| Best for | Anti-detect & sensitive targets | Targets that beat every other residential pool | Hardest-to-block targets, mobile-only apps | Long-running scrapers, heavy ops | Budget 24/7 jobs, cost-sensitive ops | Speed-critical sessions, account warmup | Exclusive drops, account warmup, sensitive ops | Pure throughput, large pipes | Burst jobs, variable workloads | Modern IPv6-first endpoints | Latency-critical work on IPv6 targets | Saturated IPv6 pipes on a flat day rate |
| Pool size | 32M+ residential IPs | The Bright Data residential network | 25M+ mobile IPs | 32M+ residential IPs | ~25K-IP online pool | 22K+ US GTT IPs + EU pool | Your IPs, exclusively yours | 5,000 datacenter IPs | 6,000+ USA datacenter IPs | 1,100+ /29 ranges | A /40 per gate, 6.19 × 10²⁶ addresses | A /40 per gate, 6.19 × 10²⁶ addresses |
| Concurrency | Unlimited threads | No thread limit | Unlimited threads | 50,000 threads | Unlimited threads | Unlimited threads | 1 IP per credential | 1,000 threads / port | Unlimited threads | Unlimited threads | No thread limit · shared 1 Gbit/s | No thread limit · shared 1 Gbit/s |
| Country targeting | | | | | | | Pool-based (US / EU) | | USA only | | | |
| State / city / ASN targeting | | State (2-letter) & city | Country only | Country only | Country only | Country only (US/EU) | | Country only | | Country only | US | US |
| Sticky sessions | Up to 6 hours | ~10 min, fixed | Session token | Up to 24 hours | Up to 24 hours | Static IP | Dedicated static IP (30 days) | Static IP | Session token | Per-request rotation | Up to 24h, then auto-rotate (or end-die) | Up to 24h, then auto-rotate (or end-die) |
| HTTP3 / SOCKS5 | | | | | HTTP / SOCKS5 (TCP only) | | | | | | | |
| Uptime SLA | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.5% | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99% | 99% | 99.9% | 99.9% | 99.9% |
| Bandwidth model | Pay per GB | Pay per GB, cheaper in volume | Pay per GB | Unlimited | Unlimited | Pay per GB | Per IP / 30 days | Unlimited | Pay per GB | Pay per GB | Pay per GB | Unmetered, billed per day |
| Pick this when… | You need clean IPs that look human | Nothing else is getting through, and you can pay for it | Targets block datacenter and residential alike | Bandwidth bills become your bottleneck | You want unlimited cheap and don't need the big pool | You need a static IP held for hours (US or EU) | You need an exclusive IP no one else can use | Speed and cost matter more than disguise | Usage is unpredictable or you only burst occasionally | Targets serve native IPv6 (and you save a lot) | You want the lowest possible latency on IPv6 targets | You are already maxing IPv6 bandwidth and want a flat bill |
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