10 Best Asia Proxies (2026)

Asia isn't one proxy market — it's a dozen very different ones. Japan and South Korea have some of the fastest fixed broadband in the world and their own search portals; India, Indonesia, Vietnam and the Philippines are huge, mobile-first markets where most people reach the internet through a phone; Singapore and Hong Kong are city-states that double as the region's datacenter hubs; and mainland China sits behind the Great Firewall with its own platforms. Shopee, Lazada, Tokopedia, Rakuten, Coupang and Flipkart all show different prices, sellers and promotions to visitors in each country, and Google, Naver and Yahoo! JAPAN return local results. If you monitor prices, track rankings, verify ads, test apps or manage accounts across Asia, you need IP addresses that each local site accepts as local.

The problem is that "Asia" on a proxy provider's location page can mean anything from a handful of Singapore datacenter ranges to millions of residential and mobile IPs across 40-plus countries. We compared 19 providers on what they actually publish for the region — which Asian markets they cover, how deep their pools are in each, which proxy types they sell there, what targeting they offer and what it costs — and picked the 10 that cover the most needs. For single-country detail, follow the links to our country guides throughout.

Quick picks

• Best for the widest Asian coverage: ProxyEmpire — 45 Asian locations, rotating residential and mobile in all of them, and region targeting down to all 47 Japanese prefectures and 73 Thai provinces.
• Best for ISP and carrier targeting: SOAX — publishes its pool per city and per network in each market, with lower per-GB prices in South and Southeast Asia.
• Best for enterprise: Bright Data — every proxy type in Japan and India, with city, ZIP, carrier and ASN targeting and pages for all 12 markets we checked.
• Best for large-scale scraping: Oxylabs — the largest single-country figures we saw (12.2 million IPs claimed in India, 9.25 million in China).
• Best for static ISP IPs in South and Southeast Asia: Novada — static ISP from $1.18 per IP in India and Indonesia.
• Best budget option: DataImpulse — $1/GB residential that never expires, with live pool figures for every Asian market.

Asian coverage matrix

We checked whether each ranked provider publishes residential coverage in each market, using its own Asia hub, locations list or country page. ✓ means the provider lists the market for residential (rotating) proxies; – means we found no listing; "Not checked" means we couldn't confirm either way.

East Asia

South and Southeast Asia

Mobile proxies. Published mobile coverage is much patchier than residential. ProxyEmpire lists rotating mobile in all 45 of its Asian locations and SOAX lists residential and mobile on every Asian country page we checked. Bright Data and Oxylabs list mobile on their Japan and India pages (we didn't confirm mobile for every other market), Decodo's Japan, Indonesia and Thailand pages mention mobile, IPRoyal lists mobile from $10.11 a day on its Asia hub, and DataImpulse shows about 1.5 million Indian mobile IPs. Novada's page titles mention mobile, but its Asian country pages list no mobile product or price, and Webshare and Rayobyte don't sell mobile proxies on their Asian pages.

A ✓ tells you a market is listed, not how deep the pool is. The gap between, say, India and Singapore at the same provider can be a factor of 100 or more — see the landscape section below.

Comparison table

Figures are each provider's own claims from its pages in November 2026. Providers count differently — some count unique IPs seen over a month, some count IPs online at one moment, some combine proxy types — so the numbers aren't directly comparable, and several pages contradict themselves (we note where). Several providers also price Asian countries differently from one another, so check the price for your exact market before you buy.

The Asian proxy landscape

A few things about how Asia connects to the internet make it harder to buy proxies for than Europe or North America — and explain why a provider that's excellent in Japan can be thin in Indonesia, or the other way round.

Mobile-first markets. In India, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines and much of Southeast Asia, most people get online mainly through a smartphone, and many services — from Shopee and Lazada to Grab and local banking and payment apps — are designed for mobile first. A desktop residential IP is fine for most scraping, but for apps, super-apps and social platforms, a mobile IP on a local carrier is what a normal user looks like.

CGNAT on mobile networks. Asian mobile carriers put large numbers of subscribers behind shared public IPv4 addresses using carrier-grade NAT (CGNAT). That's why platforms hesitate to block a mobile IP — they'd block thousands of real customers with it — and why mobile proxies carry the highest trust. It also means one mobile exit IP is often shared with other traffic, and mobile IPs frequently geolocate to a carrier's gateway city rather than to where the device is.

Very different pool depth per country. Residential pools follow the number of devices running a provider's software, not the size of a country's economy. DataImpulse, which publishes live counts, reported 3,041,868 Indian residential IPs, 644,954 Vietnamese and 410,372 Philippine IPs over 30 days in November 2026 — but only 29,064 in Japan, 23,119 in South Korea and 18,955 in Singapore. SOAX's figures show the same pattern: its biggest Indonesian network (PT Telkom Indonesia) has 102K+ IPs, while its biggest Japanese network (au one net) has 5K+. Expect deep, cheap pools in South and Southeast Asia and thinner, pricier ones in Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Singapore.

China is a special case. The Great Firewall blocks many foreign sites and services from inside mainland China, and Chinese platforms often behave differently for foreign visitors. A Chinese residential IP shows what users in China see, but pools are usually thin and unstable: DataImpulse listed 53,042 Chinese IPs over 30 days but only 49 active in real time. China also restricts unapproved cross-border VPN and proxy services, and Hong Kong and Macao are separate markets with their own networks. Our China proxies guide covers the details.

Datacenter hubs. Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo host most of the region's cloud and hosting capacity, so a large share of "Asian" proxy IPs — especially cheap ones — are datacenter ranges in those three cities. Oxylabs, for example, lists 16,895 datacenter IPs in Tokyo and 6,016 in Mumbai. Datacenter IPs are fast and cheap, but marketplaces and social platforms recognise hosting ASNs quickly. If a provider's "Thai" or "Malaysian" IPs turn out to belong to a Singapore hosting company, you're not getting a local residential exit.

Local platforms dominate. Regional marketplaces run separate storefronts per country — Shopee and Lazada across Southeast Asia (Shopee also in Taiwan), Tokopedia in Indonesia, Rakuten and Amazon.co.jp in Japan, Coupang in South Korea and Flipkart in India. Search is split too: Naver competes with Google in Korea and Yahoo! JAPAN remains a major portal in Japan. Messaging and super-apps — LINE in Japan, Taiwan and Thailand, KakaoTalk in Korea, Grab across Southeast Asia, WeChat in China — tie accounts to phone numbers and devices, which matters for account work.

1. ProxyEmpire — Best for the widest Asian coverage

ProxyEmpire publishes the most complete Asia hub we found. It lists 45 Asian locations — 7 in East Asia, 10 in Southeast Asia, 8 in South Asia, 8 in Central Asia and the Caucasus and 12 in the Middle East — and states that rotating residential and rotating mobile proxies are available in every one of them. That includes smaller markets other providers rarely publish, such as Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Mongolia, Macao, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Datacenter proxies are available in 20 Asian locations and static residential IPs in seven: Hong Kong, India, Israel, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Turkey.

Its targeting goes deep in the big markets. The hub lists region targeting across all 47 Japanese prefectures, 17 Korean provinces and metropolitan cities, 35 Indian states and union territories, 36 Indonesian provinces, all 17 Philippine regions and 73 Thai provinces, with city and ISP targeting on top at no extra charge. Country pages name the mobile carriers: in Japan, NTT docomo, au, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile across 234 cities and districts; in Indonesia, Telkomsel, Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and XLSmart, plus more than 250 local ISPs across 161 cities and towns.

Rotating residential costs $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go and falls to $1.50/GB on larger plans, and unused bandwidth rolls over. Rotating mobile starts from $2/GB, static residential from $2 per IP a month ($3.50 for a single IP) and datacenter from $0.35/GB (40 GB for $25). A $1.97 trial includes residential and mobile bandwidth. Banking, payment and government websites are blocked by default on all products. The main gap: ProxyEmpire publishes only global pool figures (30M+ residential, 4M+ mobile IPs), not per-country counts, so you can't compare depth in a given Asian market from its pages alone.

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2. SOAX — Best for ISP and carrier targeting across Asia

SOAX publishes a country page for every Asian market we checked, each listing residential and mobile proxies, and each page breaks the local pool down by city and by network. That's the most useful planning data in this guide. In Indonesia, for example, it lists PT Telkom Indonesia (102K+ IPs), Telkomsel (87K+), XL Axiata (46K+) and Indosat (43K+), and cities from West Jakarta and Surabaya (33K+ each) to Makassar and Semarang. In Japan the network list runs from au one net (5K+) through SoftBank and NTT docomo (3K+ each) to Rakuten Mobile (2K+) — far smaller numbers, but you can see that before you buy.

Targeting covers country, region, city, ISP or mobile carrier and ASN, so you can aim at a specific network such as Telkomsel or NTT docomo and see exactly what its subscribers see. Mobile uses the same credits at the same price as residential, which makes SOAX one of the cheaper ways to get carrier IPs in Asia.

Pricing is tiered by country, and Asia spans all three tiers. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China are Tier 1 (Sandbox $5/GB, Builder $3/GB on a $200 monthly plan, down to $0.85/GB on Enterprise); India, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand and Malaysia are Tier 2 (Sandbox $4/GB, Builder $2.25/GB, Enterprise from $0.55/GB); and the Philippines is Tier 3 (Sandbox $2/GB, Builder $1.20/GB, Enterprise from $0.35/GB). There's no free trial — Sandbox has no subscription fee but needs paid top-up credits — and credits on Sandbox or a monthly plan expire 60 days after they're added.

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3. Bright Data — Best for enterprise teams covering every Asian market

Bright Data has a location page for every Asian market we checked, and its Japan and India pages list all four proxy types — residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter — with city, state, ZIP, carrier and ASN targeting. If one team needs Japanese ISP proxies for accounts, Indian mobile IPs for app testing and Southeast Asian residential traffic for price monitoring, Bright Data can cover all of it under one contract.

Its page titles claim large pools across the region: 4,705,624 IPs in India, 2,651,672 in Vietnam, 1,412,915 in Thailand, 1,405,563 in China, 1,255,188 in Indonesia, 950,181 in Japan and 942,143 in Hong Kong, with 613,728 to 630,161 in the Philippines and Taiwan, 400,569 in Malaysia, 323,394 in Singapore and 317,909 in South Korea. Treat them carefully, though: the India page body says 1,806,332 Indian IPs and the Japan page body says 95,904 — far below the titles. Bright Data doesn't explain the difference.

Pricing is the trade-off. Its residential pricing page advertises plans from $5.88/GB; the per-country pages render prices dynamically rather than as fixed figures. At the time of writing, Bright Data promoted 50% off residential proxies for three months with a discount code and matched a first deposit up to $500. For a single residential use case in one country, the providers above and below are cheaper; Bright Data makes sense when you need every proxy type across many Asian markets with procurement-friendly terms.

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4. Oxylabs — Best for large-scale scraping in Asia's biggest markets

Oxylabs claims the largest single-country figures we saw in Asia: 12,219,233 IPs in India (the same page also says "6M+"), 9,250,182 in mainland China and 2,633,211 in Japan. Its A–Z location list includes every Asian market we checked, and its Japan and India pages list residential, mobile and dedicated datacenter proxies, with ASN, ZIP, city, state and country targeting for residential traffic.

The datacenter footprint is published by city, which is useful for fast work on lightly protected sites: 16,895 IPs in Tokyo and 1,024 in Yokohama, and in India 6,016 in Mumbai, 2,560 in Pune, 656 in New Delhi and 512 in Aligarh. Its China page lists residential and datacenter proxies but no prices or city breakdown.

Pricing differs between pages. The country pages say residential starts at $2.50/GB and mobile at $3.50/GB, while Oxylabs' residential pricing page lists pay-as-you-go at $6/GB for small volumes, falling to $5/GB, $4/GB and $2.50/GB at 1,000 GB and above — so $2.50/GB is a volume rate. Monthly plans start at $30 (Starter), and new accounts get $5 in free credits. Oxylabs suits high-volume scraping of Indian, Chinese and Japanese targets more than small, occasional jobs.

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5. Decodo — Best for an easy, low-risk start

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) lists every Asian market we checked and claims 18.3M+ IPs in Asia. Its country pages add local detail: the Japan page offers prefecture-level content across Japan's 47 prefectures and city targeting in Tokyo, Osaka, Yokohama, Nagoya and Kyoto; the Philippines page names Manila, Quezon City and Davao City; and the Hong Kong page names districts such as Sha Tin and Kwun Tong.

Residential is the core product everywhere, with state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting. The Japan page also lists datacenter, mobile and ISP proxies, and the Indonesia and Thailand pages are titled for residential and mobile proxies, so check the dashboard for the exact product mix in other countries. Decodo doesn't publish per-country IP counts or name Asian ISPs or carriers.

Where Decodo stands out is how easy it is to start. Residential costs $4/GB pay-as-you-go, and monthly plans fall from $3.75/GB (3 GB, $11.25) through $3/GB at 50 GB to $2/GB at 1,000 GB, all plus VAT. New users can take a 3-day free trial with 100 MB, or use a 14-day money-back option on a first purchase — but not both, and only if you've used no more than 20% of the traffic. That makes Decodo a practical way to test several Asian markets before committing to a more specialised provider.

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6. IPRoyal — Best for Asian city coverage and non-expiring traffic

IPRoyal's Asia hub lists 41 Asian countries and 33,644,848 IPs, and its country pages publish long city lists: 440 Japanese cities with 487,067+ Japanese IPs, 353 Indian cities with 1,765,970 Indian IPs and 114 Indonesian cities with 886,821 Indonesian IPs. If you need exits outside the capitals — a prefectural city in Japan, a tier-two Indian city or a provincial Indonesian town — that breadth is useful.

It sells every product type across Asia: rotating residential, ISP (static residential), mobile and datacenter. The main advantage for residential use is that pay-as-you-go traffic never expires. Regional projects often run in bursts — a Singles' Day or 11.11 price audit across Shopee and Lazada, a quarterly SERP check — so buying a block of gigabytes and using it over months can beat a monthly plan. Sticky sessions can last up to 7 days.

Small purchases are expensive: pay-as-you-go costs $7.35 for 1 GB, $6.25/GB at 2 GB and $5.51/GB at 10 GB, falling to $1.84/GB at 10 TB (subscriptions run from $7/GB to $1.75/GB, which is the "from $1.75/GB" on the Asia hub). ISP proxies start at $1.80 per proxy, datacenter at $1.39 per proxy and mobile at $10.11 per day. IPRoyal doesn't name Asian ISPs or carriers on its country pages.

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7. Novada — Best for static ISP IPs in South and Southeast Asia

Novada sells static ISP and rotating ISP proxies alongside residential and datacenter proxies across Asia, with location pages for 11 of the 12 markets we checked (we found no mainland China page). Its pages claim 11,041,134 IPs in India, 3,416,195 in Indonesia and 291,996 in Japan (the Japan page also shows 291,851 in its top-locations list). City-level targeting is free.

Static ISP IPs are the practical choice when you need one stable local IP per account for weeks — a Shopee or Flipkart seller account, or a regional ads account — and rotating ISP traffic gives you ISP-registered IPs that change per request. Few providers publish both for Asian markets at self-serve prices.

Novada prices by country, and the difference is large. In India and Indonesia, its pages quote residential from $1.30/GB, rotating ISP from $0.65/GB and static ISP from $1.18 per IP. In Japan, the same products start at $3.60/GB, $3.96/GB and $4.50 per IP, with datacenter from $0.97/GB. The page titles advertise mobile proxies, but the pages themselves list no mobile product or price, and they list HTTP(S) only. Novada doesn't publish which Asian cities or ISPs are available.

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8. DataImpulse — Best budget option for India and Southeast Asia

DataImpulse has the lowest pay-as-you-go price on this list — $1/GB for residential traffic that never expires, falling to $0.80/GB at 1 TB — and it's the most transparent provider about how many IPs are actually online in each Asian market. Every country page shows unique IPs over 30 days, over 24 hours and in real time.

Those figures show where it's strong. Over 30 days in November 2026 it reported 3,041,868 Indian IPs, 644,954 Vietnamese (65,200 active in real time), 410,372 Philippine, 314,648 Indonesian, 196,972 Thai and 136,876 Malaysian IPs — healthy pools for price monitoring on Flipkart, Shopee or Lazada at moderate request rates. East Asia is much thinner: 45,918 in Hong Kong, 29,064 in Japan, 26,374 in Taiwan, 23,119 in South Korea and 18,955 in Singapore, with only a few thousand of each active at once. China showed 53,042 over 30 days but just 49 in real time. Its locations page also lists about 1.5 million Indian mobile IPs.

Country-level targeting is included; state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting are marked as extra costs. DataImpulse states that it doesn't offer static residential IPs in any country. Sticky sessions last up to 120 minutes, and a $5 starter pack (5 GB) works as a low-risk trial.

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9. Webshare — Best for cheap Asian datacenter and static IPs

Webshare is the cheapest way to get a batch of Asian IPs for lightly protected targets. Its locations page lists 60 countries, including 11 of the 12 Asian markets we checked — Hong Kong isn't listed — with large figures in most: 771,490 IPs in China, 589,451 in India, 489,672 in Taiwan, 436,257 in Indonesia, 410,806 in Vietnam and 302,815 in Japan, but only 12,144 in Singapore. The pages don't say how those counts split between products.

Datacenter proxies start at $0.029 per IP on small plans and drop to $0.0179 per IP on very large ones, and static residential proxies start at $0.225 per proxy on the Japan page. Rotating residential proxies come with country, city, state, ZIP and ASN targeting; the Japan page quotes both "from $1.40/GB" and "$7.00 a month for 1 GB", so the lower figure is a large-volume rate. A free plan with 10 proxies, no credit card required, lets you test first.

Shared datacenter IPs are a poor fit for Shopee, Coupang, Rakuten or social platforms, which flag hosting ranges quickly. They're useful for crawling Asian news sites and open-data portals, checking your own site's CDN edges in Tokyo or Mumbai, or low-cost monitoring where blocking is light.

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10. Rayobyte — Best for consent-based sourcing

Rayobyte sells Premium Residential proxies with Asian country pages for Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan and China (we couldn't confirm pages for Thailand, Hong Kong or Malaysia). Each page says its residential IPs come from people in that country "who opted in", and its residential product page describes a network of 50M+ opted-in devices a month. That matters if your compliance team has to document how a supplier's exit nodes were sourced — a common question under Japan's, Korea's and India's data protection laws.

Targeting covers city, postal code and ASN at no extra cost. Premium Residential is priced by volume: $3.50/GB for 1–49 GB, $2/GB for 50–249 GB, $1.50/GB for 250–999 GB and $0.70/GB for 1–5 TB, with enterprise pricing from $0.50/GB through sales. Every product works over HTTP(S); SOCKS5 is included on Premium Residential. Self-serve products come with a free trial, no credit card needed.

Note that Rayobyte's static Asian IPs are dedicated datacenter addresses, not static residential (ISP) IPs, priced from $0.85 per IP a month. Its South Korea page is titled "Residential & Mobile", but the other Asian pages we checked list residential and static datacenter only. Rayobyte publishes no per-country IP counts, cities or ISPs.

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Other providers we considered

• NodeMaven — has residential and mobile pages for Japan, Singapore, India and Indonesia; its Japan page covers Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama with sticky sessions, real-time clean-IP filtering ("95%+ clean IPs") and plans from $3.50. It suits account work, but it publishes no Asian pool counts or carriers.
• Proxy-Seller — sells dedicated South Korean proxies (IPv4, ISP, IPv6, mobile and residential options) from $1.65 for a single IP, with unlimited bandwidth, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, and a free replacement or refund within 24 hours. It publishes no Asian pool sizes or carriers.
• Infatica — its Japan page claims over 100,000 IPs across 10 named cities, from Tokyo and Osaka to Sapporo and Fukuoka, with residential from $4/GB pay-as-you-go and a 7-day trial for $4. The page was last updated in 2025.
• Thordata — claims 612,248 Japanese IPs from $0.65/GB, but Japan is the only Asian market in its A–Z location list.
• MarsProxies — its Japan page claims 133,030 Japan proxy servers, while its Tokyo page claims over 151,908 Tokyo IPs — more than the whole country.
• Geonode — low prices (from $0.79/GB, $0.27/GB at scale), but its figures look templated: the Japan page body says 84,210 residential IPs across 12 cities, while its Japan, India and Spain page descriptions all say the same 27,596 IPs.
• Live Proxies, Floppydata and HypeProxies — we didn't find Asia-specific pages with published Asian pool figures, so we couldn't assess their regional depth.
• NetNut — not recommended. On 2 July 2026 the FBI seized hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, and Google's Threat Intelligence Group reported that it disrupted the NetNut residential proxy network and the associated "Popa" botnet.

We also excluded brands linked to the IPIDEA network.

Which proxy type do you need in Asia?

Picking by country

Japan. Residential pools are relatively small and prices higher, so check per-country figures. ProxyEmpire names docomo, au, SoftBank and Rakuten Mobile, and SOAX publishes its Japanese networks. See our Japan proxy guide.

South Korea. Korea's fast broadband and Naver-centric search make city and ISP targeting useful, and Coupang is well protected. Pools are thin at budget providers. See our South Korea proxies guide.

India. The deepest market in this guide — Oxylabs, Novada, Bright Data and DataImpulse all claim millions of Indian IPs — and one of the cheapest, with mobile widely available. See our India proxies guide.

Singapore. Small residential pools but abundant datacenter capacity, so many "Singapore" IPs are hosting ranges. See our Singapore proxies guide.

Indonesia. A large, mobile-first market spread over many islands; SOAX and ProxyEmpire publish Telkomsel, Indosat and XL networks, and Novada sells static ISP IPs from $1.18. Use province or city targeting for regional work — and note Indonesia spans three time zones. We don't yet have a dedicated Indonesia guide.

Vietnam. Deep, cheap residential pools (DataImpulse reports about 645,000 IPs over 30 days). See our Vietnam proxies guide.

Thailand. ProxyEmpire targets all 73 provinces plus Bangkok, and SOAX prices Thailand at Tier 2. See our Thailand proxies guide.

Philippines. SOAX's cheapest tier (Tier 3) and a deep pool at DataImpulse make it one of the most affordable Asian markets. We don't yet have a dedicated Philippines guide.

Taiwan. A separate market from mainland China, with its own ISPs and platforms. See our Taiwan proxies guide.

Hong Kong. Separate from mainland China, with large datacenter capacity; Webshare doesn't list it. We don't yet have a dedicated Hong Kong guide.

Malaysia. Listed by nine of our ten ranked providers (we couldn't confirm Rayobyte), with SOAX at Tier 2 and IPRoyal and Webshare publishing sizeable pools. We don't yet have a dedicated Malaysia guide.

Mainland China. A special case for both technical and legal reasons. See our China proxies guide.

How to test an Asian proxy

Before you scale up, spend a few minutes checking that the IPs you're given really look local and don't leak your own identity.

1. Check geolocation in more than one database. Use two or three IP lookup services. Databases disagree, especially for mobile IPs behind CGNAT, which often geolocate to a carrier's gateway city — Jakarta, Manila, Mumbai or Tokyo — regardless of where the device is.
2. Check the ASN. A residential or mobile IP should belong to a local consumer network — for example NTT, KDDI or SoftBank in Japan, Telkomsel or Telkom Indonesia in Indonesia. An ASN belonging to a hosting company or cloud provider (often registered in Singapore or Hong Kong) means you've been given a datacenter exit, whatever the product page says.
3. Match your browser to the country. Set the Accept-Language header, browser locale and time zone to match — ja-JP and Asia/Tokyo for Japan, ko-KR and Asia/Seoul for Korea, en-IN or hi-IN and Asia/Kolkata for India. Indonesia has three time zones (Asia/Jakarta, Asia/Makassar, Asia/Jayapura), so match the zone to the city.
4. Check for leaks. Test for WebRTC and DNS leaks, and make sure your real IPv6 address isn't bypassing the proxy on a dual-stack connection.
5. Measure latency from where your scraper runs. Asia is large: Tokyo to Mumbai is a long round trip. Run your scraper from a nearby cloud region — Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, Mumbai or Hong Kong — and compare time-to-first-byte during trials.
6. Test against your real targets. A proxy that passes an IP checker can still be blocked by Shopee, Coupang or Naver. Run a small batch against the sites you care about and measure the success rate before buying a large plan.

Legal notes

Using a proxy is legal in most Asian markets, but there's no single "Asian" rule: computer misuse, data protection and online content laws differ widely from country to country. A few general points apply everywhere:

• What you do through the proxy is what matters. Bypassing logins, paywalls or technical access controls you aren't entitled to use can be an offence under computer misuse laws, whether or not you use a proxy.
• Personal data. Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia all have data protection laws, and several apply to foreign companies collecting data about their residents. Collect public, non-personal data where you can, and minimise what you keep.
• China is different. China restricts unapproved cross-border VPN and proxy services, and its data and cybersecurity rules are strict. Get local advice before routing traffic into or out of mainland China.
• Platform terms. Marketplaces, super-apps and social platforms restrict automated access and multiple accounts in their terms of use, regardless of local law.

Our country guides cover each market's legal position in more detail — see the legal sections of our Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan and China guides. Choose a provider that explains how it obtains consent from the people whose devices route traffic. This section is general information, not legal advice.

Related guides

Asian proxies come down to choosing the right proxy type, then the provider with the best coverage for your exact market. For single-country detail, read our guides to Japan, South Korea, India, Singapore, Vietnam, Thailand, Taiwan and China proxies, and for the wider Asia-Pacific region, our best New Zealand proxies. For a comparison by type, see the best residential proxy providers, best mobile proxy providers, best ISP proxy providers and best datacenter proxy providers. You can also browse every provider we track in the proxy provider directory, or start with the basics in what is a proxy?.