For AI agent, data and brand teams
Give every search your agents and scripts send its own residential exit, rotating per request, with regions side by side.
Rotating residential IPs change per request with unlimited concurrency, billed per GB in packs that don't expire; trend baselines can sit on long-term static IPs.
DuckDuckGo's audience sits mostly in North America and Europe. Pair each region code with an exit in that country and your agents get that region's results.
United States us-en carries the bulk of English queries, so most agent jobs start here; city exits subject to availability United States residential IPs 
Germany de-de and at-de are two German regions: pair German and Austrian exits Germany residential IPs 
United Kingdom uk-en: log brand-term advertisers as their own group United Kingdom residential IPs 
Netherlands nl-nl: Dutch queries against local rivals Netherlands residential IPs DuckDuckGo is a go-to web search tool for agents and a clean sample for rankings and brand visibility, as long as you have plenty of controllable exits.
Many agent frameworks ship DuckDuckGo as their web search tool. With every call leaving one server, a ratelimit error arrives fast and the agent stalls. Rotate residential exits per request and the search tool keeps returning results.
Rotating residentialSearch one term in us-en, de-de and uk-en, each exit in the matching country. Only the region changes, so differences in DuckDuckGo rankings stand out at a glance.
Rotating residentialAds here come through the Microsoft network and match on the query alone. Search your brand terms weekly per region, log who bids on them and where the ads land, and archive what instant answers cite.
Rotating · short-termClick from results into rival sites and landing pages, and their analytics see an ordinary home-broadband visit rather than your company's office IP. That is how marketing and product teams do routine competitor research.
Short-term static IPAgents and monitoring spread requests over rotating exits, long-term trends pin one fixed exit, and rival visits use short-term IPs.
| Job | IP type | When to use it | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web search for agents and RAG | Dynamic residential · TrafficFrom $0.8/GB | From $0.8/GB; agents search whenever they need to. | Rotate per request: a fresh exit for every call. |
| All-day, high-volume retrieval | Dynamic residential · Bandwidth100Mbps / $980/30 days | A fleet of agents runs all day and daily query volume is large. | Dedicated, unmetered bandwidth, costed per 30 days. |
| Long-term ranking baseline | Broadcast IP$4/IP/month | You track movement over months and quarters. | One fixed IP per region, kept on monthly renewal. |
| Rival sites and landing pages | Static residential · Short-termFrom $0.17/IP | A new brand-term advertiser appears or a rival ships a new page. | 1–24 hour leases; open it on a local IP and look. |
Same agent, same questions: change how it exits and the run feels completely different.
| Aspect | Straight from one server | Through NexIP home exits |
|---|---|---|
| Back-to-back calls | Rate errors arrive fast and the task retries in loops | Every call gets a new exit and results keep coming |
| Result region | Whatever region the data centre sits in | Region code and exit match, so you pick the country |
| Several agents | All share one IP and slow each other down | Unlimited concurrency, each on its own exits |
| IP type | A cloud data-centre range, easy to spot | Home broadband IPs, like any ordinary searcher |
Rotating residential IPs for agent search and monitoring, bandwidth for all-day volume, long-term IPs for baselines and short-term IPs for rival visits; checkout shows the final price.
Agent search, brand terms and region comparison, rotating per request, packs that don't expire.
Agent fleets searching all day: dedicated 100Mbps–1Gbps, unmetered.
One long-term baseline exit per region, renewed monthly, same IP.
Rival sites and new advertisers' landing pages, one IP for 1–24 hours.
HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with username-and-password or IP allowlist auth; region code and exit country live in the same config.
Run it before the agent goes live to confirm exit and region code share a country.
Canada
Australia
France
Austria
Spain
Italycurl -x http://USER:PASS@GATEWAY:PORT https://example.com/Popular Python search libraries take a proxy argument; pass the region code alongside and each call picks a new exit.
from ddgs import DDGS
p = "http://USER:PASS@GATEWAY:PORT"
hits = DDGS(proxy=p).text("acme boots", region="de-de")Store long-term static IP credentials separately for trend jobs only, away from the agents' rotating requests.
Agent search, monitoring and region comparison run on rotating residential IPs (From $0.8/GB), per request; long-term trends get one broadcast residential IP per region ($4/IP/month); rival pages use short-term IPs (From $0.17/IP).
Rate errors usually mean every call leaves the same server IP. Give the search tool rotating residential IPs so each call takes a new exit, add a call gap and a retry cap, and the agent keeps getting results.
It ignores search history, but it organises results by region setting and uses rough location for local results. If region code and exit sit in different countries, you can't tell which market the page belongs to.
Pass the region code as a parameter, such as de-de or uk-en, and pick an exit in the same country. For markets sharing a language, run de-de and at-de apart, each with its own country's exit.
List brand names, product names and common misspellings, search them weekly per region, and log your site's organic position and the advertisers in ad slots. When a new advertiser appears, open its landing page on a short-term IP.
Dynamic residential plans have unlimited concurrency, so agents run side by side on their own exits. When queries stay heavy all day, a bandwidth plan (100Mbps / $980/30 days) gives dedicated, unmetered capacity that is easier to budget.
Rotating residential IPs bill per GB (From $0.8/GB) in packs that don't expire; long-term IPs bill per IP per month (From $3/IP/month); short-term IPs come in packs (From $0.17/IP).
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