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Best proxies for AI training data

Corpus collection runs long and wide, so throughput and documented IP sourcing both matter. Providers that publish how their pool is sourced score higher here.

Ranked from 80 assessed provider profiles. Commission never affects the order — the score is match quality, evidence completeness and price.

What to weigh up

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Works in your favour

  • Scraper APIs and large residential pools sustain the throughput a corpus needs
  • Some providers publish how their IP pool is sourced, which matters for a defensible dataset
  • Per-GB billing scales predictably when you can estimate corpus size

Catches people out

  • Collection at this scale is expensive, and bandwidth dominates the bill
  • Licensing and copyright constrain what you may lawfully collect and train on
  • Pools sourced without meaningful consent carry a reputational risk that outlives the dataset

Setting it up

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Decide what you are permitted to collect before deciding how. Robots directives, terms of use and copyright all bear on this, and the proxy layer is the easy part of the problem.

Prefer providers that document how their pool is sourced. Where that is published, this directory records it — and where it is not, the field is left blank rather than assumed.

Deduplicate during collection rather than after. Bandwidth is the cost driver, and fetching the same content twice is the most common way that bill inflates.

Current codes on matched providers

3 codes
ProxyEmpire — 10% off
AFFMAVEN10 Visit
Mango Proxy — 8% off static ISP proxies
AFFMAVEN Visit
Shifter — 10% off
AFFINCO-M454 Visit

Affiliate links, opening in a new tab. Commission never influences which providers are matched here or the order they appear in.

Questions people ask

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Does ethically sourced actually mean anything?
It varies by provider, which is why it is recorded here as a provider-stated claim rather than a verified fact. Ask how participants consent, what they receive, and whether they can opt out — and treat an unanswered question as an answer.
Can I train a model on anything I scrape?
No. Collection and use are separate questions, and copyright, database rights and terms of use all apply. Take proper advice before building on a dataset.

How this page is put together

Method

Providers are matched by their own recorded product types and specifications, then ordered by how well they match, how much of their profile is backed by evidence, and price. Affiliate payout is not an input to that score, and no provider can pay to appear.

A provider whose outbound link has been withheld — a dead domain, or one that has been seized — is excluded entirely, because recommending it would send you somewhere we would not link to.

Read the full methodology