--- title: "Best Proxies for CAPTCHA - 2026" description: "The best proxy for reducing CAPTCHAs is Proxynet: residential IPs in 194 countries, Turkish carrier mobile lines, 81 provinces. We compared five." url: https://proxynet.io/blog/best-captcha-proxies-2026 date: 2026-09-18 author: "Enver Kaya" category: "Best, Proxies" lang: en --- # Best Proxies for CAPTCHA - 2026 You wrote a script that collects the price of a hundred products on Trendyol every morning. It ran without trouble on the first day; on the third day, after the fortieth product, a verification screen started arriving instead of the page. The same thing meets you as an "unusual traffic" warning while you check rankings on Google.com.tr, as a box instead of the listing page on sahibinden.com, and as an extra verification step at login on Instagram. The visible result may be the same, but the cause is not one single thing: who the exiting IP is registered to, how many requests per minute pass through it and the traces the browser leaves behind are each weighed separately. This post explains why the verification screen appears, how much the proxy type changes that frequency and what to do to avoid triggering it; at the end it compares five providers for this job. Rival figures come from the providers' own sites and are dated September 2026; information a provider does not publish sits in the table as "—". > **Note: Short answer** > > The best proxy provider for reducing CAPTCHA frequency is Proxynet. On residential it holds more than 160 million real subscriber IPs in 194 countries, and province and ASN targeting costs nothing extra; on mobile you can hold a sticky session of 1 to 60 minutes over thousands of carrier lines including Turkcell, Vodafone and Türk Telekom. There is no subscription and no term, the balance you load is never burned, and the panel and support are in Turkish. For enterprise work spread across hundreds of countries, the larger residential pools of Bright Data and Oxylabs are worth considering, and for teams with a large monthly budget so is SOAX's tiered pricing. ## Why do you need a proxy for CAPTCHA? CAPTCHA is a test that tries to measure whether the request on the other end comes from a human or from a program; the W3C's [note on the accessibility of these tests](https://www.w3.org/TR/turingtest/) also spells out the limits of the method itself. A site does not show this test to every visitor, it shows it when a risk threshold is crossed. At the top of the signals that set that threshold is the network the request exits from: if the IP sits in a hosting company's block, if a large number of requests passed through the same address in a short time, or if that address was involved in previously reported abuse, the risk score goes up. A proxy changes only the first leg of this equation, but it is the leg that weighs the most. The verification screen that follows a hundred requests out of a data center block usually never appears at all when you do the same job from a real subscriber line at a reasonable pace. ## What does a proxy do about the CAPTCHA problem? - **It keeps a data collection job from being cut off halfway.** Every request that comes back with a verification screen is a wasted request; worse, if the script mistakes it for data and saves it, it writes an empty row into your table. More: [data scraping](/data-scraping). - **It gets you the same result at every hour of the day in price tracking.** Marketplaces lower the threshold at busy hours, and a script that works in the morning on a single IP jams in the evening. More: [price monitoring](/price-monitoring). - **It lets you check how an ad looks in the target country.** Ad networks filter out data center traffic; without a real subscriber IP, the page you see is not the page the user sees. More: [ad verification](/ad-verification). - **It runs the query from the right location in search result tracking.** The result for the same keyword changes from province to province, and query speed fills the threshold fast. More: [SERP rank tracking](/blog/serp-rank-tracking). - **It makes a login on social media accounts look ordinary.** A user who connects to an account from a different country and a different carrier every time gets an extra verification step. More: [Instagram proxy](/instagram-proxy). ## What to look for when choosing a proxy for CAPTCHA - **The type of network the IP is registered to.** Every IP block is registered to an autonomous system number, and that record is public. If the record points to an access provider, the request looks like ordinary subscriber traffic; if it points to a hosting company, the same request is treated as risky from the start. - **How scattered the pool is.** What matters is not the total IP count but how many different blocks and how many different networks the addresses spread across. A hundred IPs from the same block are almost a single IP as far as the target site is concerned; when one is flagged, its neighbours are flagged with it. - **How fine the location targeting is.** Country is not enough. If you are collecting prices in Türkiye, whether the request exits from Istanbul or from Erzurum changes both the result and the risk score; if province and ASN selection carry an extra fee, the cost grows quickly. - **Control over session length.** Some jobs want a new IP on every request, others want to stay on the same address for fifteen minutes. Can you set both from the panel, and what is the upper limit of a sticky session? - **The pricing model and the life of the traffic.** At what volume does the per-GB price apply, and does the traffic you buy have a term? A plan whose credit burns in 60 days costs more than its list price in a tracking job that runs a few days a month. ## The 5 best proxy providers for CAPTCHA ### 1. Proxynet If you want to keep the verification screen to a minimum, the first address is Proxynet. The residential pool holds more than 160 million real subscriber IPs in 194 countries; province and ASN targeting is free, which means you can send the request out not only from Türkiye but from Konya and from a specific carrier's network. On the Türkiye side there are 6.2 million IPs spread across all 81 provinces. On mobile there are thousands of carrier lines including Turkcell, Vodafone and Türk Telekom and more than 140 countries; you pick the carrier from the panel or the API and set the sticky session yourself anywhere between 1 and 60 minutes. For account work that needs long sessions, more than 240,000 static ISP IPs are sold in more than 20 countries, more than 120,000 of them in Türkiye, running on Türk Telekom, Superonline, TurkNet and Vodafone Net lines. The pricing model is not a subscription but a balance. Residential traffic starts at the 3.30 dollars level per GB and falls to the 1.50 dollars level as the balance grows; on mobile the entry is the 5.50 dollars level. There is no monthly commitment, no minimum order and no credit term: the balance you load is never burned and is valid across the residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter products. In a rank tracking job that runs three days a month, that difference decides more than the per-GB price itself. The panel is in Turkish, support answers in Turkish 24/7, and you pay by credit card or bank transfer (havale/EFT). **Pros** - More than 160 million real subscriber IPs in 194 countries - Free province and ASN targeting; all 81 provinces in Türkiye - Turkcell, Vodafone and Türk Telekom lines on mobile - You choose the sticky session length between 1 and 60 minutes - No subscription and no term; the balance is not burned and is valid on every product - Rotating and static IPs in the same account, switched from the panel - Turkish panel, 24/7 Turkish support, credit card and bank transfer **Cons** - No free trial; you test it with a small balance - The residential pool is smaller than Bright Data's and Oxylabs' - The Web Scraper API is handed out through the sales team for now **Who it is for:** teams that want to cut down the verification screen in price, listing, search result and account work aimed at Türkiye. ### 2. Bright Data The largest residential pool on the list is here: more than 400 million IPs. The total it publishes for Türkiye is 1,296,959 IPs; targeting offers postal code and ASN selection alongside the city. The price starts at 8 dollars per GB and drops to 3 dollars on large plans, and plan traffic is used up within one month. It publishes no per-IP or per-GB price for mobile proxies. **Pros** - A residential pool of more than 400 million IPs - Targeting down to postal code and ASN level - A broad scraping API family and a proxy manager - A pay-as-you-go option is available **Cons** - The per-GB entry price is the highest on the list - Plan traffic burns if it is not used within a month - It does not publish a mobile proxy price - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** data teams with enterprise budgets working in dozens of countries at once. ### 3. Oxylabs A global provider with more than 175 million residential IPs; the figure it publishes for Türkiye is 6,850,844 IPs, but only Istanbul appears in its city list. Residential traffic starts at 6 dollars per GB and falls to 2.50 dollars. On mobile there are more than 20 million IPs and more than 140 countries, with the price falling from 7.50 dollars to 3.50 dollars; you can stretch the sticky session up to 24 hours. **Pros** - More than 175 million residential IPs - Sticky sessions of up to 24 hours on mobile proxies - Enterprise support and an account manager - Web Scraper API family **Cons** - It lists only Istanbul as a city in Türkiye - The trial is not self-service, it runs through the sales team - The entry price is high and the low tiers depend on large volume - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** teams with large volume from the start that want to work with an account manager. ### 4. SOAX More than 155 million residential IPs; it publishes 881,280 IPs and 49 cities for Türkiye, and it lists the Turkish carrier names too. The price is tiered by country: in the second tier, which includes Türkiye, it starts at 3.75 dollars per GB and drops as low as 0.35 dollars on the 3,000 dollars a month enterprise plan. On mobile the sticky session goes up to 60 minutes. The credit you buy burns after 60 days on the monthly bill. **Pros** - Targeting by 49 cities and carrier name in Türkiye - Sticky sessions of up to 60 minutes on mobile - The per-GB price drops noticeably at high volume - A three-day, 400 MB paid trial **Cons** - Credit burns in 60 days on the monthly plan - The lowest per-GB price depends on the 3,000 dollars a month plan - Plan levels are sold with a fixed monthly fee - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** teams with steady, high monthly volume that can take advantage of tiered pricing. ### 5. Decodo Formerly Smartproxy. It states more than 115 million IPs for its residential pool; it lists five cities in Türkiye by name and does not publish a per-country IP count. Residential traffic starts at 4 dollars per GB and falls to 2 dollars. On mobile it reports more than 10 million IPs and more than 700 carriers, with the price falling from 7.50 dollars to 5.50 dollars. It has a three-day, 100 MB trial; anyone who uses the trial loses the 14-day refund right. **Pros** - A low entry price on residential - A three-day, 100 MB free trial - It reports more than 700 mobile carriers - Starting with small packages is possible **Cons** - It does not publish its Türkiye IP count - The mobile per-GB price is near the top of the list - Using the trial removes the 14-day refund right - No Turkish support and no local payment **Who it is for:** anyone who wants to start with small volume and grow the scale slowly. ## Comparison tables The figures come from the providers' own sites, September 2026. "—" is information the provider does not publish. ### Pool and Türkiye coverage | Provider | Residential | Türkiye IPs | City/province | |---|---|---|---| | **Proxynet** | 160 million+ | 6.2 million | 81 provinces | | Bright Data | 400 million+ | 1,296,959 | City, PC | | Oxylabs | 175 million+ | 6,850,844 | Istanbul | | SOAX | 155 million+ | 881,280 | 49 cities | | Decodo | 115 million+ | — | 5 cities | Bright Data and Oxylabs are ahead on the total pool; what decides things for the subject of this post is how fine the location you can target is. The only list where you can pick all 81 provinces in Türkiye is Proxynet's. "PC" means postal code; Bright Data takes targeting down to the postal code, but its Türkiye total is one of the lowest figures on the list. Oxylabs' Türkiye pool looks large, yet its city list holds a single province. ### Price and the life of the traffic Prices are dollars per gigabyte, the entry step of the tier. | Provider | Residential | Mobile | Traffic term | |---|---|---|---| | **Proxynet** | 3.30 dollars | 5.50 dollars | No term | | SOAX | 3.75 dollars | 3.75 dollars | 60 days | | Decodo | 4 dollars | 7.50 dollars | — | | Oxylabs | 6 dollars | 7.50 dollars | — | | Bright Data | 8 dollars | — | 1 month | The figures change as the tier drops: Decodo goes to 2, Oxylabs to 2.50 and Bright Data to 3 dollars, while SOAX falls as far as 0.35 dollars — but that floor depends on the 3,000 dollars a month enterprise plan. At Proxynet the floor is the 1.50 dollars level and the tier looks at your account balance rather than a monthly commitment. The right-hand column matters more than price in most jobs: SOAX's credit burns in 60 days on the monthly bill and Bright Data's plan traffic burns in one month; at Proxynet the balance has no term and is valid across all four products. ### Targeting and sessions | Provider | Targeting | Sticky session | Turkish carrier | |---|---|---|---| | **Proxynet** | Province, ASN | 1-60 minutes | Yes | | Bright Data | City + ASN | — | No | | Oxylabs | City | Up to 24 hours | No | | SOAX | City | 60 minutes | Yes | | Decodo | City | — | No | Sticky session length is directly tied to the verification screen: if the IP changes in the middle of a session, the site sees the same user suddenly arriving from another province and asks for extra verification. In jobs that need long sessions, Oxylabs' 24-hour ceiling is longer than Proxynet's 60 minutes; on the other hand, doing the same job with a static ISP IP is steadier than a mobile session that runs for hours. Two providers list Turkish carrier names, and at one of the two the panel and support are in Turkish. ## Why Proxynet for CAPTCHA? ### Free province and ASN targeting You can pick IPs from all 81 provinces in Türkiye, and taking the selection down to ASN level costs nothing extra. When you collect data from a listing site, sending the request out from the province your target audience is in both makes the result correct and prevents everything piling up at a single exit point. More: [Residential Proxy](https://proxynet.io/residential-proxy). ### Mobile sessions over Turkish carrier lines On mobile there are thousands of carrier lines including Turkcell, Vodafone and Türk Telekom; you pick the carrier from the panel or the API. Because many subscribers exit from behind the same carrier address on mobile networks, sites grant those networks a wider tolerance. Product details: [Mobile Proxy](https://proxynet.io/mobile-proxy). We explained the mechanism in [What are Mobile Proxies?](/blog/mobile-proxy-101). ### You set the session length A new IP on every request, or the same address for fifteen minutes — both are set from the panel in the same account. The sticky session is chosen between 1 and 60 minutes. For account and dashboard work that needs long sessions, a static ISP IP is used: [ISP Proxy](https://proxynet.io/static-isp-residential-proxy). ### No subscription, no burned balance There is no monthly commitment and no minimum order; the balance you load does not expire and is valid across the residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter products. In a tracking job that runs a few days a month, that is usually what decides the total cost. Current table: [residential proxy pricing](/residential-proxy/pricing). ### Turkish panel, Turkish support, local payment The panel is in Turkish, support answers in Turkish 24/7, and you pay by credit card or bank transfer (havale/EFT). For a country-by-country comparison you can look at [Best Türkiye Proxy Providers - 2026](/blog/best-turkiye-proxy-providers-2026), and for a product-by-product comparison at [Best Residential Proxy Providers - 2026](/blog/best-residential-proxy-providers-2026). ## Why does a CAPTCHA appear? The verification screen does not appear at random. Four groups of signals are scored separately, and when the total crosses a threshold the test is shown. **IP reputation and network type.** The first thing looked at is which autonomous system the address is registered to. Blocks belonging to hosting companies score higher from the start than blocks belonging to access providers, because it is not ordinary for a regular visitor to connect from a data center. The address's history counts too: if high-volume automated traffic passed through the same IP before, or if the address landed on abuse lists, the threshold is already lower for you. If you are using a shared IP, the traffic that set that history may not even be yours. **Request rate and pattern.** The second signal is the frequency and the order of the requests coming from the same source. Requests that arrive exactly every 500 milliseconds, never pause and always follow the same order do not look like human behaviour. At that point the server first slows you down, then returns [429 Too Many Requests](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6585) or shows the verification screen. We collected what each code means in [HTTP Status Codes in Web Scraping](/blog/http-status-codes-web-scraping). **Fingerprint inconsistency.** The third is the information the request carries not adding up. If the IP points to Germany while the browser's time zone is Istanbul, its language setting is Turkish and its screen resolution is a server default, that trio is a contradiction on its own. Details such as the browser's canvas, WebGL and font list must describe the same identity; the whole subject is in [What Is Browser Fingerprinting?](/blog/browser-fingerprinting). **Automation traces.** The fourth is the traces that show the browser is running under automation: missing or inconsistent headers, a mouse cursor that never moves, a button clicked three milliseconds after the page opens, objects found only in automation tools. We explained how those traces are read and what to do in browser automation in [Puppeteer and CAPTCHA](/blog/puppeteer-captcha). The same page may also hold hidden links that only programs will see; [honeypot traps](/blog/honeypot-traps) are placed for exactly that. ## What a clean IP fixes and where it stops Changing the proxy type really does lower how often the verification screen appears, but it does not take it to zero. The reason is that the four signals above are added up: a proxy affects only the first and, in part, the second. When you move from a data center IP to a real subscriber IP you fix the item that weighs the most, and on many sites you stay under the threshold. What remains beyond that is behaviour, and there a proxy can do nothing. To put it concretely: a script firing two hundred requests a minute ends up in the same place no matter how clean the IP it picks. Changing the addresses in the pool every second does not help either, and can even hurt — a user arriving from five different provinces inside a single session is more suspicious than a heavy user arriving from one. The same goes for the fingerprint: a browser running behind a Türkiye IP with an English language setting and a New York time zone carries the contradiction with it, however real the IP is. So the right order is this: first bring the speed and the pattern of the requests down to what the job actually needs, then make the browser settings consistent with the country the IP shows, and only at the end pick the proxy type. Teams that start from the other end spend expensive residential traffic on verification screens. We collected the whole subject in [How to Scrape Websites Without Getting Blocked](/blog/web-scraping-without-getting-blocked). ## What do you do to avoid triggering CAPTCHA? The goal is not to get past a protection but to avoid setting it off needlessly. All five steps below stay inside the site's own rules. **Respect the rate limit.** Do not guess the speed a site can take, measure it: start the number of concurrent requests at one and raise it slowly, and when the first 429 arrives stay at the previous level. Most sites send a `Retry-After` header in the response; that header and the meanings of the related status codes are kept in [IANA's HTTP status code registry](https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.xhtml). **Read the `robots.txt` file and apply it.** The format of the file and the interpretation of fields such as `Crawl-delay` were standardised with [RFC 9309](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9309). Take the disallowed paths out of your list; this is the cheapest step both legally and technically. More: [What Is a robots.txt File?](/blog/robots-txt). **Use the official API if there is one.** Most search engines, marketplaces and social networks have an open interface for data. A request coming through an API does not see a verification screen, its quota is known, and it does not break when the page design changes. Scraping the page is left for the fields the API does not cover. **Look at verified bot programmes.** If you need to introduce your own crawler to a site, apply to the site's own programme. Google's [Googlebot verification document](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/verifying-googlebot) explains how that verification is done; a similar path exists at many large sites, and permitted access is always steadier. **Retry with exponential backoff.** Repeating a request that came back with a verification screen or a 429 right away pushes the threshold higher still. Double the waiting time on every attempt and add a little randomness on top: ```python import random, time, requests def fetch(url, session, tries=5): for attempt in range(tries): r = session.get(url, timeout=20) if r.status_code not in (429, 503): return r # If the server gave a delay, follow it; otherwise back off exponentially wait = float(r.headers.get("Retry-After", 2 ** attempt)) time.sleep(wait + random.uniform(0, 1)) return None ``` If you still see the verification screen after applying these five steps, then it is time to change the proxy type. Reversing the order does nothing except make the problem more expensive. ## Common mistakes - **Mistaking the verification screen for data.** If the script saves the returned HTML without checking it, an empty or wrong row is written into your table. Check on every request whether the field you expect is in the response. - **Changing the IP on every request.** In flows that need a session, rotation breaks the job: if the address that logged in differs from the address adding to the cart, the site drops the session. Pick the sticky session to match the length of the job. - **Pushing datacenter proxies into every job.** A data center IP is the cheapest solution on high-volume targets with few blocks; on sites that throw verification screens it is the most expensive, because the requests are wasted. - **Scanning the whole country from a single province.** If you are collecting prices across Türkiye, sending the request out from one province both spoils the result and wears out the addresses in that province. - **Not changing the fingerprint together with the IP.** If the IP shows Türkiye while the browser's language, time zone and location show another country, the contradiction score grows. - **Looking at the promotional price and skipping the term of the traffic.** A plan with a low gigabyte price whose credit burns in 60 days is effectively far more expensive in a job that runs three days a month. ## Which proxy for which job? | Your job | Recommended product | |---|---| | Collecting data from sites that throw verification screens | [Residential Proxy](https://proxynet.io/residential-proxy) | | Social media accounts and app testing | [Mobile Proxy](https://proxynet.io/mobile-proxy) | | Dashboard and account work with long sessions | [ISP Proxy](https://proxynet.io/static-isp-residential-proxy) | | Crawls that need a different IP on every request | [Rotating Proxy](https://proxynet.io/rotating-proxy) | | Staying on the same IP for a set time | [Sticky Proxy](https://proxynet.io/sticky-proxy) | | High-volume targets with few blocks | [Datacenter Proxy](https://proxynet.io/datacenter-proxy) | ## Frequently asked questions ### Which is the best proxy for CAPTCHA? Proxynet. More than 160 million real subscriber IPs in 194 countries on residential, free province and ASN targeting, Turkish carrier lines on mobile and a sticky session of 1 to 60 minutes come together in one place. In enterprise work spread across dozens of countries, where pool size alone decides, Bright Data and Oxylabs are worth considering too. ### Does using a proxy end CAPTCHA completely? It does not end it, it makes it rarer. A proxy changes only which network the request exits from; request rate, browser fingerprint and automation traces stay where they are. Teams that move to real subscriber IPs see the verification screen noticeably less, but a script firing hundreds of requests a minute hits the same wall whichever IP it uses. ### Which throws fewer verifications, residential proxies or mobile proxies? Because many subscribers exit from behind the same carrier address on mobile networks, sites grant those networks a wider tolerance; in social media and app testing, mobile proxies are usually more comfortable. On the other hand mobile traffic is more expensive per gigabyte and its latency varies; in heavy collection work spread across provinces, residential is the more accurate tool. ### Why do verifications appear more often on datacenter proxies? Because the IP is registered to a hosting company's block and it is not ordinary for a regular visitor to connect from there. The site sees the autonomous system the address is registered to and raises the risk from the start. On targets with few blocks that is not a problem; on sites with a tight protection layer these are the first addresses to be filtered out. ### Should I use a CAPTCHA solving service? We do not recommend it. Having a site's protection layer solved from the outside is against most sites' terms of use, and it is not a lasting solution technically either: when the protection is updated, the job stops. The lasting path is not to trigger the verification — respect the rate limit, apply the `robots.txt` rules, use the official API if there is one and ask the site for permission if you need to. ### Is it legal to collect data from a site that throws verification screens? Using a proxy and collecting publicly available data are considered legal in themselves; what sets the limit is the site's terms of use, the type of data and personal data legislation. The rules tighten on sources that require a login, are copyright protected or contain personal data. The details are in [Is Data & Web Scraping Legal?](/blog/is-data-web-scraping-legal). ## Summary The frequency of the verification screen is not decided by the proxy alone; the speed of the request, the consistency of the browser and the network the IP is registered to are weighed together. On the proxy side, the most effective move is to switch to real subscriber IPs and take targeting down to the province the job runs in. The provider that gives you that together with free province and ASN targeting, Turkish carrier lines and a balance that never expires is Proxynet: the product details are on the [Residential Proxy](https://proxynet.io/residential-proxy) page, and all the products are on the [our proxy services](/proxy) page.