Proxy vs VPN: what’s the difference?
Both tools change your IP address, but that’s where the similarity ends.

A VPN is not designed for large-scale requests, automation or data collection. For websites, this traffic is easy to distinguish from traffic generated by real users.

VPN:
• hides your IP (system level)
• encrypts all traffic by default
• protects all apps at once
• suitable for personal privacy and public Wi-Fi
• not intended for automation or data scraping

Proxies are built to simulate real user behavior in scraping, monitoring, testing and marketing tasks.

Proxies:
• change IP selectively (per browser or application)
• encryption can be configured per use case
• do not affect system-wide traffic
• suitable for business, scraping and testing
• support advanced configurations

If it’s important that a website sees a human, not a bot:

Your choice is proxies. Try them for free