VPN & Proxy Detection — IndiaDetect VPN, Proxy & Bot Traffic from India
Maskbreak scores every visitor's network in real time — flagging VPN exit nodes, residential proxies, datacenter ASNs, and headless browsers originating from India. Free API. Under 40ms server-side. No CAPTCHAs.
The networks India traffic actually arrives from
India has 2,934 autonomous systems on the public registry. 157 of them are hosting, cloud or transit networks holding 30.1M addresses between them — the ranges a commercial VPN or datacenter proxy exits from. Residential broadband is the rest, and that is the traffic worth watching, because a residential proxy hides inside it.
| ASN | Network | IPv4 space |
|---|---|---|
| AS9829 | BSNL-NIB National Internet Backbone | 6.1M addresses |
| AS55836 | RELIANCEJIO-IN Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited | 4.2M addresses |
| AS45609 | BHARTI-MOBILITY-AS-AP Bharti Airtel Ltd. AS for GPRS Service | 3.5M addresses |
| AS24560 | AIRTELBROADBAND-AS-AP Bharti Airtel Ltd., Telemedia Services | 3M addresses |
| AS9498 | BBIL-AP BHARTI Airtel Ltd. | 2.1M addresses |
| AS4755 | TATACOMM-AS TATA Communications formerly VSNL is Leading ISP | 1.7M addresses |
| AS203020 | HOSTROYALE | 999K addresses |
| AS17488 | HATHWAY-NET-AP Hathway IP Over Cable Internet | 992K addresses |
Largest hosting-shaped networks registered in India, by IPv4 allocation. Registry data, refreshed daily. A datacenter ASN is not evidence of fraud on its own — it is one signal, weighed alongside device and behaviour.
Why India traffic needs special scrutiny
Datacenter ASN concentration
Low-cost residential proxies sourced from Jio and Airtel consumer connections operate at massive scale.
Residential proxy resale
Consumer ISP ranges in India 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 India. Maskbreak 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 Indian-targeted SaaS, fintech, and e-commerce increasingly uses Kameleo, GoLogin, or AdsPower to spoof device fingerprints. Maskbreak scores these at the device layer, not the IP layer.
What Maskbreak detects for India traffic
- Every major VPN provider's Indian exit nodes (NordVPN, ExpressVPN, ProtonVPN, Mullvad, Surfshark, and 40+ more)
- Commercial or peer-to-peer residential proxy pools using consumer Indian IPs
- Datacenter ASNs commonly used for automation (AWS, GCP, Azure, OVH, Hetzner, DigitalOcean, Vultr, Linode)
- Tor exit nodes and known anonymous relays advertising Indian geolocations
- Headless browsers (Puppeteer, Playwright, Selenium) and antidetect tooling driving sessions from India
- Country-spoofing — when a session claims to be in India but the network telemetry says otherwise
VPN use & data rules in India
India's DPDP Act (Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023) established the country's first comprehensive data-protection regime, with security and fraud-prevention processing accommodated under its "legitimate uses" provisions. India's mobile-first scale shapes the fraud profile: OTP interception, SIM-swap-driven account takeover, and incentive/referral abuse at volumes few other markets see. CGNAT is ubiquitous on Indian mobile networks — many legitimate users share single IPs — so IP-reputation alone produces brutal false-positive rates there. Device-layer identification is not optional for Indian traffic; it's the only signal that survives carrier-grade NAT.
One API call. Bearer token. Done.
// Server-side only: an sk_live_ key must never reach the browser.
const r = await fetch('https://maskbreak.com/v1/evaluate', {
method: 'POST',
headers: {
'Authorization': 'Bearer sk_live_...',
'Content-Type': 'application/json'
},
body: JSON.stringify({ token: req.body.monocle })
});
const { decision, country, network } = await r.json();
if (country === 'IN' && network.vpn) blockOrChallenge();
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