Mobile proxies for price monitoring

Track UK prices, stock and promotions as real shoppers see them — on the mobile connections they shop from.

Why use mobile IPs for price checks

Retailers can show different prices, stock and offers depending on where a visitor is and how they connect, and many retail sites put bot protection in front of their product pages that challenges datacenter traffic first. A check from a cloud server can end up looking at the wrong price — or a CAPTCHA.

UK mobile IPs are shared between many real shoppers through carrier-grade NAT, so they look like ordinary customer traffic and see what a UK shopper on their phone sees.

What you can track

• Competitor prices and discounts — including sale prices and multi-buy offers.
• Stock and delivery — availability and delivery options for UK customers.
• Marketplace listings — sellers, prices and who wins the featured offer.
• Pricing compliance — whether resellers stick to agreed minimum advertised prices.
• Promotions — banners, vouchers and mobile-only offers.

Setting up a monitoring job

• Rotate between runs. Call the rotation URL before each scheduled run, not on every request. A rotation usually takes under a minute, and the proxy is briefly offline while it happens.
• Scale with more proxies. Split a large product list across several proxies — and carriers — to check more pages in parallel.
• No per-gigabyte bill. Fixed-term plans are unmetered, so image-heavy product pages cost nothing extra.
• Automate the setup. The Reseller API lets you claim and manage proxies from your own code.

Monitor responsibly

• Check public product pages only, and respect each site’s terms where they apply.
• Keep request rates reasonable — space out runs rather than hammering a site.
• Our acceptable use policy rules out attacks on third parties and unauthorised access.

Plans

Fixed-term plans include unmetered usage for the whole term and are billed upfront, with no long-term contract.

Plan	1 day	1 week	1 month
4G	£4	£20	£65
5G	£5	£25	£70

Monitoring a large catalogue? Contact us about enterprise plans with dedicated devices.

Questions

How often can I check prices?

We don’t meter requests on fixed-term plans. How often you can check without being challenged depends on the site, so start slow and rotate the IP between runs.

Can I see app-only prices?

Yes. Install the proxy’s OpenVPN profile on a test phone and use the retailer’s app — it sees a UK mobile shopper. On most modems you can use WireGuard instead.

Which carrier should I choose?

Any works for most sites. For large jobs, spreading proxies across several carriers gives you a wider mix of IPs.

Which tools work?

Anything that supports an HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy with a username and password, from Python requests and Scrapy to commercial price-tracking tools.

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