Venezuela proxies
Our catalogue lists 24 regions, 134 cities and 137 networks for Venezuela. The network count is misleading: 103 of them appear in exactly one city, and 25 exist only in Caracas. Caracas itself holds 40 networks, Maracaibo 19, Valencia 18, and then the list falls off a cliff. What holds the country together in width is the state carrier Cantv, present in 79 cities of 134 and absent from 55. This is one of the rare countries where the carrier you pin changes not just the autonomous system but which internet you see.
What we have in Venezuela
The price is the same as in every other country we cover.
What Venezuelan addresses get used for
Retail prices
Farmatodo, Traki, MercadoLibre Venezuela
Reachability checks
What actually opens from inside the country and what does not
Delivery and services
Yummy, PedidosYa
Checking blocks
What a Cantv subscriber sees against a private network subscriber
Ad verification
How campaigns render for a Venezuelan audience
What looks different from outside Venezuela
Some of these do not answer from outside the country at all; others simply serve a Venezuelan visitor something else.
What a residential address gives you here
Cities people ask for here
A city is set with the _city_ suffix. The number beside it is how many networks our pool holds there.
The setups people take here most often
- 01Residential plus CaracasWhen you need different autonomous systems: forty networks, twenty five of them found only here
- 02Residential with Cantv pinnedWhen you want the look of a typical state network subscriber
- 03Residential with Fibex or Inter pinnedWhen you need a private network to compare against the state one
Connection strings for Venezuela
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. In Venezuela that is worth doing for the seven cities listed above; past them a city holds one network.
Venezuelan exits, four ways
# rotating, a new address per request
curl -x login_c_VE:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# sticky, the same address for the session
curl -x login_c_VE_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# pinned to the capital, where the networks are
curl -x login_c_VE_city_caracas:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# SOCKS5 instead of HTTP
curl -x socks5://login_c_VE:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10001 https://api.ipify.org137 networks, of which 103 live in one city
Six networks clear the ten city mark here. Everything else is a carrier serving one city or one district.
The count needs one correction. Inter appears in the catalogue under three entries: Corporacion Telemic C.A., Inter and Inter Venezuela. Add up their cities and you get 68; the union gives 39. We count the union, because it is one and the same network.
The practical conclusion. You have four large options: Cantv in 79 cities, Fibex in 45, Inter in 39, Galaxy in 11. The remaining 133 networks arrive only together with one specific city.
By pool, Caracas is a separate country
The capital holds 40 networks out of 137, and 25 of them are found nowhere else. No other country in our catalogue concentrates like this.
After it comes a sharp drop: Maracaibo 19 networks, Valencia 18, Barquisimeto 11, Maracay and Maturín 10 each. In 77 cities out of 134 there is exactly one network.
So the choice between capital and provinces matters more here than usual. If you need rotation across autonomous systems, work in Caracas. If you want a provincial resident trail, take a city from the tail and do not count on a second network in it.
Cantv is state owned, and that changes what you see
Cantv was nationalised and belongs to the state. Blocking in Venezuela is applied at the carrier level, and the state network applies it more consistently than private ones do.
That has a non obvious consequence for testing. The question of what a Venezuelan user sees has no single answer: a Cantv subscriber and a Fibex or Inter subscriber can get different pictures. If you are checking whether a resource is reachable inside the country, sample from both sides, otherwise your conclusion is about one network rather than about the country.
Cantv does not cover everything either: it is absent from 55 cities out of 134. Treating it as a universal exit for the country does not work.
Three sites out of twelve do not answer from outside
We checked twelve well known Venezuelan domains from Europe with a full browser header set. Nine answered normally: the Banesco, Mercantil and Banco de Venezuela banks, Movistar Venezuela, Tu Inmueble, the Farmatodo and Traki retailers, MercadoLibre Venezuela and Yummy.
Three did not answer: BNC, the SENIAT tax authority site and Demotores. The causes differ and none of them is bot protection: for some the DNS does not resolve from outside, for others the connection simply never establishes. It looks like the state of the infrastructure rather than intent.
The honest conclusion: there is no mass country barrier in Venezuela, and buying an address here in order to get through one is pointless. It is needed for something else, described above: filtering depends on the carrier, and the target may read address class.
Two currencies on the same shelf
Prices in the country live in both bolivars and dollars, sometimes on the same page. This is not an exchange rate difference but two parallel price tags.
For price monitoring that means recording not only the number but the currency it was shown in. Converting at the official rate produces a figure that exists in no shop.
If you compare Venezuela with its neighbours in the region, remember you are comparing different pricing regimes rather than merely different sums.
What blocks you here beyond the address
Links here are slow, and that is a property of the country rather than of the proxy. Set generous timeouts; short thresholds will produce false failures.
The language is Spanish, the es-VE variant. An Accept-Language header without Spanish looks foreign on a local version of a page.
The country runs on a single time zone and does not change its clocks.
How stable the exits are here
Connections in Caracas, Maracaibo and Valencia hold acceptably. Across the rest of the country lines drop more often, and long sessions there are better not planned.
On pool size, plainly: there are four large networks. Under load you will come back to the same addresses sooner than the number 137 promises. Keep headroom in your rate.
Choosing the setup for a Venezuelan target
The short fork.
- You need different autonomous systems: residential plus Caracas.
- You want the look of a state network subscriber: pin Cantv.
- You need a private network to compare: pin Fibex or Inter.
- The target does not answer from outside the country: any Venezuelan exit will do, the network matters less.
- You need volume: lower the rate, there are four large networks.
What a month of Venezuelan work costs
It is counted in traffic. A dollar per gigabyte.
- Price checks across a few hundred listings a day: single gigabytes a month.
- A daily sweep of a large retail category: tens of gigabytes.
- Account work through a browser: a few hundred megabytes per account per day.
The legal part, stated plainly
United States and European Union sanctions apply to Venezuela. They target specific people, companies and transactions, financial ones above all, rather than the public internet of the country.
Sanctions do not forbid looking at Venezuelan shop fronts or collecting published prices. Dealing with money or with sanctioned companies is your compliance question, and a proxy does not answer it.
A proxy changes none of what you are allowed to do. It changes only which country the request appears to come from.
Verifying a Venezuelan exit
Confirm the exit is Venezuelan, that the carrier is the one you asked for, and that the target serves its local version.
Three checks
# 1. is the exit Venezuelan, and on which carrier
curl -s -x login_c_VE: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_VE_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org; echo; done
# 3. does a local target answer, with a generous timeout
curl -s -m 60 -H "Accept-Language: es-VE" -x login_c_VE:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} %{time_total}s
" -L https://www.farmatodo.com.ve/What to read next
Where the numbers come from
The numbers on regions, cities and networks come from our residential pool catalogue as of 8 September 2026. Service entries with no city or region name are not counted. We ran the reachability check on twelve Venezuelan domains ourselves from Europe on the same day, with a full browser header set: without one, sites behind Akamai answer 403 simply because the request does not look like a browser, which is easy to mistake for blocking.
- CONATEL, the Venezuelan telecoms regulatorThe body that issues instructions to carriers. Useful for understanding where network side filtering comes from.
Questions people ask before buying Venezuelan addresses
You list 137 networks, how many are actually available?
Six clear the ten city mark and four are large: Cantv, Fibex, Inter and Galaxy. One hundred and three networks appear in exactly one city, and twenty five of those only in Caracas. So four options are available almost everywhere; the rest arrive together with one specific city.
Caracas or the provinces?
Caracas has forty networks and real rotation across autonomous systems. In the provinces, 77 cities out of 134 hold exactly one network. If you need spread, work in the capital; if you want a provincial resident trail, take a city from the tail.
Why pin Cantv specifically?
Cantv is state owned, and blocking is applied on it more consistently than on private networks. If you are checking whether a resource is reachable inside the country, sample from both Cantv and a private network: the answers can differ.
Do sanctions get in the way?
Sanctions against Venezuela target specific people, companies and financial transactions rather than the public internet. They do not forbid collecting published prices. Everything touching payments and sanctioned counterparties remains your compliance question.