A Hungarian IP comes from a Hungarian internet provider, and two networks carry most of them. A residential proxy routes your traffic through a customer line on one of those networks. Hungarian sites then show you forint prices, local search results and the ads that run there.
The networks behind One Hungary's record announce 30.6% of Hungary's IPv4 addresses and Magyar Telekom's 26.3%, 56.9% together. IPv6 reaches 55.7% of users. Seller pools equal 4.4% of the 5.9 million addresses at most. All 14 working free Hungarian proxies on our list were flagged on October 26, 2026. Our residential proxies target Hungary at $0.50/GB for one GB.
Which networks does a Hungarian IP come from?
RIPE NCC, the internet registry for Europe, keeps a file of every block it hands out, with the holder's country. With records to October 25, 2026, it lists 5,922,048 IPv4 addresses for Hungary, in 918 blocks held by 239 holders. We traced the five largest records to the networks that announce them:
Names drift here too. The largest record is still named HU-VODAFONE. One Hungary's hostmaster maintains it, and RIPEstat lists the networks announcing it under 2Connect Telecommunications Infrastructure and One Hungary. The fourth record, 327,680 addresses, is announced by HBONE, the network of KIFÜ, the government IT agency. A smaller record named for an "End User Organization" is spread over 11 networks, among them Greenhost and Rackhost. At the bottom, 209 holders with 16,384 addresses or fewer share 6.8%.
Our Hungary proxies page lists 25 networks for Residential Premium, among them Magyar Telekom, PR-TELECOM and ViDaNet. It also lists 66 cities across 18 regions, such as Budapest, Debrecen, Szeged and Miskolc.
More than half of users can reach IPv6. APNIC Labs measured 55.7% of Hungarian users as IPv6-capable in the 30 days to October 23, 2026. A year earlier it was 54.2%, and in October 2020 29.1%.
How big are the Hungarian pools sellers advertise?
Small against the registry. We read five sellers' Hungary pages through our server on October 26, 2026:
Bright Data's figure is the one in its page title. The page text gives 64,702 Hungary IPs, a quarter as many.
DataImpulse's counters showed 2,476 unique Hungarian IPs in 24 hours, 19,671 in 30 days and 647 active at once. Oxylabs puts its 158,888 on a page offering residential or datacenter proxies. We do not publish our own pool size per country.
What changes with a Hungarian IP?
Sites count you as a visitor in Hungary. Google's help page says "IP addresses are roughly based on geography" and that location "helps to show you nearby results". Residential Lite picks the country at the lowest rate. Residential Premium picks a city or a network, chosen by its AS number.
The type of address still shows. MaxMind's Anonymous IP database, licensed by sites, has a flag for suspected residential proxies. See our guide to how websites detect proxies for the other checks.
Why do free Hungarian proxies fail?
All carry flags, even outside datacenters. Our tracker has seen 478 Hungarian addresses on public free proxy lists since May 13, 2026, and 180 worked at some point. On October 26, 14 were working, none in a datacenter. Ten sat on a single network, the rest on Magyar Telekom, One Hungary and two others.
An IP reputation check had flagged all 14 and reported all 14 for recent abuse. Our free proxy list for Hungary shows any that work now.
How do you pay from Hungary?
Card or crypto, as you prefer. Visa and Mastercard payments start at $10 and crypto payments at $3, and both go into one balance that does not expire. PayPal is not offered. The payment options page lists every method, and our guide to buying proxies with crypto covers network fees.
How much traffic does a Hungarian job use?
A GB covers about 380 full desktop pages. HTTP Archive's 2024 Page Weight chapter set the median desktop page at 2,652 KB and the median mobile page at 2,311 KB. Text-only scraping is much lighter, so weigh twenty pages of your target first.
Which plan fits a Hungarian job?
Residential Lite with Hungary as the country suits most jobs, at $0.50/GB for one GB and $0.44 per GB at volume. Every free proxy we found was flagged, so leave them to tests. Residential Premium adds the 66 cities, the 25 networks and sticky sessions of up to 24 hours. It costs $1.49/GB for one GB and $1.00 per GB at volume. Mobile proxies reach Hungary's 4G and 5G carriers too, and our residential proxies page lists every tier.
What this page could not check
- No speed, success rate or block rate was tested, on our network or another.
- We keep the Hungarian networks our exits use, and their number, unpublished.
- RIPE NCC's file counts addresses handed out. It says nothing about how many are used, or by whom.
- Routing was read for the five largest records on one day.
- Seller pool numbers are as their pages showed on October 26, 2026, and we could not check what each one counts.
- We will check every number here again by January 26, 2027.
Sources
- RIPE NCC, delegated-ripencc-extended-latest, records to October 25, 2026, read October 26, 2026.
- RIPE NCC, RDAP records for the largest Hungarian address blocks, read October 26, 2026.
- RIPEstat, prefix overview for every block of the five largest Hungarian records, read October 26, 2026.
- APNIC Labs, IPv6 use per economy, Hungary, 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, Shifter, Oxylabs, SOAX and DataImpulse, Hungary location pages, as shown on October 26, 2026.
- HProxy, residential pricing and payment options pages, read October 25, 2026, and Hungary page, read October 26, 2026.
- HProxy, free proxy check for Hungary, October 26, 2026.
