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São Tomé and Príncipe Residential Proxies: 34+ Local IPs

Route requests through 34+ residential IPs in São Tomé and Príncipe sourced from real local ISPs. Useful for verifying localized content, tracking SERPs in Portuguese, and collecting market data from a small but distinct Central African island nation that often gets bundled with regional aggregates.

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São Tomé

Residential
On-demand rotation
HTTP(S) and SOCKS5
34 Residential IPs
City & ASN Targeting
99.9% Uptime
HTTP(S) + SOCKS5

Trusted by 72,578+ clients worldwide

Coverage

ASN-level targeting in Sao Tome and Principe

Select a local ISP by its ASN directly in your proxy credentials.

Why Sao Tome and Principe

Why use Sao Tome and Principe residential proxies?

Reach a Niche African Market

São Tomé and Príncipe is rarely covered by mainstream proxy providers, which means localized data from this market is hard to come by. With residential IPs sourced from real Santomean ISPs, you can verify how websites, ads, and search results render for users actually browsing from the islands.

Authentic Portuguese-Language Results

Search engines and content platforms tailor results based on country, language, and ISP. Routing through São Tomé residential IPs returns the Portuguese-language SERPs, currency, and content variants that local users see, instead of falling back to a regional default from Lisbon, Luanda, or Lagos.

Real ISPs, Not Datacenter Ranges

Our 34+ São Tomé IPs come from genuine local providers, not hosting ranges. That distinction matters for sites that classify ASN types, since residential traffic from a Santomean carrier is treated as an ordinary household visitor rather than a flagged datacenter source.

Flexible Rotation and Sessions

Rotate IPs per request for routine checks, or hold a sticky session via sid and ttl parameters when a workflow needs a stable identity. Pair this with HTTP, HTTPS, or SOCKS5 to fit any stack, from headless browsers to native scrapers and account tooling.

One account and one gateway serve every location on the residential proxy network.

Use Cases

What you can do with Sao Tome and Principe proxies

Common use cases for Sao Tome and Principe residential proxy connections.

SERP Monitoring in Portuguese

Track Google search rankings as seen from São Tomé, including local pack results, Portuguese-language snippets, and competitor positions for keywords aimed at the Santomean audience.

Ad Verification

Confirm that geo-targeted campaigns actually render to users in São Tomé. Check creatives, landing pages, and frequency caps from a real local IP instead of trusting reports from ad networks alone.

Market and Pricing Research

Collect pricing, availability, and shipping rules from regional e-commerce, telecom, and travel sites that adjust offers for São Tomé visitors. Build clean datasets for entry decisions and competitive analysis.

Content and Streaming Checks

Verify which articles, videos, and streaming catalogs are reachable from São Tomé. Detect geo-blocks, region-specific paywalls, and CDN routing differences before they affect end users or partners.

Brand Protection

Spot counterfeit listings, unauthorized resellers, and trademark misuse targeting Lusophone African markets. Monitor local marketplaces, classifieds, and social channels from a Santomean vantage point.

QA for Localized Apps

Test how mobile apps, payment flows, and signup forms behave for users connecting from São Tomé. Catch broken language fallbacks, currency formatting issues, and region gating before release.

Local market

São Tomé and Príncipe: a small Lusophone market

São Tomé and Príncipe is one of Africa's Portuguese-speaking countries, with its own currency and a small online market. The pool suits checks, not volume.

  • Portuguese-language results

    Google results for Portuguese keywords from São Tomé can differ from those in Portugal, Brazil or Angola; track them locally.

  • Dobra prices

    Record prices in dobra (STN) and watch for older listings priced before the 2018 redenomination.

  • Compare Lusophone markets

    Run the same check from Angola or Portugal to see how a Portuguese-language offer changes by country.

Features

High-performance residential proxies

Enterprise-grade infrastructure built for scale, speed, and reliability.

HTTP(S) & SOCKS5

Full protocol support for any tool, browser, or framework. Switch protocols without changing your proxy endpoint.

Geo-Targeting at Every Level

Target by country, region, city, or ASN across 195+ countries. Get location-accurate data from any market in the world.

Unlimited Connections

No connection caps or hidden limits. Run as many concurrent requests as your infrastructure can handle.

Flexible Proxy Rotation

Rotate IPs using a session ID (sid) or time-to-live (ttl). If neither is set, a new IP is assigned per request by default.

Flexible Authentication

All requests use username/password authentication. Secure access with simple credentials across all integrations.

Real-Time Dashboard

Full-featured dashboard for real-time usage monitoring. Track traffic, connections, and performance with ease.

The first residential proxy provider. Now one of the largest.

Since 2012, Shifter has grown into a global proxy network trusted by 72,578+ clients including Fortune 500 companies. Connect from anywhere, access local data without restrictions, while preserving complete privacy and security.

Since2012
14+Years in Market
72,578+Clients
205M+Residential IPs
195+Countries
Integration

Integrate in seconds

A single line of code is all you need. Works with any language or tool.

Drop-in proxy support for every stack

Shifter works with standard proxy configuration. No proprietary SDK, no vendor lock-in. Just point your HTTP client to our endpoint and start collecting data.

  • Single gateway: p.shifter.io:443
  • Username selectors for geo, ASN, and session control
  • Sticky sessions via sid-XXX; rotate with a new sid
  • HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 supported on standard ports
  • No SDK required, works with any HTTP client
curl -x p.shifter.io:443 \
  -U "customer-USERNAME-country-st-sid-123ABC:PASSWORD" \
  http://ip-info.com/json
Pools

One product, three pools

Same rotation, sessions, protocols and dashboard on every pool. Choose how much targeting you need and pay only for that.

Buy one, get one free.

Second month is free, with full traffic included.

Full Geo

Recommended

Our largest pool, with city and ASN targeting.

from$0.75/GB
IP pool
205M+ IPs
Targeting
Country, state, city & ASN
Countries
195+
Best for
Localized data, ad verification, anything city-level
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Country Geo

Pick a country, the network handles the rest.

from$0.48/GB
IP pool
31M+ IPs
Targeting
Country only
Countries
195+
Best for
Country-specific scraping and monitoring at scale
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Non-Geo

Worldwide IPs at the lowest price per GB.

from$0.10/GB
IP pool
31M+ IPs
Targeting
None (worldwide mix)
Countries
Worldwide, not selectable
Best for
High-volume scraping where location does not matter
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  • Per-request rotation
  • Sticky sessions (sid) and timed rotation (ttl)
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • Unlimited concurrent connections
  • Same dashboard and API
Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing

Fixed monthly plans with included bandwidth. No hidden fees. Scale as your usage grows.

Buy one, get one free.

Second month is free, with full traffic included.

Starter71% OFF
$3.50/GB
$1.00/GB
$175$50/month·50 GB

What's included

  • 50 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City & ASN targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
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3-day money-back guarantee

Basic67% OFF
$3.00/GB
$1.00/GB
$300$100/month·100 GB

What's included

  • 100 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City & ASN targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
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3-day money-back guarantee

BusinessPopular70% OFF
$2.50/GB
$0.75/GB
$500$149/month·200 GB

What's included

  • 200 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City & ASN targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
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3-day money-back guarantee

Growth63% OFF
$2.00/GB
$0.75/GB
$800$299/month·400 GB

What's included

  • 400 GB bandwidth
  • HTTP(S) + SOCKS5
  • City & ASN targeting
  • API access
  • Priority support
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3-day money-back guarantee

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$0.75
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$2.00
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$2.50
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$2.50
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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about Sao Tome and Principe residential proxies.

Shifter currently offers 34+ residential IPs in São Tomé and Príncipe, part of a global pool of 205M+ IPs across 195+ countries. IPs can rotate per request, per session via the sid parameter, or on a configurable timer using ttl, depending on how stable you need the identity to be.

Yes. You can target the country directly, and where coverage allows, narrow down to São Tomé city by passing it in your proxy credentials. Given the small pool size of 34+ IPs, country-level targeting is usually the most reliable choice for steady throughput.

IPs come from home and mobile subscribers on the islands' local networks. We do not publish a fixed ISP list, since the carriers in the rotation can shift as the residential pool changes.

Yes. São Tomé residential IPs are well suited for scraping localized content, tracking Portuguese-language SERPs, and collecting pricing or ad data that depends on a Santomean vantage point. For very high request volumes, combine country targeting with backoff and retry logic to fit the smaller pool size.

All São Tomé residential proxies support HTTP, HTTPS, and SOCKS5. You can switch protocols without changing endpoints, which is useful when moving between scrapers, headless browsers, and tools that require SOCKS5 for non-HTTP traffic. Authentication uses username and password.

Lite plans start at $10 a month for 5 GB. They run on the Full Geo pool (205M+ IPs) with city and ASN targeting inside the country, and Full Geo goes down to $0.75/GB on larger plans. If country-level targeting is enough, Country Geo plans go down to $0.48/GB. You pay for traffic only, with no extra fee per IP or per location.

Verification work: checking how a site, ad or search result looks to a visitor on the islands. With 34 residential IPs, spread your requests over time and use country-level targeting rather than running heavy crawls.

The dobra (STN). It was redenominated in 2018, when three zeros were removed and the code changed from STD to STN, so older pages can show prices a thousand times larger. Save the currency code with every price you collect.

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