How to Use Residential Proxies with Proxidize in 2026

Key Takeaways

• With Proxidize residential proxies, you can target residential IPs by country, city, or ISP and choose between rotating and sticky sessions based on your workflow.
• Proxidize lets you create multiple proxy sessions in batches with Session Builder, making it easier to manage traffic across different locations.
• Test your proxies before connecting them to scrapers, browsers, automation tools, or applications to verify that your configuration works as expected.
• Custom usage alerts and real-time analytics help you keep track of bandwidth consumption, top domains, and connection activity.
• Proxidize supports HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 connections, along with developer integrations for tools such as Python, Node.js, Playwright, and Puppeteer.

Buying residential proxies is only the first step. Once you've completed onboarding and KYC, you still need to configure your proxies, connect them to your workflow, and make sure they're working as expected.

With Proxidize, you can manage that process from a single dashboard. After logging in, you can select your Residential Proxies, choose where your traffic should originate, configure rotating or sticky sessions, and create multiple sessions when you need to work across different locations.

You can also test your proxy connection before running a larger workflow and use built-in analytics and usage alerts to keep track of how your bandwidth is being consumed.

Whether you're using residential proxies for web scraping, SEO monitoring, price monitoring, market research, or geolocation testing, this guide walks you through how to use residential proxies with Proxidize, from your first configuration to monitoring your ongoing usage 

How to use Residential Proxies in Proxidize?

Once you've completed onboarding and KYC, using your residential proxies involves six basic steps:

1. Log in to your Proxidize account
2. Select Residential Proxies from your dashboard
3. Configure your proxies and locations
4. Test your proxy connection
5. Monitor and manage your usage

Let's go through each step: 

Step 1: Log In to Your Proxidize Account

Start by logging in to your Proxidize account.

After signing in, you'll arrive at the main dashboard. If you have purchased multiple Proxidize products, the dashboard will display the products associated with your account.

For example, if you only have a residential proxy plan, you'll see Residential Proxies as your available product. Select Residential Proxies to open your residential proxy dashboard.

Step 2: Configure Your Residential Proxies

Once you've selected Residential Proxies, you can configure your proxy setup from the dashboard. This is where you determine how and where your proxy traffic should be routed. Depending on your use case, you can configure factors such as:

• Country
• City
• ISP
• Session behavior
• Access points
• Number of sessions

Choose a proxy location

Proxidize supports residential proxy targeting across 195+ countries, with country, city, and ISP-level targeting. For example, you could configure your proxies to use residential IPs from:

• United States
• United Kingdom
• Germany
• India

You can select the location that matches the market, audience, or geographic environment you're testing.

Choose your session behavior

You can also choose between rotating and sticky sessions. Rotating sessions change the residential IP between requests according to your configuration. They're useful for workflows where you need IP diversity, such as large-scale web scraping or data collection.

Sticky sessions keep a residential IP associated with a session for longer. They're useful when your workflow needs to maintain the same IP while navigating through multiple requests or pages.

Create multiple sessions

If you need proxies from multiple locations, you don't have to configure each session individually. Proxidize's Session Builder lets you create multiple sessions in one batch.

For example, you could create sessions across the United States, United Kingdom, and Germany from the same interface.

You can also delete sessions individually or remove a group of sessions when you're finished.

This is particularly useful when your workflow needs multiple geographic locations at the same time.

Step 3: Generate and Connect Your Proxy

After configuring your residential proxies, Proxidize provides the connection details you need to use them with your application or tool. Proxidize supports:

• HTTP
• HTTPS
• SOCKS5
• REST API
• cURL
• Python
• Node.js
• Playwright
• Puppeteer
• AI agents and data pipelines through the Proxidize MCP server

Your exact connection details depend on the access point and configuration you've created. For example, a basic HTTP connection can be made using cURL:

For city, ISP, and session configuration, use the settings in your Proxidize dashboard or Session Builder to generate the appropriate credentials.

Step 4: Test Your Residential Proxies

Before connecting your proxies to a large scraping or automation workflow, test that they're working correctly. Proxidize provides a proxy testing feature directly within the dashboard. Testing your proxies helps you confirm that:

• The proxy connection works
• Your credentials are correct
• The proxy is routing traffic correctly
• Your selected location is being applied
• Your session configuration is working as expected

Step 5: Set Usage Alerts

Proxidize lets you create custom usage alerts from the dashboard. You can set an alert threshold based on your usage so you're notified before you unexpectedly run through your available bandwidth.

For example, if you have a 100 GB plan and want to know when you're approaching the limit, you can configure an alert for a specific usage threshold. This is especially useful for:

• Large scraping projects
• Automated data collection
• Multiple active sessions
• Long-running workflows
• Teams sharing a proxy account

Usage alerts give you more control over your proxy spend and help prevent unexpected interruptions.

Step 6: Monitor Your Residential Proxy Usage

Once your proxies are running, you can monitor your activity through the Proxidize analytics dashboard. Instead of simply showing how much bandwidth you've used, the dashboard gives you visibility into how that bandwidth is being consumed.

You can monitor:

• Usage trends: The usage trends view shows how your bandwidth consumption changes over time. This can help you identify usage spikes and understand whether your current proxy configuration matches your workload.
• Top domains: Proxidize also shows the domains receiving the most traffic through your residential proxies. You can see your highest-volume destinations and identify which websites or services are consuming the most bandwidth.
• Connection history: Connection history provides a more detailed view of your proxy activity. You can review information such as:
• - Timestamp
• - Target
• - Access point
• - Connection size

This gives you a clearer picture of what's happening behind your overall bandwidth number.

Top Residential Proxy Features of Proxidize

Proxidize gives you control over how your residential proxies connect, where they appear to be located, and how you monitor their usage. Once you've selected Residential Proxies from your dashboard, you can configure sessions, test connections, track bandwidth, and manage multiple proxy locations from one place.

Here are the key features you'll use when working with Proxidize residential proxies:

1. Residential IPs Across 195+ Countries

Proxidize provides access to millions of residential IPs across 195+ countries. These IPs come from opt-in residential devices and are designed for approved use cases. This broad coverage is useful when your workflow depends on accessing websites or data from different geographic locations. You can target traffic by:

• Country
• City
• ISP

For example, instead of routing every request through a random US IP, you can configure your proxy to target a specific location that matches your use case.

2. Country, City, and ISP Targeting

Geographic targeting lets you control where your proxy traffic originates. You can select a country for broad geographic coverage or narrow your targeting down to a specific city or ISP when your workflow requires more precise location control.

This can be useful for:

• Checking localized search results
• Monitoring regional pricing
• Conducting market research
• Testing location-specific content
• Verifying ads in different markets
• Collecting geographically diverse public web data

Country targeting can be configured through your proxy credentials, while city, ISP, and session settings can be managed through the Proxidize dashboard or Session Builder.

3. Rotating and Sticky Sessions

Proxidize supports both rotating and sticky residential proxy sessions, so you can choose whether your IP should change or remain consistent.

Rotating sessions are useful when you need IP diversity across requests. For example, a large-scale data collection workflow may use rotating IPs to distribute requests across different residential connections.

Sticky sessions are useful when your workflow needs to maintain the same IP for a period of time, such as a browser session that makes multiple requests.

In simple terms:

You can configure the session behavior for your access point through the dashboard.

4. Session Builder

If you need multiple proxy sessions, Proxidize's Session Builder lets you create them in batches instead of configuring them individually. You can create sessions across different countries, locations, and access points in a single action.

For example, you could create sessions for the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and India without setting them up one at a time.

You can also remove sessions individually or clear a batch when you no longer need them. This makes Session Builder particularly useful for workflows that require multiple geographic locations or several active proxy sessions at once.

5. Proxy Testing

Before connecting your proxies to a scraper, browser, automation workflow, or application, you can test them directly from the Proxidize dashboard. Proxy testing helps you verify that your configuration is working as expected before you start consuming bandwidth at scale.

You can use a test to check whether:

• Your proxy connection works
• Your credentials are valid
• Your selected location is being applied
• Your session behaves as configured
• The proxy is returning the expected outbound IP

For larger automated workflows, testing first can help identify configuration problems before they affect your production workload.

6. Real-Time Usage Analytics

Proxidize provides a real-time analytics dashboard so you can see how your residential proxies are being used. You can monitor:

• Bandwidth consumption over time
• Top domains by data volume
• Connection history
• Usage by access point
• Usage across different time periods

The usage trends view helps you identify changes in bandwidth consumption, while the top-domains view shows which destinations are using the most data. Connection history provides a more detailed record of proxy activity, including the timestamp, target, access point, and connection size. This gives you more visibility than simply checking your remaining bandwidth.

7. Custom Usage Alerts

You can create custom usage alerts to keep track of your bandwidth consumption. For example, if you're running a large scraping workflow, you can configure an alert to notify you when your usage reaches a particular threshold. This can help you:

• Avoid unexpectedly running out of bandwidth
• Monitor long-running workflows
• Identify unusual increases in usage
• Keep track of consumption across active projects

Usage alerts are especially useful when multiple sessions or automated processes are using the same proxy allocation.

8. Bandwidth That Rolls Over

Proxidize uses a per-GB pricing model, and unused bandwidth rolls over instead of being automatically lost at the end of the month.

Your unused bandwidth:

• Rolls over each month
• Remains available after cancellation
• Has no forced expiry
• Can be used when you need it

This is useful if your proxy usage changes from month to month. You can scale your workload up or down without having to consume your entire allocation within a fixed billing period.

How to Purchase Proxidize Residential Proxies

Getting started with Proxidize residential proxies takes just a few steps. You can choose a bandwidth plan based on your expected usage and scale up as your requirements grow.

1. Choose a Residential Proxy Plan

Start by selecting the residential proxy plan that fits your expected bandwidth usage. Proxidize uses a pay-per-GB pricing model, with plans starting at 25 GB for $25 ($1/GB). Higher-volume plans are available for larger workloads, with the price per GB decreasing as you scale.

If you're unsure how much bandwidth you'll need, starting with a smaller plan lets you test your workflow before scaling to higher volumes.

2. Select Your Subscription and Manage Payments 

After clicking Buy, you can select the subscription that best fits your expected proxy usage. 

Plans start at $25 for 25 GB, or $1 per GB, with additional plans available on the pricing page.

From the same section, you can also add or update your payment method, review your payment history and active subscriptions, and manage your subscriptions, including canceling them when needed.

3. Complete Onboarding and KYC

After purchasing your Proxidize proxy plan, you’ll need to complete the required verification process before your proxies can be activated. This may include KYC (Know Your Customer) and KYB (Know Your Business) verification depending on your account and intended usage. 

Once your verification is complete, your residential proxies will be activated and available through the Proxidize dashboard.  

Learn more about Proxidize KYC and KYB requirements

4. Open Your Residential Proxy Dashboard

After activation, log in to your Proxidize account and open Residential Proxies from your main dashboard. From there, you can configure your proxy locations, session behavior, access points, and other settings before connecting the proxies to your workflow.

You can then follow the setup steps in this guide to configure, test, and start using your residential proxies.

Which Residential Proxy Plan Should You Choose?

The right plan depends primarily on how much data your workflow is expected to consume.

• Small or testing workloads: Start with 25–50 GB.
• Regular scraping or automation: Consider 100–200 GB.
• Large-scale data collection: Higher-volume plans can reduce your effective cost per GB.
• Enterprise workloads: Custom plans are available for usage above 10 TB.

Unused bandwidth rolls over, so you don't have to consume your entire allocation within a single billing period.

View Proxidize Residential Proxy Plans

Ready to Use Your Residential Proxies? 

Setting up a residential proxy is only useful if it fits the workflow you're actually trying to run. Now that you know how Proxidize works, the next step is to put that setup into practice.

Start with one proxy configuration that matches your use case. Choose the location you need, decide whether you need rotating or sticky sessions, and connect the proxy to your scraper, browser, application, or automation tool. Then run a few test requests before scaling up.

Once the connection is working, use Proxidize's usage alerts and analytics to understand how much bandwidth your workflow consumes and where that traffic is going. If everything looks right, you can expand your setup with additional locations, sessions, or access points as your workload grows.

In other words, don't overconfigure your proxies before you know what your workflow needs. Start small, test the setup, measure the results, and scale from there.

If you're ready to get started, log in to your Proxidize dashboard and configure your first residential proxy.