France
French proxies, measured live. On a network that keeps moving.
The free French pool as our engine sees it right now, and where those addresses actually sit, which in France is not simply Paris. Then the dedicated French IPs you can buy today, with the live price on each.
Measured, not claimed
What our engine sees in France right now
Our verification engine is tracking 1,191 live free proxies in France at this moment, checked from our European vantage point. 83% of the sample sits in datacenters, and 371 of 500 sampled endpoints resolve to Paris alone. Median response time across the measured sample is 1.7s (a quarter of the pool is slower than 5.9s). 11 of the 500 sampled endpoints held 90%+ uptime across 897,495 checks. That is the free French pool as it stands today, and the dedicated options below are built for the jobs a free pool cannot hold.
| Network | Live endpoints | Share of sample | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon.com, Inc. | 351 | 70% | Datacenter |
| OVH | 56 | 11% | Datacenter |
| CONTABO | 54 | 11% | Mixed |
| ABJP-SERVICES-SAS | 7 | 1% | Residential |
| GCS-AS | 4 | 1% | Residential |
| Scaleway Dedibox - Paris, France | 4 | 1% | Datacenter |
| ONLINENET_DEDICATED_SERVERS | 3 | 1% | Residential |
| --- I3Dnet --- | 1 | 0% | Residential |
Measured 2026-08-11 16:20 UTC against the public French pool · browse the live free French list or read on for dedicated options.
Not a Paris story
French addresses do not cluster where you would guess
Germany's free pool piles into Frankfurt because that is where the cheap compute is. France does not work the same way. Its largest home-grown cloud, OVHcloud, built its flagship datacenters in Roubaix and Gravelines, up near the Belgian border, rather than in Paris, and a big share of French hosting address space sits there as a result. So a French datacenter IP is at least as likely to resolve to the north as to the capital, which is the opposite of the single-city concentration you see in a lot of countries.
That is exactly why the measured breakdown above is worth reading rather than assuming. It shows where our French pool actually sits and on which networks, instead of defaulting to a Paris story that would be wrong for France specifically.
A network being rebuilt in public
The French map is changing on a published schedule
Two changes are quietly reshaping which networks a French address belongs to. Orange is retiring its old copper network on a published timetable that runs to 2030, moving households onto fibre in annual waves, so the DSL-era address ranges are steadily being pulled out from under French homes and replaced. If you monitor French residential supply over time, you are watching a moving target with a government- supervised curve behind it.
The bigger shift is at the top. As of mid-2026 France still has four mobile networks, Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free, but a deal signed in June 2026 would split SFR between its three rivals and, if it completes as expected around 2027 subject to regulatory approval, take France back to three operators for the first time since 2012. It is signed, not done, and we date it here on purpose so the sentence ages honestly. For a proxy buyer it means the network behind a French address is due to be reshuffled, which is one more reason to trust a measured snapshot over a static claim.
The work, and the rules that shape it
What French IPs are for, and where France draws its lines
France is a near-200-billion-euro online market, so most French-IP work is retail price and listing monitoring across Amazon, Leboncoin and the big French shops, plus search tracking now that google.fr redirects to google.com and an IP is what selects a French result. France carries the same discount rule as Germany: an advertised price cut has to reference the lowest price of the previous 30 days, and the EU court's reading says the headline percentage must be computed from that low. French sale windows are also set by regulation rather than by each shop, so discount advertising clusters into fixed national periods, which makes French price monitoring seasonal in a way the law imposes. The automated side of all this can run a French exit through our scraper APIs.
France is unusual on the law, and worth being straight about. Its data regulator, the CNIL, has actually published guidance on how to collect data by scraping lawfully when personal data is involved, which is the opposite of a ban. At the same time its highest court has twice held that systematically extracting a competitor's structured listings can infringe the database producer's right, especially where the copy substitutes for the original source. Those are two different laws answering two different questions, and France has clear, recent authority on both. We sell the French footprint for legitimate work; our terms ask you to respect both sides of that line, and a competitor's database or anything personal is a question worth taking to a lawyer.
Dedicated French IPs
Four ways to hold a real French address
Each card below is confirmed against the live catalog before it renders, so anything you see here is buyable for France right now, at the price shown.
Residential
from$0.44/GB
Real household IPs with French city-level targeting. Rotating or sticky sessions, pay per GB, balance never expires.
Static ISP
from$2.50/IP
Dedicated French IPs registered to consumer ISPs, held for weeks or months. The stability of a server with a residential footprint.
Datacenter
from$0.10/IP
Dedicated French IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for volume work where raw speed matters more than a residential footprint.
Mobile 4G/5G
from$10/mo
Dedicated French mobile modems on real carrier networks, with rotation on demand. The hardest footprint to distinguish from a phone.
FAQ
French proxy questions, answered
How many free French proxies are live right now?
The measured block above shows the live count from our verification engine, with the network and city breakdown it comes from. It refreshes every few minutes, so it is a reading of the pool as it stands, not a figure written once and left.
Why do French datacenter IPs often sit outside Paris?
France's largest home-grown cloud, OVHcloud, built its flagship datacenters in Roubaix and Gravelines in the north rather than in the capital, so a lot of French hosting address space lives there. Unlike the single-city concentration some countries show, a French datacenter address can just as easily resolve to the north as to Paris, which the measured breakdown above reflects.
Can I target a specific French city?
Residential plans support city-level targeting inside France, so a session can exit in Paris, Lyon, Marseille or wherever a task needs, subject to what is live in that area at the time.
Which proxy types are available for France?
All four, each confirmed against the live catalog before it shows here: rotating residential with city targeting, static ISP addresses, dedicated 4G and 5G mobile on French carriers, and datacenter IPv4 and IPv6.
Do I still need a French IP for google.fr?
google.fr now redirects to google.com, so the domain no longer picks the country. A France-resolving IP is what returns genuinely French results, which is why rank tracking for French queries runs through French exits.
Is scraping French websites allowed?
France is unusually clear in both directions. The CNIL has published guidance on how to scrape lawfully where personal data is involved, while the Cour de cassation has held that systematically extracting a competitor's listings can infringe the database right, especially when the copy substitutes for the source. Collecting genuinely public data that does not undercut a database's own model sits differently. This is context, not legal advice: a competitor's structured data or anything personal is a question for a lawyer.