Dedicated Proxy
BeginnerA proxy IP assigned exclusively to one customer, so its reputation depends on your behavior alone — nobody else's abuse can burn it.
In depth
A dedicated proxy (or private proxy) is an IP address leased to a single customer for the duration of their subscription. Nobody else routes traffic through it, which gives you full control over the one thing that matters most in proxy work: the IP's reputation.
Why exclusivity matters
Websites score IPs by their history. On a shared IP, a stranger's spam can get the address rate-limited or banned before you send a single request. A dedicated IP's history is entirely yours — treat it well and it stays clean; burn it and you have only yourself to blame. This makes dedicated proxies the right choice for anything where a stable, trusted identity matters more than scale.
Trade-offs
- Costs more per IP than shared alternatives, since the provider can't split the cost across users.
- Fixed footprint: a handful of dedicated IPs is great for account management but useless for large-scale scraping, where you need thousands of rotating addresses.
- Usually datacenter or ISP IPs: true dedicated residential IPs are rare because home connections are inherently transient.
Best fit
Pair one dedicated proxy per long-lived account (marketplace store, ad account, social profile) and never mix accounts across IPs — stability plus one-to-one mapping is the classic anti-ban pattern.
Examples
- An agency assigns each client's ad account its own dedicated ISP proxy so a ban on one can't cascade to others.
- An e-commerce seller runs a storefront through the same dedicated IP for months, building a consistent login history.
- A developer whitelists a dedicated proxy's static IP in a partner API's firewall.
Common use cases
FAQs
Buy dedicated when IP reputation and session stability matter: account management, ad operations, anything logged in. Buy shared (or rotating pools) when you need many IPs cheaply for high-volume, low-stakes requests.
Often, yes — you aren't competing with other users for the same IP's bandwidth, and you avoid the rate limits that strangers' traffic triggers. The underlying network quality still depends on the provider.
Yes. Exclusivity protects you from other users' abuse, not from your own. Aggressive scraping or policy-violating behavior from a dedicated IP will burn it just the same — and you'll pay for a replacement.