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    Mobile proxies for TikTok

    TikTok reads the account region from the network and shows your videos to viewers in that country. A phone with a local SIM card and the Mobihub app gives you an address of the right carrier, and recommendations start working for your market.

    −8%
    when paid for 90 days
    UDP
    over SOCKS5
    uncapped
    speed on Professional
    Android 9+
    no root needed
    Diagram: a phone with a SIM card of the target country, a location pin and a vertical video going out to viewers in that region

    The region decides who sees the video

    The For You feed is assembled around the country an account goes online from. An English-language video uploaded from another country's address lands in front of local viewers first and ends up with no watch time.

    TikTok recognises server addresses quickly, and accounts on them get reduced impressions without any notice. On a carrier address the profile looks like a regular person with a smartphone.

    Uploading video needs a stable channel. The Professional plan has no speed cap, and SmartRelay cuts the mobile data your SIM burns.

    Pricing

    Accounts grow over weeks, so count by the quarter

    The widget opens on Professional with three phones and a 90-day period. Paying quarterly is 8% cheaper than monthly. Three phones are enough for a brand with a main profile and two regional ones.

    Tariff plan
    Number of devices3
    Connect 2 more device(s) — and the price per device drops by 6%.
    The more devices and the longer the subscription, the cheaper a single device becomes.
    Payment period
    What's included
    HTTP, SOCKS5 and UDPIP change by linkLogin and IP authorizationAllowed address listTraffic and thread limitsAPI access
    Total
    $57.96
    for 90 days · 3 devices
    Price per day$0.64
    Per device / month$7.00
    90 days−8%
    Pay from 1 day, no auto-renewal
    How-to

    How to run TikTok through a mobile proxy

    Order matters here: network and geo check first, account registration second.

    1. Get a SIM from the target country

      The account region is fixed at registration. The UK market needs a UK SIM, Germany needs a German one. Make sure mobile data is active on it.

    2. Connect the phone to Mobihub

      Install the app, sign in and allow background activity. On Xiaomi and Tecno also turn off battery optimisation, the FAQ has step-by-step guides.

    3. Create a SOCKS5 proxy

      Emulators and mobile apps behave more reliably over SOCKS5. The protocol carries UDP traffic as well.

    4. Check the geo before you register

      Open the Check IP page through the proxy or run the script below. Country, time zone and network type must match what you put in the profile.

    5. Keep the account on one phone

      Switching carrier or country in the middle of an account's life resets the recommendations it has earned. Changing the IP inside one network is fine, every smartphone does that.

    Working code

    Script: a geo check before you start

    The script walks through the phones listed in phones.csv and asks for country, time zone and network type through each proxy. It prints any mismatch and exits with code 1, which makes it a handy first step in front of a posting scheduler.

    geo_match.pyPython
    import csv
    
    import requests
    
    PHONES_FILE = "phones.csv"
    GEO_API = "http://ip-api.com/json/?fields=status,countryCode,timezone,isp,mobile,query"
    
    
    def lookup(proxy):
        proxies = {"http": proxy, "https": proxy}
        data = requests.get(GEO_API, proxies=proxies, timeout=20).json()
        if data.get("status") != "success":
            raise ValueError("geo lookup failed")
        return data
    
    
    def main():
        with open(PHONES_FILE, newline="") as f:
            phones = list(csv.DictReader(f))
    
        problems = 0
        for phone in phones:
            try:
                geo = lookup(phone["proxy"])
            except (requests.RequestException, ValueError) as error:
                problems += 1
                print(f"{phone['name']:<12} DOWN      {type(error).__name__}")
                continue
    
            issues = []
            if geo["countryCode"] != phone["country"]:
                issues.append(f"country {geo['countryCode']} instead of {phone['country']}")
            if geo["timezone"] != phone["timezone"]:
                issues.append(f"timezone {geo['timezone']} instead of {phone['timezone']}")
            if not geo["mobile"]:
                issues.append("address is not marked as a cellular one")
    
            verdict = "MISMATCH" if issues else "OK"
            problems += bool(issues)
            print(f"{phone['name']:<12} {verdict:<9} {geo['query']}  {geo['isp']}  {'; '.join(issues)}")
    
        raise SystemExit(1 if problems else 0)
    
    
    if __name__ == "__main__":
        main()

    phones.csv has four columns: name, proxy, country, timezone. The free ip-api.com tier is meant for non-commercial use, so get their paid key or a similar service for production.

    Plans

    A plan for TikTok

    The choice depends on how much video you upload and how many profiles you run.

    Beginner

    One creator account

    35 Mbps is enough to watch and upload short videos. A good way to test a carrier before launching a network of accounts.

    • $4 per device for 30 days
    • SOCKS5 with UDP support
    • Connection statistics for 3 days
    • Control through the Telegram bot
    Choose Beginner
    Full plan comparison
    Tips

    Small things that sink reach

    Device language is a signal too

    TikTok reads the system language and time zone. Set them to the SIM's country in the emulator or browser profile.

    Pause after an IP change

    Give the session a couple of minutes of ordinary activity. An upload in the first second on a new address looks automated.

    Watch the data allowance

    Uploads eat the SIM's mobile data. A per-connection traffic limit stops one profile from draining the whole allowance.

    One market per phone

    Do not swap SIMs from different countries in one handset for different accounts. A separate phone per market is simpler.

    Autostart after a reboot

    Turn on proxy autostart. A phone that updated itself overnight gets back to work without you.

    FAQ

    Questions and answers

    Is it true that TikTok looks at the SIM and ignores the IP?

    The app on a phone does read the SIM's carrier code. When you work from a browser or an emulator through a proxy, the platform sees the network only: the IP, its country and type. A local carrier address gives the same region as a local SIM inside the phone.

    Why is the widget set to a 90-day period?

    A TikTok account gathers views over weeks, and dropping it after a month makes no sense. Quarterly payment takes 8% off the price. Nothing renews automatically.

    Is a mobile network fast enough to upload video?

    A one-minute 1080p video weighs 50–150 MB. On LTE with 10–20 Mbps upstream it goes out in a minute or two. Beginner is capped at 35 Mbps, on Professional only the carrier network sets the ceiling.

    Can I go live through a proxy?

    Watching live streams works, SOCKS5 with UDP allows it. We do not recommend hosting a stream through a proxy: an address change or a network dip will cut it off.

    How many TikTok accounts should one phone hold?

    TikTok is stricter than Instagram about several profiles on one address. A careful setup is two or three accounts per SIM and a dedicated phone for an important brand profile.

    What if the geo check shows a different country?

    This happens with virtual operators whose addresses are registered to a parent company abroad. Rotate the IP and check again. If the country stays the same, get a SIM from another carrier.

    Check the region first, then create the account

    A free trial day is enough to connect a phone, run the geo check and see which feed TikTok serves to your SIM's address. Message support and they will switch the access on manually.