01What are unlimited residential proxies and who are they for?
Unlimited residential proxies are for anyone who moves so much data each day that per GB pricing starts to sting. They use home IPs just like residential proxies; the difference is that you pay by the day instead of by the gigabyte.
Within your period, heavy pages and light pages cost the same, so the whole job fits on one line of your budget. Teams that used to trim their crawl scope to keep the monthly traffic bill in check can plan the full scope from day one.
You order from Buy products in the dashboard and pay from your balance. That same balance covers every other proxy product, so switching to per GB plans after an unlimited period, or mixing both, is easy.
For a quick trial, start with a 1 day order, measure your real daily throughput, then move up to 7 or 30 days. Matching the period to your workload gets the most out of a flat rate plan.
02How do unlimited residential proxies work?
During your period, connect to the gateway at gate.proxytoo.com:7000 and you get home IPs mixed from many countries. There is no country step, so the username only needs session details.
Sessions work exactly like per GB residential proxies. Leave out the session name for a new IP on every request, or add one to keep the same IP for up to 120 minutes. HTTP and SOCKS5 are both supported, and the password field takes your pt_ account token.
Apart from traffic metering, the connection is identical, so software already set up for residential proxies carries over almost as is. Only the billing model changes; your code stays put.
Start concurrency at a level the target handles comfortably and raise it step by step. The price is fixed per day, so ramping up slowly costs nothing extra while you find a steady pace.
03Which jobs get the most out of unlimited residential proxies?
The more a job cares about volume over location, the better unlimited residential proxies fit. That covers targets that show the same page in every country and jobs where mixed country results are fine.
Web archiving, where you regularly store whole sites, pulls HTML, images and documents at once, so data volume climbs fast. Weekly full recrawls of a large store catalog and indexing large numbers of news and blog posts also pass tens of GB a day with ease.
SEO crawling of your own or your clients' sites, checking links and pages at scale, is another strong case. Tens of thousands of pages across many IPs still cost one daily rate, so you can set crawl depth by quality rather than by cost.
Research teams refreshing public datasets every week, or agencies auditing many client sites in rotation, repeat the same large job on a fixed cycle. A period order lines up their schedule and their spend in one step.
- Web archiving and site snapshots
- Full catalog recrawls
- Large scale news and blog indexing
- SEO site crawls
- Regular public dataset refreshes
04Can you choose a country with unlimited residential proxies?
Unlimited residential proxies mix IPs from many countries. With no country step, requests spread naturally across regions, so no single country's IPs carry the whole load.
So first check whether your target changes language or price by visitor country. If the page is the same everywhere, unlimited is a great fit. If it changes, pin the language in the URL with a path like /en or a language parameter to keep results consistent.
Send only the requests that truly need a set country or city through per GB residential proxies and route the bulk through unlimited to get the best of both. Both are paid from the same balance, so mixing them takes no extra setup.
05How do you split sessions and parallel jobs on unlimited proxies?
Give each worker its own session name and you can run many flows at once inside one unlimited period. Requests with the same session name share one IP for up to 120 minutes, while different names get different IPs.
Split by stage. Keep a session while paging through listings to collect detail URLs, then drop the session name when downloading those URLs so each request rotates to a new IP.
A new IP takes over when a session ends, so break long flows into batches that finish within 120 minutes and give each batch a fresh session name. Choosing when the IP changes yourself keeps restarts rare and the crawl running smoothly.
The more jobs run in parallel, the more it helps to name sessions with the same scheme as your jobs. Your logs then show which worker sent which request, making slow jobs easy to spot and tune.
06When are unlimited residential proxies cheaper than paying per GB?
Once you use more than about 48.2 GB a day, unlimited residential proxies cost less than per GB residential proxies. Divide the daily rate by the per GB rate and you get this break-even point.
For example, a 100 GB a day crawl costs about $78 on per GB pricing, so the flat daily rate saves you about $40.42 a day. At 20 GB a day, per GB pricing is about $15.60, so the per GB product is the better fit.
Stretch it over a period and a simple calculation at the daily rate gives about $263.06 for 7 days and about $1,127.40 for 30 days. If your daily average stays above break-even, unlimited wins; if volume swings a lot, order single days only for your heavy days. The exact price for each period is shown on the Buy products screen.
To estimate your daily volume, run one day of the job on per GB residential proxies and check how much was deducted. Choosing a period from real numbers keeps the budget accurate.
07Unlimited residential vs other proxy types: how do they compare?
Against per GB residential, unlimited is strong on volume and residential is strong on location. Against datacenter proxies, unlimited uses home IPs that look like regular visitors, while datacenter proxies are billed per IP per month and work out cheapest when you need few IPs and the target accepts datacenter traffic.
ISP proxies hold one IP for the whole period, the opposite of how unlimited spreads requests. Use ISP for account logins and unlimited for bulk collection of public pages unrelated to those accounts, and each plays to its strength.
Mobile proxies are a per GB product for when you need carrier mobile IPs. Send small jobs like mobile page checks through mobile and bulk crawling through unlimited for a well balanced bill.
In short, per GB residential handles requests that need an exact location, ISP handles long lived addresses, mobile handles phone environments and unlimited handles bulk data where location does not matter. One balance lets you change that mix whenever you like.
08How do you order unlimited proxies and fix common issues?
The steps are top up, Buy products, pick a period and create connection details. Top up in the checkout window, and once the balance updates, choose unlimited residential with 1, 7 or 30 days under Buy products. Track the order under My orders.
Top ups from $100 to $5,000 come with a bonus. For example, a $300 top up adds a 30% bonus for a $390 balance, comfortably covering one 7 day order. Your balance never expires, so the rest carries into your next order.
If a connection fails, first check under My orders that the period is active and that the full token is in the password field. Testing with the curl format from the dashboard quickly shows whether the issue is your tool setup or the connection details.
- Raise concurrency step by step.
- Give each worker its own session name.
- Keep sensible gaps between requests.
- Plan your next order before the period ends.
