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80,000+ dedicated datacenter IPs across 82+ countries with sub-500ms latency. The fastest, most affordable proxy type - built for high-volume scraping, SEO monitoring, and data collection at enterprise scale.

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80K+ Datacenter IPs
<500ms Avg. Response
99.9%+ 99.9%+ Uptime
From $0.5 Per GB at 1 TB
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Speed & Performance

Why Are Datacenter Proxies the Fastest Proxy Type?

Datacenter proxies are IP addresses hosted on cloud servers in data centers, offering sub-500ms latency and the lowest cost per GB of any proxy type. They are typically 2x faster than residential and 3x faster than mobile proxies, making them ideal for high-volume, speed-critical operations.

Datacenter
<500ms
Fastest
Residential
~1.1s
~2× slower
Mobile
~1.8s
~3.5× slower
99.9%+
99.9%+ Uptime
<500ms
Avg. Latency
80K+
IP Pool Size
High-speed
Network Throughput
Core Features

What Features Do Databay Datacenter Proxies Include?

Databay datacenter proxies include 80K+ rotating IPs across 82+ countries with HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 support, unlimited concurrent connections, and volume pricing from $0.5/GB. Built for teams that need fast, cost-efficient proxy access at scale.

Dedicated IP Pool

80,000+ IPs allocated exclusively across our datacenter network. Large pool diversity minimizes bans and ensures consistent performance even under high concurrency.

  • 80K+ rotating IPs
  • Unlimited concurrent connections
  • No bandwidth throttling

Ultra-Low Latency

Enterprise-grade server infrastructure with direct Tier-1 backbone access delivers sub-500ms response times - the lowest of any proxy type.

  • <500ms average response
  • Tier-1 backbone connectivity
  • 99.9%+ uptime

Cost-Effective Scaling

At $0.5/GB on the 1 TB volume tier, datacenter proxies let you run massive operations without breaking budgets. Packages start at 10 GB.

  • From $0.5/GB at volume
  • Volume discounts available
  • No monthly minimums

Global Geo-Targeting

Select proxies from 82+ countries with country and city-level precision. Same intuitive targeting interface across all Databay proxy types.

  • 82+ countries covered
  • Country & city targeting
  • HTTP, HTTPS & SOCKS5 protocols
Getting Started

How Do You Get Started with Datacenter Proxies?

From sign-up to live proxies in under 5 minutes. No complex setup required.

01

Choose Location

Select your target country from 82+ available regions. Set your preferred rotation interval - per-request or sticky session.

02

Configure Proxy

Copy your proxy credentials from the dashboard. Paste the hostname, port, username, and password into your scraper or HTTP client.

03

Start Scraping

Launch your project. Traffic routes through our datacenter IPs at full speed. Monitor usage in real time from your dashboard.

Pricing

Simple Pay-As-You-Go Pricing

No monthly fees, no hidden costs. Buy bandwidth and use it whenever you need it.

Essential

Lightweight tasks, lowest cost

10GB included data
$ 1.25 /GB

$12.5 billed once

Get Started
  • Country-level geo-targeting
  • Rotating + sticky sessions
  • HTTP, HTTPS & SOCKS5
  • Unlimited concurrent sessions

31-day data validity

Most Popular
Standard

Best value for daily workloads

25GB included data
$ 1 /GB

$25 billed once

Get Started
  • Country-level geo-targeting
  • Rotating + sticky sessions
  • HTTP, HTTPS & SOCKS5
  • Unlimited concurrent sessions

31-day data validity

Advanced

Demanding scrapers and bots

250GB included data
$ 0.75 /GB

$187.5 billed once

Get Started
  • Country-level geo-targeting
  • Rotating + sticky sessions
  • HTTP, HTTPS & SOCKS5
  • Unlimited concurrent sessions

31-day data validity

Also included on every plan

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Custom pricing from $0.5/GB. Dedicated support included.

Unlimited scale 99.9%+ uptime Dedicated support
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Use Cases

What Are Datacenter Proxies Used For?

Datacenter proxies are used for high-volume web scraping, SEO and SERP monitoring, price tracking, ad verification, market research, and uptime monitoring - workloads where requests number in the millions and the target does not aggressively filter cloud IPs. The economics are simple: at $1.25/GB entry and $0.5/GB at 1 TB volume, every GB of crawl budget goes further than on any other proxy type.

Where the cheapest GB does the most work

Each use case below links to a full guide with setup steps and code. The common thread: these are jobs where volume is the constraint, not stealth. When a target starts fighting back - rising CAPTCHAs, 403s, challenge pages - that specific domain belongs on residential proxies; everything else stays on datacenter where the bandwidth is cheapest.

High-Volume Web Scraping

Bulk collection from public sites, directories, and APIs where anti-bot defenses are light. Sub-500ms latency and unlimited concurrency mean crawl jobs finish in hours, not days. Web scraping guide →

Unlimited threadsSub-500ms

SEO & SERP Monitoring

Track rankings and localized search results across 82+ countries. Public SERPs tolerate datacenter IPs well, so the cheapest pool is also the right one for daily rank checks at scale. SEO monitoring guide →

82+ countriesDaily tracking

Price & Stock Monitoring

Poll competitor storefronts and marketplaces for price and availability changes. Most e-commerce catalogs serve datacenter traffic fine; switch protected product pages to residential when block rates climb. E-commerce guide →

High frequencyLow cost/GB

Ad Verification

Confirm placements, landing pages, and creative rendering across regions. Datacenter IPs handle bulk verification sweeps; use residential where ad networks gate on IP reputation. Ad verification guide →

Regional sweepsFraud checks

Market Research

Aggregate listings, reviews, and public datasets across markets. Speed matters more than stealth for most research corpora - datacenter keeps the per-dataset cost predictable. Market research guide →

Bulk datasetsPredictable cost

Website & Uptime Monitoring

Watch your own properties from dozens of geographies: availability, latency, localized content, and certificate checks - without exposing the monitoring infrastructure's real IPs. Website monitoring guide →

Multi-region24/7 checks
Technical Specifications

What Are the Technical Specs of Databay Datacenter Proxies?

The full spec sheet - protocols, sessions, authentication, targeting, and limits - everything an engineering team needs before integrating.

Protocols HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5
Concurrent Sessions Unlimited, no caps
Authentication Username/Password, IP Whitelist
Rotation Options Per-request, Sticky (1-60 min)
Geo-Targeting Country, City - 82+ countries
Avg. Latency <500ms, Tier-1 backbone
API Access Full REST API with docs
99.9%+ Uptime High availability infrastructure
Global Coverage

Which Countries Have Datacenter Proxy Coverage?

Databay datacenter proxies cover 82+ countries across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and Africa, with the largest pools in the United States, Germany, United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands. All datacenter proxies support country- and city-level targeting at no extra cost, and every location runs on Tier-1 network backbones with sub-500ms response times.

How datacenter geography affects performance

Location matters when choosing datacenter proxies. Requests routed through a nearby datacenter IP deliver lower latency to your client application, while requests routed through an IP geographically close to the target server often receive less aggressive rate-limiting. For SEO monitoring of localized SERPs, ad verification of regional campaigns, and price intelligence on country-specific e-commerce, matching the proxy country to the target audience is essential.

Databay's largest datacenter pools are concentrated in the United States (21 states), the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, Canada, Japan, Australia, and Brazil. Smaller but strategically-placed pools exist in markets like Poland, Turkey, South Africa, and Mexico for region-specific data collection. Total coverage spans 82+ countries as of April 2026.

United States flag

United States

The largest Databay datacenter pool, spanning 21 states across both coasts and the Midwest. Ideal for SEO monitoring of Google US SERPs, ad verification of US campaigns, and price tracking on Amazon.com, Walmart, and Target.

21 states Tier-1 fiber Sub-500ms
United Kingdom flag

United Kingdom

London and Manchester datacenter locations with direct connections to major UK ISPs. Primary choice for scraping UK-specific content, verifying ads on ITV Hub and BBC, and monitoring prices on Amazon.co.uk, Tesco, and Argos.

London Manchester
Germany flag

Germany

Frankfurt datacenter hub - one of Europe's most-connected internet exchanges. Optimal for scraping Amazon.de, Otto, idealo, Zalando, and German-language SERPs. EU GDPR-aligned infrastructure for compliance-sensitive workflows.

Frankfurt DE-CIX
France flag

France

Paris datacenter pool for French-language content scraping, Amazon.fr, Cdiscount, and Fnac monitoring. French-localized SEO data collection and regional ad verification across major French publisher networks.

Paris FR peering
Netherlands flag

Netherlands

Amsterdam datacenter location with peering at AMS-IX, Europe's largest internet exchange. Benelux region scraping, Bol.com monitoring, and cross-border EU data collection with minimal latency to other EU markets.

Amsterdam AMS-IX
Singapore flag

Singapore

APAC regional hub with low-latency connections throughout Southeast Asia. Ideal for scraping Lazada, Shopee, Carousell, and regional e-commerce, plus ad verification across ASEAN markets.

APAC hub SGIX
Canada flag

Canada

Toronto and Montreal datacenter nodes for Canadian e-commerce monitoring (Amazon.ca, Canadian Tire, Walmart.ca) and bilingual English/French content verification.

Toronto Montreal
Japan flag

Japan

Tokyo datacenter for Japanese SERP monitoring, Rakuten and Amazon.co.jp scraping, and regional ad verification. Direct peering with Japanese ISPs for authentic localized data.

Tokyo JPNAP

Full coverage map including all 82+ countries with per-country IP counts is available at Proxy Locations. Need a country not listed? Contact us - we regularly add new regions based on customer demand.

All Locations

Browse 200+ Proxy Locations

Country-level pages with per-geo IP counts, top cities, and code samples. All locations include country, city, ZIP, GPS, and ASN targeting at no extra cost.

195 countries 34,880,000+ IPs total 6 continents
Africa 50 countries
Asia 50 countries
Europe 46 countries
North America 27 countries
Oceania 8 countries
South America 14 countries
Proxy Types Compared

How Do Datacenter Proxies Compare to Residential and Mobile?

Datacenter proxies are the fastest and cheapest proxy type, offering sub-500ms response times at $0.5 per GB on the 1 TB volume tier. Residential proxies cost more but deliver higher trust scores against anti-bot systems; mobile proxies cost several times more but have the highest trust on mobile-first platforms. Choose datacenter for high-volume speed-critical workloads where the target isn't heavily protected.

FeatureDatacenterResidentialMobile
Starting price (per GB)$0.5 (1 TB)$0.90 (1 TB)$2.5
IP pool size80,000+34,000,000+800,000+
Country coverage82+200+155+
Avg. response time<500ms~1.1s~1.8s
Trust score (anti-bot)55%82%98%
Best forHigh-volume scraping, SEO, bulk dataAnti-bot targets, e-commerce, SERPsSocial media, sneakers, app testing
Detection riskModerate (cloud ASN)LowNear-zero
Concurrent connectionsUnlimitedUnlimitedUnlimited

When datacenter proxies are the right choice: high-volume web scraping of less-protected sites, SEO rank tracking on public SERPs, ad verification campaigns, internal QA testing from multiple geographies, price monitoring on most e-commerce storefronts, and automated workflows where speed matters more than stealth. For heavily bot-protected sites like Instagram, TikTok, or aggressively defended sneaker drops, step up to mobile proxies. For strict anti-bot e-commerce like Nike, Walmart, or Amazon bot detection, use residential proxies.

Speed & Cost Positioning

Why Is Datacenter the Budget Workhorse?

Datacenter is the cheapest bandwidth in the proxy stack: packages start at $1.25/GB for 10 GB and fall to $0.5/GB at the 1 TB tier - versus $2.25/GB and $0.90/GB for the same volumes on residential. For pipelines measured in terabytes, that gap is the infrastructure bill.

Cost per GB is not cost per success

The per-GB price is only half the equation. What you actually pay for is successful responses, and the two proxy types fail differently. Datacenter IPs live in published cloud ASN ranges, so sites running serious anti-bot vendors recognize and challenge them far more often than residential IPs. Every blocked request still consumes a connection, a retry, and engineering attention - which means on a heavily protected target, the cheaper GB can end up buying the more expensive dataset.

On unprotected and lightly protected targets the math flips back decisively: block rates stay low, the speed advantage compounds, and nothing beats datacenter's cost per successful request. That is why high-volume teams run a two-pool setup - datacenter as the default workhorse, residential reserved for the domains that fight back.

The honest sizing rule: start every new target on datacenter, watch the block rate in your dashboard, and migrate only the domains that consistently challenge cloud IPs over to residential proxies. In a typical split, the bulk of the volume stays on datacenter - that is the budget doing its job, not a compromise.

Decision Guide

When Does Datacenter Beat Residential?

Datacenter beats residential whenever the target accepts cloud IPs: public SERPs, directories, most catalogs and APIs, and your own infrastructure. Residential earns its premium only where IP reputation is actively checked. Two lists settle most decisions:

Choose datacenter when…

  • The target serves cloud IPs without challenges - public SERPs, directories, most product catalogs
  • Throughput and latency dominate: millions of requests on a deadline, sub-500ms per response
  • The budget is per-GB constrained and the volume is high - from $0.5/GB at 1 TB
  • You are monitoring your own properties or running internal QA from multiple regions

Step up to residential when…

  • 403s, CAPTCHAs, or challenge pages climb on a specific domain and retries stop paying for themselves
  • The target is a bot-protected retailer, social platform, or limited-release drop site
  • You need city, state, ZIP, or ASN-level targeting - datacenter targets country and city only
  • Sessions must look like real consumers: account workflows, checkout flows, gated ad networks

Still weighing the two? The full residential vs datacenter comparison covers pricing, detection, and a use-case decision matrix side by side.

Integration

How Do You Integrate Datacenter Proxies in Code?

One endpoint, any language. Add our datacenter proxies to your existing code with a few lines.

Any Language, Any Framework

Use HTTP or SOCKS5 through Python, Node.js, cURL, C#, or any other HTTP client. Credentials work identically across all proxy types.

  • Works with all HTTP clients & scraping frameworks
  • Username-based location & session control
  • Complete docs and code samples
Documentation GitHub Samples
Python JavaScript PHP Go Java C#
import requests

username = "USER-zone-datacenter"
password = "PASS"
proxy = "gw.databay.co:8888"

proxies = {
    'http': f'http://{username}:{password}@{proxy}',
    'https': f'http://{username}:{password}@{proxy}'
}

# With country targeting (US)
# username = "USER-zone-datacenter-countryCode-us"

response = requests.get(
    'https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace',
    proxies=proxies,
)
print(response.text)
# Rotating datacenter proxy via cURL
curl -x http://USER-zone-datacenter:PASS@gw.databay.co:8888 \
     https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace

# With country targeting (US)
curl -x http://USER-zone-datacenter-countryCode-us:PASS@gw.databay.co:8888 \
     https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace

# Sticky session (10 minutes)
curl -x http://USER-zone-datacenter-sessionId-abc123:PASS@gw.databay.co:8888 \
     https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace
const axios = require('axios');
const { HttpsProxyAgent } = require('https-proxy-agent');

const username = 'USER-zone-datacenter';
const password = 'PASS';
const proxy = 'gw.databay.co:8888';

const proxyURL = `http://${username}:${password}@${proxy}`;
const httpsAgent = new HttpsProxyAgent(proxyURL);

const response = await axios({
  method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace',
  httpsAgent,
  proxy: false
});

console.log(response.data);
using System;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

class Program
{
    static async Task Main()
    {
        string username = "USER-zone-datacenter";
        string password = "PASS";
        string proxyUrl = "gw.databay.co:8888";

        var handler = new HttpClientHandler
        {
            Proxy = new WebProxy
            {
                Address = new Uri($"http://{proxyUrl}"),
                Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password)
            },
            UseProxy = true
        };

        using var client = new HttpClient(handler);
        var resp = await client.GetAsync("https://databay.com/cdn-cgi/trace");
        Console.WriteLine(await resp.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
    }
}
FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Everything you need to know about datacenter proxies.

What are datacenter proxies and how do they work?
Datacenter proxies are IP addresses provided by servers in data centers. They act as an intermediary between you and the internet, masking your real IP. Because they run on high-speed server infrastructure, they deliver the lowest latency of any proxy type - making them ideal for high-volume scraping and automation.
How do datacenter proxies differ from residential proxies?
Datacenter proxies originate from server farms and are faster and cheaper. Residential proxies use ISP-assigned home IPs and are harder to detect/block, but they're slower and more expensive. For high-volume, speed-sensitive tasks, datacenter proxies are the better choice.
How many IPs and locations does Databay have?
Databay provides 80,000+ datacenter IPs across 82+ countries. The large pool ensures each request can come from a different address to minimize blocks. You can target specific countries and cities for location-specific data collection.
What are rotating and sticky proxy sessions?
A rotating session assigns a new IP to every request, maximizing anonymity for bulk scraping. A sticky session holds the same IP for a set duration, useful when you need to maintain session state. Databay supports both modes on all datacenter proxies.
Are there limits on concurrent connections or bandwidth?
No. Databay's datacenter proxies have no concurrent connection limits or bandwidth caps. Open as many simultaneous connections as you need and transfer unlimited data. Our infrastructure is built for massive, sustained workloads.
Which protocols are supported?
We support HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 protocols. This covers virtually every use case - from basic HTTP scraping to advanced browser automation with Playwright, Puppeteer, or Selenium.
How long does purchased bandwidth stay valid?
Datacenter packages are one-time purchases with 31-day data validity - the bandwidth you buy stays usable for 31 days from purchase. No recurring subscriptions, no monthly minimums: when a package runs out or expires, you simply buy the next one.
Are datacenter proxies legal to use?
Yes. Using datacenter proxies is legal in most jurisdictions when target websites are accessed for lawful purposes such as SEO monitoring, price tracking, public data collection, ad verification, or testing your own services. Databay enforces a strict Acceptable Use Policy. Always review the target site's terms of service and consult legal counsel for your specific use case.
What happens if a datacenter IP gets blocked on my target?
With rotating sessions every request already exits from a different address in the 80,000+ pool, so a single blocked IP has no practical impact - the next request uses a fresh one. If a target consistently challenges cloud IP ranges as a class, move that domain to residential proxies, whose ISP-assigned home IPs are treated as ordinary consumer traffic.
How do I get started?
Sign up for a free account, select a datacenter proxy plan, and you'll have access to credentials within minutes. Our dashboard provides everything you need to configure, monitor, and scale your proxy usage immediately.
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