How Many IPs a 4G Day Pass Gives You in 24 Hours

People ask how many IPs come with a day pass, and the honest answer has two parts. You get one address at a time, because the pass is one SIM. And you can change it as many times as you like inside the 24 hours, drawing from the carrier's regional pool. This article explains how that pool behaves in practice, why you will sometimes see an address twice, when to hold an address rather than rotate, and why pool-size numbers in proxy advertising are mostly beside the point.

One SIM, one address at a time

A 4G Proxies USA line is a single SIM in a modem. The carrier gives that SIM one public address for its session. When you rotate, the modem drops the session and asks for a new one, and the carrier assigns another address from the pool for that region. So at any moment you have one address, and over the day you have as many as you rotate to. There is no fan-out and no parallel addresses on one line. For that you buy more lines.

This is different from a residential or mobile pool product, where you are handed a different address per request from a crowd of devices. That model is right for some scraping. It is wrong for anything that should look like one person. The day pass is the second kind of thing.

What the regional pool looks like

Each carrier splits its public addresses into pools by region, roughly by metro and by the gateway your traffic exits through. A modem in Chicago draws from the Chicago-area pool for its carrier, and a modem in Phoenix from the Phoenix one. These pools are large, because they serve every subscriber in the area through carrier NAT. We do not publish a number per city because the carrier does not publish one and it changes.

What we can say is what you will see: rotate ten times and you will usually see ten different addresses, mostly in the same handful of blocks, all registered to the carrier and resolving to the region. Rotate a hundred times and you will see repeats.

Why repeats happen and why they do not matter

The carrier assigns addresses from the pool according to its own logic, which has nothing to do with giving you variety. Some gateways reuse recently freed addresses first. So on a busy afternoon of rotation you may land on an address you had an hour ago. It is not a fault and it is not a sign of a small pool. It is how the carrier's address allocation works.

For most jobs this is harmless. A repeat address is still a carrier address, still shared with thousands of real phones, and still carries none of your session state. If your job genuinely needs a never-before-seen address for every request, a single dedicated line is the wrong product and no amount of rotation will fix that.

Sticky versus rotating

A day pass does both. Leave the line alone and the address is sticky: it stays as long as the carrier keeps the session, which on our hardware is usually a long time, and it only changes if you ask or if the carrier moves it. Call the rotation link, use the API, set a timer in the dashboard, or press the button, and the address changes on demand. Nothing is pre-set. You choose per line and per moment.

Which to use is about the job. Logging into accounts, doing checkout tests, running a profile in an antidetect browser: sticky, so the session looks like one visitor. Scraping public pages, running checks that should look like separate visits: rotate on a timer. You can mix both on one day, changing your mind as you go.

Pool-size marketing

Proxy sites advertise pools of millions of IPs. The number is real in the sense that the addresses exist somewhere in the world, and mostly irrelevant in the sense that you will touch a tiny fraction, you cannot choose which, and many of them are other people's phones with other people's traffic. A big pool number tells you nothing about whether the address you get right now works on your target.

What matters is whether the address is a genuine carrier address in the city you need, whether it is yours alone while you hold it, and whether you can change it when you need to. A day pass gives you all three for $4. It does not give you a million addresses, and it does not pretend to.

Buying more lines when one is not enough

If your job needs several addresses live at the same time, buy several day passes. Each is a separate SIM with its own address and its own rotation link, and they can be in the same city on the same carrier or spread across our eight cities and three carriers. Five lines in five cities for a day costs $20 on 4G. That is the honest way to get parallel addresses from dedicated hardware, and it is still cheap.

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