What is a static ISP proxy?
It's a hybrid. The IP address belongs to a range registered to a real consumer ISP (Comcast, Verizon, Vodafone-type providers), so anti-fraud systems classify it as residential. But it's routed through commercial server infrastructure, so it's fast, always-on, and — critically — static: the same IP is assigned to you for the life of the plan.
Compare the three IP classes you can buy:
| Static ISP | Rotating residential | Datacenter | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Looks like | Home user | Home user | Server |
| IP changes? | Never | Constantly | Never |
| Speed / uptime | Server-grade | Depends on peer | Server-grade |
| Priced | Per IP/month | Per GB | Per IP/month |
| Best for | Stable logins, one identity | Scraping at scale | Speed on soft targets |
When static ISP is the right buy
- Account you log into repeatedly — marketplaces (Amazon, eBay, Etsy), social accounts, ad managers. Sites tie sessions to IPs; a stable residential-looking IP means no “new device” checks every visit.
- One identity per IP — multi-accounting with an antidetect browser, where each profile needs its own consistent address.
- Payment and verification flows — anything where a mid-session IP change triggers a fraud review.
- Long-running monitors — price or stock watchers that must hold a session for days.
When it's the wrong buy: high-volume scraping. One static IP hammering a target gets rate-limited fast — that's rotating-residential work (see our residential guide).
Fair static ISP pricing in 2026
Expect a few dollars per IP per month, varying with country (US/UK/EU IPs cost more than exotic geos) and exclusivity. Two things to verify before paying: the IP is dedicated (shared “static” IPs inherit other users' bans), and the range is genuinely ISP-registered — ask for the ASN and check it, because some sellers relabel datacenter ranges as “ISP”.
If you bought static ISP from IP2World
IP2World's static ISP product went down with the rest of its storefront in early 2026 (full status here) — and its users learned the painful part: when the provider dies, your static IPs die with it, and every account tied to those IPs faces re-verification from a new address. That's an argument for buying static IPs from a provider with multiple networks behind it, so a single network failure doesn't take out your identities.