IP reputation
A score assigned to an address by anti-bot services and site operators, drawn from its history, its network owner and how many others share it.
Why it costs you money
You inherit the behaviour of everyone who used the address before you. This is the mechanism behind the residential price premium: a home connection carries a clean history that a rack of datacenter addresses does not, and the cheaper address is cheaper because more people have already burned it.
See it in the data
Related terms
- Exit nodeThe address a target website actually sees. Everything before it in the chain is invisible to the site you are fetching.
- Ban rateThe share of requests a target site refuses. The number that decides real cost, and the one nobody publishes.
- Subnet diversityHow spread out a pool's addresses are across networks. A large pool inside a few subnets behaves like a small one.
- ASNThe number identifying who owns a block of IP addresses. It is the first thing bot detection checks about you.
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