Overview

Residential Proxies give you access to real residential IPs for browsing, automation, and data collection. They are billed pay-as-you-go by traffic (per GB), and you configure targeting, protocol, and session type from the Geonode dashboard.

How Residential Proxies Work

Residential Proxies use a traffic-based plan model:

• Usage is billed per GB.
• Your remaining balance is shown in GB in the dashboard.
• Traffic is consumed as you send requests through the proxy.
• Pricing starts from the rate shown on your Residential Proxies plan.
• You can configure endpoints, targeting, and session type before connecting.

Configure Your Proxy

You can configure your Residential Proxy from the Geonode dashboard under Proxies → Residential Proxies → Proxy configuration.

Available configuration options include:

• IP type set to Residential
• Gateway selection
• Country, state, and city targeting
• ASN/ISP targeting
• OS targeting
• Protocol selection such as HTTP/HTTPS
• Session type such as Rotating or Sticky
• Endpoint count and format generation
• API credentials for username and password authentication

The dashboard also includes Port configuration, Active sticky sessions, Statistics, Block list, and Reseller.

Targeting

Residential Proxies support granular geo and network targeting:

• Country targeting — route traffic through a specific country
• State targeting — narrow traffic to a state or region
• City targeting — target a specific city
• ASN/ISP targeting — route through a specific ISP or ASN
• OS targeting — filter residential devices by operating system

See Target Specific Location for geo-targeting workflows.

See Exclude Specific Location when you need to avoid certain locations.

Sessions

Residential Proxies support both rotating and sticky sessions:

• Rotating — a new IP is used across requests, typically over rotating ports such as HTTP 9000–9010
• Sticky — keep the same IP for a session when you need continuity

See Rotating Proxies to use rotating endpoints.

See New Sticky Session and How to Release Sticky Sessions for sticky session workflows.

Endpoints and Credentials

From Proxy configuration, you can:

1. Copy your API username and password.
2. Choose an endpoint format such as hostname:port:username:password.
3. Generate one or more proxy endpoints.
4. Use the generated endpoints in your tools or scripts.

For code samples generated from your configuration, see API Code Generator.

Monitoring

Use the dashboard Statistics view and usage guides to monitor traffic and performance.

See Usage Stats & Analytics for monitoring residential proxy usage.

See Latency Testing when you need to test response performance.

Getting Started

To start using Residential Proxies:

1. Open the Geonode dashboard.
2. Go to Residential Proxies.
3. Open Proxy configuration.
4. Set your targeting, protocol, and session type.
5. Copy your credentials and generated endpoints.

If you are new to Geonode proxies, start with the Quick Start Guide.