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Alibaba Proxies

IP pools for sourcing at scale: importers mapping suppliers, buyers comparing wholesale prices and MOQs, procurement teams vetting manufacturers across regions. Packages from $19/month.

Unlimited bandwidth—no usage-based billing
One of the highest connection limits in the industry
Whitelist up to five source IPs at no charge
Up to three free proxy list refreshes per month

Try proxies Configure any available plan and add-ons for 48 hours.

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Number of IPs

Packages start at 100 IPs

Plan term

UDP support+50%

Total for 30 days $0.00

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Why does Alibaba block automated supplier research?

Supplier data is Alibaba.com’s crown jewel — wholesale price ladders, minimum order quantities, verification and trade-assurance badges, response rates, factory-versus-trader signals — and the platform guards it the way a marketplace guards its most copied asset. It runs Alibaba Cloud’s WAF with bot management plus a proprietary detection layer, and it reads far more than your address: the TLS handshake (a bare HTTP client is identifiable by its fingerprint alone), request pacing, and browser environment all feed the score, with a slider CAPTCHA waiting when it dips. The address is scored first, though — datacenter ranges are flagged by an IP-reputation system fed by telemetry across Alibaba’s properties, so a subnet burned on one Alibaba service arrives pre-suspected on another. A few fast requests from one datacenter IP and you meet the challenge page instead of the supplier list.

There’s a wrinkle unique to B2B sourcing: the results depend on where you appear to be. Alibaba.com localizes by the visitor’s region — the geo of your request steers which suppliers surface in category showrooms and which currency the price ladders quote (a US vantage returns USD, a UK one GBP). Compare manufacturers for a single market from a single country, then, or the shortlist mixes currencies and region-filtered supplier sets into something no procurement decision should rest on. The workable setup is a pool spread across the regions you source from, each address paced conservatively — sticky per task so cookie state survives a product-to-category walk, rotating to a fresh IP every fifty to a hundred requests between tasks — with our packages covering the geography and the 3 free list refreshes every 30 days retiring addresses as they draw challenges.

Two practical notes. Most of what you want lives in JSON embedded in the pages, not the visible HTML — category showrooms and product pages carry structured price-and-MOQ data in script blocks — so parse those rather than fighting a DOM that shifts per template. And the honest boundary: Alibaba’s Open Platform is seller-scoped and won’t return arbitrary competitor catalogs, which is why teams scrape public pages — keep that to publicly displayed data at a considerate rate, and treat the collection as sourcing intelligence, not content to republish.

Product specs at a glance

IP pool100,000+ IPv4

ProtocolsHTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5

Bandwidthunlimited

Speedup to 500 Mbps per proxy

Uptime99.9%

IP whitelistingup to five source IPs included

Username/passwordoptional, in addition to IP whitelisting

List refreshesup to three free refreshes per month

Minimum order100 IPs; 1 IP for dedicated proxies

Deliveryautomatically after payment

Refund24-hour money-back guarantee

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Which proxies should you choose?

Four infrastructure types — and the use cases each one fits best.

	Our pick for Alibaba Packagesdatacenter IPv4	Rotating	ISP	IPv6
IP source	Datacenter, IPv4	Datacenterthe same 100,000+ IP pool	Consumer ISP networks	Datacenter
IP allocation	Static list	Full pool accessthe exit IP rotates on every request	Static list	Static list
List refreshes	Up to 3 per month, free	Not applicable	Up to 3 per month, free	Provider-dependent
Pricing model	Per-IP packageunlimited bandwidth	Credit-basedyou pay per request, not per IP	Per-IP packageunlimited bandwidth	Per-IP package
Website compatibility	✓ ~100%	✓ ~100%	✓ ~100%	✕ Limitedmany websites don't support IPv6
Speed	Up to 500 Mbps	Up to 300 Mbps	Up to 500 Mbps	Datacenter-grade
Anti-fraud trust	Medium	MediumIP rotation helps	High	Low to medium
Price	$from $0.07 per IP/month	$$$from $49.00/month	$$from $0.22 per IP/month	$typically the lowest-cost option
Best for	Web scraping and automation at a predictable volume: your own IPs, unlimited bandwidth	API scraping that needs as many different IPs as possible without buying a fixed list	Social media, accounts, long sessions — wherever IP trust matters	Use cases where the target site is guaranteed to support IPv6
	Buy now	Rotating proxies	ISP proxies	We don't sell these: too many limitations for general-purpose work

Connect in 60 seconds

Your sourcing crawler takes the pool as a plain list — any field order and delimiter. Copy the snippet for your stack below, or paste it into your AI coding assistant to wire up sticky sessions and rotation.

# HTTP or HTTPS proxy
curl -x http://login:password@IP:port https://example.com

# SOCKS5
curl --socks5-hostname IP:port \
  --proxy-user login:password \
  https://example.com

import requests

proxy = "http://login:password@IP:port"  # your proxy from the Dashboard

r = requests.get(
    "https://example.com",
    proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
)
print(r.status_code)

import { ProxyAgent } from "undici";

const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent("http://login:password@IP:port");
const res = await fetch("https://example.com", { dispatcher });
console.log(res.status);

$ch = curl_init("https://example.com");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "IP:port");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, "login:password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);

Fill in the credentials from your Dashboard. If you use IP whitelisting, you don't need a username or password.

Export in any format

Choose a standard format or create a custom one with any field order and delimiter your software requires.

IP:port login:password@IP:port {scheme}{ip}{port}{login}{password} — builder

HTTP HTTPS SOCKS4 SOCKS5 HTTP/2 ✓

See the FAQ for the ports used by each protocol.

Setup guides for browsers and antidetect tools

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Free proxy list for testing your sourcing crawler

Updated 2 days ago · New proxies added hourly · 24,120 proxies currently listed

These are not PapaProxy.net proxies. They are public proxies collected from open sources and are intended only for testing your software. To test our managed service, configure a 48-hour proxy trial with the plan and add-ons you need.

IP	Country	Port	Protocol
112.64.135.45	CN	8080	HTTPS
116.196.150.180	CN	17981	HTTP
113.204.79.230	CN	9091	HTTP
36.111.33.167	CN	13128	HTTP
183.215.23.242	CN	9091	HTTP
60.217.64.237	CN	35292	SOCKS4
27.185.218.213	CN	17981	HTTP
120.232.115.170	CN	17981	HTTP
115.231.181.40	CN	8128	HTTP
114.236.137.41	CN	21000	HTTPS

IP:port format—one proxy per line

Reviews

A few service metrics—and feedback from our customers.

27,000+

proxy packages sold since 2019

60%

of customers upgrade their plan after the first month

100,000+ IPs

in our own pool across 22 locations

I use proxies for online games. I have been using the service for many months and I am satisfied with the quality and efficiency. Proxies work as they should and there are practically no disconnects. I recommend it, you will not regret it!

FD Felix Drechsler July 2025

Like the service! Responsive and fast support, affordable prices, convenient renewal panel and network selection. Just what I need!

KV Kornev Vitalii February 2026

I used the service for social networking. At first I bought it for a month, but now I will definitely renew it because the quality is really good! I am very glad that I finally found a really cool service!

RC Ryan Cooper March 2026

Proxies do not fail, and at this price it is a great gift. I buy them when I need them, usually once every few months. There have been a few minor glitches but the support here is above all praise. Responsive, kind, understanding and fast. All issues were resolved promptly. It is very nice to work with true professionals.

E Elliot May 2025

Frequently asked questions

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Is this the same as a Taobao proxy?

No — different platforms, different requirements. Alibaba.com is the global B2B wholesale site: English-facing, international suppliers, MOQ and trade-assurance data, and it localizes by whatever region you appear from rather than demanding a Chinese IP. Taobao is Alibaba Group’s mainland-China consumer marketplace, and it serves a degraded storefront to any non-mainland address, so it genuinely needs Chinese IPs. If you’re sourcing wholesale to import, this page is right and a regional mix serves you. If you’re researching Chinese retail prices or the domestic consumer catalog, that’s the Taobao page and a mainland pool. Buying the wrong geography is the most common mistake here.

Do I need Chinese IPs to research suppliers on Alibaba?

Usually not, and often you want the opposite. Alibaba.com steers category results and price currency by the visitor’s apparent region, so the useful question isn’t “Chinese or not” but “which buyer market am I modeling?” Researching what US importers see means US IPs and USD ladders; comparing the European vantage means EU addresses. Chinese IPs are the right tool for Alibaba Group’s mainland-only sites, not for the international B2B storefront. Choose the region that matches the buyer you’re sourcing as, and hold it steady across a comparison so the data stays commensurable.

Guides say Alibaba needs residential proxies. Do datacenter IPs work?

They work within a defined lane. Alibaba’s IP-reputation layer flags the hosting ASNs — AWS, Alibaba Cloud’s own ranges, the usual names — so maximum-aggression crawling of the most defended pages does favor residential origin. But our packages sit on ranges we manage rather than recycled public lists, and at conservative pace, paired with browser-grade TLS handling, they carry supplier and price-ladder collection at a fraction of residential per-gigabyte costs; the 3 monthly refreshes swap out addresses as they wear. Where origin scoring is unforgiving — heavy session work on the hardest pages — we point you to ISP addresses. What no honest vendor claims is that a $19 datacenter package behaves like a residential network under full-throttle scraping; match the tool to how hard you push.

Why do the MOQ and prices I scrape differ from what I see logged in?

Because Alibaba pricing is tiered and contextual, not a single sticker. Product pages carry a price ladder — one unit price for 1–9 pieces, a lower one at 50+, and so on — and the figure shown shifts with quantity, region, and sometimes supplier negotiation status. A scraper reading the public page captures the published ladder for the region its IP implies; a logged-in buyer may see account-specific or negotiated terms the public page never exposes. For clean comparisons, pin one region across the run, capture the full ladder rather than a single number, and treat public prices as the starting point for outreach, not the final quote. The negotiation itself still happens off the page.