Verizon by the Hour

Verizon is the carrier people ask for by name when a site seems to treat it well, and it is available from us by the hour like the other two. This page covers the practical questions before you buy: what an IP lookup says about a Verizon address, which of our cities hold Verizon hardware, what the 4G and 5G lines are like, how Verizon handles rotation and sticky sessions, who tends to pick it, and what two hours and each extra hour cost.

What the address says about itself

Run a lookup on one of our Verizon lines and the owner appears as Verizon Wireless, often with the legal name Cellco Partnership alongside it, and the route comes from AS22394. That is Verizon's consumer wireless network, the same system that serves Verizon handsets, so an ASN-based classifier files the address under mobile carrier, not hosting and not residential broadband. The connection type reads cellular.

Verizon addresses are shared through carrier NAT, as every US mobile address is. Many Verizon subscribers sit behind the same public address at the same time, which gives it the reputation of ordinary phone traffic. During your hours the only traffic from your line is yours, so the reputation a site forms about you comes from what you do on it.

Where we keep Verizon lines

Verizon SIMs live in our devices across New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Miami, North Carolina and Boston. Stock per city moves with demand; a city might have several Verizon lines free in the morning and none by evening as hourly purchases come and go. The checkout shows the live picture, and [email protected] can check a specific city and carrier for you before you pay.

One point about Verizon geolocation: Verizon assigns addresses from regional gateways, and some lookup databases place a Verizon address at the gateway rather than at the device. The metro is usually right; the exact city field can vary between lookup services. If precise city labeling matters for your job, run your own lookup on the line in the first minute of your purchase, which costs nothing extra, and decide from there.

Verizon 4G and Verizon 5G

A Verizon 4G line typically delivers 20 to 45 Mbps, and a Verizon 5G line 50 Mbps and up, subject to signal at the device. The 4G line is a solid choice for logins, checks and scraping where throughput is not the bottleneck. The 5G line is the one for uploads, video and anything timed.

Prices are the same as for our other carriers: $2 for the first two hours on 4G, $3 on 5G, then $2 or $3 per additional hour. There is no Verizon premium.

Rotation behavior on Verizon

Rotating a Verizon line resets the data session and the gateway hands the device a new lease. A rotation can return a new address or one the SIM held earlier, especially if you rotate again within a short time; waiting a little between rotations tends to help. Rotation is unlimited and available from the dashboard, the rotation link, the API, a timer, or by hand.

Left alone, a Verizon line holds its address for as long as Verizon keeps the session up, which is usually long enough for a sticky session: sign in once, keep the session, finish the job, rotate afterwards. The address stays until Verizon ends the session or you ask for a new one.

Who chooses Verizon for a short job

People testing a service that behaves differently on Verizon than on other carriers buy an hour to see it for themselves. Account work where the registered phone number is a Verizon number often wants a Verizon line to keep the story consistent. Teams doing location-based checks like Verizon's long-lived sessions because the address does not change under them mid-task. And developers who need a cellular network for a captive-portal, DNS or IPv6 test pick whichever carrier they have not tested yet, which is frequently Verizon.

The hourly purchase, start to finish

Select Verizon, a city and 4G or 5G in the dashboard, the app or @HourlyProxiesBot, pay $2 or $3, and the line is live with two hours on it. Add an hour whenever you need one, at $2 or $3, until the purchase reaches four hours. When the hours run out, the line stops and nothing else is charged; there is no auto-renewal on hourly purchases, ever.

A job that is going to run past four hours belongs on a day pass at $5 for 4G or $6 for 5G. If you started by the hour, the dashboard converts the purchase and credits what you already spent against the day. Three hours of Verizon 4G is $4, so the day from there is one more dollar. For longer work, a week is $28 or $31 and a month $65 or $75.

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