Oct 5, 2026

Sticky session proxies: a timer on the same gigabyte meter

Sticky holds one exit so a short flow can finish. It is not a static IP, and it is not a per-visit price.

A sticky session is a promise to keep the same exit for a timer, often one to thirty minutes. You usually pass a session id in the username. When the timer ends, the next request may leave from somewhere else. The invoice is still gigabytes.

When sticky is the right sentence

When it is the wrong sentence

If you need the same address tomorrow, that is an ISP lease, billed per IP. If you need many exits and you do not care about continuity, rotating is enough. Sticky is not a discount, and it is not a visit pack.

Bright Data: session and targeting live in the zone settings (vendor overview)

Price it

Open the visit calculator. Enter page weight and retries. A 10-minute sticky session that downloads 2 MB still costs 2 MB. The timer is free. The bytes are not.

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