Singapore proxies
Singapore is the one country on our list where the city question never comes up: it is a city-state, so country level already is city level. The second thing worth knowing up front is that a large share of people buying a Singaporean address are not after Singaporean content at all, they are after routes across Asia, and those are two different jobs with different answers.
What we have in Singapore
All four types are available. Prices are the same as in every other country we cover.
Singaporean retail, local search results, ad verification
Accounts and long sessions on one address
Volume collection and a base for Asian infrastructure
Platforms that expect a carrier address
What Singaporean addresses get used for
Marketplace price monitoring
Shopee SG, Lazada SG, Qoo10, Amazon.sg: Singaporean storefronts are separate from the Malaysian and Indonesian ones even though the platforms are the same.
Classifieds and second-hand
Carousell, sgCarMart for cars, PropertyGuru for property: local platforms with their own results.
Asian collection infrastructure
Singapore is one of the largest connectivity hubs in the region, so a lot of work aimed at Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and beyond runs from here.
Ad verification
The Straits Times, CNA, Mothership, TODAY: campaigns bought for a Singaporean audience do not render for a foreign address.
What looks different from outside Singapore
These serve a Singaporean 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 Singaporean job
Addresses in Singaporean datacenters, traffic unmetered. Some of the best Asian routing in our whole catalogue.
Volume collection and regional infrastructure
Home connection addresses, billed per gigabyte. The pool is small, because the country is.
Marketplaces and classifieds, where hosting ranges get filtered
Consumer registration on datacenter hardware. Static and dedicated for the term.
Accounts and long sessions
A carrier address behind NAT, shared with real subscribers.
Social platforms and apps that expect a phone
Cities are not a question here
Singapore is a city-state, so the _city_ suffix has nothing to do: a country-level request already gives you the city. This is the only country in our coverage where that question does not arise.
The setups people take here most often
- 01Datacenter, country levelA base for Asian collection: cheap traffic and the best regional routes.
- 02Residential, country levelMarketplaces and classifieds, where hosting ranges get turned away.
- 03Static ISPAccounts: the address holds for the whole term.
- 04Singapore as a fallback for ChinaWhen you need routing toward the mainland rather than Chinese content.
Connection strings for Singapore
The country code is SG, upper case. No city suffix is needed here, so the string is shorter than in other countries: only the session and the lifetime remain.
Singaporean static addresses take no suffixes: the host is the IP from your dashboard, port 50100, SOCKS5 on 50101.
Singaporean exits, four ways
curl -x login_c_SG:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# held for fifteen minutes on session 42, no city needed
curl -x login_c_SG_s_42_ttl_15m:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# a Singaporean static address: no suffixes
curl -x login:password@YOUR-SG-IP:50100 https://api.ipify.org
# SOCKS5 with remote DNS so the lookup resolves here too
curl -x socks5h://login_c_SG:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.orgTwo different reasons to buy a Singaporean address
Worth separating before you buy, because different products answer them.
The first is Singaporean content: prices on local storefronts, local search results, advertising bought for the local audience. Address class matters here, and marketplaces usually want residential.
The second is routing. Singapore is one of the largest connectivity hubs in Asia, so paths from here to regional targets are short. Teams running Asian collection infrastructure base it here, and Singaporean content does not interest them at all. That job wants datacenter, and residential would be both more expensive and slower.
These two are unusually easy to conflate here, because both are answered by the code SG. Decide which is yours in advance and the product picks itself.
What actually blocks you on Singaporean targets
The target set is narrow because the country is small, and the split comes out clean.
Marketplaces and the classifieds platforms filter hosting ranges: expect a 403 from datacenter and plan for residential.
Publishers and reference sites serve datacenter addresses normally.
Broadcasters and carrier services check the country strictly, and that is the one group where a Singaporean address is needed as Singaporean rather than as Asian.
Search results are reachable but rate limited per address: more addresses rather than a different type.
Which exits you get here, and how stable they are
The Singaporean pool in practical terms, and the main thing about it is size.
The country is small, so the residential pool is small in absolute terms. Dozens of parallel sticky sessions will exhaust the useful part of it faster than in Germany or Britain, and on volume jobs that shows up as a rising share of repeated addresses.
Line quality is high in exchange: home connections are fast and stable, and sticky sessions rarely end early for network reasons.
Static is the opposite story: datacenter and ISP inventory here is among the best routed in our catalogue, which is exactly why Singapore gets used as a base for the whole region.
Choosing the type for a Singaporean target
The usual order, and it is unusually short here because the city question is absent.
- Start with datacenter. If the target serves you normally, stop: $1.15 per address per month and the best routes in the region.
- A 403 on the first request means hosting ranges are filtered. Move to residential.
- A 429 after many requests is a per-address rate limit: more addresses, not a different type.
- Accounts belong on ISP: static, dedicated, Singaporean consumer registration.
- If what you need is regional routing rather than Singaporean content, do not buy residential at all: here it is more expensive and slower for no benefit.
What Singaporean sites check beyond the address
A Singaporean address opens the first gate, and after that things are simpler here than in most countries.
Language is usually not an issue: business and consumer internet here is predominantly English, so en-SG or en-US create no contradiction, unlike in Switzerland or Canada.
There is one timezone for the whole country, Asia/Singapore, and it is harder to get wrong than in the US or Canada.
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 Singaporean work costs
Three scenarios at our prices, so you have something to check a quote against.
- Price monitoring across Singaporean marketplaces, 30,000 listings a day with images blocked, roughly 90 KB per page. That is about 2.7 GB a day, around 81 GB a month: $81 on residential.
- Asian infrastructure on ten datacenter addresses: $13.50 a month with unmetered traffic, and this is the case where residential is not needed at all.
- Twenty Singaporean accounts on ISP addresses at $2.10 each on the volume tier: $42 a month.
The legal part, stated plainly
Singapore has its own personal data protection act, separate from the European regime. Collecting data that identifies people in Singapore 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.
Verifying a Singaporean exit
Under a minute, and there is one check fewer than usual: with no city to request, there is nothing to confirm about it.
Two checks
# 1. is the exit Singaporean
curl -s -x login_c_SG:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://ipinfo.io/json | grep -o '"country": "[A-Z]*"'
# 2. does the sticky session hold
for i in 1 2 3; do
curl -s -x login_c_SG_s_42_ttl_15m:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org; echo
doneQuestions people ask before buying Singaporean addresses
Do I need city targeting here?
No. Singapore is a city-state and a country-level request already gives you the city. The _city_ suffix has nothing to do.
Are all four types available in Singapore?
Yes. Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile are all there.
Can I use Singapore for targets in other Asian countries?
For routing, yes, and that is one of the main reasons to buy it. But if the target’s content depends on the country, you need that country’s address rather than a Singaporean one.
Why do residential addresses repeat?
The pool is small because the country is. Across dozens of parallel sticky sessions the useful part of it is exhausted faster than in large countries.
Do Singaporean 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.
What should I use for Asian infrastructure?
Datacenter. It gives the best regional routing in our catalogue with unmetered traffic, and residential would only be more expensive and slower for that job.