Shifter

Residential and ISP proxies since 2012. 205M+ IPs in 195+ countries, built for data collection at scale. Benchmarks, guides and proxy talk.

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🛡️ Counterfeit listings often only show up in certain countries.

A marketplace check from your office misses them. Brand protection teams search from residential IPs inside each market instead:

🌍 195+ countries, city targeting.

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💶 Same product, four countries, four prices.

Retailers change prices, stock and promotions by market. To track them, check each store from a residential IP in that country:

📊 City and country targeting in 195+ countries.

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📍 Your rank in New York is not your rank in London. For local businesses it changes every few blocks.

Rank trackers that check from one datacenter see one version of Google. Check from residential IPs in each city instead:

🗺️ City targeting in 195+ countries.

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🏢 Datacenter IP: belongs to a hosting company. Fast and cheap, and easy for websites to recognize.

🏠 Residential IP: belongs to a home internet provider. Looks like a normal visitor.

That is why the same request can get a page from one and a captcha from the other: https://t.co/fF5C0SsSKJ

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🌍 Before a website shows you anything, it reads your IP address.

That one number decides the language, the currency, the prices, which articles you can read, which search results you get and whether you see a captcha.

👀 Want to see what changes? Open any site from another country: https://t.co/sFH9NxF2BA

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🎯 Your ad looks fine from your office. Does it look right in Germany?

Ads, landing pages and offers change by country and city. Check them from a residential IP in the market itself: https://t.co/AWqLiCtraW

🌍 205M+ residential IPs in 195+ countries, with city targeting.

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🌍 Shifter Web Proxy is now available in 120 countries, with no more limits.

We removed the time limit and the traffic limit. Try it free: https://t.co/sFH9NxF2BA

⏱️ No more session timer and no more daily traffic allowance. Open a session and browse as long as you need. Still no signup, no email, no ads, nothing to install.

🏠 Every session runs through a real residential IP in the country you pick, so sites see a normal home connection there, not a data center.

66 new countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Hong Kong, Qatar, Kenya and Costa Rica. Each one has its own page.

Check prices, search results, news and geo-targeted ads the way locals see them.

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🤖 Your AI agent works in the demo, then hits a captcha in production.

Agents on datacenter IPs get stopped by the same anti-bot systems as scrapers. Route each tool call through a residential IP and the agent sees the real page.

🌍 https://t.co/T8hEn8S9Ae

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🛑 Your scraper keeps getting blocked? It is usually one of these 5 things.

1. Datacenter IPs → use residential or ISP IPs
2. No IP rotation → rotate per request, sticky for login flows
3. Bad or missing headers → send a full browser header set
4. Requests too fast → add jitter, back off on errors
5. No JS rendering → use a headless browser for JS pages

Full guide: https://t.co/dQ1GYSlF6M

🔧 Reasons 1 and 2 are a proxy problem. That is the part we fix.

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🚀 Shifter is now in your browser.

Pick a country, state, city or ISP and connect in one click. No host, port or username to type.

https://t.co/AfcCvMETW3

🔒 Sticky IPs or a new IP per request, and WebRTC leak protection on by default. Free for Chrome and Firefox. Desktop and mobile apps are next.

#proxy #residentialproxy #chromeextension

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🚀 We just launched Shifter Web Proxy, a free web proxy on residential IPs in 54 countries.

https://t.co/sFH9NxF2BA

No signup, no ads, nothing to install. Pick a country and see any site the way locals see it.

Most free proxies run on datacenter IPs. In our test of 17, CroxyProxy, ProxySite, Proxyium, KProxy and Hidester all did, which is why they hit captchas and blocks.

🏠 Ours runs on real home IPs, so websites see a normal local visitor, not a server.

#webproxy #freeproxy #residentialproxy

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Shifter also had the widest US network spread: 1,828 distinct ASNs, against 1,591 for Oxylabs.

Plans start from $0.10/GB.

Full results and method on our website.

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Why live IPs and not pool size?

Advertised pool sizes count everything a network sees in a month. We counted what actually answers while you crawl.

More live IPs means fewer requests per address, fewer blocks and less reuse.

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Same test for every provider: 250,000 plain-HTTP requests through each rotating residential gateway, a fresh connection per request, 1,000 concurrency, 10 second timeout, one network at a time from the same server.

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Live US IPs, top 5:

Shifter 212,212
Webshare 150,512
Oxylabs 140,811
Proxy-Seller 139,933
Infatica 139,334

41% more than the next network on the list.

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We re-ran our residential proxy benchmark this week.

Shifter returned 212,212 live US IPs in 250,000 requests.

That is the largest live US pool of the 16 networks we have measured, more than Oxylabs and Bright Data, at a fraction of the cost.

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Shifter has operated proxy infrastructure since 2012, as the industry's first provider.

Our focus has always been the network. Today, serving 50,000+ clients across 205M+ IPs, we are opening a direct channel to you on X.

Expect industry insights, benchmarks and product updates.