Croatia proxies
Our catalogue lists 20 counties, 63 cities and 22 networks for Croatia. The Hrvatski Telekom group together with Iskon sits in 36 cities, A1 in 20, Telemach together with Optima in 16. What sets the country apart is something else: 27 of the 63 cities fall in coastal counties, which makes Croatia convenient for seasonal work. And one unpleasant detail: in Poreč the only network in the pool is an academic one.
What we have in Croatia
The price is the same as in every other country we cover.
What Croatian addresses get used for
Ad verification
How campaigns render for a Croatian audience
Seasonal prices
Accommodation and rentals on the coast in season and out
Classifieds
Njuškalo, the main platform in the country
Retail
Konzum, Emmezeta, Links
Local search results
What a Croatian user sees in search
What looks different from outside Croatia
The list is short and honest: of the twenty sites we checked, not one came back closed.
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 ZagrebTwelve networks: the only city with a real choice
- 02Residential plus a coastal citySplit, Rijeka, Zadar, Dubrovnik and Pula for seasonal work
- 03Residential with A1 or Telemach pinnedWhen you want something outside the Hrvatski Telekom group
Connection strings for Croatia
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 Croatia it matters more than usual, because many jobs here are seasonal and tied to the coast.
Croatian exits, four ways
# rotating, a new address per request
curl -x login_c_HR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# sticky, the same address for the session
curl -x login_c_HR_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# pinned to a coastal city for seasonal work
curl -x login_c_HR_city_split:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# SOCKS5 instead of HTTP
curl -x socks5://login_c_HR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10001 https://api.ipify.orgTwenty sites out of twenty open
We checked twenty well known Croatian domains from Europe with a full browser header set. All twenty opened: Njuškalo, Index, Jutarnji, 24sata, Konzum, Emmezeta, Links, MojPosao, Nekretnine.hr, the Zagrebačka, PBZ, Erste and OTP banks, the gov.hr portal, the tax administration, the HRT broadcaster, the HAK auto club, and the Hrvatski Telekom, A1 and Telemach carrier sites.
Not one cf-mitigated header, not one connection failure, not one country barrier. This is the first country in our catalogue with a clean twenty out of twenty.
So the question has to be put honestly: why take a Croatian address then. The answer is below, and it is not about getting through.
The coast, the season, and why the address is for
Twenty seven of the 63 cities in our Croatian pool fall in coastal counties: Split-Dalmatia, Primorje-Gorski Kotar, Istria, Dubrovnik-Neretva, Zadar and Lika-Senj. That is 43 percent of the country in the pool, and that single figure shows what the country earns from.
Hence the main scenario. Prices for accommodation, rentals and services on the coast change with the season and often with where they are being looked at from. Checking them from outside the country means checking the shop window for a foreigner rather than what a local sees. That job needs an address in a specific coastal city, not just a Croatian one.
The second scenario is advertising: how campaigns render for a Croatian audience can only be verified from inside. The third is accounts, where the service reads address class. For ordinary price collection across Croatian retail an address is usually not needed, and the figure above already showed that.
In Poreč the only network is academic
The pool holds CARNET, the Croatian academic and research network. It appears in five cities: Zagreb, Split, Rijeka, Đakovo and Poreč.
In the first four it is one of several and can simply be avoided. In Poreč it is the only one. So pin that city and you get an address on a university network, which does not look like a home connection and is identified as educational.
The trap here is practical rather than theoretical: Poreč is a major Istrian tourist town, and it may well end up on the list of someone collecting accommodation prices along the coast. Take Pula, Rijeka or Zadar instead.
One more single entry is Starlink, in exactly one city. A satellite exit does not look like a home connection either.
Twenty two networks is a count of names
Here the counting has to be careful, because the market was recently redrawn. Iskon belonged to Hrvatski Telekom from 2006 and was merged into it on 1 January 2024: it is one company, and the union gives 36 cities against a sum of 40.
Optima Telekom, however, does not belong to the HT group, even though intuition suggests otherwise. In January 2022 Hrvatski Telekom and Zagrebačka banka sold their stake in Optima to Telemach Hrvatska. So Optima and Telemach are one group: the union gives 16 cities against a sum of 19.
A1 sits under two entries, its current name and the former Vipnet: the union gives 20 cities. Pro-Ping sits under two as well.
The tally: the HT group in 36 cities, A1 in 20, the Telemach group in 16. Twenty seven cities of the 63 are left without the HT group, while in 24 cities it is the only network available. In 47 cities out of 63 there is exactly one network, whichever it is.
The euro changeover: price series across 2023 remain comparable
Croatia moved from the kuna to the euro on 1 January 2023, and this is the case where a currency change does not break a historical series. The conversion rate was fixed in law at 7.53450 kuna to the euro, and dual pricing applied from September 2022 through all of 2023.
The difference from the situation in, say, Egypt is fundamental. There the pound was devalued, and the figures on a price tag before and after are not comparable without the rate on the date. Here there is one known rate, so kuna convert into euro exactly and a series stretched across 2023 stays correct.
What is worth accounting for is the rounding at the changeover: some prices were converted and rounded, so small jumps in early 2023 may be explained by the change of denomination rather than by a decision of the shop.
How stable the exits are here
Connections in Zagreb, Split and Rijeka hold well. Across the rest of the country 47 cities out of 63 hold exactly one network, and there is nothing to swap to inside the city.
On size, plainly: twenty two networks by name, three large groups. Real rotation across autonomous systems is possible only in Zagreb with its twelve networks.
Choosing the setup for a Croatian target
The short fork.
- You need seasonal prices on the coast: residential plus Split, Rijeka, Zadar, Pula or Dubrovnik.
- You need rotation across autonomous systems: residential plus Zagreb.
- You want something outside the Hrvatski Telekom group: pin A1 or Telemach.
- You want the look of a home subscriber: do not take Poreč, the network there is academic.
- You need ordinary retail price collection: you most likely do not need an address at all.
What a month of Croatian 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 Njuškalo listings: tens of gigabytes.
- Account work through a browser: a few hundred megabytes per account per day.
The legal part, stated plainly
Croatia has been in the European Union since 2013 and in the euro area since 2023, so the GDPR applies. That has little bearing on collecting publicly posted prices and a direct bearing on personal data.
A proxy changes none of what you are allowed to do with data. It changes only which country the request appears to come from.
Verifying a Croatian exit
Confirm the exit is Croatian and in the city you asked for, that the session holds, and that the carrier is not the academic one.
Three checks
# 1. is the exit Croatian, in which city, and on which carrier
curl -s -x login_c_HR_city_split: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_HR_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org; echo; done
# 3. make sure you did not land on the academic network
curl -s -x login_c_HR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://ipinfo.io/json | grep -i carnet && echo "academic network, take another city"What to read next
Where the numbers come from
The numbers on counties, cities and networks come from our residential pool catalogue as of 9 September 2026. Service entries with no city name are not counted. We ran the check on twenty Croatian domains ourselves from Europe on the same day, with a full browser header set.
- HAKOM, the Croatian telecoms regulatorOfficial operator data, if you want to check the shape of the market against our pool.
- The Croatian National Bank on the euro introductionThe source for the changeover date and the fixed rate of 7.53450 kuna to the euro.
- ECB: the Croatian changeover to the euroThe official description of the changeover and of dual pricing.
- CARNETThe academic network, the only one available in Poreč by our pool.
Questions people ask before buying Croatian addresses
If every site is open, why take a Croatian address?
For jobs where it matters where you look from rather than whether you are let in. That means ad verification for a local audience, seasonal accommodation and rental prices along the coast, local search results, and accounts where the service reads address class. For ordinary scraping of shop fronts an address is usually not needed, and we say so plainly.
Is Optima part of Hrvatski Telekom?
No, and this is a common misconception. In January 2022 HT and Zagrebačka banka sold their stake in Optima to Telemach Hrvatska. Iskon, on the other hand, did belong to HT and was merged into it on 1 January 2024. So we count HT together with Iskon (36 cities) and Telemach together with Optima (16).
Which cities should I take for the coast?
Split and Rijeka with six networks each, then Pula, Zadar and Dubrovnik. Poreč is the one to avoid: the only network in the pool there is academic, and the address will not look like a home connection.
Does the euro changeover break historical prices?
No. The rate was fixed in law at 7.53450 kuna to the euro, so the conversion is exact and a series across 2023 stays comparable. Account only for the rounding at the changeover: small jumps in early 2023 may be explained by the change of denomination.