Algeria proxies
Our catalogue lists 48 wilayas, 152 cities and two networks for Algeria. Two is not a typo: Algerie Telecom sits in all 152 cities, and Icosnet in exactly one, the capital. The result is a combination we have nowhere else: geography wider than Greece, Serbia or Tunisia, and no choice of network at all. Below we work through what follows from that, and when Algeria is the wrong country for you.
What we have in Algeria
The price is the same as in every other country we cover.
What Algerian addresses get used for
Classifieds
Ouedkniss, the main platform in the country
Jobs
Emploitic
Marketplaces
Jumia Algeria
Ad verification
How campaigns render for an Algerian audience
Local search results
What an Algerian user sees in search
What looks different from outside Algeria
Four sites of twenty are closed, and only one of them by bot protection.
What a residential address gives you here
Cities people ask for here
A city is set with the _city_ suffix. In Algeria it is the only lever you have: the network is the same everywhere.
The setups people take here most often
- 01Residential plus a cityThe only lever that works: the network will be Algerie Telecom either way
- 02Residential country wide with no cityIf geography does not matter, setting a city adds nothing
- 03Residential plus the capitalThe one place where the pool holds a second network
Connection strings for Algeria
The country is pinned with a suffix in the login. Host, port and password stay the same as for any other country.
A city goes in as a second suffix, and in Algeria it is the only setting that changes anything: there is one carrier across the country.
Algerian exits, four ways
# rotating, a new address per request
curl -x login_c_DZ:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# sticky, the same address for the session
curl -x login_c_DZ_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# pinned to a city, the only lever that changes anything here
curl -x login_c_DZ_city_oran:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# SOCKS5 instead of HTTP
curl -x socks5://login_c_DZ:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10001 https://api.ipify.orgOne network across 152 cities
Algerie Telecom is present in all 152 cities of our Algerian pool. The second entry, Icosnet, covers exactly one city, the capital. In 151 cities out of 152 there is exactly one network available.
Let us say plainly what that means. There is no rotation across autonomous systems in Algeria and there cannot be. If your target counts networks and you were planning to spread accounts or requests across different AS numbers, this country does not offer that at all. Not a little of it, none of it.
For comparison inside our catalogue: in Egypt, which we called the record holder for concentration, the large carrier covers 91 percent of cities and three more networks sit beside it. Here it is a hundred percent and nothing beside it.
The geography, though, is wider than the neighbours
The other side of the same fact is a pleasant one. One hundred and fifty two cities across 48 wilayas is more than Greece (99), Serbia (98), Tunisia (97) and even Egypt (121). By number of populated places Algeria is among the widest in our catalogue.
The spread is even: the capital wilaya gives 21 cities, then Tlemcen, Boumerdès, Tipaza, Batna and Blida with seven each, Oran, Sétif, Chlef, Béjaïa and Bordj Bou Arréridj with five. The south is represented more thinly, but it is represented.
So Algeria suits jobs where it matters which city a request came from and does not matter which network it came from. Checking local search results, delivering ads by region, regional prices and assortment. And it does not suit anything that rests on network variety.
June: exams and connectivity restrictions
This one belongs in your calendar in advance. Since 2016, after exam questions leaked, Algeria has restricted connectivity every year during the baccalaureate final exams. In earlier years these were scheduled nationwide shutdowns: a long morning window and a second one in the afternoon.
In 2025 the approach became more targeted: instead of a full shutdown, particular messaging services were blocked during exam hours, and many users reported little noticeable impact. So the trend is towards softening, while the habit of restricting in June has not gone away.
The practical conclusion for planning. If you run Algeria regularly, do not put anything deadline critical in June, and do not plan long sessions on exam days at all. There is one carrier in the country, so there is physically nothing to switch to in order to route around it, as you could elsewhere.
Sixteen sites out of twenty open
We checked twenty well known Algerian domains from Europe with a full browser header set. Sixteen opened: Ouedkniss, Emploitic, the Mobilis, Djezzy and Ooredoo carriers, the BNA, CPA and BEA banks, the APS agency, the TSA, Echorouk and El Watan outlets, the tax authority, the interior ministry, Sonelgaz and Air Algerie.
Four closed, and only one of them looks like bot protection: Jumia Algeria answers through Cloudflare with a cf-mitigated header. The other three are infrastructure: the Algerie Telecom site times out, while the BADR Bank and elmouwatin.dz domains do not resolve at all.
One recurring observation is worth noting separately. This is the third country in a row where the dominant state carrier site does not answer from Europe: before it there were Topnet and Tunisie Telecom in Tunisia, and PTCL in Pakistan. In Algeria it stands out more, because there is only one carrier here at all.
The language attribute lies here
We counted characters on live Algerian pages, and the main platform in the country produced a surprise. Ouedkniss serves markup labelled ar, yet the page carries zero Arabic characters, 132 Latin ones, and only 24 words of visible text. So the language in the markup is wrong, and the content is assembled by scripts in the browser.
The rest splits the way Tunisia does: work and private media in French (Emploitic labelled fr, TSA as fr-FR), the state and the Arabic press in Arabic (APS, the tax authority, Echorouk labelled ar-DZ). The tax authority, incidentally, carries the non existent pair ar-aa.
The practical conclusion. In Tunisia you can lean on the lang attribute, in Serbia it tells you nothing, and in Algeria it actively misleads. Detect the language from the content rather than from the markup. As in Egypt, we found no Arabic-Indic digits at all: the digits are European everywhere.
Ouedkniss is open but empty
The main classifieds platform in the country answers us with a 200 and serves twenty four words of visible text. Everything else is assembled in the browser.
So an Algerian address will open the door, but the data will not be behind it until you run a real browser that executes scripts. A different address does not fix this and it is not a property of the proxy.
Budget browser based collection and the traffic for it: a full load weighs tens of times more than bare HTML.
How stable the exits are here
There is one network in the country, so the quality of the exit is the quality of Algerie Telecom, and you have no fallback. In the capital and the large coastal cities connections hold acceptably; the southern wilayas are thinner.
Under load you will come back to the same addresses very quickly, faster than anywhere else in the catalogue. Algeria is for targeted checks across geography rather than for volume.
Choosing the setup for an Algerian target
The short fork, and it is shorter than usual.
- The city and region matter: residential plus a city, we hold 48 wilayas.
- The whole country matters: residential with the country suffix, a city adds nothing.
- You need different autonomous systems: Algeria is the wrong country, take another one.
- The target assembles in the browser, Ouedkniss for instance: plan browser based collection.
- The work is recurring: steer around June because of the exam restrictions.
What a month of Algerian work costs
It is counted in traffic. A dollar per gigabyte.
- Checking local search results across dozens of cities: single gigabytes a month.
- A daily sweep of classifieds through a browser: tens of gigabytes, because the pages are assembled by scripts.
- Account work through a browser: a few hundred megabytes per account per day.
The legal part, stated plainly
Collecting publicly posted data and processing personal data are different things, and the second is regulated separately.
The connectivity restrictions during exams are imposed by the state and apply to every subscriber inside the country equally. They are not a block on foreigners and not something a choice of carrier can route around, because there is one carrier.
A proxy changes none of what you are allowed to do. It changes only which country the request appears to come from.
Verifying an Algerian exit
Confirm the exit is Algerian and in the city you asked for, that the session holds, and that the target serves its local version.
Three checks
# 1. is the exit Algerian, and in which city
curl -s -x login_c_DZ_city_oran:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://ipinfo.io/json
# 2. does a sticky session hold the same address
for i in 1 2 3; do curl -s -x login_c_DZ_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org; echo; done
# 3. the marketplace with and without the proxy: compare the codes
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "direct: %{http_code}
" -L https://www.jumia.dz/
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "residential: %{http_code}
" -x login_c_DZ:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 -L https://www.jumia.dz/What to read next
Where the numbers come from
The numbers on wilayas, cities and networks come from our residential pool catalogue as of 9 September 2026. Service entries with no city or region name are not counted. We ran the check on twenty Algerian domains, the character counts and the visible text measurements ourselves from Europe on the same day, with a full browser header set.
- SMEX: another year, another exam shutdown in AlgeriaAn account of the annual practice of restricting connectivity during the baccalaureate exams.
- Access Now: lessons from the exam shutdownsThe source for the softening: targeted blocking instead of a full shutdown.
- ARPCE, the Algerian telecoms regulatorOfficial operator data, if you want to check the shape of the market against our pool.
- OuedknissThe main classifieds platform in the country, and where you can see markup labelled Arabic carrying Latin content.
Questions people ask before buying Algerian addresses
Is there really only one network?
Yes. Algerie Telecom is present in all 152 cities of our pool, and the second entry, Icosnet, exists in exactly one city. In 151 cities out of 152 there is one network available. There is no rotation across autonomous systems in Algeria.
Then why take Algeria at all?
For the geography. One hundred and fifty two cities across 48 wilayas is more than Greece, Serbia, Tunisia or Egypt. If the job is about which city a request came from rather than which network, Algeria is one of the most convenient in the catalogue.
What happens in June?
Since 2016 the state has restricted connectivity during the baccalaureate final exams. These used to be scheduled nationwide shutdowns; in 2025 the approach became more targeted and mostly messaging services were blocked. Recurring work is better kept out of June: there is nothing to switch to in order to route around it, since there is one network.
Why does Ouedkniss return an empty page?
The site is assembled by scripts in the browser: it returned us a 200 and twenty four words of visible text. The residential address has nothing to do with it; you need a real browser that executes scripts. Note also that the markup is labelled Arabic while carrying no Arabic characters.