NetNut provides ISP-sourced proxies but setting them up can be difficult for those lacking the necessary technical knowledge.
Every proxy provider makes big claims about its speed, but Tel Aviv-based NetNut goes further than most: ‚fastest in the market‘, the website boasts, with the capacity to handle ‚hundreds of gigabytes per second‘ ensuring you can ‚access any geo-targeted web data content you need.‘ This isn’t just marketing spin, though. While most proxy providers use peer-to-peer (P2P) networks to source their residential IPs, NetNut works with a company called DiviNetworks to acquire them directly from more than 100 ISPs around the world. With the usual reliance on end users replaced by direct ISP connectivity, NetNut eliminates a major performance bottleneck and ensures it can better scale up to handle large-scale tasks. As a very welcome bonus, because these IPs aren’t tied to real user devices, you don’t have to worry that they’ll disappear at any moment. You can decide how long to keep them. These static residential proxies are NetNut’s premium product, with 1 million IPs in over 50 countries. But if they’ve overkill for your project, the company also offers more than 10 million rotating residential proxies worldwide (including P2P-sourced IPs), and 110K+ US datacenter for simpler scraping tasks. NetNut used to focus very much on the high-end business market, but these days it has plans for just about every level of user. The company’s US datacenter plans start at just $20 a month for 20GB bandwidth, for instance. There are no concurrency limits to get in your way, so you can run as many connections as you need. The starter plan doesn’t have live support – it’s email-only – but that’s no great surprise at this end of the market. Ramping up to the Advanced plan gets you 50GB bandwidth for $45 a month, with live support thrown in (although chat is via Skype, which is hardly convenient.) The $80 Production plan offers 100GB bandwidth and a dedicated account manager, and at the upper end of the range, the Master Plan costs $500 a month for 1TB traffic. These aren’t the cheapest prices around, and you might find better deals at specific price points. The Smartproxy Clever plan gives you 100GB traffic for only $50 a month, for instance, which looks relatively cheap. But NetNut scales up well, and overall, its prices are competitive with the top proxy providers. NetNut’s rotating residential products come in two flavors: bandwidth-based and request-based. The bandwidth-based plans have six tiers. The cheapest gives you 20GB for $300, or $15/GB.
