what is residential proxy?
a proxy that routes your traffic through a real home internet connection, so the destination sees a consumer isp address instead of yours.
the exit ip belongs to an ordinary household: an address a consumer isp like comcast or vodafone handed to a real router or phone. supply comes from device owners who agreed to share bandwidth, usually through an sdk bundled into an app or a paid client, so the pool is finite and metered. that is why residential is priced per gigabyte rather than per ip. the value is classification: anti bot systems look up the network that owns your ip, and a consumer isp scores far better than a hosting company, so you get served pages instead of challenges. the trade is quality. a home line is slower, latency swings, and the device can drop mid request, so retries are normal rather than exceptional. use it when the target defends itself: retail catalogues and pricing, ticketing, ad verification, social platforms, anything that blocks datacenter ranges outright. myx sells residential from $1.95/gb with country, state, city and asn targeting across 166 countries, plus a cheaper lite pool at $0.30/gb across 202.