# Rotating 4G/5G mobile proxies for scraping hard targets > Rotating 4G/5G mobile proxies per GB for scraping what phone users see: mobile sites, apps and ads. $1.50/GB from 5 GB, never expires. No KYC, crypto. - URL: https://crawlrelay.com/mobile-proxies/ - Last updated: 2026-10-13 - Publisher: CrawlRelay (https://crawlrelay.com) A shared pool of carrier IPs, billed per GB, on the same gateway and username syntax as residential. Use it where the mobile view matters: mobile editions of sites, mobile ads and apps, carrier-network QA. Keep the bulk of your crawl on residential. **Quick answer — When should a scraper use rotating mobile proxies?** Use **CrawlRelay rotating mobile proxies** when you need what phone users see: mobile editions of sites, mobile ad and app checks, and QA on carrier networks. They route requests through 4G/5G carrier IPs with country targeting, cost $3.18 for 1 GB and $1.50/GB from 5 GB as of October 2026, and the traffic never expires. Paid in crypto, with no KYC. ## CrawlRelay rotating mobile proxies: key facts | Attribute | Value | | --- | --- | | What it is | A shared rotating pool of 4G/5G carrier IPs, billed per GB, with country targeting | | Price | $3.18 for 1 GB; $1.50/GB from 5 GB to 100 GB | | Traffic expiry | Prepaid residential and rotating-mobile traffic never expires: unused GB stay on your account until you use them | | Gateway | `gw.crawlrelay.com`, port 7777 (HTTP/HTTPS) or 7778 (SOCKS5), with the credentials of your mobile plan | | Targeting | Country (`-country-{cc}` in the username) | | Sessions | New IP per new connection, or sticky with `-session-{id}-ttl-{minutes}` | | Dedicated ports | Not sold by CrawlRelay: this is a shared, per-GB pool | | KYC and payment | No KYC; crypto only (BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC) from a $25 top-up | ## Why do sites block mobile IPs less often? Because one mobile IP usually stands for many real people. Carriers run carrier-grade NAT: thousands of phones share a small set of public addresses, and RFC 6598 even reserves the range `100.64.0.0/10` for the inside of these networks. A site that blocks one mobile IP can lock out every subscriber behind it, so most sites block mobile ranges with care. The same sharing has a cost for you. A mobile IP can arrive with a history created by other users of the carrier, and its speed depends on signal and cell load. That is why mobile traffic is a tool for specific targets, not a default. ## Is mobile worth the higher price per GB? Only where residential fails. CrawlRelay residential traffic costs $0.50/GB from 50 GB; mobile costs $1.50/GB. In Proxyway's Proxy Market Research 2026, the median success rate on real targets was 75.26% for mobile proxies and 74.43% for residential ones: across all providers, mobile was not much better on average. The gain is target-specific. Measure it before you pay for it: 1. Run 200 to 500 URLs of one target through residential and through mobile. 2. Count usable responses, not HTTP 200s: a block page can return 200. 3. Divide each run's traffic cost by its usable responses. 4. Route a domain to mobile only if its cost per usable response is lower there. ## How do I route only some domains to mobile IPs? Keep two sets of credentials, one per plan, and choose per request. The rest of your scraper stays the same: same gateway, same username syntax, same retry logic. *Python: residential by default, mobile for a short list of hosts* ```python from urllib.parse import urlsplit import requests GATEWAY = "gw.crawlrelay.com:7777" RESIDENTIAL = ("RES_USERNAME-country-us", "RES_PASSWORD") MOBILE = ("MOB_USERNAME-country-us", "MOB_PASSWORD") MOBILE_HOSTS = {"m.example.com", "app.example.org"} # hosts where residential measured worse def proxies_for(url): user, password = MOBILE if urlsplit(url).hostname in MOBILE_HOSTS else RESIDENTIAL proxy = "http://%s:%s@%s" % (user, password, GATEWAY) return {"http": proxy, "https": proxy} for url in ["https://www.example.com/item/1", "https://m.example.com/item/1"]: r = requests.get(url, proxies=proxies_for(url), timeout=(10, 45)) print(url, r.status_code, len(r.content)) ``` ## How does rotation work on the mobile pool? The same way as residential: a username without a session ID gets a new carrier IP on each new connection, and `-session--ttl-` keeps one IP across connections. Two differences matter in practice: - **Carriers change IPs on their own.** A sticky mobile session can lose its IP earlier than its TTL when the device reconnects to the network. - **Latency varies more.** Give mobile requests a longer read timeout, about 45 to 60 seconds, and retry on a new connection instead of waiting longer. ## How much do CrawlRelay mobile proxies cost? $3.18 for 1 GB to test a target, then $1.50/GB from 5 GB to 100 GB, as of October 2026. For comparison, on 2026-10-13 DataImpulse listed mobile traffic at $2.00/GB and Byteful at $4.25/GB. | Plan | Quantity | Price | Price per unit | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Mobile 1 GB | 1 GB | $3.18 | $3.18/GB | | Mobile 5 GB | 5 GB | $7.50 | $1.50/GB | | Mobile 10 GB | 10 GB | $15 | $1.50/GB | | Mobile 50 GB | 50 GB | $75 | $1.50/GB | | Mobile 100 GB | 100 GB | $150 | $1.50/GB | In every plan: Protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 · Targeting: Country · Rotation: Per new connection (usually a new IP), or sticky · Traffic expiry: Does not expire Prices in USD, as of 2026-10-13. **Before you pay** - Minimum top-up $25. Top up once in crypto, then buy any plan from your balance. - Unused balance stays on your account and never expires, but it is not paid back, except where the law requires it. - Credited once your payment is checked on the blockchain. Typical network confirmation time: BTC ≈ 20 min · USDT TRC-20 ≈ 1 min · USDT ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · USDC ERC-20 ≈ 5 min · ETH ≈ 5 min · SOL ≈ 1 min · LTC ≈ 15 min ## Rotating mobile proxies: questions ### Do I get a dedicated 4G/5G modem? No. CrawlRelay sells a shared rotating pool billed per GB, which suits scrapers that need many IPs over time. A dedicated port gives one modem and one IP that you rotate yourself, billed per day or month; CrawlRelay does not sell those. ### Which countries does the mobile pool cover? You choose the exit country with `-country-` in the username. Coverage and depth vary by country and carrier; the [catalog endpoints](https://crawlrelay.com/docs/api/residential/) list the countries where the product is available. Some countries are not available, for legal or sourcing reasons, including countries and regions under comprehensive sanctions. Test your target country on the 1 GB plan before you buy volume. ### Can I choose the carrier? The rotating pool is targeted by country, not by carrier. If your data depends on one specific carrier, a rotating pool is the wrong tool; you need a dedicated port on that carrier from a mobile specialist. ### Are mobile proxies faster than residential ones? Usually not. Mobile exits share cells with other users, so latency and throughput change with signal and load. Proxyway's 2026 study measured a 0.93-second median response time for residential networks. Set longer timeouts for mobile and keep bulk downloads on residential. ### Do mobile proxies reduce CAPTCHAs? Do not count on it. A CAPTCHA is the site asking you to slow down or to prove you are human, and CrawlRelay does not support CAPTCHA solving. Reduce your rate, respect robots.txt, and use an official API where one exists. Read [how to handle 403, 429 and CAPTCHAs](https://crawlrelay.com/guides/403-429-captcha/). ### Does mobile traffic expire? No. Prepaid residential and rotating-mobile traffic never expires: unused GB stay on your account until you use them. Mobile and residential plans are separate: each has its own credentials and its own traffic total, and both are paid from the same crypto balance. **Test one hard target on mobile IPs** $3.18 for 1 GB, then $1.50/GB. [Choose 1 GB mobile](https://crawlrelay.com/app/checkout/?plan=mgb-1&product=mobile-gb&lang=en) · [See pricing](https://crawlrelay.com/pricing/) --- CrawlRelay: CrawlRelay is a developer-first rotating residential and 4G/5G mobile proxy service for scrapers and AI data pipelines: non-expiring pay-as-you-go traffic from $0.50/GB, paid in crypto, with no ID upload. No KYC — no ID, no selfie, no documents. Pay in crypto.