V-PROXIES / USE CASES / AI & ML

Proxies for AI & machine learning.

Collect training data, fine-tuning corpora, and benchmarks from the web at any scale. Geo-targeted IPs for multilingual datasets. No rate limits. Datacenter pricing from $0.40/GB.

99.7%

UPTIME · 30d

148ms

P50 RESPONSE

84,219,553

ACTIVE IPS

12,833

REQ/S · AVG

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Training data collection

Scrape text, images, and structured data from any public source for LLM pretraining.

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Fine-tuning corpora

Collect domain-specific content — legal, medical, code, e-commerce — with topic-targeted crawls.

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Multilingual datasets

Exit from 120+ countries. Collect native-language content from local sites for each target language.

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Benchmark data

Scrape live data for time-sensitive ML benchmarks — pricing, news, product listings — without bans.

01 // POOL RECOMMENDATION

::datacenter · $0.40/GB — recommended for bulk

Unprotected sources

Wikipedia, open datasets, RSS feeds, government data, and most public APIs. At $0.40/GB, a 10 TB crawl costs $4,000 — the cheapest option at scale.

::residential · $2.40/GB

Protected sources

News sites with Cloudflare, social platforms, e-commerce sites with DataDome or Akamai. Residential IPs are required to bypass these without CAPTCHAs.

02 // DATA PIPELINE EXAMPLE

python — async data collection pipeline

import asyncio
import httpx

PROXY = "http://u_a91c2f:p_xk9m2r4n8q1vw3@v-proxies.com:9000"

async def fetch(client, url):
    resp = await client.get(url, timeout=30)
    return resp.text

async def collect(urls: list[str]):
    async with httpx.AsyncClient(proxy=PROXY) as client:
        tasks = [fetch(client, url) for url in urls]
        return await asyncio.gather(*tasks, return_exceptions=True)

# Collect 1000 pages concurrently
pages = asyncio.run(collect(url_list))

04 // FAQ

Why do AI and ML teams need proxies?

Large-scale web data collection for training datasets, fine-tuning corpora, and benchmarks requires rotating IPs to avoid rate limits and bans. A single IP scraping millions of pages triggers blocks within hours. Rotating residential proxies distribute requests across thousands of IPs, enabling continuous collection.

What kinds of data can I collect with v-proxies?

Text corpora from news sites, forums, Wikipedia mirrors, and blogs. Image datasets from content platforms. Structured product data from e-commerce. Social content from public profiles. Multilingual datasets using geo-targeted IPs in the target language's country.

How do I build a multilingual dataset?

Use country targeting to exit from the target language's home country. For German content, use -country-de. For Japanese content, use -country-jp. This ensures you receive locally relevant content rather than English-localized versions.

Can I use v-proxies with common ML data pipelines?

Yes. v-proxies works with any HTTP proxy-compatible tool — including Scrapy, Apache Nutch, Common Crawl custom crawlers, Playwright, and custom Python pipelines using requests or httpx.

How much does collecting a 1 TB text corpus cost?

Raw HTML for 1 TB of text content is approximately 3–5 TB of bandwidth (accounting for HTML overhead and failed requests). At $0.40/GB (datacenter pool), that's $1,200–2,000. For protected sources requiring residential IPs, budget at $2.40/GB.