Rotating Residential vs Mobile Proxies in 2026

Residential proxies are still the workhorse of large-scale data collection — they look like ordinary household traffic and route through real ISP-allocated addresses. Mobile proxies trade some throughput for an even higher trust score because every IP is shared across thousands of carrier subscribers.

When residential wins - High-volume scraping where you need predictable concurrency. - City-level targeting across 195+ countries. - Sticky sessions of 1–90 minutes for cart, checkout, or account flows.

When mobile wins - Sites that aggressively block datacenter and even residential ranges. - Account management on platforms with strict device fingerprinting. - Mobile-only experiences (apps, app-store search, mobile-only pricing).

The shared-pool advantage With ProxyGen you do not have to commit to one or the other up front. Buy bandwidth once and consume it across both networks from a single credential — no rebalancing, no expiring split balances.