VPN & Proxy Detection — United StatesDetect VPN, Proxy & Bot Traffic from United States
Sentinel scores every visitor's network in real time — flagging VPN exit nodes, residential proxies, datacenter ASNs, and headless browsers originating from the United States. Free API. Under 40ms. No CAPTCHAs.
Why United States traffic needs special scrutiny
Datacenter ASN concentration
United States is high concentration of datacenter ASNs (AWS, Google Cloud, DigitalOcean) routinely used for credential stuffing and trial abuse.
Residential proxy resale
Consumer ISP ranges in United States can appear in commercial or peer-to-peer residential proxy pools. A consumer ISP label is not proof of fraud; combine it with device, session, and routing signals.
VPN exit-node clustering
The same handful of hosting providers dominate VPN exit nodes in United States. 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 US-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 United States traffic
- Every major VPN provider's US exit nodes (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Mullvad, Surfshark, and 40+ more)
- Commercial or peer-to-peer residential proxy pools using consumer US IPs
- Datacenter ASNs commonly used for automation (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode)
- Tor exit nodes and known anonymous relays advertising US geolocations
- Headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium) and antidetect tooling driving sessions from United States
- Country-spoofing — when a session claims to be in United States but the network telemetry says otherwise
VPN use & data rules in the United States
The US has no single federal privacy law; you navigate a state patchwork — California's CCPA/CPRA, plus Virginia, Colorado, Texas and others — and effectively all of them carve out security and fraud-prevention processing from consumer opt-out rights. Card-not-present fraud and refund abuse dominate the US landscape, and the country hosts both the world's largest datacenter footprint (AWS, GCP, Azure ranges constantly recycled for automation) and one of its largest residential-proxy customer bases. US traffic therefore needs the full signal stack: a clean IP means little when the device layer shows antidetect or automation tooling.
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 === 'US' && network.vpn) blockOrChallenge();
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