Can I collect from social platforms and forums?

Public, logged-out pages, yes, subject to each platform's terms and our acceptable use policy. Anything behind a login, a paywall or an access control is off limits — the proxy is not a way around a permission you do not have.

How do I make a study reproducible?

Put the targeting in the request and record it with the data: the country and city tokens in the username are the parameters that decide what the page returns. A run labelled with country, city and timestamp can be repeated exactly; one collected from an unspecified location cannot.

Is there a minimum purchase or a monthly commitment?

No commitment and no subscription. Bandwidth is bought once, in a single checkout, and does not expire — which is what makes a three-week research burst followed by two quiet months a sensible thing to buy in one go.

Which countries and cities can a study cover?

185+ countries on ARC Basic, Fast and Ultra, with city targeting from a published list of metros in twelve of them. ARC Mobile is limited to four countries and has no city targeting.

Use case · Market research

Proxies for market research and sentiment

What a market publishes about itself — catalogues, forums, reviews, news, job posts — is visible from inside that market and partly invisible from outside it. Sample it on a schedule you can repeat and defend.

Get started See pricing

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

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

€0.75
per GB on ARC Basic, excl. VAT: −21%
at 1 TB (€0.59 / GB): 185+
countries, city targeting: Never
expires — no subscription

The problem

What goes wrong without the right IPs

The sample is biased by where you sat

Collect a market's web presence from one country and you get that country's view of it: different catalogue, different promotions, sometimes a different site entirely.

Sentiment sources are localised

Review sets, forum front pages and news aggregators sort by region. A sentiment score built on the wrong region's sample describes a conversation the client is not in.

Studies are bursty

A research project collects heavily for three weeks and nothing for two months. That is the worst possible fit for a monthly allowance and a natural fit for a balance that waits.

Findings have to be reproducible

If a reviewer cannot re-run the collection with the same parameters — country, city, date — the finding is an anecdote. Targeting stated in the request makes it repeatable.

Coverage decides credibility

Twelve markets beats three, but only if the marginal market is cheap enough to add. Price per gigabyte is what determines how wide the study can be.

Setup

Recommended setup

Research reads broadly and lightly, so the cheap pool carries the survey and the residential pool carries the awkward sources.

Plan	Role	Session	Targeting	Price
ARC Basic Rotating ISP	Default for broad sampling Our lowest price per GB, with city targeting — which is what lets a study add a market without a budget conversation.	Rotating	Country + city	€0.75 / GB €0.59 at 1 TB (−21%)
ARC Fast Rotating residential	For review platforms and social sources Residential exits where a consumer IP changes what is shown, held steady so a paginated set is collected as one visit.	Sticky, 10 minutes per source	Country + city	€2.00 / GB €1.12 at 1 TB (−44%)

Prices are list prices in EUR, excl. VAT. Volume discounts apply automatically at checkout — full ladder on the pricing page.

Illustration

What a twelve-market landscape study costs

An illustration with round numbers — your pages, payloads and retry rate will differ. The arithmetic is the real price ladder.

Assumptions

Markets: 12
Sources per market: 40
Pages per source: 150
Page weight: 200 KB, images blocked
Bandwidth for the study: ≈ 15 GB

On ARC Basic

€11.25for the study, excl. VAT

15 GB bought in one purchase at €0.75 / GB (list price).

The same 15 GB on ARC Fast: €30.00 at €2.00 / GB. Route only the jobs that need it through the pricier pool.

Bought once for the whole study rather than monthly. Whatever the study does not spend stays on the account for the next one, which is usually what turns a one-off project into a repeatable tracker.

Bandwidth never expires, so a bigger single purchase is only ever cheaper per GB. See the ladder.

Works with anything that takes a proxy URL

Python requests / httpx
Scrapy
Playwright
n8n
Crawlee
curl

FAQ

Questions

Something not covered? Write to contact@arcproxies.io.

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SEO & SERP

Collect search results the way a searcher in that city sees them — unpersonalised, per country and language, at a price per GB that survives daily runs.

Ad verification

Confirm your creatives render where you paid for them, in the geo you bought, and that they are not sitting next to something that damages the brand.

AI visibility

Track how a brand shows up in AI answers and search results per country and city, from residential IPs in each market — public, logged-out collection.

Lead generation

Build and refresh company and contact records from public directories, listings and company sites without your one office IP becoming the bottleneck.