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What Is a Proxy Pool?

A proxy pool is the full set of IP addresses a provider can route you through. Bigger and more varied pools mean fewer repeats and fewer bans.

By Team of Monkeys Editorial Updated 1 min read Affiliate disclosure

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The short answer

A proxy pool is the collection of IP addresses available to you. With a rotating residential proxy, it might be millions of home IPs worldwide; with a dedicated datacenter plan, it might be the 25 IPs you rent.

What actually matters

Headline numbers like "70 million IPs" count every IP seen over months. What helps you is how many are online right now in the country you target, how many different subnets and ASNs they come from, and how clean their reputation is. A smaller, fresher pool beats a huge, abused one.

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Also known as

IP pool, proxy network, IP inventory.

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Editorial note: Proxy providers change their pools, features and prices often, so treat any figures here as typical ranges at the time of writing and confirm current terms with the provider before you buy.
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