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IP Anonymity Report: October 2026

VPN IP grew to 631 providers, residential proxy IPv4 held at 68.5M as IPv6 coverage returned, and Hosting IP named 785 hosting providers in October 2026.

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  1. VPN IP
  2. Residential, Mobile and Datacenter Proxy IP
  3. Hosting IP
  4. CDN, Relay and Tor IP
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Our VPN IP database went from 528 providers with IP data to 631 in October 2026. Residential Proxy IP held its IPv4 at 68.5 million, and the IPv6 coverage it lost in September came back. Hosting IP went from 389 named hosting providers to 785. Every figure below compares the databases as built on September 30, where September's report left off, and on October 31.

VPN IP

Sep 30Oct 31Change
Providers with IP data528631+103 (+19.5%)
IPv4 with a named provider3,740,7523,886,060+145,308 (+3.9%)
High-confidence IPv41,247,7511,289,672+41,921 (+3.4%)
All IPv421,405,99316,304,115-5,101,878 (-23.8%)
Providers in the catalog1,8703,710+1,840 (+98.4%)

113 providers came in over the month and 10 left. New VPN services include Kaspersky VPN Secure Connection, NymVPN, Planet VPN and Mysterium Network.

On October 23, business security gateways and privacy relays moved from VPN IP to Relay IP, Cloudflare WARP, Perimeter 81, GoodAccess and PureDome among them. One of their addresses carries a whole company's staff, or many people who never picked an exit, so flagging it as a VPN flags all of them. Appliance and router vendors' VPN gateways, which an organization runs for its own people, stay in VPN IP.

All IPv4 fell on October 13 and 16, when VPN IP stopped listing addresses on mobile carrier networks that answer like a VPN server but that no VPN provider claims. A named provider's addresses on those networks stay in. The VPN provider catalog describes every VPN provider we track, whether or not we have its IPs yet.

Residential, Mobile and Datacenter Proxy IP

90-day windowSep 30Oct 31Change
Residential Proxy IP116,483,170114,381,843-2,101,327 (-1.8%)
IPv468,882,34568,490,170-392,175 (-0.6%)
IPv647,600,82545,891,673-1,709,152 (-3.6%)
Mobile Proxy IP, IPv42,494,0752,456,271-37,804 (-1.5%)
Datacenter Proxy IP919,985905,588-14,397 (-1.6%)
Providers with IPs, across all three129126-3
Proxy providers cataloged614885+271 (+44.1%)

Residential IPv4 stayed between 68.5 and 68.9 million every day of the month. The networks we temporarily lost track of in September are tracked again from October 9: residential IPv6 seen in a single day went from 269,893 on September 30 to 779,147 on October 9. The 90-day IPv6 count has risen every day since its low of 45,001,477 on October 8.

Mobile Proxy IP's row counts IPv4 only, since its IPv6 was undercounted from September 5 to October 7 and both windows span those weeks.

Hosting IP

Sep 30Oct 31Change
Named hosting providers389785+396 (+101.8%)
High-confidence IPv4418,191,952436,039,755+17,847,803 (+4.3%)
All IPv4811,294,796485,817,504-325,477,292 (-40.1%)

The new providers include GMO Internet (ConoHa), Locaweb, Switch, BytePlus, WorldStream, NTT Global Data Centers and Infomaniak, all listed in the hosting provider catalog. All IPv4 fell between October 7 and October 27, as we took out consumer address space that had been listed as hosting.

CDN, Relay and Tor IP

  • CDN IP: 21,679,187 IPv4, up 65.9%, across 77 CDN providers, up from 10. The new ones include Netflix, Meta, Tencent, ByteDance and Fly.io.
  • Relay IP: 2,300,606 IPv4, up from 289,195, and 27 services, up from 4. Besides the services that left VPN IP, it now covers enterprise security gateways such as Zscaler, Netskope and Prisma Access.
  • Tor IP: 12,741 exit IPv4, up 3.3%.

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Written by

  • Uman Shahzad

    Founder & CEO

    Uman has worked on IP data for over eight years, including as lead engineer at IPinfo. He built systems and practices that IP data companies now use to run at scale and keep their data accurate.

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