How-to guide
How do you choose a proxy for Asia?
Short answerTo choose a proxy for Asia, start from the job: pick the country and city the target site must see, then the IP type (residential for web data, 4G/5G mobile for apps and accounts), the session mode, the monthly volume and the payment terms, and test with 1 GB before you scale. At Jade Proxies that test costs $1.50.
What should you decide before choosing a proxy for Asia?
Decide the job before the provider, because the job fixes the country, the IP type and the session mode, and those three settle most of the choice. A price monitor for Lazada Thailand, a Naver rank tracker and an agency running LINE accounts in Japan need three different setups, even if one provider sells all of them.
Follow these seven steps in order:
- 01
Pick the country, then the city
Choose the country whose users the target site serves: a Shopee Vietnam price is read on shopee.vn from a Vietnamese IP. Add a city only when results differ inside the country, such as local search results or delivery fees. Jade Proxies covers 13 countries with country and city targeting on every plan; ASN targeting at no extra cost; city availability varies.
- 02
Match the IP type to the job
Use rotating residential IPs for websites (scraping, SERP checks, price and web-ad monitoring), a dedicated 4G/5G port for logged-in accounts and carrier-targeted in-app ads, and rotating mobile data per GB for light country-level app checks.
- 03
Choose rotation or a sticky session
Rotate when each request stands alone, such as product pages or keyword checks; hold a sticky session when a site expects one visitor across several pages, such as search pagination or a fare search. At Jade Proxies, each new connection gets an IP from the pool, usually a different one; to get a new IP on every request, send one request per connection (turn off keep-alive), and sticky sessions last up to 30 minutes (the IP can change earlier).
- 04
Estimate your monthly volume
Multiply the pages you fetch by an average page weight, then pick the plan whose per-GB rate fits: residential costs $1.50/GB for 1 GB, $0.66/GB at 10 GB and $0.50/GB from 100 GB. Dedicated ports are billed by the day, so count days, not GB.
- 05
Check protocol and authentication
Your tool needs a protocol the provider supports and a login method that fits your servers. Jade Proxies supports HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with username and password, or an IP allowlist (up to 10 IPs); sub-users with their own credentials and traffic cap; API keys you can revoke at any time.
- 06
Read the payment, KYC and refund terms
Check whether traffic expires, which coins or cards are accepted, whether ID is required and what happens if the IPs do not work for you. At Jade Proxies, traffic never expires, payment is in BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, SOL and LTC, and there is no ID, no selfie, no documents to sign up, top up or buy. Refund rule: within 72 hours, a residential or rotating-mobile plan is credited back to your balance if you used less than 20% of its traffic and no more than 1 GB; a plan that does not work and that support cannot fix within 24 hours is credited back in full.
- 07
Test with 1 GB before you scale
Run your real tool against your real target from each country you need, then read the success rate, the KB per page and the city coverage from your own logs. The Jade Proxies 1 GB test costs $1.50 and works in every country.
The rotating vs sticky guide details step 3, and the Python requests guide shows a first test script for step 7.
Which proxy fits which job in Asia?
Residential IPs fit most web data jobs, and dedicated 4G/5G ports fit work tied to an account or a carrier. The table maps common Asian jobs to an IP type, a session mode and a starting plan.
| Job | IP type | Session mode | Starting plan at Jade Proxies |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price monitoring on Shopee, Lazada, Tokopedia, Rakuten, Coupang | Rotating residential, by country | Rotating; sticky for pagination | 10 GB, $6.60 |
| Rank tracking on Google, Naver, Yahoo! JAPAN, Coc Coc | Rotating residential, by city | Rotating | 10 GB, $6.60 |
| Flight and hotel price monitoring | Residential per point of sale | Sticky per search | 10 GB, $6.60 |
| Web and search ad verification | Residential, by city | Sticky per check | 5 GB, $4.95 |
| In-app ad verification by carrier | Dedicated 4G/5G port | Stable; rotate between checks | 1 day, $3 ($4.50 in East Asia) |
| Managing your own or clients' social accounts | Dedicated 4G/5G port per client | Stable IP | 30 days, $59.25 |
| App geo-testing, light mobile checks | Rotating mobile, by country | Rotating | 1 GB mobile, $0.90 |
| Website geo-testing from a local IP | Residential | Sticky | 1 GB, $1.50 |
When a job sits between residential and mobile, the residential vs mobile comparison sets out the trade-offs. Every plan is listed on the pricing page.
What should you check on a provider's pricing page?
Check the terms that change the real price, not only the headline rate per GB. Expiry, minimum purchase, identity checks and city surcharges move the cost of a small or irregular Asian job more than a few cents per GB.
| Criterion | Why it matters | Jade Proxies |
|---|---|---|
| Traffic expiry | Monthly resets waste unused GB on irregular jobs | Traffic never expires |
| Smallest purchase | Sets the cost of a first test | 1 GB for $1.50, $25 minimum top-up |
| City targeting | Some providers bill city traffic at a higher rate | Included on every plan |
| Identity checks | ID uploads delay the first test and add stored personal data | None |
| Payment methods | Must match how your team pays | BTC, ETH, USDT, USDC, SOL and LTC |
| Support | A blocked test needs a quick answer | Reply within 12 hours, 7 days a week |
According to Jade Proxies, which read 9 other residential providers' own pricing pages on 13 October 2026, their smallest paid purchase ranged from $3.50 (Webshare's 1 GB monthly plan and NodeMaven's 750 MB trial) to $50 (Shifter's 50 GB plan, and DataImpulse after its one-time intro pack). The Jade Proxies 1 GB plan costs $1.50, but the $25 minimum top-up puts the first cash outlay above Webshare, Decodo, IPRoyal, Geonode, NodeMaven and Databay, and below Oxylabs and Shifter. The unspent balance stays on the account.
On identity checks, Jade Proxies treats no-KYC as data minimisation: it never collects identity documents, so none are stored. The no-KYC proxy guide explains what that covers and what the acceptable use policy still forbids, and the crypto payment guide walks through a first top-up.
What are the most common mistakes when choosing an Asian proxy?
The most common mistake is buying on a headline number instead of a test. Five errors recur:
- Trusting IP counts. Published pool sizes count addresses seen over time, not devices online in a given city today; only a test shows coverage for your target.
- Testing from the wrong country. A Singapore IP does not show Malaysian prices, and an IP in Tokyo does not show Osaka's local results.
- Using datacenter IPs on marketplaces and search engines. Hosting ranges are challenged first, so the cheaper IP spends its traffic on block pages.
- Buying a monthly plan for an occasional job. Traffic that resets every month costs more per GB actually used.
- Picking rotation for logged-in work. Accounts belong on a stable IP; rotating IPs suit public pages.
Frequently asked questions
What is the cheapest way to test a proxy in Asia?
Buy the smallest plan that does not expire and test only the countries you need. At Jade Proxies the 1 GB residential test costs $1.50 and covers all 13 countries, paid from a balance with a $25 minimum top-up.
Do I need city targeting?
Only when results differ inside a country, as with local search results, delivery fees or city-fenced ads. For national prices and rankings, country targeting is enough.
Should I choose residential or mobile proxies for Asia?
Choose residential for websites and volume, and a dedicated 4G/5G port for logged-in accounts and carrier-targeted apps. Rotating mobile data per GB covers light app checks by country.
Which protocol should I use?
Use HTTP or HTTPS for scrapers and browsers, and SOCKS5 for tools and apps that need it. Jade Proxies supports HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 on every plan.
Which Asian countries are not available?
Jade Proxies sells 13 countries from Japan to Pakistan; mainland China, North Korea and Iran are not sold; sanctioned countries and regions are blocked.
Test 1 GB of Asian residential IPs for $1.50
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