VPN & Proxy Detection — PortugalDetect VPN, Proxy & Bot Traffic from Portugal
Sentinel scores every visitor's network in real time — flagging VPN exit nodes, residential proxies, datacenter ASNs, and headless browsers originating from Portugal. Free API. Under 40ms. No CAPTCHAs.
Why Portugal traffic needs special scrutiny
Datacenter ASN concentration
Portugal is rising residential-proxy market focused on MEO and NOS consumer ranges sold to ad-fraud operators.
Residential proxy resale
Consumer ISP ranges in Portugal are routinely sold through residential proxy networks like ShadowNode and Bright Data. These IPs look real but rotate every few minutes — a clear bot signature once you know what to look for.
VPN exit-node clustering
The same handful of hosting providers dominate VPN exit nodes in Portugal. Sentinel maintains live mappings of these ranges so a new IP from a known VPN ASN is flagged within seconds of going live.
Antidetect browser usage
Multi-accounting fraud against Portuguese-targeted SaaS, fintech, and e-commerce increasingly uses Kameleo, GoLogin, or AdsPower to spoof device fingerprints. Sentinel scores these at the device layer, not the IP layer.
What Sentinel detects for Portugal traffic
- Every major VPN provider's Portuguese exit nodes (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Mullvad, Surfshark, and 40+ more)
- Residential proxy networks reselling consumer Portuguese IPs (ShadowNode, Bright Data, Smartproxy, Oxylabs)
- Datacenter ASNs commonly used for automation (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode)
- Tor exit nodes and known anonymous relays advertising Portuguese geolocations
- Headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium) and antidetect tooling driving sessions from Portugal
- Country-spoofing — when a session claims to be in Portugal but the network telemetry says otherwise
One API call. Bearer token. Done.
const r = await fetch('https://sntlhq.com/v1/evaluate', {
method: 'POST',
headers: { 'Authorization': 'Bearer sk_live_...' },
body: JSON.stringify({ token: sentinelToken })
});
const { decision, country, network } = await r.json();
if (country === 'PT' && network.vpn) blockOrChallenge();
Stop Portuguese VPN, proxy & bot fraud today
Free tier. 1,000 API requests per hour. No credit card. Detects VPN, residential proxy, datacenter, and bot traffic from Portugal and 195 other countries.