What is a rotating residential proxy?

It is a proxy whose exit address belongs to a consumer internet connection rather than a datacentre, and which can hand you a different address on each new connection. You control the country and city through the connection username; adding a session handle holds one address instead of rotating.

How much do residential proxies cost?

ARC Fast starts at €2.00 per GB excl. VAT and ARC Ultra at €3.50, both before the volume discount, which is applied automatically at checkout and reaches −44% at 1 TB on ARC Fast. There is no subscription, no per-IP fee and no minimum commitment.

Does unused bandwidth expire?

No. Gigabytes are bought once and stay on the account until you use them. That is the main difference from a monthly plan: a quiet quarter does not burn a balance the next busy one will need.

How long can a sticky session hold the same IP?

You set the minutes in _sesstime-. On ARC Fast and ARC Ultra the hold is best effort upstream with no hard cap — the dashboard generator offers one minute to 24 hours, and the API's session_ttl takes 60 to 86,400 seconds. An exit can still go offline before the time is up, so treat a changed IP as normal rather than as an error.

Do you support SOCKS5?

Yes. The same credentials work over HTTP and SOCKS5 on the same gateway — only the scheme in the proxy URL changes.

Can I target a specific city?

Yes, on ARC Fast and ARC Ultra, from a published list of metros across twelve countries. Add a _city- token alongside _country- in the username. Country targeting covers 185+ countries.

Is there a free trial?

There is no free bandwidth, but there is a small way in: code WELCOME15 takes 15% off your first purchase up to 25 GB, and the ARC Starter package is 1 GB of each rotating pool for €4.90, once per account, so you can run the same job on all three and compare before committing.

Residential proxies

Rotating residential proxies

Real consumer IP addresses in 185+ countries, with city targeting and sticky sessions, billed per gigabyte. Buy once, use whenever — there is no subscription and the bandwidth does not expire.

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Pay per GB · No subscription · Prices in EUR, excl. VAT

Illustration. The URLs and values are fictional; the connection string is the real grammar.

from €2.00
per GB, excl. VAT: −44%
at 1 TB, applied at checkout: 185+
countries, city targeting: Never
expires — no subscription

What it is

What a residential proxy actually is

A residential proxy routes your request through an address that belongs to an ordinary consumer internet connection rather than a datacentre. To the site you are fetching, the traffic looks like it came from a household in the country and city you chose. That is what makes a residential pool the default for browser automation, agents and any target that treats hosting ranges differently from consumer ones.

Targeting lives in the username — nothing else changes:

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USERNAME_pool-arcfast_country-de_city-berlin:PASSWORD@proxy.arcproxies.io:8000

Why this pool

When residential is the right choice

Consumer addresses, not hosting ranges

Datacentre netblocks are published and widely filtered. A residential exit is an ordinary subscriber address, which is why pages that serve a different response to infrastructure traffic serve the normal one here.

185+ countries, city-level where it matters

Set the country on every request through the username, and a city from a published metro list across twelve countries — Berlin, Munich, London, New York, Chicago, Paris, Milan, Tokyo, Toronto, Sydney, Amsterdam, Warsaw, São Paulo and more.

Rotating or sticky, per request

Without a session handle each new connection can draw a different exit. Add one and the same handle returns the same IP for the minutes you set — long enough for a checkout flow, a paginated search or an agent's whole task.

Billed per gigabyte, not per IP or per request

One balance, any number of workers, no per-port fee and no per-request charge. A retry costs the bandwidth it used and nothing more.

Two tiers on the same gateway

ARC Fast is the everyday pool and carries our steepest volume ladder. ARC Ultra is the larger premium pool for the targets where success rate is the only metric. Swapping between them is one token in the username, not a new integration.

Price

What it costs at volume

The discount is applied automatically at checkout, per plan. Nothing to ask for and no code to enter.

ARC Fast

Rotating residential · list €2.00 / GB

From	Per GB	Off
1 GB	€2.00	—
25 GB	€1.90	−5%
30 GB	€1.84	−8%
40 GB	€1.76	−12%
50 GB	€1.68	−16%
60 GB	€1.60	−20%
80 GB	€1.48	−26%
100 GB	€1.36	−32%
250 GB	€1.24	−38%
500 GB	€1.18	−41%
1 TB	€1.12	−44%

ARC Ultra

Premium residential · list €3.50 / GB

From	Per GB	Off
1 GB	€3.50	—
25 GB	€3.33	−5%
30 GB	€3.22	−8%
40 GB	€3.12	−11%
50 GB	€3.01	−14%
60 GB	€2.91	−17%
80 GB	€2.73	−22%
100 GB	€2.59	−26%
250 GB	€2.45	−30%
500 GB	€2.31	−34%
1 TB	€2.17	−38%

Be aware

What residential is not for

Every pool has a shape. Knowing where this one ends is what stops you buying the wrong thing.

Not the cheapest per gigabyte

If your targets are plain HTML that does not care about the network it is served to, rotating ISP proxies do the same job for less. Start there and move up only what actually fails.

Not a fixed address

Exits are drawn from a pool. A sticky handle holds one for the duration you set, best effort, but an exit can go offline early — build for a changed IP. If you need the same address indefinitely, that is what static ISP proxies are for.

Not a scraping API

We give you the bandwidth and the exits. Fetching, rendering and parsing stay in your code, which also means we are not a parser you have to wait on when a target changes its markup.

Compare

The four products, side by side

All of them run on the same account and the same balance logic. Switching is a token in the username, not a migration.

Product	From	Billing	Reach	City	Sticky	Plans
ResidentialThis page	from €2.00 / GB	Per GB, never expires	185+	Yes	No hard cap	ARC Fast, ARC Ultra
ISP	from €0.75 / GB	Per GB, never expires	185+	Yes	No hard cap	ARC Basic
Mobile	from €3.50 / GB	Per GB, never expires	4 countries	No	5–60 min	ARC Mobile
Static IPs	from €1.60 / IP / mo	Monthly, unmetered	Per region	—	Permanent	—

Prices exclude VAT and are before the volume discount, which is applied automatically at checkout. 4 bandwidth plans in total — see full pricing.

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Questions

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