Glossary

ASN

The number of an internet provider's network. Residential proxies can target one with -asn-<number>, instead of a country or city.

Authorized IPs

A proxy's IP whitelist: only requests from these IPs are accepted, even with the right password.

Balance

Your account's money, in USD. Top-ups add to it and traffic is deducted from it.

Carrier (ISP) targeting

Mobile proxies can target one mobile operator with -isp-<code>, using the code from the dashboard, instead of a country or city.

Gateway

The one address every request goes through; it is on the proxy's Integration tab.

Identity verification (KYC)

A one-time ID check, asked for once your top-ups pass $50 in total.

Limit

A daily or monthly cap on a proxy, in GB of traffic or USD of spend.

Mobile proxy

An IP from a phone or tablet on a 4G or 5G network.

Pay-As-You-Go

Billing per GB of traffic, deducted from your balance, with no commitment.

Proxy

One set of credentials with its own settings, limits and usage. Create one per project, client or scraper to keep them apart.

Residential proxy

An IP from a desktop or laptop on a home internet connection.

Rotation

Changing the IP: by default every request gets a new one.

Session

Requests that share one IP, set with -session-<id>. -time-<minutes> ends it after a set time; -const makes it fail instead of moving to a new IP.

Status

Where a proxy stands: Active, Paused (stopped by you), No Balance, Traffic Limit, Budget Limit or Blocked.

Subscription

A monthly plan with a set amount of traffic. Coming; today all traffic is Pay-As-You-Go.

Target whitelist

The hosts a proxy may reach, such as example.com or *.example.org. Requests to any other host are refused.

Username parameters

Suffixes such as -country-de or -session-run42 that set targeting and sessions per request. The full list is in the docs.