How is Vela different from Bright Data, Oxylabs, Smartproxy?

Vela holds sticky sessions with no provider-side timer, allow-lists streaming SNIs at the gateway, bills from €10/TB with €5 minimum commit, and never exposes the residential pool.

How is billing calculated?

Per byte, upstream + downstream, atomically debited from a pre-paid wallet with a per-flow ledger flushed every 5 seconds.

Do you offer sticky sessions for residential IPs?

Yes — a binding stays put until you call /v1/b2b/proxy/rotate, so a stream lasts as long as the user watches.

Can one account serve many users or sessions at once?

Yes. One business account spawns unlimited concurrent sticky sessions — put any token in the session field of the username and each gets its own dedicated UK residential IP. Route thousands of your end-users through one credential and one wallet, and rotate or discard any single session independently. Built for VPN providers.

Updated 23 May 2026 · independent test

Residential streaming gateway for your VPN.

A SOCKS5 / HTTP CONNECT residential proxy built for VPN operators, streaming integrators and ad-verification crews. Sticky sessions until you rotate, billed purely per byte from €10/TB.

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02 · Overview

What is Vela for Business?

Vela for Business is a UK residential SOCKS5 and HTTP CONNECT proxy gateway. One credential speaks both protocols: the username encodes routing (session, country, service), the password is your API key. We hold sticky bindings until you rotate, allow-list streaming SNIs at the gateway, and bill per byte — upstream + downstream — from a pre-paid wallet.

€10/TBentry pricing

€5minimum commit

nonesession timer

10minto a sandbox

Volume tiers

Pay per byte.

Pay-as-you-go

€20/TB

€5 minimum
Self-serve top-up
Sticky sessions

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Starter

€15/TB

From 1 TB/mo
Sandbox key
Per-flow ledger

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Wholesale

€12/TB

From 50 TB/mo
Priority pool
Invoiced

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Enterprise

€10/TB

From 500 TB/mo
Net-30 terms
Dedicated NOC

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Integration in 60 seconds

One credential. Any client.

curl · SOCKS5

# SOCKS5 (ATYP=3 / socks5h)
# session = YOUR end-user's id → each gets its own dedicated
# sticky UK residential IP. One account, unlimited concurrent sessions.
curl --socks5-hostname \
  'vela-acme-session-u42-country-uk-service-netflix:sk_live_xxxx@gateway.vela.watch:1080' \
  https://www.netflix.com/uk/

# Rotate (binding released, session id alive)
curl -X POST -H "Authorization: Bearer $JWT" \
  -d '{"session":"u42","country":"UK"}' \
  https://vela.watch/v1/b2b/proxy/rotate

node · response

{
  "session":   "u42",
  "country":   "UK",
  "exit_id":   "fnv:8c1f…",   // opaque
  "sticky":    true,
  "ttl_s":     null            // until you rotate
}

// HTTP CONNECT on the same credential
// Proxy-Authorization: Basic base64(user:key)
HTTP/1.1 200 Connection established

Full curl / Python / Node / Go snippets, username spec, REST API & webhooks in the developer docs.

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FAQ

Frequently asked.

A proxy that egresses through a real residential connection. VPN operators, streaming integrators and ad-verification teams use it to appear as a genuine home user rather than a flagged datacentre IP.

We hold sticky sessions with no provider-side timer, allow-list streaming SNIs at the gateway, bill from €10/TB with €5 minimum commit, and never expose the pool. See the full comparison.

Yes — a binding stays put until you call /v1/b2b/proxy/rotate, so a user's stream lasts as long as they watch.

Yes — this is built for VPN providers. One business account spawns unlimited concurrent sticky sessions: put any token in the session field of the username (e.g. your end-user's id) and each one gets its own dedicated UK residential IP that holds until you rotate it. Route 10 or 100,000 of your users through a single credential and a single wallet. Rotate or discard any one user's exit independently with /v1/b2b/proxy/rotate and /discard, and list active sessions via /v1/b2b/proxy/assigned. No per-session fees, no setup — just vary the token.

Per byte, upstream + downstream, atomically debited from your pre-paid wallet with a per-flow ledger in the console flushed every 5 seconds.

Never. The catalogue is not returned by any endpoint; customers only see exits they've been routed through, with internal node IDs replaced by per-customer opaque hashes.