VPN & Proxy Detection — SpainDetect VPN, Proxy & Bot Traffic from Spain
Sentinel scores every visitor's network in real time — flagging VPN exit nodes, residential proxies, datacenter ASNs, and headless browsers originating from Spain. Free API. Under 40ms. No CAPTCHAs.
Why Spain traffic needs special scrutiny
Datacenter ASN concentration
Spain is rapidly rising residential proxy abuse, particularly via Movistar and Vodafone consumer ranges resold by botnets.
Residential proxy resale
Consumer ISP ranges in Spain 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 Spain. 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 Spanish-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 Spain traffic
- Every major VPN provider's Spanish exit nodes (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Mullvad, Surfshark, and 40+ more)
- Residential proxy networks reselling consumer Spanish 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 Spanish geolocations
- Headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium) and antidetect tooling driving sessions from Spain
- Country-spoofing — when a session claims to be in Spain 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 === 'ES' && network.vpn) blockOrChallenge();
Stop Spanish 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 Spain and 195 other countries.