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Quick start

Monitor your usage and balance

Where to see what you spent, what you used and what each order cost, and how to avoid running out.

This guide is part of the ProxyOnly quick-start series. It assumes nothing and takes a few minutes. Prices are live, and you can start with a balance of one US dollar in any of the 63 countries we stock.

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Where the numbers are

The dashboard shows your current balance, your orders and your proxies. Order history lists every order with its price, date and state. Fund history lists every top-up with its date, amount and status. Between them, you can reconstruct every dollar that went in and out of your account.

Reading an order

Open any order to see the proxies it contains, the rental dates, the price you paid and the credentials. For traffic-based services, the usage figures show how much you have consumed against what you bought. Check them when a job gets bigger than you planned, because a page that is twice as heavy costs twice as much traffic.

  1. Open Order history and choose the order.
  2. Look at the start and end dates for static proxies, and note when they expire.
  3. For traffic services, compare the used amount with the purchased amount.
  4. Reorder before the expiry if the job continues.

Do not run out in the middle of a job

Add funds before a large job, not during it, because a crypto payment needs time to confirm. Keep a small reserve above what you expect to spend. Static proxies stop working when their period ends, so put the end dates in your calendar, and for important jobs order the renewal a day early.

If you use the API, read your usage regularly and alert yourself when it passes a limit that you choose.

Keeping costs down

Reduce the traffic you download: skip images, fonts and trackers where you can. Use the cheapest type that works, cache pages you have already fetched, and stop failed jobs quickly instead of retrying forever. Test on a small scale before you scale up.

Which proxy type fits any country

The right type depends on how strict the destination is, how much traffic you will send and how long you need the address. A short comparison of the types we sell:

Datacenter IPv4. The default choice for most jobs. These are dedicated IPv4 addresses hosted in a datacenter, fast and inexpensive, and the best fit for high-volume reading of public pages, monitoring and automation. Some websites treat datacenter ranges more cautiously than consumer connections, so test your target before you commit to a long rental.

ISP proxies. Static addresses that are registered to an internet service provider rather than a hosting company. They keep the speed of datacenter hardware and look more like an ordinary home or office connection, which helps with destinations that are strict about hosting ranges.

Shared IPv4. A shared address is used by more than one customer and costs less. It suits light tasks, quick checks and testing where a clean, exclusive address is not essential.

IPv6. IPv6 addresses are very cheap and plentiful, and they work well with destinations that serve IPv6 traffic, such as many large search, video and social platforms. Many smaller sites are still IPv4 only, so check that your target supports IPv6 before you buy.

Mobile proxies. Addresses from mobile carrier networks. Many phones share the same carrier address, so websites tend to be tolerant of this traffic, which makes mobile proxies the right choice for testing mobile ads, apps and landing pages. They cost more than datacenter addresses.

Residential proxies. Addresses from home internet connections, billed by the amount of traffic you use and not by the IP. They suit light, bursty jobs on sites that block datacenter and ISP ranges. Heavy traffic gets expensive quickly, so estimate your monthly volume first.

If you are unsure, rent one address of the type you think you need, run your real task against it for a day, and look at the success rate. Because rental periods start at a few days, trying a type costs very little.

Using proxies responsibly in any country

A proxy is a networking tool and it is lawful in most places, but what you do with it still has to be lawful and fair. Follow the laws that apply to you and to the place you send traffic to, read the terms of the sites you visit, honour robots rules and rate limits, and never use an address to access accounts or data that are not yours. ProxyOnly cannot give legal advice, and our acceptable use policy applies to every order.

In practice that means reading public pages, checking your own sites and ads, and testing your own products. If a task would be unwelcome to the site owner when done by hand, it is unwelcome when done through a proxy too.

Frequently asked questions

Where can I see my balance?

In the dashboard, at the top and on the add funds page.

How do I see what I paid for an order?

Open the order from Order history. The price is shown on the order page.

What happens when a rental ends?

The proxies stop working. Order again if you still need them.

Can I read usage through the API?

Yes, with GET /api/v1/usage.

Ready to try it?

Create an account, add funds from US$1 and pick your country and proxy type.