Mobile Proxy ROI Calculator

It reflects what we and our customers consistently observe when moving multi-account or scraping workloads from datacenter / residential IPs to 4G/5G mobile carrier IPs. The mechanism is CGNAT (RFC 6598): carrier IPs are shared among thousands of real phone subscribers, so platforms cannot bulk-block them without harming legitimate users. ASN-based reputation systems (MaxMind, IPQualityScore, Spur.us) treat carrier ASNs as low-risk by default. The 90% figure is an estimate — your actual reduction depends on platform, behavior, browser fingerprinting, and use case.

Realistic recreation costs include: a fresh email/phone (often paid SMS verification at $0.50-$5), KYC artefacts where required (virtual cards, ID, address), warmup time before the account can transact normally (usually 7-21 days of light activity), and the operator time spent setting it all up. For most platforms (Instagram, TikTok, Facebook Ads, marketplaces) the realistic blended cost is $30-$100 per account. The default of $50 is a sane midpoint.

That's roughly the public price band of our shared-rotation mobile plan, which comfortably handles ~10 concurrent identities. We've used it as the baseline so the math reflects realistic catalog pricing rather than a theoretical floor. If you use dedicated SIMs or higher concurrency, the per-account cost can rise; if you share rotation across smaller workloads it can fall.

Revenue lost from bans is highly business-specific (a banned dropshipping account may lose $0 or $10k). To stay honest and applicable across use cases, we count only the verifiable, recurring costs: per-account recreation cost + operator recovery hours. Add your own lost-revenue figure on top to get the full picture — these numbers are the floor, not the ceiling.

The math is transparent, the inputs are yours, and the assumptions are spelled out. The proxy cost line item is included as a real expense (not hidden), and the 90% reduction is an estimate explicitly disclosed. If your ban rate without proxies is already very low, or your recovery is cheap and instant, the calculator will show a low or negative ROI — and that's the honest answer. The tool is meant to help you decide, not to manufacture a yes.