Residential Proxies vs Datacenter Proxies: Which Type Do Scraping APIs Use and Why It Matters
Residential proxies route your requests through IP addresses assigned by ISPs to real homes, making your traffic look like an ordinary user. Datacenter proxies route through cloud servers, which are easier for anti-bot systems to identify. This post explains how each type works, where detection risk comes from, and how managed scraping APIs handle the choice for you.