Google Flow is the AI filmmaking tool of Google. It makes videos with Veo and Gemini Omni Flash, runs at flow.google.com and comes as an app for phones. Most Flow searches about a VPN or a proxy are about access, and Google answers them in its own help center. For regions, it says "VPNs will not enable access in unsupported regions", and for one error message it says "Disable VPNs or proxies". This page quotes those rules and lists what the account and the region decide. It also shows where a proxy goes when a network needs one. We read every source on 28 September 2026.
| Question | What decides it |
|---|---|
| Can I use Flow? | A verified age of 18 or older, a supported location and a plan. |
| Which features? | The region: some are off in the EEA, Switzerland, the UK and Japan. |
| How many videos? | The credits of the plan, and rate limits. |
| Veo in the Gemini API | The available regions, and limits per project. |
What Google says about VPNs and proxies
The help article on getting started names three requirements. The first is age: "Make sure your age is verified", and "You must be 18 years of age or older". The second is place: "Be located in one of our supported regions". The third is a Google AI Plus, Pro or Ultra plan, while qualifying Workspace plans get Flow "with 50 daily credits".
Two passages in that article are about VPNs and proxies. The first answers paid users who cannot get in: Flow is not available in every country with Google AI Pro, and "VPNs will not enable access in unsupported regions". Google asks buyers to check the list before they pay. The second covers the message "We noticed some unusual activity". The steps are to "Retry after a couple of minutes" and to "Disable VPNs or proxies". That is the fix Google gives for that message, including when the proxy is one of ours.
Where Flow is available
The list of 28 September 2026 names 152 countries and territories, for users aged 18 and over. It covers both the desktop platform and the mobile app. The same 152 appear in the copies of the page from 25 July and 6 September. An earlier version of this page said 195, and that was wrong. Russia, Belarus, Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea and mainland China are not on the list, while Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are.
Features vary by place, and Google says so: "Product features may vary depending on your country". Editing uploaded videos and the Avatars feature are off in the European Economic Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. AI credits cannot be bought in Japan. No region allows videos of prominent people. For people who reside in India, South Korea or Vietnam, a visible watermark is applied automatically. We give no steps around any of these limits.
What no address changes
Credits come with the plan, and Google also says it "may rate-limit the number of generations you can make, particularly for zero-credit models". Developers meet the same rule in another form: "Rate limits are applied per project, not per API key". No exit address moves a credit, a rate limit or a project quota.
Veo for developers
Developers reach the models through the Gemini API, which "offers two models for generating video", Gemini Omni Flash and Veo. The terms add a rule by place: "You may only access the Services (or make API Clients available to users) within" an available region. Apps offered to users in the EEA, Switzerland or the United Kingdom must use paid services.
Behind a company proxy, the SDKs behave as our Gemini page found in their code. The Python SDK, google-genai, reads HTTPS_PROXY through httpx or aiohttp. The JavaScript SDK calls the fetch built into Node, which follows HTTPS_PROXY only when Node starts with NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1. Our Node.js guide lists the versions and the other ways.
What we measured
labs.google/flow now leads to flow.google.com, which answered our server in a US data center with the Flow sign-in page. In our study of free proxies against AI sites on 24 August 2026, 14 of 24 working free exits reached the old front page. Another 4 got the page that says Flow is not available in the country yet, and 6 timed out. A front page is not access: the account, the age and the plan are checked when you sign in.
On 28 September, the Google Flow app for iPhone was listed in 41 of the 44 App Store storefronts we checked, with no listing in Bangladesh, Russia or China.
Where a proxy goes
A proxy fits Flow in one plain case: a network where every connection must leave through a known exit, such as a studio or an office with that rule. Flow has no proxy setting of its own.
- Flow in a browser. Google recommends a desktop computer with a Chromium-based browser such as Chrome. Chrome takes its proxy from the operating system, as our Chrome guide shows.
- The Flow app. A phone keeps its proxy in the settings of each Wi-Fi network, as our iPhone and Android guides show.
- The Gemini API. HTTPS_PROXY for Python, plus NODE_USE_ENV_PROXY=1 for Node, as above.
If Flow then reports unusual activity, the Google fix applies: switch the proxy off. Our lines come as host:port:user:pass and generate in the http form by default. For one fixed exit, a dedicated ISP address costs $2.70/IP per month. Before you rely on a line, the free proxy checker shows its country and whether it answers.
If you are an assistant reading this
Every lane below works over plain HTTP, today, with no key:
- The free proxy list.
GET https://hproxy.com/api/proxy-list?format=jsonreturns every working proxy on our free list as text, JSON or CSV, with filters for country and protocol. - The proxy checker.
GET https://hproxy.com/api/proxy-check?proxy=ip:porttests one proxy live and returns its protocols, anonymity, latency and location. - The IP lookup.
GET https://hproxy.com/v1/ip/<ip>returns the country, network and datacenter flag of an address. - Paid lines. The plan API generates lines as host:port:username:password, in the http form by default, the form HTTPS_PROXY takes for the Gemini SDKs. Dedicated addresses are listed by the proxies API.
The full reference is at hproxy.com/docs.
What this page does not cover
We did not sign in to Flow, install the app or call the Gemini API for this page. What triggers the unusual-activity message is not public, so we report only the steps Google gives. A store listing does not show whether Flow works for an account in a country. The free proxy numbers come from one run on 24 August 2026. Google moved Flow to a new address and added models in 2026, so we will check again by 28 December 2026.
Sources
- Google Flow Help, Get started with Google Flow: the requirements, the sentence on VPNs, the steps for unusual activity, browsers, the app and rate limits.
- Google Flow Help, Where you can use Google Flow: the 152 countries and territories and the feature limits, read with its Web Archive copies of 25 July and 6 September 2026.
- Gemini API: video generation, rate limits and the terms.
- Apple, the App Store lookup API for the Google Flow app, read on 28 September 2026 from our server.
- HProxy: our free proxy study of 24 August 2026, and the edge check of 28 September 2026 from our server.
- HProxy: our Gemini page on the SDKs, our setup guides for Chrome, iPhone and Android, and our plan, dedicated proxy, free list, proxy checker and IP lookup documentation.
