

The Proxy Manager can help you define rules for IP rotation, blacklist IPs that give bad results, optimize bandwidth usage by routing some requests through your regular non-proxied connection, and more.īright Data’s residential proxies support all the main protocols including HTTP, HTTPS and even SOCKS5. To use its proxies, you can use the Proxy Manager, which is an open source tool that can be installed on top of Windows, macOS and Linux for free. If you have very specific targeting requirements, you’ll appreciate Bright Data's support for ASN (Autonomous System Number) in addition to the usual targeting options such as country, state, and city. Bright Data also sells mobile IPs that cost more than the usual residential IPs but are more resilient and will work on particularly difficult to please targets. In addition to rotating residential IPs, the service also offers static ones, which are a group of 6 to 100 residential addresses for your exclusive use that haven't been previously used with your target domain. The first that strikes you about Bright Data (formerly Luminati) is its huge proxy pool of over 72 millions IPs. You can use the extension to again narrow down the location and type of proxy you want and even choose the authentication mechanism. If you plan to use the proxy to browse the web, Smartproxy also has extensions for both Chrome and Firefox. Depending on these, the dashboard will show the appropriate proxy gateway that you can then use in your apps and tools. You can however filter down the proxies based on a couple of useful parameters such as the location, and the type of session (rotating or sticky). By default, Smartproxy displays all the different gateways for the countries and cities that it supports. You can select the proxy you want to use from a list of backconnect gateway servers in your dashboard. Smartproxy limits plans by bandwidth but allows you to run an unlimited number of concurrent threads. While this can be disadvantageous as you can get flagged IPs, the provider ensures its quick rotation policy ensures its proxies don’t get banned. Its pool of over 40 million rotating residential IPs comes from desktop and mobile devices and is shared between all the users.

You can get both residential and data center proxies from Smartproxy.
