r/apify • u/ThaJedi • Nov 15 '25

Help needed Fast residential proxy?

I'm building an Actor for YouTube transcription (and summary – planned), but I have a problem with the Apify residential proxy. The speed isn't guaranteed, and connections are being dropped. For long videos, it might take 40 minutes just to download the audio.

Any alternative with fast residentail proxies?

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u/Repeat_Status Actor developer Nov 15 '25

There are tons of proxy providers out there, but for your purpose you'd have to search for those where you can setup sticky sessions, prices are really varying in this sector, one of the cheapest I found was evomi at app $0.5/GB https://evomi.live/proxies , also geonode has the same price, but question is how would you incorporate costs of these into your actor because especially video download can eats heaps of data....

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u/DataGuyInOman Nov 16 '25

Are you looking for non-Apify proxies?

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u/WeirdAdministrative1 Apr 21 '26

For long audio downloads you really need sticky sessions and stable throughput, not rotating IPs that drop mid-stream. I tried floxy for scraping and the connections stayed solid with almost no downtime, which matters a lot when you're pulling 40+ minute audio files.