What are residential proxies and how do they work?
A residential proxy sends your requests through an IP address that an internet provider assigned to a home connection. With a French access list, your requests leave from residential IPs in France, so sites answer as they would for a local visitor.
You do not manage a list of IPs yourself. Every package gets one gateway host and port, the same for every country. The package's main login exits from any country. For France, you create an access list in your dashboard and choose France as its country.
Each access list has its own login and 1 to 1,000 ports, and a package can hold up to 20 lists. Your tool connects to the gateway with the list's login, and the gateway picks a residential IP that matches the list. You never add anything to the username: the location and rotation are saved with the list.
Target France by region, city or ISP
Country level gives you the widest choice of French IPs. When a job needs a narrower view, pick a region and a city, and optionally an ISP. In France you can pick one of 13 regions, such as Île-de-France, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Hauts-de-France and Occitanie, then one of 3,100+ cities, including Paris, Lyon, Brest, Nancy and Strasbourg. You can also narrow a city to one internet provider (ISP).
The names come from our targeting list, which is updated regularly, so the exact choice can change. Targeting stops at city and ISP level.
- Buy a GB package. Pick a package size and pay from your wallet. There is no country to choose at checkout: the same package works in every country.
- Create an access list. In your dashboard, open the package, add an access list and choose France. If you need to, narrow it to a region, then a city, then an ISP.
- Choose rotation and ports. Set the rotation and the number of ports (1 to 1,000). The list gets its own login, and you can export it as a .txt file.
- Connect. Point your tool at the gateway host and port with the list's login and password, over HTTP(S) or SOCKS5.
Rotating vs sticky French IPs
| Rotation | What happens | Good for |
|---|---|---|
| Every request | Each request can leave from a different French IP | Price and stock monitoring across many pages, public data collection |
| Every 1, 5 or 10 minutes | The IP stays the same for a few minutes, then changes | SERP rank tracking: search, then open the results |
| Every 15, 30 or 60 minutes | The IP stays the same for up to an hour | Longer QA and localisation checks, ad verification runs |
| Sticky | The IP stays the same while it stays online, with no fixed maximum | Checkout tests and managing your own brand or store accounts |
Rotation decides how long you keep one IP. Each access list has its own setting, and you can change it later. The location of a list is fixed once it is created, so make a new list for a new place.
How much do French residential proxies cost?
You pay for traffic, not for a country. French traffic costs the same per GB as traffic anywhere else, and one package can cover France and other countries at once, with a separate access list for each.
Prices start at $1.58 per GB on the largest package. The smallest package is 1 GB, so you can test first. Bigger packages cost up to 55% less per GB.
Each package is valid for 30 days. Unused GB expires with the package and does not roll over, and there is no subscription. You can add GB to a live package while it has more than a day left, and usage in your dashboard updates every 10 minutes.
Compare residential and per-IP prices →
What French residential proxies are used for
French shops show prices in euros with VAT (TVA) included. Large retailers and marketplaces include Amazon.fr, Cdiscount and Fnac, and google.fr returns French-language results first. Under GDPR and the guidance of the CNIL, the French data protection authority, French sites must let visitors refuse cookies as easily as they accept them, so consent banners often look different from those in other countries. A French IP lets you test those banners, French-language pages and local checkout flows the way visitors in France see them. Ad verification teams use French IPs to confirm that campaigns run in the right regions and in the right language. Keep collection to public data such as prices and search results, follow GDPR where personal data is involved, and respect each site's terms.
- Price and stock monitoring: see prices in euros and the stock and delivery options shown to visitors in France
- SEO and SERP rank tracking on google.fr, down to region or city level
- Ad verification: confirm that campaigns aimed at France show the right ads and landing pages
- QA and localisation testing of pages in French, with local currencies and consent banners
- Public data for research and AI, market research and brand protection
- Managing your own brand or store accounts from a sticky French IP
Set up French residential proxies in curl or Python
Copy the gateway host and port from your dashboard, then the login and password of your French access list. Use them in place of HOST, PORT, LOGIN and PASSWORD below. HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 work on the same port with the same login.
curl -x http://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT https://t7proxy.com/ip
curl -x socks5h://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT https://t7proxy.com/ip
import requests
# The login and password of your French access list
proxy = "http://LOGIN:PASSWORD@HOST:PORT"
r = requests.get("https://t7proxy.com/ip", proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy})
print(r.text) Check your French IP
Send a request to https://t7proxy.com/ip through the proxy: it prints the IP a site sees. To see the country, city and ISP of that IP, open What is my IP through the proxy, or test the gateway and login with the proxy checker.
