Countries you can select, not addresses somebody counted
A residential network is useful to you in the countries it will actually let you target. That list is short enough to publish and specific enough to check, which is why it is published far less often than a pool size. If a country you need is not selectable, the size of the pool is irrelevant to you.
Sticky session length decides what you can do
Anything with a login, a cart or a multi step form needs one address held for the whole flow. Networks differ in how long they will hold one, and a window shorter than your longest flow produces failures that look like blocking and are not. Check the maximum sticky duration before anything else if your work has state in it.
Rotation on a logged in session is the classic mistake
An account whose address changes every request looks exactly like a stolen account driven from a botnet. This is the single most common way careful people get flagged, and no network is good enough to make it work. It is a configuration choice, not a provider quality.
End to end speed is a property of the exit, not the provider
A residential exit sits on a consumer connection, so one to two seconds end to end is normal on any network. A provider promising datacenter speeds through residential addresses is describing its gateway and letting you read it as the whole path.
What to buy
Pick on selectable countries and sticky session length, then verify with a small order. Our residential coverage is listed per country and our sticky window runs to three hours, both of which you can check before buying.
Common questions
Are residential proxies worth the price over datacenter?
Only against targets that inspect what kind of network an address belongs to. Where they do, datacenter traffic fails and the cheaper rate buys nothing. Where they do not, residential is money spent on trust you did not need.
How long can a residential session hold one address?
It depends on the network. Ours holds a sticky session for up to three hours, which covers essentially any single flow. Match the window to your longest flow rather than to the maximum on offer.