FRANCE
PROXIES
A France proxy from Prox’Easy gives you a French IP in four shapes: rotating residential from $19.99 per 5 GB, static ISP addresses that never rotate, and dedicated 4G or 5G mobile IPs on all four French networks — Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free Mobile — from $55 a month. Around 168,000 French residential IPs were live at our last pool snapshot.
WHAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY
BUY IN FRANCE
| PRODUCT | STATUS | FROM | DETAIL |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rotating Residential | Available | $19.99 / 5 GB | City-level targeting across France. One-time data, never expires. |
| Static Residential (ISP) | Available | $19.99 / 5 GB | French ISP-assigned addresses that hold one identity across sessions. |
| 4G Mobile | Available | $55 / month · Order | Dedicated IP on Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom or Free Mobile. |
| 5G Mobile | Available | $70 / month · Order | Same four carriers, with the throughput headroom 4G runs out of. |
THE FRENCH
FOOTPRINT
- FRENCH RESIDENTIAL IPS
- ~168,000
- MOBILE CARRIERS
- 4
- ROTATION
- On demand, or sticky up to 24h
Dedicated mobile IPs run on Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free Mobile. Across the whole network, exits are targetable across 195 countries with 40+ live today — two different measurements, and this page is about one of the live ones.
On that IP figure: it is a rounded snapshot of the French residential pool taken on 17 August 2026, not a guaranteed floor. Pool size moves continuously as devices join and leave, which is why we round it and date it rather than printing a precise number that is wrong by tomorrow.
WHAT THE PHYSICS
ALLOWS
| ROUTE | PROX’EASY | TYPICAL PROXY |
|---|---|---|
| US-East → EU-West (London) | 78 ms | 165 ms |
Distance is the one component of latency no amount of engineering removes. Signal in fibre travels at roughly two-thirds the speed of light, so New York ↔ Paris — 5,837 km each way — has a hard round-trip floor of about 58 ms. Any provider quoting less than that on this route is quoting something other than a complete request.
We have not benchmarked New York ↔ Paris directly. London is the nearest route we have measured, and Paris adds roughly two milliseconds to the physical floor. We would rather show you the route we measured than interpolate one we did not.
How we measure: HTTP HEAD · 1 KB target · 50K samples over 7 days · p50, end-to-end for a complete proxied request rather than the first hop alone — the full method, and where it falls short.
WHAT A REAL FRENCH IP
LOOKS LIKE
A residential IP in France belongs to a consumer network, and the autonomous system it is registered to is the thing sites actually check. These are the networks most French consumer traffic exits through:
- AS3215Orange France
- AS15557SFR
- AS12322Free SAS
- AS5410Bouygues Telecom
You do not have to take our word for any of it — run any IP through our free lookup and it will tell you the autonomous system, whether the range is hosting, mobile or consumer ISP, and say so plainly when it does not know.
WHY PEOPLE BUY
FRENCH IPS
French e-commerce and marketplace data
French retail sites and classifieds serve French visitors differently — pricing, availability, and in many cases whether the page loads at all. A French exit is what makes the collected page the one a French customer actually sees.
French-language SERP and ad checks
Search results and ad delivery are locale-dependent in ways that a language header does not reproduce. Rank tracking for the French market needs a request that originates in France, not one that merely asks for French.
Testing geo-restricted French services
French media and banking services routinely gate access by IP geography. A French residential or carrier IP is the difference between testing the real user journey and testing an error page.
Mobile-first French platforms
Where a French platform treats mobile traffic differently from fixed-line traffic, a dedicated IP on Orange, SFR, Bouygues or Free presents as what it is: a subscriber on that operator’s network.
WHEN THIS IS
THE WRONG TOOL
- If you just want to read French content occasionally, a VPN is cheaper and simpler. A proxy is for programmatic volume and per-request control, not for casual browsing.
- If the target never checks the IP, a datacenter proxy does the same job for less. French residential trust is worth paying for only where something is inspecting it.
- If you need one French identity held for weeks, choose static ISP over rotating residential — rotation is the whole point of the rotating pool, and it will work against you here.
FRANCE PROXY
QUESTIONS
What is a French IP address?
An IP address that a French network operator has registered to French territory, so geolocation databases and the sites that use them place the request in France. In practice that means an address belonging to a French consumer network such as Orange (AS3215), SFR (AS15557) or Free (AS12322), or to one of the French mobile operators.
Are proxy services legal in France?
Using a proxy is lawful in France. What the traffic does through it is the part that carries obligations — French and EU data protection law applies to personal data however it is collected, and the terms of the site you are visiting still apply. This is not legal advice, and any provider who tells you a proxy places you outside the law is wrong.
Is web scraping legal in France?
There is no blanket answer, and anyone offering one is overselling. French courts and the CNIL have treated the collection of personal data as engaging GDPR obligations regardless of whether the data was publicly visible, and the sui generis database right can protect substantial extractions. Public visibility is not the same thing as permission to collect at scale.
Should I use a free France proxy?
Free French proxy lists are unreliable by construction: you do not know who runs the exit, whether it logs, or how many other people are already burning its reputation. For anything you would be unhappy to have intercepted or blocked mid-job, the free list is the more expensive option.
What is the difference between a France proxy and a VPN?
A VPN routes your whole device through one tunnel, and is built for privacy on a single connection. A proxy is per-request and programmatic: you choose the exit per call, run many in parallel, and rotate or hold an address deliberately. If you are automating anything at volume, the VPN model is the wrong shape.
Which French carriers do your mobile IPs use?
All four French mobile network operators: Orange, SFR, Bouygues Telecom and Free Mobile. The IP is dedicated to you rather than shared with other customers, and rotates on demand or holds a sticky session for up to 24 hours.
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Pool and coverage figures on this page were last reviewed on 17 August 2026. Latency figures follow our published methodology.