price monitoring proxies
prices are personalised by country, and often by network. monitoring from one address gives you one version of the truth, and eventually a block.
why this needs proxies
retail and travel sites price by geography, and many change what they show when they think they are being watched. steady polling from one ip is the easiest possible pattern to detect, so monitoring needs both rotation and the ability to look like a shopper in each market.
which proxies to use
residential lite from $0.20
the cost-sensitive default. monitoring is repetitive high-volume work where the per-gb rate is what decides whether the job is worth running.
residential from $1.30
when a target checks ip reputation hard, or you need city-level pricing rather than country-level.
datacenter from $0.35
for targets that do not personalise or defend. the cheapest way to poll an open endpoint.
what it costs
estimate: about 0.3 mb per check. product pages fetched as html are light; the number is dominated by how often you poll, not by page size.
| price checks | bandwidth | residential lite | residential | datacenter |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50,000 | 15 gb | $4.50 | $29.25 | $9.00 |
| 500,000 | 146 gb | $36.50 | $233.60 | $65.70 |
| 2,000,000 | 586 gb | $146.50 | $820.40 | $263.70 |
volume rates are applied automatically, so the larger rows already reflect the cheaper tier.
how to set it up
sessionrotating, one country at a time per job
accountone random 16-digit number. no email, no name, no kyc.
paymentcrypto only: monero, bitcoin, litecoin and ethereum.
faq
- how often can i poll without being blocked?
- there is no universal number: it depends on the target and on how many addresses you spread the requests across. the practical approach is to rotate ips and keep the request rate per address close to what a human browsing that catalogue would produce.
- why do i see different prices from different countries?
- because that is deliberate. retail, travel and subscription pricing is commonly set per market, which is exactly why monitoring has to be done from inside each market rather than from one location.
- is residential-lite good enough for monitoring?
- usually yes. monitoring is high-volume and repetitive, so the per-gb rate matters more than the last few percent of pool quality. move to residential when a specific target starts blocking.