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Private Proxy

A proxy IP assigned exclusively to one customer. Clean reputation, predictable performance, higher cost than shared.

A private (or dedicated) proxy is an IP that is sold to exactly one customer at a time. No other users route traffic through it, so the IP’s reputation reflects only the assigned customer’s behavior.

Private proxies are the right choice for workloads where IP reputation matters: account management (each account needs its own consistent IP), ticketing and sneaker operations, ad verification, and any work on targets that fingerprint and score IPs aggressively.

The tradeoff is cost. Private plans cost roughly 3× what shared plans cost per IP, because the provider can only sell each IP to one customer. For workloads tolerant of shared reputation (bulk SEO checks, link verification, public-data scraping at scale), shared plans are the more economical choice.

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