Key takeaways
The TL;DR. 6 headline facts about NetNut pulled from our test rig + their public documentation.
- ▸NetNut runs on DiviNetworks-backed direct ISP peering, giving customers single-hop residential exits instead of multi-hop P2P relays — the architectural split that defines the 85M+ IP pool spanning 200 countries.
- ▸Founded in 2018 in Israel under DiviNetworks, NetNut publishes a 99.2% success rate and posts P50 latencies on US retail targets that frequently undercut Bright Data and Oxylabs by 200-400ms on identical Amazon US and Walmart endpoints.
- ▸Headline residential pricing starts at $3.45/GB, with committed-volume contracts dropping toward ~$1.08/GB — competitive against Tier-1 rivals once you cross the enterprise threshold, less friendly for sub-50GB hobby workloads.
- ▸Static ISP residential is the flagship product: datacenter-grade speed with residential ASN trust, and sticky sessions that hold 30+ minutes without rotation drift — useful for account-bound retail and ad-verification flows.
- ▸The Website Unblocker SaaS handles JavaScript rendering, fingerprint rotation, and CAPTCHA logic server-side, removing the need for a separate headless-browser farm on most Tier-1 retail and SERP targets.
- ▸Honest gaps: no true free trial (only a 7-day post-purchase refund after a sales call), thinner LATAM and parts of APAC versus Bright Data/Oxylabs, an aging dashboard UX, and Cloudflare-Turnstile-protected sites still benefit from external browser fingerprinting.
The verdict
Independent nightly benchmarks since March 2024 — here's where NetNut lands.
- Direct ISP peering (DiviNetworks parent) means single-hop exits, not P2P relays
- Static residential ISP product holds 30+ minute sticky sessions reliably
- P50 latency on US targets often beats P2P-based competitors by 200-400ms
- IPs carry residential ASN trust without consumer-device behavioral fingerprints
- Strong on US retail giants — Walmart, Target, Best Buy, Amazon US
- Bundled 50M+ company profile datasets for sales-intel workflows
- Website Unblocker SaaS handles JS rendering without separate browser infra
- Non-US country pool thinner than Bright Data or Oxylabs, sparse in LATAM and parts of APAC
- No true free trial, only post-purchase 7-day refund after sales conversation
- Dashboard UX feels dated compared to Smartproxy / Decodo or IPRoyal
- Cloudflare-Turnstile sites still need external browser fingerprinting layer
- Entry pricing around $1.08/GB requires committed volume to unlock
Pricing B+ · Performance A- · Pool quality B+ · Support B+ · Ethics A-
Each axis is graded A+ to D using our standard rubric: how we score →
Who should not use NetNut?+
What we think after testing NetNut
Editorial review by Helena Björk · last tested May 31, 2026
NetNut is the proxy provider that built its network the hard way: instead of bundling an SDK into free apps to harvest residential bandwidth, parent company DiviNetworks struck direct peering deals with ISPs around the world. The result is a single-hop architecture where requests exit straight from an ISP gateway, skipping the gossipy P2P relay chain that adds latency and reputational drift. NetNut advertises 85M+ residential IPs plus a 5M mobile pool, and the network's unusual provenance shows up in benchmarks as lower P50 latency (often under 0.6s to US targets) and IPs that haven't been pre-fingerprinted by anti-bot vendors as "consumer device behind suspicious app."
The product surface is narrower than the giants but deliberate. You get rotating residential, static residential ISP (the headline product, where NetNut genuinely outclasses most competitors), datacenter, mobile, and a Website Unblocker SaaS for JavaScript-heavy targets. There's also a SERP API and prebuilt company datasets covering 50M+ profiles for sales-intel teams. The Tel-Aviv-based company leans into compliance copy KYC-ish, and entry pricing starts around $1.08/GB at scale tiers, with no free trial for self-serve, just a 7-day refund window after sales contact. That gating is the price of the architecture.
Where NetNut wins is predictable US performance on retail, fintech, and travel scraping where session stickiness matters. The static ISP layer holds 30+ minute sessions without the chaotic IP churn typical of P2P pools, which translates into measurable wins on Walmart, Target, Best Buy, and US Amazon. Where it loses ground: the residential pool's non-US country diversity is thinner than Bright Data or Oxylabs (LATAM and parts of APAC feel sparse), Cloudflare-Turnstile pages still need human-grade browser fingerprints layered on top, and the dashboard retains a 2021-era operator UX that newer entrants have lapped. Documentation is solid but assumes you already know the difference between "rotating residential" and "rotating ISP."
NetNut Portal Tour
Watch our hands-on walkthrough of NetNut — dashboard, API, real workload, the bits the marketing pages skip.
Live performance
Numbers from our continuous test rig — same workloads, every month.
Targets tested: Google SERP US/UK/IN, Amazon US/UK/DE, Walmart, eBay, Cloudflare-fronted retailers. Concurrency: 200. Run nightly since Mar 2024. Full data in our methodology page →
Performance vs the market
How NetNut compares to the directory-wide average across our four standard target panels. = market average, bar fill = NetNut.
Sample size: 120+ providers with published benchmark data. Bars show this provider's measured rate; the vertical tick is the directory-wide average.
IP pool size — ranked
Where NetNut ranks against the largest networks in the directory. Bars are scaled to 226M.
Bars rank total advertised IP pool size. NetNut publishes 85M+ IPs — see the full breakdown in the specs above.
Pricing
Volume discounts apply across types. Prices in USD, parsed May 31, 2026.
- 28GB GB included
- 200+ locations
- 7-day trial
- ["HTTP", "HTTPS", "SOCKS5"]
- 100GB GB included
- 1+ locations
- 7-day trial
- ["HTTP", "HTTPS", "SOCKS5"]
- 100GB GB included
- 200+ locations
- 7-day trial
- ["HTTP", "HTTPS", "SOCKS5"]
Features & integrations
What's included out of the box.
Network & infrastructure
How the pool is built, refreshed and addressed.
SDK, API & integrations
Languages, endpoints and tooling shipped out of the box.
Code examples
Drop-in snippets to start using NetNut from your stack. Replace USER, PASS and the gateway with what you get from your dashboard.
# pip install requests
import requests
proxy = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
resp = requests.get(
"https://httpbin.org/ip",
proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
timeout=10,
)
print(resp.json())
// npm install undici
import { fetch, ProxyAgent } from "undici";
const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent("http://USER:[email protected]:7777");
const resp = await fetch("https://httpbin.org/ip", { dispatcher });
console.log(await resp.json());
curl -x http://USER:[email protected]:7777 \
https://httpbin.org/ip \
--max-time 10
# scrapy-rotating-proxies works with any provider gateway
# settings.py:
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
"scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware": 400,
}
HTTP_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
HTTPS_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
// npm install playwright
import { chromium } from "playwright";
const browser = await chromium.launch({
proxy: {
server: "http://gate.netnut.com:7777",
username: "USER",
password: "PASS",
},
});
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto("https://httpbin.org/ip");
console.log(await page.locator("body").innerText());
await browser.close();
Use-case suitability
How well this provider performs by workload, scored 1–10 from our test rig.
Independent benchmarks
Last run 2026-05-06
Compliance & privacy
Auditable certifications, sourcing and data-handling posture.
Support & account
How they pick up the phone — and who answers.
Add-ons & products
Sister products and operations resources.
Web Unblocker
Bundled add-on offered alongside the core proxy stack.
SERP API
Bundled add-on offered alongside the core proxy stack.
Company & resources
Who builds and operates this product.
Key markets covered
200+ countries served. City & ASN targeting available.
NetNut vs alternatives
How NetNut stacks up against the closest providers in our directory. Tap any column header to read that review.
| Metric | NetNut | Proxy-Seller | Scraper API | WebScrapingAPI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price (per GB) | $3.45 | $1.77 | $49.00 | $19.00 |
| Pool size | 85M+ IPs | ~10M residential + 1M+ ISP/DC/IPv6 across 220+ countries | 100M+ requests | Millions of residential IPs |
| Locations | 200+ countries | — | — | — |
| Rating | 4.3 / 5 | 4.3 / 5 | 4.3 / 5 | 4.3 / 5 |
| Read review | YOU ARE HERE | View → | View → | View → |
How to get started with NetNut
A 5-minute walkthrough from sign-up to your first successful request. Total setup time: ~10 minutes.
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1
Pick the product that matches the target, not the price tag
NetNut splits its catalog into Rotating Residential (P2P-free, DiviNetworks-peered), Static Residential ISP (single-IP-per-session, sticky 30+ minutes), Mobile, Datacenter, and the Website Unblocker SaaS. For US retail scraping on Amazon US, Walmart, Target.com, and Best Buy, Static ISP is the workhorse — residential ASN trust with datacenter latency. For broad SERP harvesting or company-profile enrichment, Rotating Residential is cheaper per request. Don't default to rotating just because it's cheaper-per-GB; account-bound retail flows lose more to re-auth churn than they save.
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2
Configure sticky sessions for account-bound retail
NetNut exposes session control via the username parameter — append a session ID such as user-CUSTOMER-session-abc123 to your proxy username and the gateway pins that exit IP for up to 30+ minutes on Static ISP, or up to 10 minutes on Rotating Residential. For Best Buy and Walmart cart/checkout reconnaissance, generate one session ID per logical persona and reuse it across requests in the same crawl thread. Rotate the session ID — not the IP — when you want a fresh persona.
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3
Wire the Website Unblocker for JS-heavy retail SKUs
Walmart, Target, and Best Buy increasingly hydrate SKU price/inventory client-side. Instead of standing up Playwright or Puppeteer behind the proxy, point your HTTP client at NetNut's Website Unblocker endpoint with the target URL — it returns rendered HTML and handles fingerprint randomization, TLS profile rotation, and basic CAPTCHA flows server-side. Reserve your own browser farm for Cloudflare-Turnstile and PerimeterX targets where Unblocker's success rate dips below 90%.
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4
Bind to the closest geo for low-latency US retail
Because exits ride DiviNetworks ISP peering rather than consumer P2P relays, geo precision actually pays off in latency. For Amazon US and Walmart, target country-us with a city parameter (city-newyork, city-losangeles, city-chicago) — P50 latencies often land 200-400ms below Bright Data/Oxylabs on the same endpoints because there is no consumer-device hop. For ad-verification campaigns, pin by city to match the geo creative is served against.
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5
Layer the bundled 50M+ company profile dataset on top of scraping
If your use case is sales intelligence or B2B enrichment, NetNut bundles a 50M+ company profile dataset alongside the proxy plans. Use it as the seed list — pull domains, employee bands, and tech-stack signals from the dataset, then use Rotating Residential or Unblocker to enrich pricing pages, careers pages, and product catalogs. This avoids burning proxy GB on discovery requests that the dataset already answers.
Stuck? Check NetNut's documentation or email us.
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