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About Mobile proxies

Mobile proxies are at the core of how Aluvia delivers reliable, scalable web connectivity for AI agents.

When you connect through Aluvia, your access the web through mobile proxy IP address your es. Your requests like lookthey areoming from ordinary mobile users—not from a server rack.

This page gives you a conceptual

  • What proxies and mobile proxies are
  • How mobile proxies differ from other proxy types
  • Why mobile proxies work well for AI agents and automation

What are Proxies?​

A proxy is an intermediary server that forwards requests from your clien target website,. The website sees the proxy’s IP address instead ofent’s.

Using proxies gives you:

  • IP abstraction – You decide what kind of IPs your traffic uses (mobile, residential, datacenter, etc.).
  • Network isolation – Your infrastructure doesn’t talk to target sites directly.
  • Scalability – You can fan out many agents across a managed pool of IPs.

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What is a mobile proxy?​

A mobile proxy is at to proxy where outbound traffic to the internet uses an IP address from a mobile carrier network, instead of a data center or home ISP.

In Aluvia’s implementation:

  • Your requests are routed through real mobile devices that Aluvia operates.
  • Each device uses authentic SIM cards from Tier-1 US carriers (such as T-Mobile and AT&T).
  • The public IPs are the same type of addresses used by ordinary mobile subscribers.

From the website’s point of view, your AI agent looks like a normal US mobile user on a major carrier network. This is important because many sites treat traffic from mobile carriers very differently from traffic that clearly comes from cloud infrastructure.

Mobile proxies vs other proxy types​

Mobile vs datacenter proxies​

Datacenter proxies use IP ranges allocated to cloud providers and hosting companies.

Typical characteristics:

  • IPs are cheap and easy to obtain in bulk.
  • They are widely used by bots, scrapers, and automation.
  • They are often recognized and classified as “server” or “non-residential” traffic.

As a result, many websites:

  • Apply stricter rate limits.
  • Trigger more CAPTCHAs and challenge pages.
  • Sometimes block entire cloud IP ranges.

Mobile proxies behave differently:

  • IPs belong to mobile carriers, not cloud providers.
  • Traffic is blended into large volumes of legitimate consumer mobile usage.
  • Sites treat this traffic as higher trust than datacenter traffic.

For AI agents, the practical impact is:

  • Fewer hard blocks.
  • Fewer manual challenges.
  • More predictable access to large consumer platforms (search, social, marketplaces, retail, etc.).

Mobile vs residential proxies​

Residential proxies use IPs assigned to home broadband connections (cable, DSL, fiber).

They share some properties with mobile proxies (they are also “consumer” IPs), but there are important differences:

  • Residential IPs tend to be more static and tied to a specific household.
  • Heavy automated activity from a single residential IP can be profiled and eventually blocked.
  • Some residential ranges used for proxying can become noisy and attract additional scrutiny.

In contrast, mobile networks:

  • Serve large numbers of devices through shared IP pools.
  • Frequently reuse and redistribute IPs across many subscribers.
  • Produce traffic patterns that reflect many independent mobile users moving around and reconnecting.

Using mobile proxies through Aluvia lets your agents:

  • Blend into real mobile user traffic.
  • Avoid some of the reputation issues seen with overused residential ranges.
  • Take advantage of the way many platforms already handle carrier network traffic.

Proxies vs VPNs​

Proxies and VPNs both route traffic through an intermediary, but they are designed for different purposes.

  • A VPN is typically used by a human user to:

    • Encrypt all traffic from a device.
    • Access a network securely through a single exit point.

  • A proxy is typically used by software to:

    • Control which IPs requests appear to come from.
    • Run many concurrent sessions.
    • Integrate into agents, scrapers, and automation frameworks.

In other words:

  • Use a VPN when you need secure, device-wide connectivity for a person.
  • Use Aluvia mobile proxies when you need your AI agents to access the web reliably at scale.

Why mobile proxies work well for AI agents​

Aluvia is designed around a specific problem:

AI agents that access the web from datacenter IPs are frequently blocked, throttled, or challenged. Mobile proxies provide a more reliable network identity for those agents.

Mobile proxies are a good fit for this because they offer:

Higher success rates on guarded sites​

Many high-value targets (search engines, retail sites, social platforms, marketplaces) use:

  • IP reputation,
  • Network type classification,
  • Behavior scoring.

Datacenter ranges are easy to detect and often treated as high-risk. Mobile carrier ranges, on the other hand, are:

  • Widely used by real users.
  • Expected to generate diverse, high-volume traffic.
  • Often handled with different rules than cloud IPs.

By using mobile proxies, your agents are more likely to:

  • Reach pages without being blocked.
  • Complete flows (logins, searches, navigation) without constant interruptions.
  • Maintain stable access as your traffic scales up.

A better match for agentic workloads​

Modern AI agents:

  • Run continuously.
  • Access multiple sites and APIs.
  • Operate with many concurrent sessions.

Mobile proxies align well with this pattern:

  • Carrier networks are built to support very large numbers of mobile devices.
  • Aluvia’s infrastructure fans your traffic out over a broad pool of US mobile IPs.
  • Your agents get the benefits of mobile egress without having to manage physical devices, SIMs, or carrier behavior.

In practice, this means you spend less time debugging access issues and more time refining agent logic.

Realistic mobile network identity​

Many sites treat visitors differently depending on whether they appear to be:

  • A server in a data center,
  • A desktop user on home broadband,
  • Or a mobile user on a carrier network.

By exiting through genuine mobile carrier IPs, your agents can:

  • Access mobile-optimized content and flows where applicable.
  • Match the kind of network identity that many platforms already expect.
  • “Blend in” with typical mobile user traffic patterns.

Summary​

  • Proxies route traffic through an intermediary and expose the proxy’s IP instead of yours.
  • Mobile proxies are proxies that use IP addresses from mobile carrier networks.
  • Aluvia operates real US 4G/5G devices with carrier-issued IPs, and exposes them as a managed proxy service for AI agents.
  • Compared to datacenter and some residential proxies, mobile proxies typically provide:
    • Better access to guarded sites,
    • A network identity that matches real consumer traffic,
    • A more reliable base for large-scale agentic workloads.