How Do Rotating Mobile Proxies Work?
Rotating mobile proxies route your traffic through real smartphones on real carrier networks. Here's the path every request takes, from your code to the target site and back.
When your scraper sends a request to our gateway, we route it through a real SIM on a carrier like Verizon, T-Mobile, or Vodafone. The destination site sees a mobile carrier IP and a mobile carrier ASN, which is why hundreds of other real users are hitting that same site from the same IP through CGNAT. Your traffic blends into their traffic.
Rotation happens the same way it happens for a real phone: the carrier reassigns a new IP when the device reconnects to the network. You can trigger that rotation on every request for maximum diversity, or hold the same IP for up to 4 hours when you need session continuity for a login or a checkout. One parameter in the gateway URL switches between the two modes.