"Enterprise-grade" gets slapped on every proxy provider's pricing page, but most of what differentiates a real enterprise setup from a hobby-scale one is testable, not marketing. This post is a practical checklist for evaluating residential proxy infrastructure before you build a business process on top of it — plus some code for actually measuring the things that matter instead of trusting the sales page.

The real difference isn't pool size

Basic residential proxy

Enterprise-grade

IP pool