Etsy proxies for business teams
Give each client's Etsy shop its own residential session, research competitors' listings and tags, and check what buyers abroad see, within Etsy's policies.
From $3.99 per GB · in your dashboard once payment clears · 99.9% uptime
What teams use Etsy proxies for
Marketplace and e-commerce teams use them to see listings, prices, delivery promises and search placement the way shoppers in each market do, and to test their own storefronts before a launch.
Etsy for seller teams and agencies: market checks and price research
Teams behind Etsy shops, from in-house staff to agencies serving several makers, mostly need to see public pages through a buyer's eyes: how a listing reads in German or French, what shipping a buyer in Canada is quoted, and how competing shops price similar pieces. Those viewing jobs suit country-targeted residential IPs. Running the shops themselves belongs in Etsy's Shop Manager, under the account rules Etsy sets for sellers.
Translation and listing QA
Etsy lets sellers add their own translations for the languages it supports. Reviewing listings from a residential IP in Germany or Italy shows the page much as a local shopper sees it, with currency and shipping lines included, so mistakes surface before the busy season.
Pricing research before entering a market
Sellers expanding into a new country compare what similar handmade and vintage pieces are listed at there, and how much shipping adds, before fixing their own prices. A residential IP in that country returns search results and prices as a signed-out local buyer gets them.
How the team sets it up
Give each researcher a sticky session per market so a search, a listing and its shipping details load from one address. Shop Manager logins stay on the owner's usual connection; the proxy plan is for looking at public pages, not for operating shops.
Which plan fits listing research
Standard residential covers this work. Try residential premium only for a market where standard results come back patchy, and check usage in the dashboard after the first round to size the next order. Mobile 4G/5G adds cost without changing what a desktop buyer sees.
The plan we suggest for Etsy
We suggest Residential here. Traffic leaves through household broadband connections in the country you pick, so pages load as they would for an ordinary customer there. An agency that runs shops for several clients has two jobs on Etsy: keep each shop's sign-ins separate, and research the market without being blocked. Etsy links shops that share an IP and distrusts sign-ups from datacenter and VPN ranges, so residential IPs from home ISPs, carrying the household reputation of a genuine seller, suit both jobs.
One household IP per shop
Give each client's shop its own sticky session on a consumer-ISP address, the way every seller working from home has a connection of their own, so two shops don't share an IP while they work. Separate shops then stay separate, inside Etsy's account rules.
Listing & price research at scale
Keyword and competitor research takes a lot of public listing, tag and pricing data. Rotating residential IPs collect it in volume without the rate limits that cut datacenter requests short.
Accurate geo-pricing checks
Visitors in the US, UK, DE or AU can be shown different currencies, shipping estimates and featured listings. Country-level residential IPs show your team what a buyer in each market sees before you set prices or shipping profiles.
Tool-ready authentication
Whatever your staff work in, whether an Etsy management dashboard, a profile-based browser or a research script you wrote yourselves, the proxies connect over HTTP/HTTPS or SOCKS5 with username/password or IP-whitelist login.
Matching each job to a plan
Most teams run more than one kind of job. Data is bought per plan, so volume checks can sit on a lower-cost plan while the jobs that need a household or carrier connection get one.
Datacenter
Our entry-level rate per GB. Suits high-volume checks on your own sites and on public pages that accept datacenter traffic, such as rank tracking and catalogue sweeps.
Datacenter plan details →Residential
Suggested hereHousehold IPs whose owners consented to share their bandwidth. Use it when a report must show what local customers are shown, or when a site serves datacenter visitors something else.
Residential plan details →Residential Premium
Premium-grade residential IPs for demanding work. Shift any job that keeps failing on standard residential here, plus brand-protection sweeps and checks a client's reputation depends on.
Residential Premium plan details →Mobile 4G/5G
IPs from 4G/5G carrier networks, for apps, social platforms and mobile ad placements that need to be seen the way phone users see them.
Mobile 4G/5G plan details →Several markets, one order
MIX packages are ready-made residential pools covering several countries at once, so a multi-market report can run from a single order.
See MIX packages →Proxies for your own clients
The reseller programme is free to join. Once approved, you create a login for each client through the REST API and set your own client prices.
Reseller programme →Cost it before you commit
Pick a plan and a number of gigabytes in the proxy calculator to see the order total before anything is charged.
Open the calculator →Want the options side by side in more depth? The proxy comparison page sets them out.
Getting the team set up
Four steps take a team from order to first check, using the browsers and tools it already works with.
Size the order
Start on Residential, the plan suggested above, and choose how many gigabytes the work needs. The proxy calculator shows the total first.
Pay by card or crypto
Stripe handles card payments and Cryptomus handles crypto. Each order is a one-off, valid for 30 days, with no subscription to cancel.
Set the market
Choose countries in the dashboard after payment, so one order can serve one client market this week and another the next. If a job needs a single city, ask support whether the network covers it.
Give the team access
The dashboard shows the login details once the payment has gone through. Pass them to the colleagues who need them, or whitelist the office IP so nobody has to type a password.
Rotation or a sticky session?
- ▸Per-request rotation moves every request to a different IP. Use it for wide, read-only sweeps of public pages, such as price lists or search results.
- ▸Sticky sessions hold one IP for a window you choose, typically 1-30 minutes, for signed-in or multi-step tasks such as stepping through a client's checkout.
Both are switched in the dashboard, and the options on offer depend on the plan. Keep request rates modest either way.
Signing in
- ▸Username and password in the
host:port:user:passformat that browsers, browser-profile tools and monitoring software accept. - ▸IP whitelist: add your office or server address in the dashboard, and anything connecting from it gets in without credentials, which suits shared office lines and scheduled jobs.
Both work over HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, and the protocol can be changed later in the dashboard at no extra charge.
Match the IP to the market you report on
Search rankings, prices, ads and even which products appear can change with the visitor's country. Set the IP to the market your client or campaign targets, and the screenshots and figures your team files will line up with what customers there are shown.
- ✓55+ countries to choose from.
- ✓City-level targeting where the network supports it.
- ✓One country per check keeps month-on-month results comparable.
Major markets on the network
When a report doesn't match what the client sees on the ground, the IP's country is one of the first things to check.
How the four plans compare
Every plan bills per GB. The highlighted row is the plan we suggest for this work.
| Plan | Trust level | Speed | Cost | From, per GB | Where it fits |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datacenter | Standard | ★★★★★ | $ | $3.50 | Bulk page checks, rank tracking and QA on your own sites |
| Residential Suggested | High | ★★★ | $$ | $3.99 | Local prices, search results, ads and marketplaces |
| Residential Premium | Very high | ★★★★ | $$$ | $6.50 | Demanding sites, brand protection and client work |
| Mobile 4G/5G | Very high | ★★★ | $$$$ | $4.50 | Apps built for phones and ads served on mobile networks |
The rate charged is the one shown for the live plan at checkout.
Keeping Etsy work within the rules
We sell these proxies for legitimate business work: market and price research, ad verification, SEO, brand protection, QA and compliant automation, including running your own accounts inside each platform's rules. Whatever your team does through them has to stay within the terms of service of every site involved and the law that applies to you and your clients.
- ✓Collect only publicly available information, and pace requests so the site isn't put under strain.
- ✓No proxy can promise that an account escapes action by the platform. That depends mostly on how the account is used and whether it follows the terms.
- ✓Personal details in collected pages, such as names, contact details or reviews, bring data-protection duties with them. Agree with your legal team what you keep and for how long.
The full rules are in our acceptable use policy.
Etsy proxies: questions from team leads
Refunds
Proxies that fail on arrival can be reported to support for up to 24 hours after delivery. Support swaps them, and where a working swap isn't possible, refunds the affected amount. Details are in the refund policy.
Support
People answer tickets 24/7. Open one from the Support page in your dashboard and include the order reference.
Logs
Our records cover billing and how much bandwidth each order used. The URLs, page content and destinations your team reaches are never logged.
Get your team started on Etsy
Start with a small order, see how the work runs, and add data when the next round of checks is due.
