Ping Proxies Rebrands, Becomes Byteful
The provider is dressing to impress a broader audience of AI companies, large-scale web scrapers, and other customers.
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Ping Proxies, the UK-based provider of proxy servers, has rebranded. From here on out, it will be known as Byteful.
The main reason for this transition is to reflect the company’s broadening scope of operations and ambitions. It affects not only the brand name but also the user interface.
Founded in 2018 as a university initiative, Byteful has turned into a bootstrapped platform that processes 20B monthly requests, serves more than 1,400 active monthly users, and is growing over 100% in monthly recurring revenue year-over-year.
According to the founder Timur Gok, his company has outgrown both proxies and its original purpose of serving resellers of limited edition items:
Demand for web data has exploded, and AI systems increasingly depend on access to the public internet, which starts with proxies and IP infrastructure. We’ve already been powering web scraping and large-scale data collection for thousands of companies through our API-first platform, and Byteful is the next step in scaling that into a platform built for agents, automation, and the next wave of internet usage.
The provider has prepared to meet these needs by building a Rust-based proxy implementation, launching a new management platform with detailed analytics and API-first controls, and doubling the office space in Manchester for new hires.
Byteful’s future plans include new tools to support developers and AI companies, TCP/IP fingerprinting technologies, as well as infrastructure designed specifically for agentic AI.
