For freelancers and agencies
Pin your account to one residential IP in your profile's country, so travel and new networks don't break up your bidding.
Native ISP IPs are leased monthly, fixed for the lease and kept on renewal; job-market research runs on rotating residential IPs billed per GB.
Upwork compares where you sign in with the country on your profile, ID and payout details; an exit in that same country keeps the picture consistent. These are the markets where freelancers and agencies cluster; city-level exits are subject to availability.
United States
United Kingdom
Canada
Australia
Germany
Netherlands
Poland
Romania
Ukraine
India
Philippines
VietnamUnited States US freelancers' own profiles, still signing in from a US exit on the road United States residential IPs Ukraine Home to many dev and design teams; accounts keep a Ukrainian exit when members travel Ukraine residential IPs India Office exits and remote member accounts for Indian agencies India residential IPs Philippines Personal accounts for Philippine support, operations and virtual assistants Philippines residential IPs On Upwork, contracts follow account reputation, reputation follows a steady sign-in record, and the right direction follows market insight. NexIP covers both.
Upwork watches sign-in locations closely: a new network can trigger a review and, at worst, a hold on the account. Give it a home-broadband IP in your profile's country and sign in from there at home, in a café or on the road.
Native ISP IPSome members work in the office, others remotely. The office shares one fixed exit and each remote member gets a dedicated IP in their own country, so the owner sees who signs in from where and no member's setup affects another's.
Broadcast residential IPWhen a good job posts, the first proposals get read first. Keep the browser on a fixed exit and the Job Feed, messages and video interviews never drop because the network changed, so your Connects go where they count.
Fixed exitSort public jobs and budgets by skill and compare peers' rates by city to see which skills are rising and which clients pay more, then pick what to bid on and at what rate. Bulk browsing rotates and never touches account IPs.
Rotating residentialAccounts you sign in to get static residential IPs, research on public pages rotates, and system integrations get datacenter IPs.
| Job | IP type | When to use it | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| A freelancer's own profile | Native ISP IPFrom $5/IP/month | Daily bidding, messages and time tracking, often from different networks. | Exit country matches profile and payout details; renewal keeps the address. |
| Agencies with several members | Broadcast IP$4/IP/month | Members in different cities each sign in to their own profile. | One dedicated IP per person, cheaper per IP as the team grows. |
| Job and rate research | Dynamic residential · TrafficFrom $0.8/GB | From $0.8/GB; a weekly sweep of public Upwork jobs and budgets by skill category. | Requests spread across rotating exits, unlimited concurrency. |
| Profile and portfolio display checks | Static residential · Short-termFrom $0.17/IP | After editing your profile, portfolio or Project Catalog. | View it signed out from client countries, one IP for 1–24 hours. |
| Timesheet and contract sync | Datacenter IP$3/IP/month | Timesheets, contracts and invoices sync to internal systems through the official API. | A dedicated datacenter IP, registered once on internal allowlists. |
Most account reviews aren't about anything you did wrong; they follow sign-ins that hop between home, cafés and hotels.
| Aspect | Home broadband and public Wi-Fi | NexIP fixed exit |
|---|---|---|
| Sign-in address | Changes on every redial or venue | Fixed for the lease, kept on renewal |
| Travel | Sign-ins show whatever country you land in | Still signs in from your profile's country |
| Teamwork | Several people on one public IP | A dedicated exit per person |
| Market research | One IP paging through lists hits limits fast | Rotating residential exits, unlimited concurrency |
Native ISP IPs for your own profile, broadcast IPs for agency members, a rotating Upwork proxy pool for research and datacenter IPs for integrations; checkout shows the final price.
For your own profile: a home-broadband IP in your country, dedicated and renewed monthly at the same address.
Agency members: one fixed IP per person, better value as the team grows.
Job and rate research: per GB, requests spread across rotating exits, packs don't expire.
Display checks after profile updates: one IP for 1–24 hours.
API sync servers: a dedicated datacenter IP with a fixed outbound address.
HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 all work; set it only in the browser you use for Upwork, or in your sync scripts.
Run one command once it's set up; it should return your assigned IP, in your profile's country.
curl -x http://USER:PASS@GATEWAY:PORT https://example.com/Create a separate browser profile, set the proxy only there and sign in to Upwork from it; other browsing stays on your local network, so the account exit serves this account alone.
Sync scripts calling the Upwork API set the proxy in their HTTP client, so every request leaves from one address.
import requests
p = {"https": "http://USER:PASS@GATEWAY:PORT"}
r = requests.get("https://example.com/", proxies=p)Your own profile suits a native ISP IP (From $5/IP/month) with a monthly fixed address; agency members suit broadcast IPs ($4/IP/month), one each; research suits rotating residential IPs (From $0.8/GB).
It helps. Reviews usually follow sudden jumps in sign-in location; once the account always uses one residential exit in your profile's country, Upwork sees the same network every time, your history stays consistent and reviews come up far less often.
Keep your fixed exit in a dedicated browser profile on your laptop and you sign in from the same IP in your profile's country wherever you are, with proposals, messages and video interviews carrying on as usual.
One fixed exit for the office, one IP per remote member in their own country, and a datacenter IP for sync scripts. With a larger team, broadcast IPs cost less per IP.
Sort public job posts by skill, logging budget bands and posting frequency, then browse peers' freelancer profiles by city for rate bands, to guide what you bid on and what you charge. Do it on rotating residential exits, apart from the IP your account signs in on.
HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with username and password or by putting a fixed office network or sync server on the IP allowlist. Exits are picked by country; city and ASN targeting are subject to availability.
Long-term static IPs bill per IP per month (From $3/IP/month), short-term IPs come in packs (From $0.17/IP), and rotating residential IPs bill per GB (From $0.8/GB) in packs that don't expire.
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