10 Best US Proxies (2026)

The United States is the market most proxy buyers care about first. It's the largest e-commerce market in the world, the home of most of the platforms people scrape and test, and a country where what you see online changes a lot with where you are. Amazon, Walmart and Target show different prices, stock and delivery dates by ZIP code; Google returns different local results in Brooklyn, Dallas or San Diego; Zillow and Redfin list homes market by market; Ticketmaster drops depend on your region; and ad campaigns are bought by state, metro area and carrier. If you monitor prices, track US search rankings, verify ads, test an app or manage accounts for American customers, you need an IP address that US websites accept as a local home or mobile user.

Almost every provider claims US coverage, and almost every provider claims a lot of it, so "USA" on a location page tells you very little. We compared 21 providers on what they actually publish for the US: the size of their American pool, state, city, ZIP, ISP and carrier targeting, which proxy types they sell with US IPs, and what it costs. Then we picked the 10 that cover the most needs.

Quick picks

• Best overall for the US: ProxyEmpire — all 50 states plus DC, 6,900+ targetable cities and towns, 850+ ISPs, mobile on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, static residential IPs, and a $1.97 trial.
• Best for targeting by US ISP: SOAX — publishes its US pool by network, from Comcast (157K+ IPs) and Spectrum (111K+) to T-Mobile, AT&T, Verizon Fios and Cox.
• Best for enterprise: Bright Data — all four proxy types with US IPs, plus city, state, ZIP, carrier and ASN targeting.
• Best for large-scale scraping: Oxylabs — the largest US pool claimed (19,380,480 IPs) with free state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting.
• Best for dedicated US ISP proxies: HypeProxies — dedicated IPs registered to AT&T, Verizon and other US networks from $1.30 per IP a month, with unlimited bandwidth.
• Best budget option: DataImpulse — $1/GB US residential traffic that never expires, with 94,574 US IPs active in real time.

Comparison table

US IP counts are each provider's own claim from its US page in November 2026. Providers count differently — some count unique IPs seen over a month, some count IPs online at a point in time, some combine proxy types — so the numbers aren't directly comparable. Prices change often; check the provider's pricing page before you buy.

The US proxy landscape

Knowing how Americans get online makes it much easier to pick the right proxy type, and to tell whether an IP you've been given looks believable to a US website.

Cable, fibre and fixed wireless at home. American home broadband is dominated by a handful of large operators, each strong in its own regions rather than nationwide. The two big cable companies are Comcast (Xfinity) and Charter (Spectrum), followed by Cox and Altice USA (Optimum). The telephone companies run fibre and DSL networks: AT&T, Verizon (Fios, mostly in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic) and Frontier. Fixed wireless has become a real alternative too: T-Mobile Home Internet and Verizon's 5G Home service now carry a large share of new home connections, and satellite (Starlink) shows up in rural areas. SOAX's US network list reflects this mix: Comcast, Spectrum, T-Mobile, AT&T, Starlink, Verizon Fios, Verizon 5G Home, Verizon Wireless, Cox and Frontier make up its top ten. A US residential IP should usually trace back to one of these networks — or to a regional operator such as Mediacom, WOW!, Lumen or a local fibre network.

Three national mobile networks. US mobile traffic runs mainly over Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, which absorbed Sprint in 2020. Prepaid and budget brands such as Visible, Cricket, Metro by T-Mobile and Mint Mobile are MVNOs or sub-brands that run on those same three networks, so their IPs usually come from the parent carrier's ranges. Smaller regional carriers (UScellular, C Spire and others) exist but carry a small share of traffic. Mobile IPs are heavily shared behind carrier-grade NAT, which is why platforms are reluctant to block them — and why they're the most trusted proxy type for social accounts.

Location matters more than in most countries. The US spans six time zones and thousands of local markets, and websites localise aggressively:

• Local search. Google's local pack and organic results differ between cities, and often between neighbourhoods of the same city. Tracking rankings for a dentist in Austin or a plumber in Queens means using IPs in those places.
• Local pricing and stock. Amazon, Walmart, Target, Home Depot and grocery delivery apps price, stock and promise delivery by ZIP code. State sales tax and regional promotions change the final price too.
• Ad verification by metro area. US campaigns are commonly bought by state, by designated market area (DMA) and by carrier. To check that an ad runs correctly in the Chicago or Phoenix market, or for Verizon users only, you need IPs that match.
• Drops and queues. Sneaker, ticketing and limited-release drops (Nike SNKRS, Ticketmaster, retailer launches) often apply regional rules and aggressive bot protection, which is why static ISP IPs near the target's servers are popular for checkout work.

State and city coverage isn't even. Residential IPs cluster where people live. SOAX's top US cities are Chicago (17K+), Houston (16K+), Dallas and Philadelphia (13K+ each) and Atlanta (12K+); Oxylabs' table is led by Charlotte, New York and Los Angeles. If you need IPs in Wyoming, Vermont, Alaska or a small town, check availability before you commit. ProxyEmpire, IPRoyal and Oxylabs all publish state-level pages, which is a good sign that a provider has thought about coverage beyond the big metros.

Key US targets. Amazon and Walmart lead e-commerce, Google dominates search, Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com lead property listings, Ticketmaster dominates live-event ticketing, and Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube are the main social platforms. All of them run modern bot protection that treats datacenter IPs with suspicion.

1. ProxyEmpire — Best overall for the US

ProxyEmpire publishes the most detailed US product page we found. It covers all 50 states plus Washington, DC, with 6,900+ targetable cities and towns — it says 6,966 distinct place names, or 10,231 when counted state by state, with Pennsylvania (621), New York (575), Texas (563), California (556) and Illinois (549) leading. Neighbourhoods such as Brooklyn, Queens, Van Nuys and North Hollywood are targetable separately. The only US pool figure it gives is 222,000+ daily IPs, quoted alongside its unlimited residential plan, which is a measure of daily availability rather than a total.

Its ISP coverage is the deepest we saw on a US page: the meta description claims 850+ ISPs, and the page names Comcast, Spectrum, AT&T, Verizon Fios, Cox, Lumen (CenturyLink), Frontier, Optimum, Mediacom, Windstream, Brightspeed, Astound, WOW!, Ziply Fiber, Google Fiber, Metronet, Starlink, Hawaiian Telcom, GCI and smaller municipal fibre networks such as EPB and UTOPIA Fiber. Rotating residential traffic can be narrowed by state, city, ZIP, ISP, ASN and OS fingerprint. Rotating mobile proxies run on Verizon, AT&T and T-Mobile, plus UScellular, Boost Mobile, Optimum Mobile, C Spire and Viaero Wireless, with state, city, ZIP, carrier and ASN targeting.

Rotating residential costs $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go and falls from about $2.85/GB on the 7 GB Starter plan ($20) to $1.50/GB on the 1,000 GB Enterprise plan ($1,500), with custom pricing from $0.75/GB above 5 TB. Rotating mobile starts from $2/GB and rotating datacenter from $0.35/GB (40 GB for $25). Static residential IPs in the US cost $3.50 for a single IP, falling to $2 per IP a month at 2,000 IPs (traffic included, with a 100 GB fair-use soft cap per IP); static residential and datacenter are country-level only. An unlimited residential plan starts at $1,500 a month, or $200 for a one-day pass. A $1.97 trial is available; the US page doesn't state refund terms, so read the refund policy before you buy a larger plan.

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2. SOAX — Best for targeting by US ISP

SOAX doesn't give a single total for the US, but it publishes a breakdown of its American pool by city and by network. Its network list is led by Comcast Cable (157K+ IPs) and Spectrum (111K+), followed by T-Mobile USA (92K+), AT&T Internet (48K+), Starlink (42K+), Verizon Fios (39K+), Verizon 5G Home (36K+), Verizon Wireless (28K+), Cox Communications (24K+) and Frontier Communications (20K+). Its top cities are Chicago (17K+), Houston (16K+), Dallas (13K+), Philadelphia (13K+) and Atlanta (12K+), then Charlotte, Brooklyn, Miami, Phoenix and Los Angeles.

That transparency makes SOAX the easiest provider to plan ISP-level work with. You can see in advance that the two big cable networks are its largest sources, and target a specific network — say Comcast in Philadelphia or Verizon Fios in New York — when you need to reproduce what that ISP's customers see. Targeting covers country, region, city, ISP or mobile carrier and ASN, with ZIP or postal-code targeting on the Scale and Enterprise plans. Mobile proxies use the same credits at the same price as residential. The US page lists residential and mobile only; there are no US datacenter or ISP proxies.

The US is in SOAX's Tier 1 price band. The no-fee Sandbox plan costs $5/GB, Builder $3/GB on a $200 monthly plan, Team $2.20/GB ($500), Scale $1.50/GB ($1,500) and Enterprise from $0.85/GB ($3,000), all plus VAT. There's no free trial — the US page says plainly "We don't give away free American proxies", and Sandbox only sends traffic after you buy top-up credits — and SOAX's pricing page says credits expire after 60 days.

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3. Bright Data — Best for enterprise

Bright Data sells all four proxy types with US IPs — residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter — and offers some of the deepest targeting: US traffic can be narrowed by state, city, ZIP code, carrier and ASN. Its US page lists dozens of states and cities, from California, Texas, Florida and New York to Alaska, Hawaii and Washington, DC, and it describes separate 4G/LTE US mobile proxies.

Its US pool size is unclear, though. The page title claims 10,674,332 proxy IPs, while the page body says 2,838,304 US IPs. The smaller figure may count only one product or IPs online at one moment, but Bright Data doesn't say. The page names "carrier" as a targeting option but no US carriers, so confirm Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile availability in the dashboard before you commit.

Pricing is the main trade-off. Bright Data's residential pricing page advertises plans from $5.88/GB and, at the time of writing, a code for 50% off residential traffic for three months plus a matched first deposit up to $500; prices on both the US page and the pricing page are rendered by script and couldn't be read as fixed figures. The US page says a free trial of the residential network is available. Before you can use residential or mobile IPs, Bright Data runs a KYC (know your customer) check, which may include a short video call and verification of your company or personal details. If you need one supplier for every US proxy type, with procurement-friendly contracts and a documented compliance process, Bright Data is the strongest option; for a single residential use case, others on this list are cheaper.

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4. Oxylabs — Best for large-scale scraping

Oxylabs claims the biggest US figure of any provider we checked: 19,380,480 IPs, the number shown on its locations index and US page. The same US page also refers to 11,074,560 IP addresses and "11 million Residential and Dedicated USA proxies", so the headline number is best read as an upper bound — but either way it's one of the deepest American pools available, backed by a 175M+ global residential network.

Oxylabs is also one of the few providers with a separate page for every US state, and its US page publishes a city table led by Charlotte (70,144 IPs), New York (62,114), Los Angeles (38,388), Seattle (25,998) and Las Vegas (23,721), followed by Wilmington, San Jose, New Haven, Chicago and Washington. State, city, ZIP and ASN targeting are free. Besides residential proxies, the US page lists mobile proxies and dedicated datacenter proxies, with HTTP(S) and SOCKS5.

Pricing is inconsistent between pages. The US page says residential "starts at $2.5/GB", mobile at $3.5/GB and dedicated datacenter at $1.2 per IP. Oxylabs' residential product page lists pay-as-you-go traffic at $6/GB for small volumes, falling to $5/GB, $4/GB and $2.50/GB only at 1,000 GB and above, with monthly plans from $30 (Starter) and enterprise plans from $2,500 a month. New accounts get a $5 welcome credit. Expect a subscription rather than cheap pay-as-you-go access for serious volume.

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5. IPRoyal — Best for state coverage and irregular usage

IPRoyal claims 4,267,587 American IP addresses and lists all 50 states plus the District of Columbia on its US page, each with its own state page. It sells every product type in the US: rotating residential, ISP (static residential), mobile and datacenter proxies. The page doesn't list US cities or name the US ISPs and carriers behind these products, though its residential pricing page confirms city-level targeting.

Its main advantage for residential use is that traffic never expires. A lot of US work runs in bursts — a Black Friday and Cyber Monday price audit, a Prime Day check, a quarterly local SEO review — so buying a block of gigabytes and using it over months can work out cheaper than a monthly plan. Pay-as-you-go costs $7.35 for 1 GB and $5.51/GB at 10 GB, falling to $1.84/GB on custom plans from 10 TB; subscriptions run from $7/GB down to $1.75/GB at 10 TB, which is the "$1.75/GB" figure shown on the US page. Sticky sessions can last up to 7 days.

IPRoyal's ISP proxies start from $1.80 per proxy with unlimited sessions, which suits a campaign that needs one stable US IP for a few days. Mobile proxies start from $10.11 per day and datacenter proxies from $1.39 per proxy. All products support HTTP(S) and SOCKS5.

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

Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) sells all four proxy types with US IPs — residential, mobile, ISP and shared or dedicated datacenter — and says it covers every state and major city, naming New York, California, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles and Houston. Its residential pricing page lists targeting down to state, city, ZIP code and ASN, and the US page adds OS filtering.

Its US pool size isn't clear. The US page mentions "125M+ IPs" (its global network) and "100K+ US IPs" without saying which product the smaller figure refers to, and it names no US ISPs or carriers. The US page's "from" prices are $2/GB for residential, $2.25/GB for mobile, $0.27 per IP for ISP and $0.020 per IP for datacenter. On the residential pricing page, pay-as-you-go costs $4/GB, and monthly plans fall from $3.75/GB (3 GB, $11.25) through $3/GB at 50 GB and $2.75/GB at 100 GB to $2/GB at 1,000 GB, all plus VAT — so the US page's $2/GB is the top-volume rate.

What Decodo does well is make starting easy. New users can get a 3-day free trial with 100 MB on residential plans, or a 14-day money-back option on a first self-service purchase — but not both, and the refund only applies if you've used under 20% of the traffic on a regular residential plan. HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 are supported. That makes Decodo a good way to check whether US residential IPs work on your targets before committing to a more specialised provider.

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7. HypeProxies — Best for dedicated US ISP proxies

HypeProxies is the only provider on this list built mainly around US static ISP proxies. Its IPs are dedicated — one customer per IP for the whole billing period — and hosted in Ashburn, Virginia and Dallas, Texas, two of the largest data-centre hubs in the country. HypeProxies says the IPs are registered to US ISPs including AT&T, Verizon, RCN, Grande and Cogent, so they look like home or business broadband to websites while running on server hardware with up to 10 Gbps.

That combination is what account and checkout work needs: an IP that stays the same for weeks, isn't shared with anyone else, and sits close to US e-commerce and ticketing infrastructure on the East Coast or in Texas. It suits Amazon and Walmart seller accounts, US ad accounts, sneaker and ticketing checkouts, and any task where you'd rather pay per IP than per gigabyte.

Pricing is flat per IP with unlimited bandwidth: $65 a month for 50 IPs ($1.30 per IP), $125 for 100 IPs ($1.25) and $300 for a 254-IP private /24 subnet on dedicated servers ($1.18). Quarterly billing lowers those to $1.17, $1.12 and $1.06 per IP. A 48-hour free trial needs no credit card, and HypeProxies offers refunds within 3 days of a first purchase for technical issues. The trade-offs: there are only two locations, no state or city choice beyond them, and the ISP page lists HTTP/HTTPS only.

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8. DataImpulse — Best budget option

DataImpulse has the lowest pay-as-you-go price on this list for US residential traffic: $1/GB, falling to $0.80/GB at 1 TB, and traffic never expires. It's also unusually transparent about how many US IPs are actually online. Its US residential page reports 929,917 unique IPs over 30 days, 126,622 in the last 24 hours and 94,574 active in real time.

That real-time figure is a healthy pool for a budget provider and is enough for price monitoring on Amazon, Walmart or Target at moderate request rates. Sticky sessions last up to 120 minutes, HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 are supported, and a $5 starter pack (5 GB) works as a low-risk trial.

Targeting is where you need to read carefully. Country-level targeting is free, but state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting are marked as "extra costs" — a real consideration in the US, where so much localisation happens at state and ZIP level. DataImpulse states that it doesn't offer static residential IPs in the US, and the page doesn't name US cities or ISPs.

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9. Webshare — Best for cheap US datacenter IPs

Webshare is the cheapest way to get a batch of US IPs for lightly protected targets. Its US page lists 6,652,539 United States IPs available now across its products. Shared datacenter proxies cost $0.0299 per IP a month on 100- and 250-proxy plans (the page title rounds this to $0.029), falling to $0.0179 per IP at 60,000 proxies and above. It also sells dedicated proxies, static residential (ISP) proxies and rotating residential proxies, with country, state, city, ZIP and ASN targeting on rotating residential.

Webshare's other US prices are presented in an unusual way: dedicated proxies "start from 250GB for $0.825/Proxy", static residential "from 250GB for $0.225/Proxy" and rotating residential "as low as $1.40/GB". These are "from" figures that depend on the plan you configure, so check the checkout price for your plan size. A free plan with 10 proxies, no credit card required, lets you test the dashboard first.

Shared datacenter IPs are a poor fit for Amazon, Ticketmaster or social platforms, which flag hosting ranges quickly. They're useful for crawling news sites, public-sector open-data portals and lightly protected catalogues, or for checking your own site's US CDN edges at very low cost.

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10. Rayobyte — Best for consent-based sourcing and static US IPs

Rayobyte sells US Premium Residential proxies alongside two static products: static ISP and static datacenter IPs. Its US page says residential IPs "come from people who opted in", which matters if your compliance team needs to document how a supplier's exit nodes were sourced — a growing question as more US states pass privacy laws. It names New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami and Ashburn as US locations and supports city, ZIP code and ASN targeting at no extra cost. The page cites "50M+ devices every month" but doesn't say how many are in the US.

Premium Residential costs $0.70 to $3.50/GB pay-as-you-go, and from $0.50/GB through sales on larger commitments. Sticky sessions keep one IP for up to 120 minutes. A separate Scale Residential product starts from $0.0095/GB, but only on a $5,000 monthly plan and with no targeting, so it's for very large untargeted crawls. Every product works over HTTP(S); SOCKS5 is included on Premium Residential and available on request on other products. Self-serve products come with a free trial, no credit card needed.

Unlike in many countries, Rayobyte's static US range includes ISP IPs, not just datacenter addresses: static ISP costs $5 per IP a month from 5 IPs, $4.80 from 100 and $4.60 at 1,000+, while dedicated US datacenter IPs start from $2.50 per IP a month (from 5 IPs), with unlimited bandwidth under a fair-usage policy. That's pricier per IP than HypeProxies, but it puts residential, ISP and datacenter US IPs under one account.

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Other providers we considered

• Novada — sells residential, rotating ISP and static ISP proxies with US IPs, with residential from $1.30/GB, rotating ISP from $0.65/GB and static ISP from $1.18 per IP, plus free city-level targeting. Its US page gives two slightly different totals (8,426,236 and 8,426,658 IPs), names no US cities or ISPs, lists HTTP(S) only, and advertises mobile and datacenter proxies in its title without listing a US price for either.
• Infatica — lists 14 US locations (from New York, Boston and Philadelphia to Sacramento, Portland and Orlando) with country, city and ZIP targeting, residential from $4/GB pay-as-you-go (down to $2.60/GB at 1,000 GB) and a $4 trial (1 GB or 7 days). Its US page title says 101,456 American IPs, while the body says 226,090.
• MarsProxies — its US page claims 341,385 datacenter, ISP and residential US IPs and lists every state plus DC, with residential from $1.65/GB, ISP from $1.35 per proxy, mobile from $8.49 a day and datacenter from $0.99 per proxy, but names no US cities, ISPs or carriers.
• Proxy-Seller — sells dedicated US IPv4 proxies (with IPv6, ISP, mobile and residential options) from $0.90 per IP for one week, down to $0.51 per IP at 2,000 IPs, with unlimited traffic, state or city choice, HTTP(S) and SOCKS5, and a replacement or refund within 24 hours. Its US page describes its network as both "600+ subnets" and "more than 800" subnets, and publishes no US IP count.
• Thordata — its homepage lists 3,876,096 US IPs while its locations page and US page say 5,604,857. Its US city table also repeats, figure for figure, nine of the ten city counts on Oxylabs' US page (only Charlotte differs), so we didn't rely on its published figures.
• NodeMaven — its homepage lists 299,783 US IPs and its documentation shows state and city targeting, but we found no dedicated US location page with US pricing, ISPs or carriers.
• Live Proxies — its pricing page offers rotating residential and mobile plans with US state-level options, but lists US static residential as "Permanently Unavailable".
• Floppydata — lists rotating proxies (residential, mobile and datacenter) from $1/GB, static residential IPs from $1.79 a month and static datacenter IPs from $0.79 a month for the US, but publishes no US IP count, cities or ISPs.
• Storm Proxies — sells rotating residential "ports" from a 20M+ pool with a choice of USA or EU IPs, from $19 a month for one port with unlimited bandwidth and a new IP every 5 minutes, but offers no state or city targeting on its residential page and only a 24-hour money-back guarantee on the smallest package.
• Geonode and ResiProx — Geonode's US location URL returned a "not found" page during our check, and we found no US location page for ResiProx (its homepage lists residential traffic from $1.75/GB, with 1 GB for $3.50).
• 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.

Which proxy type do you need for the US?

US use cases: practical tips

Amazon, Walmart and Target monitoring. These are the core of US e-commerce and among the best-protected sites on the web. Set a delivery ZIP code to see localised prices and stock, use rotating US residential IPs with city or ZIP targeting that matches that ZIP, keep a sticky session for each "visit" rather than rotating on every request, and use a real browser or a well-maintained HTTP client with a realistic fingerprint. Prices move fastest around Prime Day, Black Friday, Cyber Monday and back-to-school season, so plan for traffic spikes — and stricter bot protection — on those dates.

Property data on Zillow, Redfin and Realtor.com. US property portals are popular scraping targets for rental and investment research, and they defend themselves accordingly. Crawl slowly, use residential IPs with sticky sessions, cache listing pages, and collect only what you need. Listing pages can include personal details about owners and agents, which can bring state privacy laws into play.

Ticketing and limited drops. Ticketmaster, sneaker launches and retailer drops use queues, device checks and strong bot protection, and they're also where platform rules on automated purchasing are strictest. If you work in this space, dedicated static ISP IPs in Ashburn or Dallas give you low latency to US infrastructure, but proxies don't make automated buying allowed where the platform or the law prohibits it.

Local SEO on google.com. Google localises US results by city and sometimes by neighbourhood. Use city targeting, set gl=us and hl=en, and send an Accept-Language: en-US header. For Spanish-language markets in places such as Miami, Houston or Los Angeles, track es-US keywords too if your audience uses them. For large keyword sets across many cities, a SERP API may be cheaper than running your own browser through proxies.

Ad verification. US campaigns are commonly targeted by state, metro area and mobile carrier. Mobile proxies with carrier targeting (ProxyEmpire, SOAX, Bright Data) let you see exactly what a Verizon, AT&T or T-Mobile subscriber sees in a given city, which matters for in-app and mobile-web placements.

Streaming. US streaming services restrict content by region and block known proxy and datacenter ranges. Residential or mobile IPs are less likely to be blocked, but per-GB pricing makes video expensive, and circumventing geo-restrictions may breach the service's terms. Don't buy proxies primarily for this.

How to test a US proxy

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

1. Check geolocation in more than one database. Use two or three IP lookup services and compare the state and city. Geolocation databases disagree, especially for mobile and fixed-wireless IPs, which often geolocate to a carrier's regional hub rather than the subscriber's town.
2. Check the ASN. A US residential IP should belong to a consumer network such as Comcast (AS7922), Charter/Spectrum, AT&T, Verizon, Cox, Frontier or T-Mobile, or a regional operator. An ASN belonging to a hosting company, VPN or cloud provider means you've been given a datacenter or VPN-like exit, whatever the product page says. For ISP proxies, expect an ISP-registered ASN on server hardware — that's the product working as described.
3. Match your browser to the location. Set the Accept-Language header to en-US, the browser locale to English (United States) and the time zone to the one that matches the IP: America/New_York, America/Chicago, America/Denver, America/Los_Angeles, America/Phoenix (Arizona doesn't observe daylight saving time), America/Anchorage or Pacific/Honolulu. A Los Angeles IP with an Eastern time zone is an easy mismatch for anti-bot systems to spot.
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. Run your scraper from a cloud region close to the IPs you're using (US East for New York, Virginia or Atlanta exits; US West for California or Seattle), and compare time-to-first-byte across providers during their trials. A Seattle exit routed through a server in Frankfurt adds noticeable delay.
6. Test against your real targets. A proxy that passes an IP checker can still be blocked by Amazon, Zillow or Ticketmaster. Run a small batch against the sites you care about and measure the success rate before buying a large plan.

Is it legal to use proxies in the US?

Yes — using a proxy, VPN or other intermediary is legal in the United States. What you do through it is what matters, and a few areas of law are most relevant:

• Unauthorised access (CFAA). The federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act makes it an offence to access a computer "without authorization" or to "exceed authorized access". In Van Buren v. United States (2021), the Supreme Court read the second phrase narrowly: it covers getting into parts of a system — files, folders or databases — that are off-limits to you, not misusing information you're otherwise entitled to access. That narrowed the CFAA, but it doesn't make it safe to bypass logins, paywalls, IP blocks you've been told about or other technical barriers, and most states have their own computer-access laws as well.
• Scraping public data and website terms. In hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn, the Ninth Circuit held (in 2019, and again in 2022 after the Supreme Court sent the case back in light of Van Buren) that scraping data from public LinkedIn profiles likely wasn't "without authorization" under the CFAA. That is often cited as making public-data scraping lawful, but the case didn't end there: in November 2022 the district court ruled that hiQ had breached LinkedIn's User Agreement, which prohibited scraping and fake accounts, and in December 2022 the parties settled with a consent judgment and permanent injunction against hiQ. The lesson is that website terms can be enforced as a contract, and that using fake accounts or logged-in sessions changes the picture.
• Personal data. The US has no single federal privacy law, but a growing number of states do. California's Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), gives California residents rights over personal information that businesses collect about them, and is enforced by the California Privacy Protection Agency and the state Attorney General. Many other states have passed comprehensive privacy laws of their own. If you collect data about people — names, profiles, contact details, owner details on property listings — check which laws apply, minimise what you collect, and have a reason for keeping it.

Choose a provider that explains how it obtains consent from the people whose devices route traffic, and avoid networks with no clear operator. This section is general information, not legal advice; take advice specific to your project if you plan large-scale collection of US data.

Related guides

US proxies are mostly about choosing the right proxy type and then the provider with the best American coverage for it. For neighbouring markets, see our guides to the best Canada proxies and best Mexico proxies, or the best United Kingdom proxies for English-language work outside North America. For a broader comparison of providers by type, read our guides to the best residential proxy providers, best mobile proxy providers, best ISP proxy providers, best static residential 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?.