What is IP Vault?
Most residential proxies are built to change: rotating residential proxies give you a new home IP per request, and sticky sessions last up to 24 hours. That is right for data collection, but wrong when an account, a partner or a test needs to see the same residential address for weeks.
IP Vault fills that gap. You add a residential or mobile IP to your vault and it stays yours, assigned to you alone, for as long as you keep it. Your other proxies, balance and dashboard stay the same.
- Real home or mobile IPs, held as a long-lived sticky session on one household
- Dedicated: an IP Vault IP is assigned to you alone
- SOCKS5 with UDP, authenticated by username and password
- Exit checked every 30 seconds against the address you bought
- Billed per IP, from $0.20, with a bandwidth allowance for the traffic
How a held IP stays the same
A vault address is a sticky session pinned to one household. While a port carries traffic, the relay re-checks the exit roughly every 15 seconds and refuses the connection if the address has changed, so you never silently talk through a different house. A separate job dials every held address every 30 seconds and compares its exit with the address as sold.
IP Vault ports are served from the European relay, where the held sessions live. The network page explains the gateways, ports and checks in detail.
When a home or mobile IP goes offline
Residential and mobile IPs are real devices, so an address can go offline for a while and come back. If one you rely on stays offline, use Free change IP on the My-IP tab to swap it for another one in the same state, at no cost.
- IPs that never come online are credited back to your balance automatically.
- You can report a dead vault IP within 15 minutes of buying it for the same credit.
- Your IPs, bandwidth and settings stay unchanged when an address is swapped.
IP Vault vs other long-term proxy options
| Product | IP type | How long | Billing |
|---|---|---|---|
| IP Vault | Residential or mobile | As long as you keep it | Per IP, plus bandwidth allowance |
| 24-hour residential IP | Residential | Exactly 24 hours | $0.09 per IP, unlimited bandwidth |
| Static ISP proxy | ISP-registered, server-hosted | 7 to 360 days | From $1.76 per IP, 100 GB per 30 days |
| Static datacenter IP | Datacenter IPv4 or IPv6 | 7 to 360 days | From $0.72, unlimited bandwidth |
| Rotating residential | Residential | Per request, or sticky up to 24 hours | Per GB, from $0.53/GB |
Choose IP Vault when the address must belong to a real home or mobile connection and stay with you for longer than a day. Choose a static ISP proxy when you need an always-on address with HTTP(S) as well as SOCKS5, and accept that it is server-hosted. The residential vs ISP comparison covers the trade-offs.
How to buy and use an IP Vault address
- Top up your balance by card, PayPal, crypto or another supported method.
- Open IP Vault in the dashboard, buy addresses and vault bandwidth; IPs are added to your vault immediately.
- Copy the SOCKS5 host, port, username and password into your browser profile, app or script.
A two-minute video tutorial walks through buying one IP and keeping it. IP Vault purchases are not refundable apart from the dead-IP credits above; see the refund policy.
Acceptable use
Because a vault IP is assigned to you alone, everything sent from it is traced to your account. Use it for lawful work only, within each site's terms and the Nefo acceptable use policy.
Frequently asked questions
A residential IP you keep for an extended period instead of one that rotates per request or per session. Nefo sells these through IP Vault, which holds a real home or mobile address for you and checks it every 30 seconds.
IP Vault is billed per IP, from $0.20 per address, with a bandwidth allowance for the traffic you send. Current prices are in the dashboard and on the pricing page.
Residential and mobile IPs can go offline for a while and come back. If one stays offline, use Free change IP on the My-IP tab to swap it for another address in the same state, free. IPs that never come online are credited back automatically.
SOCKS5, including UDP, with username and password authentication. For HTTP(S) on a fixed address, see static ISP proxies.
No. An IP Vault IP is assigned to you alone, which is also why everything sent from it is traced to your account.
Use a 24-hour residential IP at $0.09 when you need one home IP for a day with unlimited bandwidth. Use IP Vault when you need to keep the same residential or mobile address for longer.