--- title: "Proxies for Price Monitoring — SerpProxies" description: "Track competitor prices, stock and promotions across retailers and regions, on a schedule, without the crawler getting blocked or served a different…" url: "https://serpproxies.com/use-cases/price-monitoring" --- Use case # Proxies for Price Monitoring Track competitor prices, stock and promotions across retailers and regions, on a schedule, without the crawler getting blocked or served a different price than real shoppers. Datacenter for open sites, residential for protected retailers, unlimited bandwidth for catalogues checked every hour. [Get price monitoring proxies](https://app.serpproxies.com/sign-up?product=residential) [See which product fits](#products) How it works ## Price Monitoring, from the inside Three things worth knowing about how price monitoring actually works on this network, and what each one looks like from the inside. Match ### The right IP for the retailer Datacenter where a retailer doesn't block cloud ranges, residential once it does, and unlimited proxies when the catalogue is big and the schedule is tight. [Get price monitoring proxies](https://app.serpproxies.com/sign-up?product=residential) [See which product fits](#products) Scale ### Hourly runs at a flat daily price Unlimited proxies don't meter gigabytes or connections, so re-checking a catalogue every hour costs the same as checking it once a day. [Get price monitoring proxies](https://app.serpproxies.com/sign-up?product=residential) [See which product fits](#products) Health ### The price a local shopper sees Retailers price by region. Country, state and city targeting let each market be checked from inside it, so the number you record is the one its shoppers pay. [Get price monitoring proxies](https://app.serpproxies.com/sign-up?product=residential) [See which product fits](#products) How it works ## Three steps, start to finish. 1 ### Match the proxy to the retailer Datacenter is fastest and cheapest where a retailer doesn't block cloud ranges. Residential once it does. Unlimited when a large catalogue is checked so often that per-GB billing becomes the main cost. 2 ### Check each region's price Target the country, state or city of each storefront so regional pricing, shipping and stock come back as local shoppers see them. 3 ### Rotate or hold a session A new IP per request for broad crawls, or a sticky session for anything that needs to stay logged in or paginate as one identity — the same toggle on every product. The guide ## Price Monitoring, explained 1. 01What price monitoring involves 2. 02Choosing the proxy type 3. 03Getting accurate prices 4. 04Proxies, scraper or data feed? ### What price monitoring involves Price monitoring is collecting competitors' and resellers' prices, stock levels, shipping costs and promotions on a schedule, then comparing them with your own. Retailers use it for repricing, brands use it to enforce minimum advertised prices, and analysts use it to track the market. The data is only useful if it is complete, current and accurate — which is where collection usually breaks. Large retailers rate-limit and block automated traffic, and many show different prices by region, by delivery address or to visitors they've flagged as bots. A crawler that gets blocked misses products; one that gets a bot-specific page records the wrong price. ### Choosing the proxy type Start with datacenter proxies where a retailer allows them: they are the fastest and cheapest per request, and our datacenter ranges are owned subnets rotated at the network level. Move to residential proxies for retailers that challenge cloud traffic — real household IPs that look like the shoppers the site is built for, with city targeting to record regional prices. Frequency changes the economics. A full catalogue re-checked every hour moves a lot of data, and per-GB billing grows with every run. Unlimited proxies are priced per day with no bandwidth meter and unmetered concurrency, so a tighter schedule doesn't raise the bill. ### Getting accurate prices Check each market from inside it: target the country, state or city whose price you want, and keep currency and language settings consistent with it. Rotate a new IP per product page for broad catalogue runs, and hold a sticky session when a price only appears after a sequence of steps, such as choosing a delivery location or adding to basket. Spread requests over the run rather than firing the whole catalogue at once, and record the exit location and time with every price so outliers can be traced to the market that produced them. ### Proxies, scraper or data feed? Proxies are the network layer: you run the scraper — your own code or a price-monitoring tool that accepts proxies — and pay for traffic. SerpProxies sells proxies; we don't sell ready-made price datasets or a scraping API. If you already run a scraper or a monitoring tool, proxies are usually the cheapest way to make it reliable at scale. Check each retailer's terms for automated access, and keep request rates reasonable. Our acceptable use policy sets out what the network may and may not be used for. Built for price monitoring ## Run your price monitoring job on it — free Up to 2 GB of residential traffic with no card, country-to-city targeting on every plan, and rotating or sticky sessions set in the username. [Claim the free trial](https://app.serpproxies.com/sign-up?product=residential) [See which product fits](#products) What's included ## Built for price monitoring The product capabilities that actually matter for this job, line by line. 01 Regional prices Country · state · city Record the price each market's shoppers actually see, on every plan. 02 Concurrency Unmetered Unlimited proxies don't count gigabytes or connections, however often the catalogue runs. 03 Open retailers Owned subnets Datacenter IPs rotated at the network level — the cheapest per request where they're allowed. 04 DNS Cached at the edge A catalogue spread over thousands of hostnames doesn't pay the lookup every time. 05 Checkout flows Sticky sessions Hold one IP while a price appears only after choosing a delivery location. 06 Screening Continuous Premium residential addresses are checked for blocks and bans and swapped before they fail again. On this network ## Which product fits Five products can carry price monitoring traffic, each priced off the same live curve the dashboard charges from. Pick the one that fits the target. Live ### Datacenter Fastest and cheapest where retailers allow cloud traffic. Built for this Owned subnets, edge DNS $3.71/day at 90 days · 50 Mbps · unmetered bandwidth [Get Started](https://app.serpproxies.com/sign-up?product=datacenter) Live ### Residential Protected retailers and regional pricing. Built for this 50M+ pool, city targeting $0.58/GB at 1.5 TB · billed per gigabyte [Get Started](https://app.serpproxies.com/sign-up?product=residential) Live ### Unlimited Proxies Large catalogues on tight schedules. Built for this No cap, unmetered concurrency $20/day at 30 days · 50 Mbps · no bandwidth cap [Get Started](https://app.serpproxies.com/sign-up?product=unlimited-proxies) Live ### Premium Residential Retailers that challenge the standard pool. Built for this Highest-trust segment $1.20/GB at 1.5 TB · billed per gigabyte [Get Started](https://app.serpproxies.com/sign-up?product=premium-residential) Not sure which one? Start with Datacenter and move up as the target gets harder to pass. [See full pricing](https://serpproxies.com/pricing) ## Don't take our word for it. Rated 4.6 out of 5 by 18 reviewers on Trustpilot. Every quote below is a real review, word for word. [4.6 on Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/serpproxies.com) Good service > “Great proxy service with reliable connections and good speeds. The proxies have been stable and worked well for my needs. Setup was easy, and the support team was responsive when I had questions. Good value for the price — highly recommended!” ĐN Đạt Nguyễn Verified on Trustpilot Good quality proxy > “Good-quality proxy with fast speeds, reliable connections, and affordable pricing. 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A real person is on chat around the clock, or find us here: [![](https://serpproxies.com/_next/image?url=%2Fsite%2Fcta-footer%2Ficon-discord.svg&w=48&q=75&dpl=dpl_4e38rytQGsn2doPaBHjww2F8r4Hi)](https://discord.gg/serpproxies)[![](https://serpproxies.com/_next/image?url=%2Fsite%2Fcta-footer%2Ficon-x.svg&w=48&q=75&dpl=dpl_4e38rytQGsn2doPaBHjww2F8r4Hi)](https://x.com/SerpProxies)[![](https://serpproxies.com/_next/image?url=%2Fsite%2Fcta-footer%2Ficon-telegram.svg&w=48&q=75&dpl=dpl_4e38rytQGsn2doPaBHjww2F8r4Hi)](https://t.me/serpproxies) Datacenter proxies for retailers that don't block cloud traffic — they're fastest and cheapest. Residential proxies for retailers that do, and for recording region-specific prices. Unlimited proxies when a large catalogue is checked so often that per-GB billing becomes the main cost. Target the country, state or city of each storefront. Retailers often price by region and delivery location, so checking from inside each market records the price its shoppers actually pay. On per-GB billing, frequency multiplies traffic. Unlimited proxies are priced per day with no bandwidth meter and unmetered concurrency, so an hourly schedule costs the same as a daily one. No. SerpProxies is the proxy network your scraper or price-monitoring tool runs through. Anything that accepts an HTTP(S) or SOCKS5 proxy works. Only for tasks that need to stay logged in or paginate as one identity — hold an IP for a session. For broad, stateless work, rotate a new IP per request instead; both are one setting on any product. Ready to start? ## SerpProxies is for teams that move. Make your move. Credentials the moment you sign up, a free trial on residential, and billing by what you use. No contracts. [Get Started](https://app.serpproxies.com/sign-up) [Claim Free Trial](https://app.serpproxies.com/sign-up)