Byteful
High speed datacenter proxy network built for high volume web scraping and market research with unlimited bandwidth and concurrent sessions.
Summary
Byteful provides high speed datacenter proxy servers for automated data retrieval and market research. You can manage proxies programmatically via a REST API or connect through standard HTTP and SOCKS5 gateways. The network supports unlimited concurrent threads and data transfer across commercial IP addresses in the United States and United Kingdom. Authentication is handled through IP whitelisting or standard proxy credentials.
Byteful’s Products
Byteful User Reviews
Byteful offers a comprehensive range of web scraping and data collection products, from proxies to data sets and data APIs.
User Review Summary
Reviewers frequently praise the fast speeds, stability, and reliability of the residential and ISP proxies. Many customers report positive experiences with the support team regarding replacements, refunds, and technical integration. However, some users criticize the service for slow response times, blocked domains, and poor performance with mobile plans. While most find the support helpful, a few reviewers disagree and describe the team as unresponsive or difficult during refund requests.
Trustscore 4.5 | 202 reviews
My account has been permanently banned…
My account has been permanently banned without warning or reason. The reason given in their email is that my account used an excessive amount of AI API traffic, which they classified as illegal data collection.
I don't understand: shouldn't data collection via AI APIs be defined by the API platform itself? How did it become something for the traffic provider to determine? I haven't seen any proof or documentation. They're maliciously deleting accounts and user services without issuing any refunds.
They even sent an email warning me not to register any new accounts. I'd have to be out of my mind to do that.
Helpful support from Deni
I recently purchased a Japanese Static ISP proxy from Byteful and contacted support with some concerns about the initial IP’s database classifications.
Deni helped arrange a replacement the same day. The new IP showed better results in my initial checks, and I appreciated the support in finding a more suitable allocation.
I’m still testing the service, so I can’t comment on long-term performance yet, but I’m happy with how my replacement request was handled. Thank you, Deni, for your help!
Great proxy service
Great proxy service! very happy will happily recommend. I had one or two issues with understanding the the support gave me the exact info i needed.
Byteful Residential
Byteful global proxy network has IPs in 195+ countries and 2000+ cities. Fast & reliable residential proxies.
Ideal Use Cases
Byteful Residential is a proxy network that routes traffic through real home devices. It is accessed via a proxy gateway at residential.byteful.com or through a public API endpoint for web scraping and ad verification.
Ideal Use Cases
- E-commerce & price monitoring: Bypasses anti-scraping filters on restrictive retail portals.
- Ad verification: Sourced from real home broadband networks to look like real users.
- Travel & hotel pricing: Provides geotargeting at country and city level globally.
- Multi-step flows & logged-in sessions: Supports sticky proxy sessions lasting up to 24 hours.
Poor Use Cases
- Large-scale crawling: Pay-per-GB bandwidth charging model can accrue high costs at volume.
- Real-time, low-latency lookups: Higher latency and lower throughput compared to datacenter proxies.
- JavaScript-heavy sites & SPAs: Proxy layer only; does not provide headless browser rendering.
- Sneaker & ticket purchasing bots: Peer devices can go offline suddenly during an active session.
Performance
Assuming average page size is 250kb
| Domain | Success Rate | Avg. Success Latency | GB | Provider Plan | Cost/GB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| aliexpress.com | 94% | 1.7s | 0 | Custom Quantity ($100000000/month) | $0 |
| amazon.com | 87% | 4.3s | 0 | Custom Quantity ($100000000/month) | $0 |
| apple.com | 96% | 1.9s | 0 | Custom Quantity ($100000000/month) | $0 |
| bestbuy.com | 7% | 5.1s | 0 | Custom Quantity ($100000000/month) | $0 |
| costco.com | 36% | 3.7s | 0 | Custom Quantity ($100000000/month) | $0 |
| ebay.com | 37% | 8.3s | 0 | Custom Quantity ($100000000/month) | $0 |
| etsy.com | 1% | 14.6s | 0 | Custom Quantity ($100000000/month) | $0 |
| homedepot.com | 11% | 1.5s | 0 | Custom Quantity ($100000000/month) | $0 |
| target.com | 92% | 4.5s | 0 | Custom Quantity ($100000000/month) | $0 |
| walmart.com | 77% | 2.9s | 0 | Custom Quantity ($100000000/month) | $0 |
Features
| Feature | API Credit | Description |
|---|---|---|
Residentialresidential.byteful.com:8000 | - | Residential exit IPs in 195+ countries, billed per GB ($3.25/GB at 10GB, $2.75/GB at 100GB). |
Country_c_ | - | ISO 3166 country code on the username; _c_us_state_florida, _c_gb_city_london and _c_us_zip_32808 narrow further. |
Sticky Sessions_s_ | - | Reuses one IP per session ID. TTL minimum 1 minute, maximum 24 hours; default when omitted. |
Geotargeting
Geotargeting is enabled by appending parameters like country id, city alias, or zip code id to the username. These location features are included at no extra cost for over 195 countries and major global cities.
| Standard Countries No extra cost | |
|---|---|
| United States | El Salvador |
| Mexico | Panama |
| Canada | Honduras |
| Barbados | Ukraine |
| Jamaica | United Kingdom |
| Dominican Republic | Germany |
| Trinidad and Tobago | Poland |
| Costa Rica | China |
| Bahamas | Brazil |
| Guatemala | Australia |
| … and many more countries | |
Byteful Residential Plans
Free
- 1 GB included
10 GB
- 10 GB included
- $32.5 per month
25 GB
- 25 GB included
- $75 per month
100 GB
- 100 GB included
- $275 per month
Integrating Byteful Residential
Scrapers connect to residential.byteful.com on port 8000 using proxy user credentials. Authentication and targeting parameters, such as country codes or session IDs, are appended directly to the username field using specific string prefixes.
curl -x "http://your_user:your_password@residential.byteful.com:8000" "https://example.com"
import requestsproxy = "http://your_user:your_password@residential.byteful.com:8000"proxies = {"http": proxy, "https": proxy}response = requests.get("https://example.com", proxies=proxies)print(response.text)
Examples
Ping Proxies Datacenter
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Ideal Use Cases
Ping Proxies Datacenter provides high speed commercial IP addresses for automated data retrieval. Users access the network through a REST API or standard proxy gateways using HTTP or SOCKS5 protocols.
Ideal Use Cases
- Large-scale crawling: unlimited data and threads allow high-volume simple page fetches.
- SEO & rank tracking: cost-effective IPs for repeated search ranking monitoring.
- Job listings: high speed and stability facilitate scraping career portals.
- Market research & review monitoring: gathers competitive intelligence at scale with low costs.
Poor Use Cases
- Social media data: datacenter ASNs are easily detected by aggressive bot detection.
- Travel & hotel pricing: lacks the geographic precision and JS rendering needed for travel.
- Ad verification: datacenter IPs lack the legitimacy of real consumer connections.
- JavaScript-heavy sites & SPAs: product lacks documented headless browser or JS rendering.
Performance
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Geotargeting
Geotargeting is enabled using the countryid parameter during purchase or via API filters. This feature is included in the base IP price at no additional cost.
| Standard Countries No extra cost | |
|---|---|
| United States | France |
| United Kingdom | Netherlands |
| Germany | |
| … and many more countries | |
Ping Proxies Datacenter Plans
1 IP
- $1.6 per month
- 1 proxy included
125 IP
- $1.6 per proxy
- 125 proxies included
1000 IP
- $1600 per month
- 1,000 proxies included
Integrating Ping Proxies Datacenter
Scrapers connect to the proxy port using the IP, port, username, and password structure. Authentication is managed through these proxy credentials or by whitelisting a specific IP address.