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Mobile proxies
Exits on real 4G and 5G connections, behind the same carrier-grade NAT as hundreds or thousands of genuine handsets. The most defensible IP class there is, priced accordingly.
$8.00/GB
Volume tiers to $5.00/GB. Metered on delivered traffic only. Purchased traffic does not expire.
Why it works
Blocking a mobile IP means blocking a crowd.
Carriers put hundreds or thousands of subscribers behind each public address through carrier-grade NAT. A target that blocks one of these IPs blocks real customers on real phones, and its own metrics feel it immediately. That economic asymmetry, not any trick, is why mobile IPs survive where everything else gets filtered.
The flip side is honest too: mobile bandwidth is the most expensive supply in the market, the exits move as devices change cells, and latency is a real phone on a real radio network. You buy mobile because the target demands it, not because it is nicer.
- Protocols
- HTTP CONNECT on port 7100, SOCKS5 on 7101
- Rotation
- New exit per request by default
- Sticky
- Same exit up to 10 minutes, best effort: handsets move
- Targeting
- Country, carrier via ASN
- Auth
- Username and password, or IP allowlist
- TLS
- End to end. We tunnel, we do not inspect.
Fit
Buy it when the target leaves you no choice.
Use it for
- Social platforms and their APIs, where non-mobile traffic stands out structurally
- Mobile app backends that expect carrier network characteristics
- Ad verification for in-app and carrier-targeted campaigns
- The short list of targets whose defenses beat good residential exits
Do not use it for
- Volume crawling: at $8.00/GB you would be paying carrier rates to fetch HTML that datacenter fetches for $0.60
- Ordinary protected retail sites: residential handles those at half the price
- Anything needing a fixed address for days: mobile exits move by nature, use ISP
If mobile is your default for everything, someone sold you the wrong stack. It is a scalpel, not a shovel.
Carrier targeting
Pick the network, not just the country.
Carrier selection runs through ASN targeting, the same syntax as everywhere else on the network. Ask for a country and a carrier ASN and every exit you get sits on that operator. Useful when a platform treats each carrier differently, or when a campaign you are verifying only buys inventory on one network.
Sticky sessions hold an exit for up to 10 minutes, best effort. Phones cross cell boundaries and drop off Wi-Fi offload; when that happens mid-session you get the next healthy exit on the same carrier and the session id keeps working. Design for rotation and treat stickiness as a bonus: that is how the medium behaves.
# German mobile exit, pinned to one carrier ASN curl -x "http://USER-country-de-asn-3320:PASS@gate.proxynomad.com:7100" \ https://ifconfig.me # swap the ASN to change operator, nothing else moves
Pricing
Mobile tiers
Price breaks apply to the size of a single purchase. Traffic does not expire while your account is open.
Mobile jobs are usually low-volume by design: session traffic, not bulk transfer. If yours is not, describe it to us first; there may be a cheaper shape for the same result.
Questions
The ones that matter at this price.
Why does mobile cost twice residential?
Because the supply does. Mobile bandwidth is metered by carriers at consumer prices, devices contribute smaller windows of availability, and demand for the IP class outstrips what any honest network can source. A provider selling mobile at residential prices is usually doing one of two things: mislabeling the pool, or losing money until you depend on them. We would rather show you the real number.
Will mobile IPs get me past CAPTCHAs?
Fewer, not none. Mobile exits carry more trust, so challenge rates drop, sometimes dramatically. But CAPTCHA systems score the whole request: TLS fingerprint, headers, behavior, history. If your client stack looks like a bot, a carrier IP will not save it. We will tell you whether the IP is actually your bottleneck before you spend mobile money finding out.
How long do sticky sessions really hold?
Up to 10 minutes, honestly qualified: the exit is a phone, and phones move. In practice most sessions hold; some rotate early when a device changes cells or drops off the network. Build your flow to survive a mid-session IP change, because on mobile networks real users change IPs mid-session too, and targets know it. That is part of why the IP class is forgiving.
Which countries and carriers do you cover?
Coverage shifts with supply, so a static list here would rot. Ask us with the countries and carriers you need and you will get a current yes or no, not a map with every flag on it.
Convinced it needs mobile? Let us check first.
Send the target. If residential will hold, we will say so and save you half the budget.