Can I monitor prices in a specific country?

Residential and mobile give broad coverage across 190+ and 100+ countries respectively, without a per-request country selector at checkout. ISP and datacenter support country-level targeting when a fixed, country-specific origin is what the job needs instead.

How often can I check the same product page?

There is no fixed request cap on our side; the practical limit is what the target site's own rate limiting tolerates, which is exactly what address rotation is for. Spend caps on your account stop you from overrunning your own budget, not from checking too often.

Is there a minimum spend to run a monitoring feed?

No. Order from 1 GB, fund your wallet, and pay only for what a run actually uses. There is no monthly minimum on residential or mobile.

Does checking a competitor's prices need their permission?

Collecting publicly available pricing and stock information is generally lawful, subject to the target's terms and applicable law. It has to be a use our acceptable use policy permits — read it before scoping a job.

Will the target site see repeated checks as one visitor?

Only if you hold one address for every check. Rotating across the pool, and using sticky sessions only where a flow needs continuity, is what keeps a recurring feed from reading as a single obsessive shopper.

Use cases

Proxies for Price Monitoring

Competitor pricing is only useful if you are looking at what a real shopper in that market sees. A monitoring feed run from the wrong origin is measuring a different storefront.

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§ 01The problem

What breaks without the right network

Retail and marketplace sites routinely segment price, promotions, and stock by geography, and a monitoring job that ignores this is comparing numbers that were never meant to be compared.

Prices, promotions, and stock that change by region or by storefront
Rate limits that cap how many SKUs a single origin can check per hour
Detection logic that recognises a repeat visitor checking the same product pages
A skewed sample when every check comes from one part of the world

§ 02How the network helps

What actually changes the outcome

A local vantage point, at scale

Residential addresses are assigned by consumer ISPs to real households across 190+ countries, so a price check looks like the shopper it is standing in for rather than a data centre.

Sessions long enough for a real shopping flow

Sticky sessions to 60 minutes hold one address through search, filtering, and a product page — the sequence a price check often has to repeat to see the same numbers a shopper would.

Billed by what you actually use

Traffic is billed per GB, rounded to the MB, with no monthly minimum — a monitoring feed that checks a thousand SKUs a day and one that checks ten pay for exactly the difference.

Mobile commerce, covered separately

Where pricing differs on a carrier connection or inside an app, mobile addresses reach the same target from 100+ countries and 310+ carrier networks rather than a fixed-line ISP.

§ 03Recommended line

Which network to put this on

Primary

Residential

Residential addresses see the same storefront a local shopper does, which is the whole point of a price and assortment feed that has to reflect real market conditions.

from $1.75 / GB

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Alternative

Mobile

When the price or availability check has to run through a mobile app or a carrier connection rather than a desktop browser, mobile addresses reach it the way a phone would.

from $1.75 / GB

Product details Full pricing

§ 04How teams run it

A workflow this fits into

01Schedule a recurring check per SKU, category, or competitor storefront
02Distribute requests across residential addresses so the sample reflects each market rather than one origin
03Diff each run against the previous one to isolate real price, stock, or promotion changes
04Route changes past a threshold to an alert or a pricing system, and archive the rest

§ 05Compliance

Publicly available data, used lawfully

Every recommendation above assumes lawful collection of publicly available data. Our acceptable use policy governs what is and is not permitted on this network, and sourcing and compliance explains where the addresses themselves come from.

§ 06FAQ

Questions we get about this

Can I monitor prices in a specific country?: Residential and mobile give broad coverage across 190+ and 100+ countries respectively, without a per-request country selector at checkout. ISP and datacenter support country-level targeting when a fixed, country-specific origin is what the job needs instead.
How often can I check the same product page?: There is no fixed request cap on our side; the practical limit is what the target site's own rate limiting tolerates, which is exactly what address rotation is for. Spend caps on your account stop you from overrunning your own budget, not from checking too often.
Is there a minimum spend to run a monitoring feed?: No. Order from 1 GB, fund your wallet, and pay only for what a run actually uses. There is no monthly minimum on residential or mobile.
Does checking a competitor's prices need their permission?: Collecting publicly available pricing and stock information is generally lawful, subject to the target's terms and applicable law. It has to be a use our acceptable use policy permits — read it before scoping a job.
Will the target site see repeated checks as one visitor?: Only if you hold one address for every check. Rotating across the pool, and using sticky sessions only where a flow needs continuity, is what keeps a recurring feed from reading as a single obsessive shopper.

§ 07Related

Ready to run price monitoring on the right network?

Create an account and order from 1 GB or 1 IP, or talk to sales if you want the volume ladder priced against your own numbers first.