# SotaProxy

> All-in-one Proxy Platform for Automation & Digital Growth. Residential, datacenter, mobile, and ISP proxies with rotation, sticky sessions, and city-level targeting. Pay-as-you-go pricing (per GB or per IP), crypto payments, no KYC, credentials issued in about 60 seconds.

## Product

- [Residential Proxies](https://sotaproxy.com/en/proxies/residential): real ISP IPs from 220+ countries
- [Datacenter Proxies](https://sotaproxy.com/en/proxies/datacenter): fast, low-cost IPs for volume tasks
- [Mobile Proxies](https://sotaproxy.com/en/proxies/mobile): 4G/5G carrier IPs
- [ISP Proxies](https://sotaproxy.com/en/proxies/isp): static residential IPs
- [Pricing](https://sotaproxy.com/en/pricing): pay per GB or per IP, from $0.20
- [Technology](https://sotaproxy.com/en/technology): infrastructure and IP sourcing
- [FAQ](https://sotaproxy.com/en/faqs): common questions about payments, setup, and usage

## Documentation

- [Connection string reference](https://sotaproxy.com/en/docs/connection-string): Every field in a SotaProxy connection string: endpoints, ports, login suffixes for country, city and sticky sessions, with working curl examples.
- [Rotating and sticky sessions](https://sotaproxy.com/en/docs/rotating-vs-sticky): How rotation works on the residential gateway, the three sticky lifetimes we support, and how to pick session identifiers for parallel work.
- [Country and city targeting](https://sotaproxy.com/en/docs/geo-targeting): How to request a country or a city on the residential gateway, what to do when a city returns 400, and which countries the static products cover.
- [Protocols and ports](https://sotaproxy.com/en/docs/protocols-and-ports): Which ports our products answer on, how HTTP and SOCKS5 differ in practice, and why socks5h matters for DNS.
- [Authentication and IP whitelisting](https://sotaproxy.com/en/docs/ip-whitelist): Credentials versus whitelisting on SotaProxy, which products support which, and how to avoid locking yourself out.
- [407 Proxy Authentication Required](https://sotaproxy.com/en/docs/error-407): Why a proxy returns 407, how it differs from 401, and the specific malformed logins that cause it on SotaProxy.
- [502 and 400: no exit available](https://sotaproxy.com/en/docs/error-502-and-400): What a 502 from the gateway means, why a 400 mentions an unknown country or city, and how to fall back without wasting traffic.
- [Slow responses and timeouts](https://sotaproxy.com/en/docs/slow-and-timeouts): Why residential routes take longer to establish, which timeout values work, and how to tell a proxy problem from a target problem.

## Locations

- [Costa Rica](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/costa-rica): Costa Rican IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. The most even market in our catalogue: three carriers split the country almost equally and none covers half of it.
- [Paraguay](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/paraguay): Paraguayan IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Tigo sits in 44 cities out of 53, and the exceptions fall precisely on the colony towns of the Chaco and the eastern border.
- [Puerto Rico](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/puerto-rico): Puerto Rican IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. A US territory, yet geolocation databases read it as PR rather than the United States. We checked.
- [Dominican Republic](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/dominican-republic): Dominican IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Santiago runs deeper than the capital, the capital is split across three entries, and Punta Cana holds a single network.
- [Slovenia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/slovenia): Slovenian IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. The three sites holding the most valuable data are behind a Cloudflare challenge, while next door in Croatia not one site is closed.
- [Croatia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/croatia): Croatian IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Twenty sites out of twenty open from outside, so the address here is taken for the coast and for ads rather than to get through.
- [Bosnia and Herzegovina](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/bosnia-and-herzegovina): Bosnian IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. The carrier here tells you the entity, the entity tells you the script, and the language attribute tells you nothing.
- [Algeria](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/algeria): Algerian IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. One hundred and fifty two cities and exactly one network for the whole country: the widest geography and the narrowest choice in our catalogue.
- [Egypt](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/egypt): Egyptian IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Telecom Egypt sits in 110 cities out of 121, and switching carrier here does not switch the access network.
- [Pakistan](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/pakistan): Pakistani IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Lahore runs deeper than Karachi, Punjab holds more than half the cities, and the regulator requires local companies to register VPNs.
- [Tunisia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/tunisia): Tunisian IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Only eleven networks in the country, yet seven cities give you nine or ten of them.
- [Serbia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/serbia): Serbian IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. The pool leans to Vojvodina rather than Belgrade, and the Serbian web runs on two alphabets at once.
- [Greece](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/greece): Greek IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. One carrier group covers 83 cities out of 99, and the tail of the pool is made of university networks.
- [Denmark](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/denmark): Danish IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Thirty four networks for the country, half of it held by a wholesale operator, and a tail made of housing associations and municipalities.
- [Peru](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/peru): Peruvian IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Lima holds half the networks in the country, and seven of twenty sites we checked are closed to a datacentre address.
- [Ecuador](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/ecuador): Ecuadorian IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Two equal centres, the deepest pool per city in the region, and a country running on the US dollar.
- [Venezuela](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/venezuela): Venezuelan IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. 137 networks, but 25 of them exist only in Caracas, and what you see depends on which carrier you pinned.
- [Slovakia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/slovakia): Slovak IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. 185 towns and 78 networks, but in 130 of those towns there is exactly one network.
- [Vietnam](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/vietnam): Vietnamese IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Fine-grained geography and only three networks: VNPT, Viettel and FPT cover the whole country.
- [Norway](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/norway): Norwegian IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Two carriers split the country almost evenly, and the pool spreads across regions more evenly than in most countries.
- [Chile](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/chile): Chilean IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. The most competitive carrier market in our pool: 44 networks in Santiago alone.
- [Hungary](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/hungary): Hungarian IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. Three carriers rather than one, so here you can actually get different autonomous systems, not just different cities.
- [Philippines](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/philippines): Philippine IP addresses from $1.00 per GB. The pool rests on PLDT and Converge, so choosing the carrier matters more here than choosing the city.
- [Russia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/russia): Russian IP addresses with real prices. Search here is regional by design, and eleven time zones break the idea of a daily slice.
- [Moldova](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/moldova): Moldovan IP addresses with real prices. Check the target actually serves the country first, and a small pool sometimes makes mobile the sensible choice.
- [Bangladesh](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/bangladesh): Bangladeshi IP addresses with real prices. Digits here are Bengali, some text sits in legacy encodings, and page weight decides your bill.
- [Armenia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/armenia): Armenian IP addresses with real prices. Armenian punctuation does not work like Latin punctuation, and much of the audience lives outside the country.
- [Morocco](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/morocco): Moroccan IP addresses with real prices. Some queries here are written in Latin letters with digits inside words, and a moving calendar shifts year-on-year comparisons.
- [Colombia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/colombia): Colombian IP addresses with real prices. A mobile address here is shared with more people than usual, and postal addresses read as a grid.
- [New Zealand](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/new-zealand): New Zealand IP addresses with real prices. An Australian address will not do, and the calendar here runs the other way round.
- [Kazakhstan](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/kazakhstan): Kazakh IP addresses with real prices. The web describes only part of this market, and cities here exist under several names at once.
- [Bulgaria](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/bulgaria): Bulgarian IP addresses with real prices. Price series here cross a currency changeover, and queries arrive in two alphabets.
- [South Africa](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/south-africa): South African IP addresses with real prices. The pool here depends on scheduled power supply, and your pipeline has to survive that.
- [Malaysia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/malaysia): Malaysian IP addresses with real prices. Three languages sit mixed on one page, and the country comes in two pieces with separate logistics.
- [United Arab Emirates](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/united-arab-emirates): Emirati IP addresses with real prices. English is the primary commercial language here, and a local exit shows you local network conditions in full.
- [Argentina](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/argentina): Argentine IP addresses with real prices. Prices here have a short shelf life, so collection frequency matters more than breadth.
- [Mexico](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/mexico): Mexican IP addresses with real prices. A site’s "Latin American" version is usually the Mexican one, and treating it as the region is expensive.
- [Taiwan](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/taiwan): Taiwanese IP addresses with real prices. Traditional characters are not converted Simplified, and mainland vocabularies do not transfer here.
- [Israel](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/israel): Israeli IP addresses with real prices. Right-to-left text breaks parsing rather than access, and the working week here starts on Sunday.
- [Ireland](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/ireland): Irish IP addresses with real prices. The only large English-speaking market inside the EU, and a British address is not a substitute for it.
- [Belgium](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/belgium): Belgian IP addresses with real prices. The one country in our coverage where city targeting pays for itself, because language follows geography.
- [Estonia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/estonia): Estonian IP addresses with real prices. Part of the work here is answered by open government data without proxies, and we say which part.
- [Finland](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/finland): Finnish IP addresses with real prices. Finnish grammar breaks keyword lists and name matching harder than anything else in Europe.
- [Sweden](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/sweden): Swedish IP addresses with real prices. One platform serves four Nordic countries, and which of them you are shown is decided by the address.
- [Georgia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/georgia): Georgian IP addresses with real prices. The market fits on a handful of domains and the text runs in three writing systems, and both change the job.
- [Latvia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/latvia): Latvian IP addresses with real prices. The market runs in two languages and the pool is small, and both facts change how collection is planned here.
- [Austria](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/austria): Austrian IP addresses with real prices. Much of Austrian commerce runs on German domains, where the country is decided by your address rather than the URL.
- [Czechia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/czechia): Czech IP addresses with real prices. There are two search engines here rather than one, and the second is far more country-bound than Google.
- [Portugal](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/portugal): Portuguese IP addresses with real prices. Portuguese comes in two varieties, and the address alone will not get you the European version.
- [Indonesia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/indonesia): Indonesian IP addresses with real prices. Why the pool sits almost entirely on Java, and when a Singaporean address is the better buy.
- [Australia](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/australia): Australian IP addresses with real prices. Why distance matters more than anything here, and where to run workers so a job does not take twice as long.
- [Hong Kong](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/hong-kong): Hong Kong IP addresses with real prices. Why a Hong Kong address does not substitute for a mainland Chinese one, and why it gets bought for routing.
- [Turkey](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/turkey): Turkish IP addresses with real prices. Why some external sites may not open through a Turkish exit, and which local targets are stricter than the rest.
- [India](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/india): Indian IP addresses with real prices. Why city targeting actually works here unlike in small countries, and why language is not the trap it is next door.
- [South Korea](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/south-korea): Korean IP addresses with real prices. Why search collection here does not start with Google, and what a Korean address does not solve for account work.
- [Japan](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/japan): Japanese IP addresses with real prices. Why a Japanese address is a precondition here rather than an optimisation, and which targets refuse foreigners outright.
- [Thailand](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/thailand): Thai IP addresses on all four types with real prices. Why everything concentrates in Bangkok, and when a mobile address beats a residential one here.
- [Singapore](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/singapore): Singaporean IP addresses on all four types with real prices. Why city targeting is unnecessary here, and why Singapore gets bought as a base for Asia.
- [Canada](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/canada): Canadian IP addresses on all four types with real prices. Why a US address does not substitute here, and which city decides the language of the page.
- [Brazil](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/brazil): Brazilian IP addresses on all four types with real prices. Which local targets block a datacenter address, which cities are reachable, and what a month actually costs.
- [Italy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/italy): Italian IP addresses on all four types with real prices. Why Milan and Rome answer different questions, and which targets refuse a datacenter address.
- [Switzerland](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/switzerland): Swiss IP addresses with real prices. Why Swiss prices cannot be compared with EU ones directly, and what to do about sites that speak three languages.
- [Lithuania](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/lithuania): Lithuanian IP addresses with real prices. Why Lithuanian datacenter ranges get recognised more often than you would expect, and when you actually need all three Baltic markets.
- [Ukraine](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/ukraine): Ukrainian IP addresses on all four types with real prices. How residential availability depends on the power supply, and what to use instead when it matters.
- [Spain](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/spain): Spanish IP addresses on all four types with real prices. Why the city you request decides the language version, and which targets refuse a datacenter address.
- [Romania](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/romania): Romanian IP addresses on all four types with real prices. Why one marketplace covers three countries here, and how Romanian residential exits differ on speed.
- [Poland](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/poland): Polish IP addresses on all four types with real prices. Which targets refuse a datacenter address, which cities hold up, and why Polish addresses get used across Europe.
- [France](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/france): French IP addresses on all four types with real prices. Which targets refuse a datacenter address, which cities are reachable, and what makes Marseille different.
- [Germany](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/germany): German IP addresses on all four types with real prices. What people monitor here, which cities are available, and which services show something different from outside.
- [United States](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/united-states): American IP addresses on all four types with real prices. Why the US is not one market, when city targeting is the actual job, and what a US address does not solve.
- [United Kingdom](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/united-kingdom): British IP addresses on residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile, with real prices, the GB country code that catches everyone once, and what a UK address is actually for.
- [China](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/china): Chinese IP addresses for market research, price monitoring and ad verification. What we have in China, what we do not, and which of three different questions you are really asking.
- [Netherlands](https://sotaproxy.com/en/locations/netherlands): Dutch IP addresses on all four types, with real prices, the exact connection strings for NL targeting, and what actually breaks without a local address.

## Use cases

- [Real Estate Data](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/real-estate-data)
- [Traffic Arbitrage](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/traffic-arbitrage)
- [Job Market Data](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/job-market-data)
- [MAP Compliance](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/map-compliance)
- [App Store Monitoring](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/app-store-monitoring)
- [Review Monitoring](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/review-monitoring)
- [Affiliate Marketing](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/affiliate-marketing)
- [Multi-Accounting](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/multi-accounting)
- [Web Scraping](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/web-scraping)
- [Price Monitoring](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/price-monitoring)
- [Ad Verification](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/ad-verification)
- [SEO Rank Tracking](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/seo-rank-tracking)
- [Social Media Automation](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/social-media-automation)
- [Market Research](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/market-research)
- [Sneaker Bots & Retail Automation](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/sneaker-bots)
- [Travel Fare Aggregation](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/travel-fare-aggregation)
- [Brand Protection](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/brand-protection)
- [Software & QA Testing](https://sotaproxy.com/en/use-cases/data-center-testing)

## Integrations

- [Python](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/python)
- [Scrapy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/scrapy)
- [Playwright](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/playwright)
- [Puppeteer](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/puppeteer)
- [Selenium](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/selenium)
- [Node.js](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/node-js)
- [cURL](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/curl)
- [GoLogin](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/gologin)
- [VMLogin](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/vmlogin)
- [Multilogin](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/multilogin)
- [Dolphin Anty](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/dolphin-anty)
- [Afina](https://sotaproxy.com/en/integrations/afina-antidetect)

## Comparisons

- [SotaProxy vs Bright Data](https://sotaproxy.com/en/compare/brightdata)
- [SotaProxy vs Smartproxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/compare/smartproxy)
- [SotaProxy vs Oxylabs](https://sotaproxy.com/en/compare/oxylabs)
- [SotaProxy vs IPRoyal](https://sotaproxy.com/en/compare/iproyal)
- [SotaProxy vs Webshare](https://sotaproxy.com/en/compare/webshare)

## Glossary

- [URL Canonicalization](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/url-canonicalization): Reducing the many addresses that lead to one page down to a single form, so a dataset counts pages rather than links.
- [Structured Data Extraction](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/structured-data-extraction): Reading the machine-readable blocks a page already publishes, instead of parsing the visible text with selectors.
- [HTTP CONNECT](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/http-connect): The request a client sends to open a raw tunnel through a proxy. Everything after it is encrypted end to end, so the proxy forwards bytes it cannot read.
- [Session Persistence](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/session-persistence): Keeping a sequence of requests recognisable as one visitor. It requires the client state and the exit address to stay together.
- [WebRTC Leak](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/webrtc-leak): A browser API that can expose local and public addresses directly, outside the HTTP path your proxy controls.
- [HTTP/2 Fingerprint](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/http2-fingerprint): A signature built from how a client opens an HTTP/2 connection: its settings, window sizes, priorities and header order.
- [Proxy Pricing Models](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/proxy-pricing-models): The unit a provider charges in: a gigabyte, an address per month, a port or a day. Two providers can look equally priced and differ several times over on the same job.
- [robots.txt](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/robots-txt): A file at the root of a site describing what its owner would prefer automated clients not to fetch. It is a convention, not an access control.
- [X-Forwarded-For](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/x-forwarded-for): A header that records the chain of addresses a request passed through. When a proxy adds your own address to it, the proxy has announced you.
- [JavaScript Rendering](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/javascript-rendering): Executing a page’s scripts so the content they build exists. Without it many sites return a valid, successful and completely empty page.
- [IP Reputation](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/ip-reputation): A judgement a site or a vendor makes about an address before it looks at your request. Mostly it is a judgement about the range, not about you.
- [IP Geolocation Database](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/geolocation-database): A vendor’s mapping from addresses to places. It is an estimate that different vendors make differently, and sites choose which one to believe.
- [403 Forbidden](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/http-403-forbidden): The server understood the request and refused it. In scraping it usually means the address class was rejected before anything else was considered.
- [429 Too Many Requests](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/http-429-too-many-requests): The server accepted you and is asking you to slow down. What matters is what it counts against: an address, an account or a fingerprint.
- [Rotating Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/rotating-proxy): A proxy that assigns a new IP address on each request or at a fixed interval.
- [Sticky Session](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/sticky-session): A proxy session that holds the same IP address for a defined time window rather than rotating on every request.
- [Residential Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/residential-proxy): A proxy that routes traffic through IP addresses assigned by ISPs to residential internet connections.
- [Datacenter Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/datacenter-proxy): A proxy hosted on servers in commercial datacenters, offering high speed and low cost per request.
- [ISP Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/isp-proxy): A static IP assigned by a real ISP but hosted on datacenter infrastructure - combining residential trust scores with datacenter performance.
- [Mobile Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/mobile-proxy): A proxy that routes traffic through real 4G/LTE mobile carrier connections, giving you a real carrier IP address.
- [IP Ban](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/ip-ban): A block placed on a specific IP address, preventing it from accessing a website or service.
- [Proxy Pool](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/proxy-pool): A collection of proxy IP addresses managed by a provider, from which IPs are assigned to users for each request or session.
- [SOCKS5 Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/socks5-proxy): A proxy protocol that routes any TCP or UDP traffic - not just HTTP - through a proxy server, with authentication support.
- [HTTP Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/http-proxy): A proxy that forwards HTTP and HTTPS requests between a client and a web server.
- [Backconnect Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/backconnect-proxy): A proxy architecture where a single gateway endpoint routes requests through a rotating pool of backend IPs.
- [Geo-Targeting (Proxy)](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/geo-targeting): A proxy feature that lets you route requests through IPs in a specific country, region, or city.
- [CAPTCHA (in web scraping)](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/captcha): A challenge-response test sites use to distinguish human users from automated bots - frequently triggered by scraping activity.
- [Dedicated Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/dedicated-proxy): A proxy IP assigned exclusively to one user - not shared with other customers.
- [Proxy Authentication](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/proxy-authentication): The method used to verify that a user is authorized to use a proxy endpoint - either username/password credentials or IP address whitelisting.
- [Residential vs. Datacenter Proxies](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/residential-vs-datacenter): Residential proxies use real ISP IPs with high trust scores. Datacenter proxies use server IPs that are faster and cheaper but more detectable.
- [IPv4 vs. IPv6 Proxies](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/ipv4-vs-ipv6): IPv4 proxies use 32-bit addresses (the current standard). IPv6 proxies use 128-bit addresses - more abundant and often cheaper, but with limited site support.
- [CGNAT (Carrier-Grade NAT)](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/cgnat): Carrier-Grade NAT is a technology mobile carriers use to share one public IP address among thousands of subscribers.
- [Proxy Bandwidth](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/bandwidth): The total amount of data (upload + download) transferred through a proxy connection, typically measured in GB.
- [Proxy Server](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/what-is-a-proxy): An intermediary server that sits between your device and the internet, forwarding your requests and returning responses under its own IP address.
- [Proxy vs VPN](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/proxy-vs-vpn): A proxy reroutes traffic for a single app or request without encryption, while a VPN encrypts and reroutes all traffic from your device.
- [Reverse Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/reverse-proxy): A server that sits in front of one or more web servers and forwards incoming client requests to them, hiding the backend from the client.
- [Forward Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/forward-proxy): A proxy that acts on behalf of clients, forwarding their outbound requests to the internet and hiding the client's real IP.
- [Transparent Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/transparent-proxy): A proxy that intercepts traffic without any client configuration and without concealing the client's real IP address.
- [Anonymous Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/anonymous-proxy): A proxy that hides your real IP address but still signals to the target that a proxy is in use.
- [Elite Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/elite-proxy): A high-anonymity proxy that hides your real IP and sends no headers revealing that a proxy is in use.
- [Shared vs Private Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/shared-vs-private-proxy): A shared proxy assigns the same IP to multiple users at once, while a private (dedicated) proxy gives one user exclusive use of the IP.
- [Public Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/public-proxy): A free, openly available proxy that anyone can connect to without authentication - typically slow, unreliable, and insecure.
- [HTTPS Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/https-proxy): An HTTP proxy that supports the CONNECT method to tunnel encrypted HTTPS traffic between client and destination.
- [SOCKS4 vs SOCKS5](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/socks4-vs-socks5): SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 are proxy protocols; SOCKS5 adds authentication, UDP support, IPv6, and remote DNS resolution over the older SOCKS4.
- [Proxy Port](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/proxy-port): The network port number on a proxy server that your client connects to, determining which protocol and gateway you use.
- [Proxy Chaining](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/proxy-chaining): Routing traffic through two or more proxies in sequence, so each proxy only knows the previous and next hop, adding layers of anonymity.
- [SSL Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/ssl-proxy): A proxy that handles SSL/TLS-encrypted connections, either tunneling them intact or terminating and re-encrypting them for inspection.
- [Web Scraping](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/web-scraping): The automated extraction of data from websites by sending requests and parsing the returned HTML or API responses.
- [Is Web Scraping Legal?](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/is-web-scraping-legal): Scraping publicly available data is generally lawful in many jurisdictions, but legality depends on the data type, site terms, and local law.
- [Rate Limiting](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/rate-limiting): A control that caps how many requests a single client or IP can make within a time window, returning errors once the limit is exceeded.
- [User Agent](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/user-agent): An HTTP header string that identifies the browser, version, and operating system making a request.
- [Browser Fingerprinting](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/browser-fingerprinting): A technique that identifies and tracks users by combining many browser and device attributes into a unique signature.
- [TLS Fingerprint (JA3)](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/tls-fingerprint-ja3): A signature derived from how a client negotiates a TLS handshake, used to identify the software making a request - often via the JA3 hash.
- [Headless Browser](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/headless-browser): A real web browser that runs without a graphical interface, controlled by code to load, render, and interact with pages.
- [Honeypot Trap](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/honeypot-trap): A hidden link, field, or page that real users never interact with, used to catch and flag automated bots that do.
- [Anti-Bot System](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/anti-bot-system): Security software that detects and blocks automated traffic by scoring requests on IP, headers, fingerprint, and behavior signals.
- [Request Headers](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/request-headers): Key-value metadata sent with every HTTP request, describing the client, accepted content, and context of the request.
- [IP Address](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/what-is-an-ip-address): A numeric label assigned to each device on a network, used to route traffic to and from it across the internet.
- [ASN (Autonomous System Number)](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/asn): A unique number identifying a network operator that controls a block of IP addresses on the internet.
- [Static vs Dynamic IP](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/static-vs-dynamic-ip): A static IP stays the same over time, while a dynamic IP is reassigned periodically by the network.
- [IPv6 Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/ipv6-proxy): A proxy that routes traffic through IPv6 addresses, offering enormous, cheap pools but limited to IPv6-compatible targets.
- [DNS Proxy](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/dns-proxy): A server that takes your DNS queries, forwards them to a resolver and returns the answer, without carrying any of your actual traffic.
- [DNS Leak](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/dns-leak): A privacy flaw where DNS lookups bypass your proxy, revealing which sites you visit to your ISP or a third party.
- [IP Whitelisting](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/ip-whitelisting): A proxy authentication method that authorizes access based on the client's source IP address rather than a username and password.
- [Proxy Gateway](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/proxy-gateway): A single entry-point server that fronts a proxy provider's IP pool, assigning an IP to each connection from the pool behind it.
- [Geo-Blocking](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/geo-blocking): Restricting access to content or services based on the user's geographic location, determined from their IP address.
- [Concurrent Sessions (Threads)](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/concurrent-sessions): The number of simultaneous connections or requests you can run through a proxy service at the same time.
- [Proxy Manager](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/proxy-manager): Software that centralizes and automates proxy usage - rotation, routing rules, retries, and per-target configuration - across your pool.
- [Proxy List](https://sotaproxy.com/en/glossary/proxy-list): A collection of proxy IP addresses and ports, usually with credentials, formatted for import into scraping or automation tools.

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