What "35M+ IPs" Actually Means (And Why the Number Alone Doesn't Tell You Much)

Every residential proxy provider leads with a pool-size number — tens of millions of IPs, dozens or hundreds of countries. It's an easy stat to headline and a genuinely reasonable first filter, but on its own it answers a narrower question than it seems to: it tells you how many IPs exist somewhere in the network, not how many are usable, fresh, or actually located where you need them.

What the total pool number doesn't capture

• →Distribution — a 35M-IP pool that's heavily concentrated in a handful of countries is a different product than one spread evenly across 195, depending on where your task actually needs coverage
• →Freshness and rotation — a large pool with slow turnover behaves differently under load than a smaller pool that rotates cleanly
• →City-level density within that pool — total country coverage and real city-level precision are separate claims, and a provider can have one without the other
• →Real concurrent availability — the headline number is typically the full network size, not what's available to you specifically at a given moment under your plan

Questions that actually predict whether a pool fits your task

1. 1Does the country or city you need coverage in specifically have real density, not just a presence on the list?
2. 2Does the provider support both rotating and sticky sessions from the same pool, or is that a separate tier?
3. 3What happens under sustained, high-volume use — does performance hold, or does a large advertised pool mask thin coverage once real load hits it?
4. 4Is the pool residential (real ISP-assigned addresses on real devices) or a mix that includes datacenter or lower-trust IPs bundled into the total count?

GlobProxy's pool sits at 35M+ residential IPs across 195 countries with city-level structured targeting — that number is a starting filter, not the whole evaluation. The more useful question for any provider, this one included, is whether the specific coverage you need is actually dense where you need it.