ProxyScrape offers something most large residential providers do not bother with: UDP support.

Alongside a pool of over 120 million residential addresses and around 40,000 datacenter ones, that makes for an unusually wide capability range.

Why UDP Belongs in the Conversation

Nearly every proxy in this series speaks TCP only. That covers browsing, APIs, scraping and most automation, which is why it is the default and why nobody mentions it.

UDP is what real time applications use. Voice, video, games, and certain kinds of network tooling.

Point a TCP only proxy at something that needs UDP and it does not degrade gracefully, it simply fails. Offering UDP means building separate infrastructure, which is why so few providers do.

Having it in the same account as a large residential pool means you are not maintaining two vendor relationships for two halves of one project.

Premium Shared Datacenter

The datacenter tier is split into dedicated and shared, and the shared option is labelled premium rather than budget.

That distinction is worth a moment. Shared usually means cheapest, with whoever else the provider can fit onto an address. Premium shared implies a limited, managed number of users rather than an open door.

For a great deal of work, shared addresses are entirely adequate and paying for exclusivity would be waste. Knowing the sharing is capped rather than unlimited is what makes that trade comfortable.

They Explain the Product

There is a section on understanding proxy types sitting on the site itself, before the checkout.

Providers who teach before selling tend to be the ones expecting repeat customers. An informed buyer picks the right tier first time and stays, which is better business than selling somebody the wrong thing once.

There is also a freebies section, which is the right way to let people evaluate.

The Scale Split

A hundred and twenty million residential addresses against forty thousand datacenter ones is a deliberate shape.

Residential needs enormous depth because reputation depletes with use and you need variety. Datacenter needs speed and subnet diversity rather than raw count, because you rent specific addresses and keep them.

Forty thousand is a healthy datacenter pool. Judge each tier against the right yardstick rather than comparing the two numbers to each other.

Who It Fits

ProxyScrape suits anyone who needs UDP alongside conventional proxies, high volume residential collection, users happy with capped shared datacenter addresses, and people who want the product explained before buying.

Who Might Look Elsewhere

There is no prominent dedicated mobile carrier tier, so if 4G addresses are what your target demands, a mobile specialist fits better.

Enterprise buyers wanting formal SLAs and named account management should look at the larger platforms.

Final Verdict

ProxyScrape covers a genuinely wide range without the catalogue becoming confusing.

A hundred and twenty million residential addresses, a solid datacenter pool split honestly between shared and dedicated, UDP alongside both standard protocols, free tools and documentation that explains rather than sells.

If any part of your work touches real time traffic, UDP support narrows your options to a handful of providers and this is one of them. Verify what you buy with our proxy checker.