Here is the uncomfortable question at the centre of the residential proxy business.

That IP you are routing through belongs to somebody's home connection. How did it get into the pool, and did they agree to it?

Most providers hope you never ask. AstroProxy puts the word ethically on the homepage and runs KYC and AML checks on the customer side, which is a rarer position than it should be.

What Is In the Pool

Over 50 million rotating addresses across more than 100 countries, split across all three tiers:

  • Residential, the main pool
  • Mobile, 4G and 5G, for the hardest targets
  • Datacenter, for speed where trust is not the issue

Having 5G in the mix is notable. Most mobile proxy offerings are still 4G, and 5G addresses are newer, cleaner and less likely to be sitting on somebody's blocklist already.

The Compliance Angle

Two things AstroProxy does that are worth naming.

KYC and AML checks on customers. Yes, it is mild friction at signup. It also means the provider is filtering out the people who would otherwise be poisoning the pool you are about to use. A provider that screens its customers is protecting your IP reputation, not just its own conscience.

AI based monitoring of the network, which in practice means bad actors and degraded IPs get spotted and dealt with rather than quietly sold to you.

If you work anywhere near a compliance function, being able to point at a provider that does this is worth actual money.

Pay As You Go, With Credit to Start

Pricing is per GB, and it is pay as you go rather than a subscription, so unused capacity does not evaporate at the end of a month.

There is free starting credit, which is the right way to let people evaluate. You do not need permission or a sales call to find out whether the IPs work on your targets.

Uptime is quoted at 99.9%, and country and city targeting is available across the pool.

Who It Fits

  • Teams who need to answer questions about where their IPs come from
  • Anyone wanting 5G mobile rather than 4G
  • Projects that need residential, mobile and datacenter from one balance
  • Users who want pay as you go instead of a monthly commitment

Who Might Look Elsewhere

If you want to sign up anonymously in thirty seconds, the KYC step will annoy you. That is the honest cost of the thing that makes this provider good.

Pure bulk scrapers chasing the lowest possible per GB rate can find cheaper. You would be trading away the sourcing story to get there.

Final Verdict

AstroProxy is a strong all round provider that takes the part of this industry everyone else mumbles about and says it clearly.

A 50 million IP pool with 5G mobile in it, a hundred countries, pay as you go pricing, free credit to start and genuine compliance controls. If you have ever had to explain your data collection setup to somebody who cares about the answer, this is the provider that makes that conversation easy.

Take the free credit, test your hardest target, and check the connections with our proxy checker before you judge the results. For background on the tiers, residential vs datacenter proxies is the place to start.