Buy Box and marketplace sellers
Prices, seller counts and Prime delivery promises on the store that earned €15.0 billion in Germany in 2024.
Germany proxies for marketplaces, price comparison and German search
324K+ residential and 41K+ mobile IPs spread over all 16 Länder, from Berlin to the Rhine-Ruhr. Target Germany with -cc-de; static ISP and datacenter IPs are available.
Price intelligence first
Germany’s marketplaces and comparison sites
Germany’s five busiest e-commerce sites (Similarweb, September 2026) are Amazon.de, Kleinanzeigen, eBay.de, idealo and Otto. Two of the five are classifieds and price-comparison platforms rather than shops, which is why most German data projects are about prices.
Classifieds asking prices
Prices by category and city. Collect listing fields only, never sellers’ names or contacts.
Comparison rankings
Where your offer ranks, how many shops list the product and the lowest price.
Price history and deals
Electronics price curves and which deals the community pushes up.
Assortment and resale
Range changes at Otto, Germany’s second-largest online shop by 2024 revenue; listing and sold prices on eBay.de.
Comparison verticals
Insurance, energy and travel results, each vertical with its own logic.
Fashion availability
Discounts, size runs and sell-through across the season.
German search
Rankings with gl=de and hl=de from a German exit. SERP setup.
Revenue figures: EHI/ECDB ranking of German online shops for 2024, via onlinemarktplatz.de.
Residential IPs324K+
German household addresses in the pool, October 2026.
Mobile IPs41K+
Telekom, Vodafone, o2 and 1&1 carrier exits.
Länder16
Every federal state, Bremen to Bavaria.
Cities with exits52
Including all of the Rhine-Ruhr’s large cities.
Networks
German networks and their share of users
Four networks reach about three quarters of German internet users.
| Network | Access | ASN | Share of German users | IPv6 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deutsche Telekom | DSL, fibre and mobile | AS3320 | 37.9% | 81.0% |
| Vodafone | Cable, DSL and mobile | AS3209 | 20.5% | 72.5% |
| o2 Telefónica | DSL and mobile | AS6805 | 9.3% | 88.7% |
| 1&1 Versatel | DSL and fibre | AS8881 | 6.6% | 89.3% |
| EWE TEL | Regional, north-west | AS9145 | 1.7% | — |
| Deutsche Glasfaser | Full fibre, mostly rural | AS8899 | 1.6% | — |
| NetCologne | Regional, Köln | AS8422 | 1.1% | — |
| wilhelm.tel | Regional, Hamburg area | AS15943 | 0.7% | — |
| M-net | Regional, Bavaria | AS8767 | 0.6% | — |
| Tele Columbus (PŸUR) | Cable | AS50436 | 0.5% | — |
Kabel Deutschland’s old AS31334 is still registered to Vodafone but was not announced on 18 October 2026; its cable customers appear under AS3209. Sources: APNIC Labs DE table and RIPEstat.
A German quirk
DSL still carries most German homes
In 2025, 58.5% of German broadband lines were still DSL, and only 6.4 million, or 16.5%, were active fibre to the home or building, according to the Bundesnetzagentur. Median fixed download speed was about 98 Mbps, against about 286 Mbps in the US (Ookla, via DataReportal).
For proxy work that means German household exits are, on average, slower than American ones. Give page loads more time, keep concurrency per exit modest and compare speeds within Germany rather than against a US baseline.
Cities
Germany’s largest cities
Germany has no dominant city. Berlin, the largest, has 3.7 million of about 84 million people, and four of the twelve cities below lie in North Rhine-Westphalia.
| City | Land | Population, 31 Dec 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Berlin | Berlin | 3,685,265 |
| Hamburg | Hamburg | 1,862,565 |
| München | Bayern | 1,505,005 |
| Köln | Nordrhein-Westfalen | 1,024,621 |
| Frankfurt am Main | Hessen | 756,021 |
| Düsseldorf | Nordrhein-Westfalen | 618,685 |
| Stuttgart | Baden-Württemberg | 612,663 |
| Leipzig | Sachsen | 611,850 |
| Dortmund | Nordrhein-Westfalen | 603,462 |
| Bremen | Bremen | 586,271 |
| Essen | Nordrhein-Westfalen | 574,682 |
| Dresden | Sachsen | 564,904 |
Destatis, based on the 2022 census. Geolocation databases return English names: Munich, Cologne, Nuremberg, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Mobile Germany
Four mobile networks, shared ASNs
Germany has four mobile network operators. By postpaid contracts in Q2 2026: Telekom 36.2%, Vodafone 24.7%, o2 Telefónica 23.2% and 1&1 15.9%. 1&1 runs its own network and is moving customers onto it; where it has no coverage they roam on Vodafone, so a 1&1 phone can reach the internet over Vodafone’s infrastructure.
Operator-reported 5G area coverage in June 2026 was 89.1% for Telekom, 76.2% for o2 and 75.7% for Vodafone. Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica carry much of their mobile and fixed traffic on the same ASNs, so the network number alone does not tell a German phone from a home line. Mobile is 59.9% of German web traffic, the highest of our three focus markets, which makes carrier exits the natural choice for app and mobile-ad QA.
Hosting country
Spotting a datacenter IP in Germany
Germany is one of Europe’s biggest hosting markets. Hetzner (AS24940), Contabo (AS51167) and IONOS (AS8560) run large server networks, and their addresses geolocate to towns such as Falkenstein or Nürnberg, where the data centers stand.
That makes fake “residential” pools easy to spot: a city table with thousands of IPs in Falkenstein is a hosting cluster, not a neighbourhood. If an exit sold to you as residential resolves to one of these networks, with any provider including us, treat it as a red flag and report it.
curl -x gate.chronoproxy.com:7000 -U "cp_a1b2c3-cc-de:PASS" https://ipinfo.io/json
# residential: "org": "AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG", "city": "Cologne"
# hosting: "org": "AS24940 Hetzner Online GmbH", "city": "Falkenstein"Search
Getting German search results right
Google has 87.84% of German search, Bing 6.49%, Yandex 1.56% and Ecosia 1.03% (StatCounter, September 2026). Google announced in April 2025 that it is redirecting country domains such as google.de to google.com, and it takes the country from the searcher’s location, so send gl=de and hl=de from a German exit instead of relying on the domain.
Mixing an English interface with a German IP produces a hybrid page your customers never see. Track mobile as well as desktop: in Germany the phone is the majority device.
Products
Every proxy type, in Germany
| Proxy | In Germany | Session | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 324K+ IPs across all 16 Länder | Rotating, or sticky up to 60 min | $4.80 → $2.70 per GB |
| Mobile | 41K+ IPs on Telekom, Vodafone, o2 and 1&1 | Rotating, or sticky up to 60 min | $4.80 → $2.70 per GB |
| ISP | Static IPs, one customer each; availability by country on the order page | Static for the rental | $2.00 per IP / month |
| Datacenter | Dedicated IPs, up to 10 Gbps; availability by country on the order page | Static | $1.20 per IP / month |
For developers
Hold an exit in North Rhine-Westphalia
Geolocation databases use English names, so match "North Rhine-Westphalia" and "Cologne", not "Nordrhein-Westfalen" and "Köln".
import { ProxyAgent } from "undici";
for (let i = 0; i < 40; i++) {
const login = `cp_a1b2c3-cc-de-sid-nrw${i}-ttl-60`;
const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent({
uri: "http://gate.chronoproxy.com:7000",
token: "Basic " + Buffer.from(`${login}:PASS`).toString("base64"),
});
const geo = await (await fetch("https://ipinfo.io/json", { dispatcher })).json();
if (geo.region === "North Rhine-Westphalia") {
console.log("keep", login, geo.city, geo.org); // keep nrw7 Cologne AS3320 Deutsche Telekom AG
break;
}
}North Rhine-Westphalia is Germany’s most populous Land, so a match usually comes within a few tries.
# the same exit over SOCKS5 (port 7001), DNS resolved on the exit side
curl -x socks5h://gate.chronoproxy.com:7001 \
-U "cp_a1b2c3-cc-de-sid-de01-ttl-30:PASS" \
https://ipinfo.io/jsonInfrastructure
Frankfurt, the exchange at the centre
DE-CIX Frankfurt set a record of 21.47 Tbit/s in October 2026, during live Champions League streaming, and exchanged about 48 exabytes in 2025; PeeringDB lists 1,019 networks there. Frankfurt’s colocation market passed 1 GW in 2025, second in Europe only to London.
One backbone measured about 13 ms round trip from Frankfurt to London and 74 ms to New York in October 2026. A German exit reaches German and most Central European targets in one short hop.
DSGVO, BDSG and two rulings worth knowing
German projects sit under the GDPR (DSGVO), the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and §25 TDDDG for cookies and device access. Two Federal Court of Justice rulings frame scraping. In 2014 (I ZR 224/12) automated reading of a site against its terms was not unfair competition in itself. In November 2024 (VI ZR 10/24) even a short loss of control over personal data after a scraping incident counted as compensable damage, with about €100 found appropriate in that case.
The practical lesson: build German data projects on non-personal information such as prices, stock, ads and rankings, and leave names and contact details alone.
Not legal advice. More in our guide to the 2022–2026 rulings.Germany proxy questions
324K+ residential and 41K+ mobile IPs, as of October 2026, in 52 cities across all 16 Länder.
Not yet: targeting is by country (-cc-de), with region and city keys planned for a later release, and postcode-level exits are not offered. Today, keep a sticky session whose exit lands in the Land you need, as in the Node.js example.
Carrier exits come from German mobile networks, and the exit’s ASN tells you which. Keep in mind that 1&1 customers outside 1&1’s own coverage roam on Vodafone, and that Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica share ASNs between mobile and fixed lines.
Telekom, Vodafone and Telefónica announce much of their mobile and fixed traffic from one ASN each, so AS3320 can be a phone or a home line. That is normal in Germany.
Most German homes are still on DSL: 58.5% of lines in 2025. Median fixed download speed is about 98 Mbps, a third of the US median. Allow longer timeouts and compare German exits with each other.
Use a German exit with gl=de and hl=de, and track signed out. Google is redirecting google.de to google.com, so the domain alone no longer sets the country.
Yes. Rotating residential exits suit offer rankings and price history on comparison sites; CHECK24 verticals may need a short sticky session per comparison.
Listing fields such as price, category and city, yes. Sellers’ names and contact details are personal data under the DSGVO; leave them out.
Look up the ASN. Hetzner is AS24940, Contabo AS51167 and IONOS AS8560; a consumer exit shows Telekom, Vodafone, o2, 1&1 or a regional carrier. Our guide to checking a proxy IP covers the rest.
Most geolocation databases use English city and region names: Cologne, Munich, Nuremberg, North Rhine-Westphalia. Match those names in your code.
Public, non-personal data such as prices and rankings is the safe core. Personal data needs a lawful basis under the DSGVO, and the Federal Court of Justice treats even a short loss of control as damage. This is not legal advice.
One backbone measured about 13 ms to London and 74 ms to New York in October 2026, before the target responds.