Irregular residential traffic when unused purchased GB should remain available
Ad-account workflows that need a sticky residential session
WHEN TO RECONSIDER
Find the actual friction
The residential product is metered by traffic; a long browser session can consume more GB than a small HTTP scrape.
Its separate mobile offering is sold by time, so do not apply residential per-GB terms to mobile.
START WITH THE CHANGE YOU NEED
Three routes worth comparing
DataImpulse
Compare per-GB mobile traffic with a timed offer
DataImpulse and GonzoProxy both describe non-expiring purchased residential GB and rotating or sticky access. DataImpulse extends the prepaid GB model to mobile and datacenter pools; GonzoProxy's separate mobile offer is sold by time with unlimited traffic during its paid period. The mobile-versus-residential workload determines the useful comparison.
Before you switch
Match the country, days active, mobile traffic and session duration against both current checkout terms. A timed plan can lose its advantage for sporadic low-volume jobs.
Webshare offers a limited free shared datacenter tier and paid monthly rotating residential GB. GonzoProxy sells prepaid residential GB without stated expiry and supports location and sticky-session controls. A free connection test and an irregular residential browser schedule need separate evidence.
Before you switch
Compare a static ISP or datacenter plan; a rotating residential subscription is a different route.
GonzoProxy sells prepaid residential proxy GB without stated expiry for a browser or crawler you run. Scrapfly sells a managed Scrape API billed in feature-dependent monthly credits, with selectable residential routing and rendering. The central choice is whether to maintain fetch and extraction logic around a proxy.
Before you switch
An API response does not replace a proxy address inside every existing application.
Residential traffic is purchased in GB with volume-based tiers and no stated expiry. Mobile proxies are sold for a paid period with unlimited traffic during that period; confirm the location and current term at checkout.
Write down the last issue that made you consider switching. If it was a bill, compare the minimum commitment and expiry rules for the same monthly volume. If it was incomplete data, compare a proxy connection with a managed scraping API. If it was engineering time, count the browser maintenance and parsing work you would still own after switching.
Generate residential proxy credentials in the dashboard; connect over HTTP(S) or SOCKS5 with username/password or IP authorization and select rotation, session and location. A separate account API documents proxy management.
Keep one small job on the current provider while you evaluate the replacement. Preserve the same target sample and required output so you can identify what improved.
