Proxy Types The Complete Guide

A rotating proxy pulls a new carrier IP on a timer or per request from the operator’s gateway pool, so every session looks like a different visitor. A dedicated proxy holds one SIM and one IP exclusively for you, so the address keeps the reputation and login state a rotating pool would otherwise reset. Choose rotating for volume, dedicated for continuity.

Rotating mobile proxies suit most scraping and verification jobs, since spreading requests across many carrier IPs reads as ordinary traffic rather than one address hammering a target. A scrape that has to stay logged in — a cart, an authenticated account — is the exception, and wants a dedicated IP instead so the session does not break mid-task.

Yes. Connection type and network generation are independent choices on PXM2 — a rotating or a dedicated proxy can both run on the same 4G or 5G modem. The generation changes latency and throughput; the connection type changes how the IP itself behaves.

A rotating pool spreads the underlying hardware across everyone drawing from it, so the per-request cost is low but no single address is reserved for you. A dedicated proxy reserves one physical SIM for one customer, which costs more per IP but buys an identity nobody else can disturb. Static sits alongside dedicated as a fixed-address premium, and shared sits alongside rotating as the budget option — each pair trades cost against how much control you have over the address.

The hub is being built out to cover eleven mobile proxy types grouped into three families — connection and rotation, network and carrier, and plan-level comparisons. (A twelfth candidate, "unlimited bandwidth," was dropped: every PXM2 proxy already ships with unlimited bandwidth, so it describes a billing attribute every type shares rather than a distinct one.) Pages are added as they ship; the sections below show which ones are live right now.

No. Every connection type on this hub — rotating, dedicated, and the rest as they ship — bills per modem for a fixed period rather than per gigabyte, so bandwidth is unlimited across the board. That matters because mobile carriers themselves do charge providers per gigabyte and often throttle a SIM after a "fair use" threshold; a metered plan passes that carrier cost straight to you, which is cheaper for a small, bursty job but can get expensive fast on a continuous, high-volume one. PXM2 absorbs that cost into the flat per-modem price instead, so a heavier job never costs more.