Proxy for Facebook
Facebook is where a proxy is worth the most on account work and the least on everything else. Ad accounts carry money and want an address that never moves. The API counts against your app, and collection is addressed in writing at the top of their robots file.
What Meta actually counts
- Your app, for API limits. Meta publishes the formula rather than a flat number: calls in one hour equal 200 multiplied by your daily active users. It says plainly that this is a limit on the app, not on each user. Addresses appear nowhere in it.
- Everything that can tie two accounts together, and it has more of those than the network offers. Device and browser fingerprint, cookies, the phone number, the recovery email and the payment method all link profiles that never shared a connection.
- The address at login and at registration, which is where it genuinely matters. A server address on a new account is how an ordinary sign-up turns into an identity check.
- Automated collection, in writing. The first thing in Facebook’s robots.txt is a notice that collecting data through automated means is prohibited without express written permission from Facebook, and that any permission granted covers only the purpose stated in it. The file then names 36 agents and carries over a thousand disallow rules.
Which of our products fits which Facebook job
Accounts first, because that is where the money and the risk both sit.
| What you are doing | What we would use | Why that one |
|---|---|---|
| Ad accounts and Business Manager | ISP, one address per account, fixed | These accounts hold spend and payment methods. An address that moves is read as a takeover, and the review that follows costs more than the proxy. |
| Several personal or farmed accounts | Mobile, or ISP where the budget is tighter | A carrier address is shared by many real subscribers, so it does not single an account out. Whatever you pick, one address per account. |
| A Graph API integration | Datacenter IPv4, or nothing | Your server talks to graph.facebook.com and the limit is counted against your app. Buy a cheap stable address if you need a fixed one for an allow-list, and expect no change in quota. |
| Collecting public pages | Read the notice in their robots.txt first | Facebook states the position in writing before it lists a single rule. That is a decision to take deliberately, not one to solve with a larger pool. |
If you buy one thing on this page, make it one address per ad account. Sharing a connection across accounts is the cheapest possible saving and the most expensive possible link once a review starts.
Setting it up
Facebook has no proxy setting. The proxy goes into the antidetect browser profile holding the account, or into the client calling the API.
# Antidetect browser profile, one session number per account:
Type SOCKS5
Host proxy.sotaproxy.com
Port 10000
Username login_c_US_s_14_ttl_1h
Password your password
# On ISP or mobile, point the profile at the address you were given:
Host 198.51.100.20
Port 50100
# Graph API from your own code:
curl -x http://login:password@198.51.100.20:50100 \
"https://graph.facebook.com/v21.0/me?access_token=$TOKEN"- Match the profile time zone, language and screen metrics to the proxy country. Meta reads the contradiction before it reads the address.
- Never move an ad account to a new country. If you must, do it once, deliberately, and expect verification rather than silence.
- One session number per profile. Two profiles on one number share an exit, which hands Meta the link you paid to avoid.
- For a Graph API client, a proxy is only useful when something on your side needs a fixed outbound address. It will not raise the hourly calculation.
What to buy for Facebook
Ad accounts are the case that pays for itself here. Prices are entry prices and fall with volume.
ISP proxies
from $2.30 per IP per month, 24 countries
The default for ad accounts and Business Manager. One address each, fixed for the term.
- Registered to a consumer provider, so it reads as a person at home rather than a server
- Never moves, which is exactly what an account holding spend wants
- Traffic is not metered, which suits a profile left open all day
- 24 countries, so a specific account country may not be covered
- The address is yours alone, so everything done from it is attributable to you
Mobile proxies
from $5.76 per day, 26 countries
For accounts where the cost is justified and several need to look unconnected.
- A carrier address shared with many real subscribers, so it does not single an account out
- Operator selection, and rotation by a physical reconnect
- The strongest option we sell for account work
- The most expensive thing we sell per day
- Does nothing about device fingerprint, phone number or payment method, which Meta also uses
- Geolocation is coarse, so the city is often wrong
Residential proxies
from $2.00 per GB, 220+ countries
For account countries ISP does not cover, and for work that does not justify a monthly address.
- Household addresses in more countries than anything else we sell
- A session suffix holds one exit for the length of a task
- Billed by traffic, so light use is cheap
- A session ends when the household device drops, one hour at most
- Wrong shape for an ad account you intend to keep for years
Datacenter IPv4 is absent from this list for accounts, where it is the wrong signal at exactly the wrong moment. It is the sensible pick for a Graph API client that just needs one predictable outbound address, and it is on the pricing page.
Where people go wrong
Sharing one address across ad accounts
It saves a few dollars a month and creates the single clearest link between accounts that were supposed to be separate. When one gets reviewed, the rest are next to it.
Buying proxies to raise Graph API limits
The hourly allowance is 200 times your daily active users, counted against the app. Addresses are not part of that arithmetic.
Treating the address as the whole defence
Meta links accounts by device, cookies, phone number, recovery email and payment method. A clean address next to a cloned browser profile changes nothing.
Moving an account between countries
People chase cheaper traffic and wonder why an established ad account lands in review. Pick the country once and stay there.
What a proxy will not do here
It will not restore a disabled ad account, it will not raise an API allowance calculated from your user count, it will not separate accounts that share a phone number or a card, and it will not turn automated collection into something Facebook has permitted. What it does is keep the network layer from being the thing that connects your accounts, and give an ad account an address that stays where you put it. On this platform that is worth real money, which is why the honest version of this page still ends in a purchase.
Questions people actually type
Which proxy type is best for Facebook ad accounts?
ISP, one per account. The address is registered to a consumer provider, stays fixed for the whole term and is cheap enough per month to give every account its own. Mobile is stronger still if the account justifies $5.76 a day.
How many Facebook accounts per IP?
One, if they must not be connected. This is the single most common and most expensive mistake on this platform, because the link surfaces exactly when one account gets looked at.
Do proxies help with Facebook API rate limits?
No. Meta publishes the formula: calls in one hour equal 200 multiplied by your daily active users, counted against the app rather than each user. Addresses do not appear in the calculation at all.
Will a proxy stop my ad account being disabled?
No. Disabling follows the account, the payment method, the page and the ads themselves. A proxy stops the network linking your accounts to one another, which is a real benefit and a different one.
Can I scrape Facebook with proxies?
Before the technical question, read the first four lines of their robots.txt: collecting data by automated means is prohibited without express written permission, and any permission covers only the stated purpose. That is Facebook telling you its position in advance, and rotation does not engage with it.
Does Facebook detect proxies?
It classifies addresses rather than hunting proxies. A datacenter range is recognisable and gets weighed at login and registration. A consumer or carrier address is not, and that is the property you are buying.
Where the claims above come from
Three primary documents, all of which answer a normal browser request. The first one is short and worth reading before anything else on this page.
- Facebook robots.txtOpens with a notice that automated collection of data on Facebook is prohibited without express written permission, and that any permission is limited to the purpose it names. Below that sit 36 named agents and over a thousand disallow rules. This is the fastest way to understand where Facebook stands before you plan anything.
- Meta, Graph API rate limitingThe published formula for the app-level ceiling, 200 calls per hour multiplied by daily active users, with the explicit note that it limits the app rather than each user. Read it if anyone offers to sell you throughput here.
- Meta, Automated Data Collection TermsThe terms the robots file points at, which authorised agents are required to follow. Relevant if your plan involves collection at any scale.