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IP Anonymity Report: September 2026

VPN IP grew to 528 providers, residential proxy IPv4 held at 68.9M as IPv6 fell, and Hosting IP named 389 hosting providers in September 2026.

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  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 454 providers with IP data to 528 in September 2026. Residential Proxy IP held its IPv4 at 68.9 million while losing 14.1 million IPv6, and Hosting IP went from 238 named hosting providers to 389. Every figure below compares the databases as built on August 31 and on September 30.

VPN IP

Aug 31Sep 30Change
Providers with IP data454528+74 (+16.3%)
IPv4 with a named provider3,184,9273,740,752+555,825 (+17.5%)
High-confidence IPv41,276,2641,247,751-28,513 (-2.2%)
All IPv420,960,75721,405,993+445,236 (+2.1%)
Providers in the catalog1,4311,870+439 (+30.7%)

The provider count held at 454 until September 20, then climbed to 528 by the month's end: 80 providers came in and 6 dropped out. New VPN services include Norton VPN, AVG VPN, Urban VPN and PureDome.

Of the newcomers, 23 make business VPN gateways, firewalls and routers, among them WatchGuard, DrayTek, Sophos and Fortinet. Their gateways account for 496,969 IPv4, most of the month's gain in named addresses. Organizations run these for their own people, so they carry the enterprise_vpn flag in the VPN provider catalog, and you can score them apart from consumer VPNs. The catalog describes every VPN provider we track, whether or not we have its IPs yet.

High-confidence IPv4 stood at 1,315,960 on September 29, up 3.1% on the month, before we tightened how providers we find only in registry records reach that tier, which moved about 68,000 of their IPv4 down a tier without dropping them from the database.

Residential, Mobile and Datacenter Proxy IP

90-day windowAug 31Sep 30Change
Residential Proxy IP130,582,762116,483,170-14,099,592 (-10.8%)
IPv468,902,18168,882,345-19,836 (-0.03%)
IPv661,680,58147,600,825-14,079,756 (-22.8%)
Mobile Proxy IP4,219,7613,633,744-586,017 (-13.9%)
Datacenter Proxy IP1,012,333919,985-92,348 (-9.1%)
Providers with IPs, across all three1291290
Proxy providers cataloged488614+126 (+25.8%)

Residential IPv4 stayed between 68.9 and 69.3 million every day of the month. The fall is IPv6, for two reasons. Some large residential proxy providers have shut down, and their addresses are still aging out of the 90-day window. We also temporarily lost tracking of a few networks whose addresses were mostly IPv6; that coverage will pick back up.

Hosting IP

Aug 31Sep 30Change
Named hosting providers238389+151 (+63.4%)
High-confidence IPv4409,253,553418,191,952+8,938,399 (+2.2%)
All IPv4810,119,756811,294,796+1,175,040 (+0.1%)

The new providers include Latitude.sh, TransIP, STRATO, Psychz Networks and Servers Australia. The hosting provider catalog now also lists the server networks some VPN companies run themselves, NordVPN's and Surfshark's among them.

CDN, Relay and Tor IP

  • CDN IP: 13,070,178 IPv4, flat.
  • Relay IP: 289,195 IPv4, down 7.3%. The ranges Google stopped publishing for its VPN services in late June left on September 23, once they had gone 90 days unseen.
  • Tor IP: 12,336 exit IPv4, down 5.7%.

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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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