sticky sessions up to 24 hours
- 250K real-device 5G/LTE mobile IPs (provider figure)
- Mobile average speed quoted under 0.6s
- 190+ countries for geo-targeting, down to ZIP level
- Traffic rollover on pay-as-you-go and monthly plans
- No free trial; $3.50 for a 750 MB paid demo
Best suited for: holding one mobile address steady for hours across a single account session
7. MobileProxy.Space — Unlimited mobile video traffic
4.1 / 5 for this job · from ₽490 / day
MobileProxy.Space sits at seven because of one billing decision: mobile plans are charged by rental period with unlimited traffic, not by the gigabyte. On a platform where nearly every session streams video, that changes the shape of the cost. A per-gigabyte plan charges you for scrolling; this one does not. Mobile proxies start at ₽490/day and the minimum rental is one day, so the commitment before you find out how the addresses behave is short.
The mechanics matter for TikTok. Rotation runs on a timer or by hitting an API link, and the provider states an IP change time of 2–7 seconds. HTTP and SOCKS5 are both supported, dead proxies are replaced automatically according to the provider, and one mobile proxy is rated for up to 250 simultaneous connections. Datacenter proxies sit under the same account if you need a static address for a dashboard rather than the app itself. Coverage is where the record gets awkward: third-party data gives 30+ countries and 130+ mobile operators, the provider gives 53 countries and 223 operators. Treat the country list as something to confirm for your target market before paying.
The catch is cost and consistency. Third-party write-ups flag the prices as relatively high, and there are reports of problems with geographical locations, laggy proxies and occasional late-night maintenance windows — all of which matter when the thing you are checking is video. Pool size and country counts also disagree between sources, and the trial is given as 2 hours in one record and 3 hours by the provider. Unlimited traffic is real value only if the address you land on is in the country you asked for.
Key features
- Mobile plans billed by rental period with unlimited traffic, from ₽490/day
- Minimum rental of one day
- IP rotation on a timer or by API link; provider states IP change in 2–7 seconds
- HTTP and SOCKS5
- Dead proxies replaced automatically, per the provider
- Up to 250 simultaneous connections per mobile proxy, per the provider
Best suited for: unlimited-traffic mobile sessions where video volume would make per-gigabyte billing hard to predict
8. ASocks.com — Per-proxy mobile billing
4.0 / 5 for this job · from $5 / proxy
ASocks.com sits at eight because it bills mobile by the proxy rather than by the gigabyte — $15 per proxy per month, against $5 for residential and corporate. For TikTok that is a straightforward trade: a fixed monthly cost whatever the video pulls, so a long scrolling session costs the same as a short one. Volume discounts start at ten proxies (5%), fifty (10%) and a hundred (15%).
The provider describes its own infrastructure and links that to cleaner addresses and fewer bans, and puts coverage at 150+ locations and 7M+ IP addresses. Support runs 24/7 with a stated average response time under ten minutes, which matters at the point an account gets a challenge rather than during setup. Three product lines — mobile, residential and corporate — sit under one account if you need a residential address for a web dashboard alongside the mobile one for the app.
The catch is that every headline number — 99.7% connection success, 150+ locations, 7M+ IPs, 100,000+ clients — is provider-reported and unaudited. None of it is independently checked, and there is no published breakdown of how many of those locations carry mobile addresses. Mobile also costs three times the residential rate, so a mixed workload is worth costing per line rather than in aggregate. What the record gives you is a clean, predictable price per mobile address; what it does not give you is a verified country list to plan a campaign around.
Key features
- Mobile proxies at $15 per proxy/month; residential and corporate at $5
- Per-proxy monthly billing rather than per gigabyte
- Volume discounts: 5% from 10 proxies, 10% from 50, 15% from 100
- 150+ locations and 7M+ IP addresses, provider-reported
- 24/7 support with a stated average response under 10 minutes
- Own proxy infrastructure, which the provider links to cleaner addresses
Best suited for: buyers who want a fixed monthly cost per mobile address regardless of how much video passes through it
9. AnyIP.io — Week-long mobile stickiness
3.9 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
AnyIP.io takes ninth for session length. Sticky sessions run up to seven days, and Smart Sessions keep the IP inside the same carrier and area rather than jumping networks. On TikTok, where a session that changes address mid-scroll reads like a hijacked account, that is the feature that earns the position. Rotation is unlimited, concurrent requests are unlimited, and IP collision prevention and change-IP-by-link are included.
Residential and mobile sit on one plan at one price, metered only by bandwidth, with 100M+ IPs claimed and 38+ countries covered. Filtering goes down to ISP, region and precise GPS coordinates, which is more granular than most of this list. Unused data rolls over to the next billing cycle, and there are quota controls and alerts so a heavy video day does not silently eat the following month.
The catch is the metering. Video is heavy, and this is a per-gigabyte product wearing a stickiness story. The advertised $2/GB is the Enterprise rate; extra traffic costs $5/GB on Micro and $4/GB on Basic, and the plans start at $25 for 5GB, $80 for 20GB and $300 for 100GB. For a TikTok workload, work out the gigabytes before the sessions. There is also no free trial — the Micro plan is the paid entry point — 38+ countries is a short list for global work, team seats are capped at 2, 5 and 10 before Enterprise, and crypto payments fall outside the refund policy while the 14-day money-back guarantee covers card purchases only.
Key features
- Sticky sessions up to 7 days; Smart Sessions keep the IP within the same carrier and area
- Residential and mobile on one plan, metered by bandwidth only
- 100M+ IPs and 38+ countries, per provider
- Unused data rolls over to the next billing cycle
- Extra GB at $5 on Micro and $4 on Basic; $2/GB is the Enterprise rate
- No free trial; entry plan is $25 for 5GB
Best suited for: long single-account sessions where the address has to hold still for days rather than minutes
10. Proxy-Seller — Named carrier mobile IPs
3.8 / 5 for this job · from $0.30 / GB
Proxy-Seller sits at ten because its mobile line names the carriers. Mobile coverage reaches 20+ countries across Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange networks, running on 5G/4G/LTE, with mobile proxies from $10/IP. If the reason you are buying a proxy is that the feed or the ad inventory you need to see belongs to a particular operator in a particular country, a named carrier is more useful than a generic mobile pool.
Everything else in the account is bigger. The residential pool is 47M+ rotating IPs across 220+ locations, entry pricing is published per unit — $0.30/GB residential, $0.49/IP IPv4, $0.02/IP IPv6 — and there are six proxy types plus an enterprise track with no monthly lock-ins stated. HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 are supported with a RESTful API, IP whitelisting and SDK access. The compliance paper is unusually thick for this tier: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certification, GDPR, CCPA and ePrivacy compliance, and DPA/SCC readiness.
The catch is scale. Mobile coverage of 20+ countries sits against 220+ residential locations, so the mobile footprint is a fraction of the residential one, and there is no published list of which countries those 20+ are. Uptime, success-rate and response-time figures — 99.7% uptime, 99.5%+ connection success — are the provider's own with no independent test cited. For a campaign that needs many countries at once this is not the mobile provider to build on; for one that needs a specific carrier, it is the entry on this list that tells you which carriers it has.
Key features
- Mobile proxies from $10/IP across 20+ countries
- Named carrier networks: Vodafone, T-Mobile, Orange
- 5G/4G/LTE mobile networks, per provider
- Residential pool of 47M+ IPs across 220+ locations, for comparison
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 with RESTful API and IP whitelisting
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certification stated
Best suited for: campaigns that need a named carrier in a specific country rather than any mobile address
11. Live Proxies — Private mobile IP allocation
3.5 / 5 for this job · from $2
Live Proxies takes eleventh on private IP allocation. The provider states its IPs are unique and shared only with you, which is the direct answer to the problem a platform this aggressive creates for shared addresses: somebody else's strikes arriving on an address you are also using. Rotating mobile sessions run 30 minutes, rotation is included, and there is no concurrency limit — unlimited threads and unlimited requests, as stated.
Mobile Proxies Rotating is listed at $55.00 per plan on the home page, with a rotating mobile tier of 50 IPs and 4GB listed at $70 for 30 days further down. Bandwidth is metered but unused data rolls over to the standby plan, and both metered and unmetered billing options exist. SOCKS5 sits on the B2B tier alongside HTTP. The account includes dashboard access, API access, IP whitelisting and a dedicated account manager.
The catch is the paperwork. The home page prices static residential at $65.00/plan while the pricing page marks it permanently unavailable, and the home page 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, with B2C buyers told to purchase a small plan instead. SOCKS5 is B2B only. Geography is described as available countries or state-level options with no count, and state-level IPs are US only. Private allocation is worth paying for on TikTok; go in expecting to confirm the price and the country list in writing first.
Key features
- Private IP allocation: provider states IPs are unique and shared only with you
- Rotating mobile sticky sessions of 30 minutes
- No concurrency limit, unlimited threads and unlimited requests, per provider
- Mobile Proxies Rotating at $55.00 per plan on the home page
- SOCKS5 on the B2B tier only; B2C gets HTTP/S
- Geography given as available countries or state-level options, with no count
Best suited for: buyers who want a mobile address that nobody else is using on the same platform at the same time
12. GonzoProxy — TikTok-specific ban claim
3.2 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
GonzoProxy takes twelfth, and it is on the list for one line in its record: the provider claims 90% ban protection for Facebook, Google and TikTok. That is a marketing claim, not a measured result, and the record carries no independent verification of it. It is also not a claim the other providers here make by name, which is why the card exists.
What sits behind it is a residential-first product. Pay-per-GB billing with traffic that never expires and rolls over, 20M+ IPs across 190 countries per the provider, unlimited concurrent connections on every plan, and targeting down to country, city, state, continent, ZIP code and ASN. Sticky IPs are claimed up to 72 hours. There are ready configs for anti-detect browsers including Dolphin Anty, GoLogin, Undetectable, Octo Browser and Linken Sphere, a REST API, 24/7 Telegram support involving technical staff, and no KYC.
The catch is the mobile side. Mobile proxies cover Poland and Ukraine only as of writing, so for most TikTok country work this is a residential product whether or not you wanted one. The published residential plan ladders quote two different per-GB rates for the same volumes, the demo is not free at $1.99 for 0.3GB with a 1GB trial listed at $4.50, the dashboard lacks detailed per-request logs, and there is no browser extension or desktop app. Published speed and success-rate figures are the provider's own. Treat the TikTok ban claim as a reason to check the mobile footprint in your target country before paying, not as a result.
Key features
- Provider claims 90% ban protection for Facebook, Google and TikTok
- Mobile proxies limited to Poland and Ukraine as of writing
- Residential pay-per-GB across 190 countries and 20M+ IPs, per provider
- Sticky IPs claimed up to 72 hours; targeting by country, city, state, continent, ZIP and ASN
- Two published residential plan ladders quote different per-GB rates for the same volumes
- Demo is paid: $1.99 for 0.3GB, with a 1GB trial listed at $4.50
Best suited for: residential-side TikTok work in Poland or Ukraine, where the ban claim is the reason to look at all
13. Webshare.io — Low-cost residential fallback
2.8 / 5 for this job · from $0.02 / month
Thirteenth on the list, and the reason is straightforward: Webshare does not sell mobile addresses, so on a platform that is almost entirely mobile traffic this is a fallback rather than a first choice. What makes it a useful fallback is the rotating residential product from $3.50 per month with country, state, city, ZIP and ASN level targeting. The city-level part is what most TikTok work actually needs, because the feed, the available sounds and the ad inventory change by country and sometimes by metro.
The pool is quoted at 80M+ real residential IPs, across either 195 countries or 50+ locations depending on which page you read, which is one of several places the figures do not line up. HTTP and SOCKS5 sit on the same credentials, IP authorisation is offered as an alternative to username and password, and there is a permanent free tier of ten proxies that costs nothing to point at a test account. For session work, stickiness matters more than pool size: a TikTok session that changes address mid-scroll reads as a hijacked account, so the rotation needs pinning to something that outlives a scrolling session.
The catch is video. Bandwidth tiers run from 250GB to unlimited, and the word unlimited carries an asterisk pointing at a Fair Usage Policy. Video is the heaviest traffic a proxy sees, and a fair-use clause on a video workload is exactly where a cheap plan stops being cheap. The 99.7% success rate and 99.97% uptime are the provider's own figures with nothing independent alongside them, and the static residential ISP list names Comcast and AT&T and stops at "& more", so a specific carrier cannot be checked before buying.
Key features
- Rotating residential from $3.50/month
- Country, state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting
- 80M+ residential IPs; 195 countries and 50+ locations both quoted
- HTTP and SOCKS5 on the same credentials
- Permanent free plan: 10 proxies, no credit card
- Bandwidth 250GB to unlimited, subject to a Fair Usage Policy
Best suited for: low-cost country and city-level residential targeting where a mobile address is not required
14. ProxySale.com — Broad residential coverage
2.7 / 5 for this job · from $0.06 / GB
Proxy-Sale sits here because coverage, not address type, is its argument: 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries, with country, state and city targeting on the residential product and HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 all supported. If the job is seeing what the feed serves in a particular market, that footprint is the point, and the country selector is the reason to be on the page.
Residential billing is by usage, from $0.5/GB, which suits video in one direction and badly in another. TikTok moves a lot of bytes, so a per-gigabyte plan turns a long viewing or upload session into a visible line item; unlike a per-day unlimited plan, though, you pay for what you actually move, and a short targeted job stays cheap. Unlimited Residential removes the IP and traffic caps with random and sticky rotation, and is billed per day at $69.68 — fine for a burst, awkward for anything that idles overnight. Static residential at $5/IP and static data centre at $3/IP cover single-identity work, and the Web Scraper API bills only for successfully delivered results.
The catch: none of this is a mobile address, and on a mobile-first platform residential addresses are still the second most plausible thing it sees, after the real thing. Uptime, success rate and response time are all provider-declared with no audit shown. The free trial covers the Web Scraper API only, not the proxy network, so the residential pool itself is a paid unknown. The service is also unavailable in mainland China by the provider's own policy.
Key features
- 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries
- Country, state and city targeting on residential
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 support
- Residential from $0.5/GB, billed on usage
- Unlimited Residential: no IP or traffic cap, $69.68/day
- Static residential $5/IP; static data centre $3/IP
Best suited for: country and city-level residential coverage billed by the gigabyte rather than by the day
15. Nsocks — Large residential pool
2.5 / 5 for this job
Nsocks lands in the middle because its pool is large and its safeguards are not. The provider claims 80M+ real-user residential IPs and, on the same home page, 90M+ IPs in 190+ country and city-level regions — two figures that do not agree, neither independently audited. ISP and ASN targeting is reported by third parties rather than the provider. That matters for TikTok: ASN is how you get nearer a carrier's address space even where no dedicated mobile product exists.
The product split is the practical part. Rotating, static residential, datacenter, ISP and unlimited proxies are sold separately with separate billing, so a session that has to hold one address across a scroll can sit on a static or ISP plan while feed checking runs on rotating. Rotating residential comes in tiers from 10GB to 500GB. Static residential and datacenter are per-IP with unlimited bandwidth and a stated 20 Mbps cap. SOCKS5, HTTP and HTTPS are supported, there are listed integrations with most major anti-detect browsers plus Playwright, Selenium and an API, and the dashboard carries traffic statistics.
The catch is what cannot be done before paying. There is no free trial, and the provider states it does not refund products sold. Unit prices are not published in a form you can compare before committing, so the first purchase is also the first test of the pool. Third-party records put the founding date at 26 August 2024, a short operating history for a task where an address's reputation is the entire product. Stated uptime is 99.95%, with no independent verification.
Key features
- 80M+ residential IPs claimed; 90M+ also quoted on the provider's home page
- 190+ country and city-level regions, per provider
- Rotating, static residential, datacenter, ISP and unlimited sold and billed separately
- Rotating residential tiers from 10GB to 500GB
- No free trial and no refunds on products sold
- SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS; anti-detect browser and automation integrations
Best suited for: buyers who want a large rotating pool and a separate static or ISP tier under one account
16. ChangeMyIP.com — Cheap shared proxy testing
2.0 / 5 for this job · from $1
Last on the list, and the placement is honest: a shared proxy is the wrong shape for TikTok. The provider says plainly that shared proxies put multiple users on the same IP address, and that bandwidth is shared and can be slow on busy servers. On a platform this aggressive about automation, a shared address arrives carrying whatever everybody else on it has already done. If other marks are on that IP, you inherit them, and a shared datacenter address is the least plausible thing a mobile-first platform can be shown.
What the record does offer is cheap and legible. Shared HTTP and shared SOCKS5 are $1.00 each, dedicated HTTP $1.80, SOCKS5 $2.20, ShadowSocks $2.20, Trojan $3.00, DNS proxy $2.00 and Wireguard VPN $4.00, all with unlimited bandwidth on 1Gb/s ports, instant activation, no contract and multiple IP subnets. A $10 minimum order applies even if you want a single $1.00 proxy. The protocol spread is wider than most at this price: Trojan and Wireguard are unusual here and useful when the client on your side dictates the transport rather than the other way round.
The catches pile up for this job specifically. Torrents and paypal.com are blocked at proxy level on every product. The 30-day money-back guarantee does not apply once the service has been used, and refunds are limited to bugs or slow performance. The "fully anonymous and undetectable" wording is unverified marketing. Twelve years in the proxy business is a real track record, but a track record does not turn a shared IP into a mobile address.
Key features
- Shared HTTP and shared SOCKS5 at $1.00 each
- Dedicated HTTP $1.80; SOCKS5 and ShadowSocks $2.20; Trojan $3.00
- $10 minimum order
- Shared IP and shared bandwidth, per the provider
- Unlimited bandwidth on 1Gb/s ports, no contract
- Torrents and paypal.com blocked at proxy level
Best suited for: cheap single-IP testing where a shared address and its neighbours' history are acceptable
TikTok proxies: questions we get
Do I need a separate proxy for every TikTok account?
Yes, if the accounts need to look unrelated. Each logged-in account should sit on its own sticky address, in its own browser profile or device space, and keep that pairing for as long as possible. Sharing one exit across several accounts links them at the network layer, and a strike on one can follow the address to the others.
Can I use a VPN instead of a proxy for TikTok?
A VPN is a tunnel to one exit, usually shared and often in a datacenter. It can change the country TikTok sees, but it gives you little control over address type, session stickiness or per-account separation. For a one-off look at another feed it is simpler; for account work a proxy with a sticky session is the more controllable tool.
Why does TikTok log me out when I connect through a proxy?
A forced logout is usually a risk response to a changed network, a new country or an address with a poor history. It can also happen when the proxy drops and the app falls back to your real connection mid-session. Return to one stable address, complete any verification, and avoid hopping again during the same day.
Does TikTok detect SOCKS5 proxies?
TikTok does not need to detect the protocol name. It sees the address, the network path, the device and the behaviour, and a SOCKS5 proxy can still present a datacenter range or a shared exit. SOCKS5 is useful because it can carry more than HTTP and can resolve DNS remotely, but it is not invisible.
How much data does TikTok use through a proxy?
Expect a few hundred megabytes per hour for ordinary viewing, with higher quality and live streams pushing well above that. The proxy carries every byte, so a per-gigabyte plan needs a realistic daily budget per account. Check whether the plan throttles or caps 'unlimited' use before trusting it for long sessions.
Can I watch TikTok from another country on my phone with a proxy?
Sometimes, but the phone is a stubborn device. The app may weigh the SIM, language, time zone and location permission alongside the address, so a proxy alone may not change the feed. A desktop browser with a proxy and no login is the cleaner way to see what the feed looks like elsewhere.
Is a static residential proxy better than a rotating one for TikTok Shop?
For Shop work, stability usually beats rotation. Seller logins, payment checks and listing tools look more consistent from one static address in the correct country than from a pool that changes every request. Use rotation for read-only research, not for the account that handles money.
What happens if a proxy address is already flagged by TikTok?
The account may see captchas, forced logouts, failed video loads or a temporary restriction even if the address works for other sites. Moving to another address in the same pool can repeat the problem because the reputation travels with the range. A different provider or a cleaner static address is usually more useful than another rotation.
Can I run TikTok in an emulator through a proxy?
You can route an emulator through a proxy, but an emulator is a weaker disguise than a phone. It has no carrier SIM, a desktop-like hardware profile and often obvious virtualisation signals. If the workflow needs a mobile-looking device, an emulator plus a proxy solves less than it appears to.
Do I need to change my DNS when using a TikTok proxy?
For HTTP proxies, the CONNECT request usually carries the hostname, but local DNS can still leak in some setups. With SOCKS5, use remote DNS resolution so names are resolved at the proxy rather than on your machine. Test the exit address and DNS behaviour before logging in.
Can a proxy stop TikTok from seeing my real location?
It can change the address TikTok sees, but it does not switch off GPS, SIM country or device region settings. If those still point somewhere else, the app has a conflict to resolve and may ask for verification or ignore the proxy for content decisions. A proxy is one layer, not a location eraser.
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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