Aethyn

# Aethyn > [Aethyn](https://www.aethyn.io) is a next-generation, ethically-sourced residential proxy network designed for high-scale data harvesting, web scraping, and automated operations. Aethyn routes requests through real household ISP connections in 195+ countries, achieving a 99.9% success rate and sub-50ms tunnel latency. The platform offers live per-byte billing, unlimited concurrent threads, and native support for HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5 protocols. ## Core Offerings - **Premium Residential Proxies** (From €2.00/GB at volume; €29.00 for 10 GB/month): Standard pool of 85M+ IPs with 99.2% success rate, country-level targeting, and automatic rotation. Ideal for price monitoring, travel aggregation, SEO tracking, and general web scraping. - **Elite Residential Proxies** (From €4.50/GB at volume; €65.00 for 10 GB/month): Curated, high-reputation ISP pool of 85M+ IPs with 99.9% success rate. Supports city-level and ISP-level targeting. Designed to bypass advanced anti-bot protections like Cloudflare Enterprise, Akamai, and PerimeterX. Ideal for social media automation, sneaker botting, brand protection, and AI dataset collection. ## Key Capabilities - **Flexible Rotation & Persistence**: Support for rotation on every request (rotating sessions) or maintaining a single stable IP address for up to 30 minutes (sticky sessions). - **Multi-Protocol Gateways**: Dual-port architecture allowing seamless switching between HTTP/HTTPS and SOCKS5 without changing credentials. - **Unified Proxy Endpoint**: Single entrypoint configuration for easier integration into scraping tools, browsers, and custom developer pipelines. - **Zero Expiring Bandwidth**: PAYG (Pay-As-You-Go) bandwidth has no expiration dates, combined with auto-recharge and per-byte metering. - **Ethical Compliance**: IPs are sourced strictly from consented peers using opt-in SDKs and KYC-verified partners, aligning with GDPR/CCPA standards. ## Navigation & Resources ### Main Landing - [Home Page](https://www.aethyn.io): Brand overview, platform stats, footprint, and trust posture. - [How It Works](https://www.aethyn.io/how-it-works): Interactive architectural overview, global exit nodes, and real-time operations logging for Premium and Elite proxy networks. - [Features](https://www.aethyn.io/features): Rotating and sticky sessions, targeting, SOCKS5, live usage metering, wallet billing, and dashboard tools. - [Pricing](https://www.aethyn.io/pricing): Subscription vs. PAYG plans, interactive bandwidth calculator, and feature comparisons. - [Frequently Asked Questions](https://www.aethyn.io/faq): A consolidated knowledge base of frequently asked questions regarding residential proxies, billing, integration, and security. - [Premium Residential Proxies](https://www.aethyn.io/premium-residential-proxies): Cost-efficient rotating residential proxies for high-volume web scraping, SEO monitoring, market research, price tracking, ad verification, and data collection across 195+ countries. - [Elite Residential Proxies](https://www.aethyn.io/elite-residential-proxies): Curated high-reputation residential proxy pool with city-level and ISP-level targeting for hard targets, advanced ad verification, brand protection, AI data collection, and enterprise scraping workflows. ### Core Documentation - [Documentation Hub](https://www.aethyn.io/docs): Central index for all Aethyn integration guides. Optional proxy-builder-sdk for Node.js and Python; raw user:pass@host:port works from any client. - [Quickstart Guide](https://www.aethyn.io/docs/quickstart): Send your first proxy request using curl, Python, or Node.js in under 60 seconds. - [Authentication & Credentials](https://www.aethyn.io/docs/authentication): Guide to HTTP/SOCKS5 credential formats and rotating dashboard passwords. - [Proxy Targeting](https://www.aethyn.io/docs/targeting): Learn to configure country, city, ISP, and session stickiness directly in the proxy username. - [HTTP vs SOCKS5 Protocols](https://www.aethyn. […gekürzt]