Brazil proxies
Two questions decide what you should buy for Brazil: whether your targets filter hosting ranges, and how far your workers sit from the country. The large marketplaces here do filter and want residential; publishers and aggregators mostly do not and want more addresses rather than more expensive ones. Connectivity concentrates in São Paulo, so that is where both the fastest datacenter addresses and the densest residential pool are.
What we have in Brazil
All four types are available. Prices are the same as in every other country we cover.
Brazilian retail, local search results, ad verification
Accounts and long sessions on one address
Volume collection, routes through the São Paulo hub
Platforms that expect a carrier address
What Brazilian addresses get used for
Marketplace price monitoring
Mercado Livre, Amazon.com.br, Magazine Luiza, Americanas, Casas Bahia, Shopee BR: this is where the trade happens.
Price comparison
Buscapé and Zoom: the aggregators shoppers use to read the field and retailers use to judge their position.
Classifieds and second-hand
OLX Brasil, Webmotors for cars, ZAP Imóveis and QuintoAndar for property.
Ad verification
G1, UOL, Folha de S.Paulo, Estadão: display campaigns bought for a Brazilian audience do not render for a foreign address.
What looks different from outside Brazil
These serve a Brazilian visitor something other than what a foreign one sees, because of broadcast rights and local catalogues. We sell addresses rather than a way past detection.
Which type to take for a Brazilian job
Addresses in Brazilian datacenters, traffic unmetered. The São Paulo hub gives the shortest domestic routes.
Volume collection, APIs, targets that ignore address class
Home connection addresses, billed per gigabyte, rotating by default.
Marketplaces, google.com.br results, ad checks
Consumer registration on datacenter hardware. Static and dedicated for the term.
Accounts, long sessions, anything that must not change address
A carrier address behind NAT, shared with real subscribers.
Social platforms and apps that expect a phone
Cities people ask for here
Cities are set with the _city_ suffix. The country is vast, and distance affects both delivery times and latency inside Brazil itself.
The setups people take here most often
- 01Datacenter, São PauloVolume jobs: the shortest domestic routes and cheap traffic.
- 02Residential, country levelMarketplace collection when regional differences are not needed.
- 03Residential paired southeast and northeastWhen measuring delivery: distance changes both timing and cost here.
- 04Static ISPAccounts and ad verification: the address holds for the whole term.
Connection strings for Brazil
The country code is BR, upper case. The city goes after it with _city_, hyphens instead of spaces, in the order country, city, session, lifetime.
Brazilian static addresses take no suffixes: the host is the IP from your dashboard, port 50100, SOCKS5 on 50101.
Brazilian exits, four ways
curl -x login_c_BR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# São Paulo, held for fifteen minutes on session 42
curl -x login_c_BR_city_Sao-Paulo_s_42_ttl_15m:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# the northeast, for delivery differences
curl -x login_c_BR_city_Recife_s_43_ttl_15m:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# a Brazilian static address: no suffixes
curl -x login:password@YOUR-BR-IP:50100 https://api.ipify.orgDistance inside the country and latency from outside
Brazil is larger than the map suggests, and that shows up twice.
Domestically, connectivity is heavily concentrated around São Paulo, where the bulk of international and internal routing converges. A request from São Paulo to the northeast takes longer than one inside the southeast, and at volume it is visible in your logs.
From outside the difference is starker. Routes from Europe run over transatlantic submarine cables, and round trips here are counted in hundreds of milliseconds rather than the tens you see between European countries. When planning volume collection from European infrastructure, build that into the time estimate rather than trying to compensate by shortening timeouts.
Practical conclusion: keep workers closer to the target when the volume is large, and do not drop the client timeout below thirty seconds on residential. Throughput here comes from the number of parallel addresses, not from impatience.
What actually blocks you on Brazilian targets
The useful question for this country is not which proxy is best in general, but which of the local targets care about your address class. They split into three groups and the split decides your bill.
The large marketplaces run serious bot defence and treat hosting ranges as suspicious on the first request. Expect a 403 from a datacenter address on listing and search pages, and expect residential to be the working answer there.
Publisher sites and the aggregators are the middle case: usually reachable from datacenter for reading pages, but they rate limit hard once you push volume through a single address. That is a 429, not a block, and it wants more addresses rather than a more expensive type.
Public and reference sites mostly do not check at all, and paying per gigabyte for them is the most common way to overspend here.
Test each domain once with a datacenter address before deciding. Ten minutes of testing routinely moves a Brazilian job from residential to datacenter and cuts the monthly cost by an order of magnitude.
Which exits you get here, and how stable they are
Practical characteristics of the Brazilian pool, since that is what you are actually buying.
Residential exits concentrate where the population and broadband do: the southeast, and São Paulo above all. Requests for southeastern cities succeed most reliably; the north and the interior are thinner, and a city request there fails more often. Write the country-level fallback and log when it fires.
Sticky sessions behave the same as everywhere: thirty seconds, fifteen minutes or one hour, with the hour as a ceiling rather than a promise. Brazilian home connections are no less stable than European ones, so the usual expectations hold.
Static products behave better here than the size of the country might suggest, because Brazilian datacenter capacity is concentrated and well connected. An ISP address in São Paulo is the steadiest thing we can give you in this country.
Choosing the type for a Brazilian target
The usual order, and São Paulo datacenter is particularly good value here because of how connectivity concentrates.
- Start with datacenter in São Paulo. If the target serves you normally, stop: $1.15 per address per month and the best routes in the country.
- A 403 on the first request means hosting ranges are filtered. Move that domain to residential, leave the rest.
- A 429 after many requests is a per-address rate limit: more addresses, not a different type.
- Accounts belong on ISP: static, dedicated, Brazilian consumer registration.
- Take mobile only where the platform expects carrier traffic.
What Brazilian sites check beyond the address
A Brazilian address opens the first gate; language and timezone decide much of the rest.
Send pt-BR rather than pt-PT. They are different variants with different vocabulary, and a site receiving European Portuguese may return the wrong version or fail to treat the request as local at all.
Timezone: most of the country runs on America/Sao_Paulo. An antidetect profile with a European zone on a Brazilian address contradicts itself by several hours rather than by one, as it would between neighbouring European countries.
Then the usual: consent banners hide content, and a scraper that does not handle them captures an empty page under a successful status code.
What a month of Brazilian work costs
Three scenarios at our prices, so you have something to check a quote against.
- Price monitoring across Brazilian marketplaces, 60,000 listings a day with images blocked, roughly 90 KB per page. That is about 5.4 GB a day, around 162 GB a month: $162 on residential. If the targets do not filter hosting ranges, fifteen datacenter addresses do the same for $20.25.
- Collecting three price fields instead of one adds no traffic: the numbers are on the same page, only the parsing changes.
- Twenty Brazilian accounts on ISP addresses at $2.10 each on the volume tier: $42 a month, with no traffic billing at all.
The legal part, stated plainly
Brazil has its own personal data protection legislation, separate from the European one. Collecting data that identifies people in Brazil is governed by it regardless of where your company sits or which address your traffic exits through.
This is general information rather than legal advice. Our terms require lawful use and we act on abuse reports. Where the answer carries commercial risk, ask a lawyer familiar with that jurisdiction.
Verifying a Brazilian exit
Under a minute. Here it is worth adding a latency check: it is higher than European numbers, and that is normal rather than a sign of a fault.
Three checks
# 1. is the exit Brazilian, and in which city
curl -x login_c_BR_city_Sao-Paulo:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://ipinfo.io/json
# 2. what the round trip actually looks like from where you run
curl -o /dev/null -s -w "total: %{time_total}s\n" \
-x login_c_BR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# 3. does the sticky session hold
for i in 1 2 3; do
curl -s -x login_c_BR_s_42_ttl_15m:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org; echo
doneQuestions people ask before buying Brazilian addresses
Are all four types available in Brazil?
Yes. Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile are all there.
Datacenter or residential for Brazilian marketplaces?
Residential. The large marketplaces treat hosting ranges as suspicious on the first request. For publishers, aggregators and public sites, test with a datacenter address first: it usually works and costs an order of magnitude less.
Why are requests so slow?
From Europe the routes cross the Atlantic and round trips are counted in hundreds of milliseconds. That is normal. Keep workers closer to the target and do not shorten timeouts.
Can I send pt-PT?
Better not to. Brazilian and European Portuguese differ, and the site may return the wrong version.
Do Brazilian addresses cost more?
No. Prices are the same everywhere: residential from $1.00 per GB, datacenter from $1.15 per address per month, ISP from $1.90, mobile from $5.76 per day.
How reliable is a request for a specific city?
Reliable in the southeast; thinner in the north and the interior, where a city request fails more often. Write a country-level fallback and log when it fires.