A Greek IP comes from a Greek internet provider, and a residential proxy lets your traffic leave through one. Greek sites then answer as they would a local visitor, with euro prices, Greek search results and the ads that run there.
Three facts shape the purchase. OTE, Hellas On Line and Nova hold 76.2% of the country's IPv4 addresses. The pools sellers advertise come to 5.5% or less of Greece's 5.7 million addresses. And all 5 working free Greek proxies on our list were flagged on October 26, 2026. Our residential proxies target Greece at $0.50/GB for one GB.
Which networks does a Greek IP come from?
RIPE NCC, the internet registry for Europe, lists every block it gives out, with the holder's country. Its file, with records to October 24, 2026, lists 5,722,240 IPv4 addresses for Greece, in 453 blocks held by 191 holders:
OTE holds 2,239,744 addresses. Hellas On Line holds 1,144,832 under a record that still carries that name, and Nova Network 976,896 under a record that still names Forthnet. GRNET, the research network, comes fourth.
The rest of the top ten reads like a list of campuses. FORTH in Crete, the University of Crete, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the National Technical University of Athens each hold about 65,000 addresses. Those blocks are Greek, and they serve labs and lecture halls. The ten largest records have 87.0% of the space.
IPv6 is the norm. APNIC Labs measured 57.4% of Greek users as IPv6-capable in the 30 days to October 23, 2026, against 48.8% in October 2020.
How big are the Greek pools sellers advertise?
Small next to 5.7 million. We read five sellers' Greece pages through our server on October 26, 2026:
Bright Data names 317,345 proxy IPs in its page title and 79,336 Greece IPs lower down, a quarter as many. We charted the title.
DataImpulse also lists 6,714 unique Greek IPs in 24 hours and 1,630 active at once. Its 30-day count is 26 times its active pool. Ask each seller what its number counts. We do not publish our own pool size per country.
What can you check with a Greek IP?
What a visitor in Greece gets. Google's help page notes that "IP addresses are roughly based on geography" and that location "helps to show you nearby results". Residential Lite covers the country at the lowest rate, and Residential Premium narrows a check to one city. Our Greece proxies page lists 49 cities in 13 regions, such as Athens, Thessaloniki, Piraeus and Glyfada, with 17 networks.
A proxy changes the address only, so each site keeps its rules. MaxMind, a detection vendor, flags residential proxies in a database that sites can license. Our guide to how websites detect proxies covers the other checks.
Why do free Greek proxies fail?
Our tracker has logged 218 Greek addresses from public free proxy lists since May 13, 2026, and 52 of them ever worked. On October 26, 5 were working: 2 on OTE, 1 on GRNET, 1 on Interworks and 1 on a hosting network. An IP reputation check had flagged all 5 and reported all 5 for recent abuse.
Five flagged addresses make no pool for real work. Use them to test code. Our free proxy list for Greece shows what is working now.
How do you pay from Greece?
Greek buyers can pay by Visa or Mastercard from $10, or in crypto from $3. Either way the money goes into one balance that never expires. Our guide to buying proxies with crypto compares what each network charges. The payment options page lists every method, and PayPal is not among them.
How much traffic does a Greek job use?
Count on about 380 full desktop pages per GB, from HTTP Archive's 2024 median desktop page of 2,652 KB (2,311 KB on mobile). Pages fetched without images weigh far less, so measure twenty of your own first.
Which one should you buy?
Residential Lite with Greece as the country fits most jobs, at $0.50/GB for one GB and $0.44 per GB at volume. Free proxies drop out, since all five working ones were flagged. Residential Premium adds a city, one of the 17 networks and sticky sessions of up to 24 hours. It costs $1.49/GB for one GB and $1.00 per GB at volume, and our residential proxies page has the full list.
What this page could not check
- No speed, success rate or block rate was tested, on any network, ours included.
- We do not publish which Greek networks our own exits come from, or how many there are.
- RIPE NCC's file counts addresses given out, which is neither the addresses in use nor a count of users.
- Seller pool numbers are what each page showed on October 26, 2026. We could not check what each one counts.
- The free proxy figures come from one day and one IP reputation check.
- We will check every number on this page again by January 26, 2027.
Sources
- RIPE NCC, delegated-ripencc-extended-latest, records to October 24, 2026, read October 26, 2026.
- RIPE NCC, RDAP records for the largest Greek address blocks, read October 26, 2026.
- APNIC Labs, IPv6 use per economy, Greece, data to October 23, 2026.
- Google Search Help, "Understand and manage your location when you search on Google", read October 25, 2026.
- HTTP Archive, Web Almanac 2024, Page Weight chapter, December 30, 2024.
- MaxMind, GeoIP Anonymous IP database documentation, read October 25, 2026.
- Bright Data, SOAX, Shifter, Oxylabs and DataImpulse, Greece location pages, as shown on October 26, 2026.
- HProxy, residential pricing page and payment options page, read October 25, 2026, and Greece page, read October 26, 2026.
- HProxy, free proxy check for Greece, October 26, 2026.
