The market you see from the office is the one served to outsiders
Market research and global data collection
Search results, product rankings, recommendations and price bands are all reordered around where the visitor sits, so market research run from a corporate exit collects the version outsiders get. ZapIP puts residential exits in 195 countries, so data collection lands inside each target market — the sample comes from the local network rather than a localised page served to a visitor from elsewhere.
- 195 countries and regions
- City targeting in 33 markets
- Unlimited concurrency
- Traffic never expires
How it works
A sample belongs to whatever network collected it
Get the region wrong and the rankings, recommendation slots, availability and price bands you collect describe somewhere else. Most of the error in a market report was introduced at collection, not analysis.
- Country exits in 195 regions, with city and ASN in 33 priority markets
- State-level targeting in the US, where tax, fulfilment and pricing all diverge
- Native broadband exits, so you are not handed the degraded page a foreign visitor gets
- Reuse one collection script across markets by swapping the exit parameter
How it works
Research workloads spike — billing should not punish that
Research volume is lumpy: two weeks flat out at kickoff, then a long quiet stretch of periodic refreshes. A monthly subscription is the worst possible fit for that curve.
- Traffic from $0.8/GB with no expiry, so the quiet months cost nothing
- Bandwidth from $32/day for 100Mbps — turn it on for a sprint, off after
- No concurrency cap, so a whole market set can finish inside one window
- API extraction and sub-accounts to split usage and cost by project
How it works
Research data is only usable if you can explain where it came from
A report that goes to a client or a board has to survive questions about provenance: which market the sample came from, what network collected it, whether personal data was touched. Those are settled at collection time and cannot be reconstructed later.
- Residential IPs are sourced with explicit consent and remain auditable
- The acceptable use policy prohibits sensitive personal data and government sites
- Publicly visible content only — no working around logins or paywalls
- Sub-account records make provenance easy to document internally and for clients
Coverage
One network behind all four products — changing the billing model does not change how you connect or how you target.
All 33 markets- 195 countries & regions
- Available
- All 50 US states
- Available
- City-level targeting
- Precise
- ISP & ASN targeting
- Supported
4 billing models
How this is billed
All four billing models share one network. Short bursts go per GB, pipelines that run continuously go per Mbps, and anything tied to an account identity goes per IP-day or per IP-month.
FAQ
Questions about this solution
Why not just use a VPN for market research?
A VPN exits from hosting ranges that most platforms recognise on sight, and what comes back is the degraded page reserved for suspicious traffic. A shared node is also one address for the entire company, which is an anomaly signal by itself once a few dozen people sit behind it. Residential exits are addresses a local carrier assigned to a household, so pages render as they do for real users — and you can pin the city and carrier.
How much traffic does a market research project use?
It depends on page count and whether you load assets. Fetching HTML only and blocking images, a typical category study — five markets at twenty thousand pages each — runs roughly 5–20GB, which is a few dollars to a few tens of dollars at $0.8/GB and down. Rendering screenshots or driving a headless browser multiplies that several times over, and at that point the bandwidth plan is the cheaper answer.
Do I need a fixed IP for research work?
Not for public pages — rotating residential is the better fit, since a naturally varying exit is closer to how real traffic is distributed. Two cases do want a fixed address: a signed-in view such as a member price or a seller dashboard, and a longitudinal series where you deliberately re-sample from the same vantage point each week. Both belong on long-term static IPs from $3.8 per IP per month.
Can I capture how search results actually rank in a given country?
Yes — ranking depends heavily on IP geolocation and language settings. Pin the exit to the target city, make your language and region headers agree with it, and what you capture is the local ordering. City-level targeting in 33 priority markets also lets you compare how one keyword ranks across cities inside the same country.
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