Puerto Rico proxies
Our catalogue lists 57 cities and 39 networks for Puerto Rico. There are no regions at all: our supplier serves the island as a flat list of cities with no municipal breakdown. Liberty PR sits in 36 cities, Claro in 16, and after them comes a long tail of wireless operators. But the main question about Puerto Rico is not the pool: it is what the address counts as, a US territory or a separate country. The answer is below, and we checked it rather than assumed it.
What we have in Puerto Rico
The price is the same as in every other country we cover.
What Puerto Rican addresses get used for
Local search results
What an island resident sees rather than a mainlander
Ad verification
Campaigns targeted at Puerto Rico separately
Classifieds
Clasificados Online
Retail and delivery
Terms and lead times for the island
Media
El Nuevo Día, Primera Hora, Metro PR
What looks different from outside Puerto Rico
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. The number beside it is how many networks our pool holds there.
The setups people take here most often
- 01Residential plus San JuanTen networks: the only city with a noticeable choice
- 02Residential with Liberty PR pinnedThe widest network on the island, 36 cities out of 57
- 03Residential across the island with no cityIn 26 cities out of 57 there is one network anyway
Connection strings for Puerto Rico
The territory is pinned with a suffix in the login the same way a country is, using the code PR. Host, port and password stay the same as for any other country.
A city goes in as a second suffix. Puerto Rico has no regional level in our catalogue, so the city is the only detail available.
Puerto Rican exits, four ways
# rotating, a new address per request
curl -x login_c_PR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# sticky, the same address for the session
curl -x login_c_PR_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# pinned to San Juan, the only city with ten networks
curl -x login_c_PR_city_sanjuan:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# SOCKS5 instead of HTTP
curl -x socks5://login_c_PR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10001 https://api.ipify.orgIt is a US territory, but the address reads as PR
Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States. It uses the dollar, American ZIP codes, the plus one dialling code and the US postal service. It is natural to assume the address will read as American too, and that assumption can cost you money.
We checked. We took networks that are certainly on the island and looked at what geolocation databases say about them. The University of Puerto Rico network comes back as country PR, region and city San Juan. The OSNET network, which is also in our own pool, comes back as country PR, city Humacao.
The conclusion for the job is direct. A Puerto Rican address is not a cheap American address. A service that reads country will see Puerto Rico rather than the United States, with everything that follows: different ad targeting, different delivery terms, different search results. If you need an American trail, take the United States. If you need an island trail specifically, Puerto Rico is exactly right.
A third of the pool is wireless operators
The market here is shaped unusually. Of the 39 networks, ten carry wireless, wifi or mesh in the name itself, and this is not a footnote: DM Wireless in 12 cities and OSNET Wireless in nine take third and fourth place by reach, right behind Liberty and Claro.
On top of that sit two satellite entries, Starlink and Hughes Network Systems. So a noticeable part of the island is connected over the air rather than by cable.
This is worth knowing for two reasons. First, wireless links give more ragged sessions than cable ones, and long bindings are better not built on them. Second, for targets that read the connection type, a wireless home operator looks different from a cable one, while remaining residential.
Thirty nine networks, of which two are wide
Liberty PR sits in 36 cities out of 57, Claro Puerto Rico in 16. Twenty one cities are left without Liberty. Then come DM Wireless in 12 and OSNET in nine, and after them a cliff.
Thirty networks of the 39 appear in exactly one city. That is the same Caribbean pattern as in the Dominican Republic: a local operator in every town, except here it is more often a wireless one.
One company appears twice under slightly different spellings, M.S. Wifi Zone: we count such entries as one, so our numbers come out a little smaller than the sum of catalogue rows.
San Juan and everything else
San Juan holds ten networks, Bayamón seven. After them it drops straight to four: Ponce, Guaynabo, Aguada and Corozal. In 26 cities out of 57 there is exactly one network.
Rotation across autonomous systems is practically possible only in San Juan and Bayamón, that is, across the metro area. For the rest of the island the choice comes down to whichever local operator happens to be there.
Sixteen sites out of twenty open
We checked twenty well known Puerto Rican domains from Europe with a full browser header set. Sixteen opened: Clasificados Online, the El Nuevo Día, Primera Hora and Metro PR outlets, the Banco Popular, FirstBank and Oriental banks, the pr.gov portal, Claro PR, Aeronet, the Selectos supermarkets, the tourism portals and mainland services that serve the island.
Four closed, and only one of them is bot protection: the Liberty PR site serves a Cloudflare challenge. The Hacienda tax authority times out, the Pueblo supermarket site returns a TLS error, and the jobs.pr domain does not resolve at all.
Note the recurrence: the site of the largest carrier on the island is closed to us, as happened in Tunisia, Pakistan and Algeria. There is no general barrier though, and a Puerto Rican address is for the island trail rather than for access.
What else to account for
The currency is the US dollar, so a basket in dollars does not give away a foreigner here, unlike in most countries of our catalogue.
The language is Spanish, English is official as well, and some sites are bilingual. An Accept-Language header with es-PR is appropriate.
The time zone is Atlantic and the clocks do not change. That means the offset from the mainland United States shifts twice a year, and a mismatch between device time and address time is easy to miss here.
How stable the exits are here
In San Juan and Bayamón connections hold acceptably. Across the rest of the island a significant share of connections is wireless, and sessions there are shorter.
On size, plainly: 39 networks by name, two of them wide. Plan your load against Liberty and Claro, and treat the rest as a local supplement.
Choosing the setup for a Puerto Rican target
The short fork.
- You need an American trail: take the United States rather than Puerto Rico, geolocation databases tell them apart.
- You need an island trail specifically: residential with the PR code, and this is exactly that case.
- You need rotation across autonomous systems: residential plus San Juan.
- You need the widest network: pin Liberty PR, 36 cities out of 57.
- You need long sessions: remember that a third of the pool is wireless.
What a month of Puerto Rican work costs
It is counted in traffic. A dollar per gigabyte.
- Checking search results and ads across dozens of cities: single gigabytes a month.
- A daily sweep of classifieds: tens of gigabytes.
- Account work through a browser: a few hundred megabytes per account per day.
The legal part, stated plainly
Puerto Rico is a US territory and federal United States law applies here, although the tax regime and part of local legislation are its own.
Collecting publicly posted prices and processing personal data are different things, and the second is regulated separately.
A proxy changes none of what you are allowed to do with data. It changes only where the request appears to come from.
Verifying a Puerto Rican exit
Confirm the exit is Puerto Rican, that the geolocation database returns PR specifically, and that the session holds.
Three checks
# 1. does the geolocation database say PR and not US
curl -s -x login_c_PR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://ipinfo.io/json | grep -E "country|city"
# 2. does a sticky session hold the same address
for i in 1 2 3; do curl -s -x login_c_PR_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org; echo; done
# 3. the carrier site with and without the proxy: compare the codes
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "direct: %{http_code}
" -L https://www.libertypr.com/
curl -s -o /dev/null -w "residential: %{http_code}
" -x login_c_PR:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 -L https://www.libertypr.com/What to read next
Where the numbers come from
The numbers on cities and networks come from our residential pool catalogue as of 9 September 2026. We have no regional level for Puerto Rico because our supplier serves the island as a list of cities. We ran the check on twenty domains and the country attribution against real island networks ourselves from Europe on the same day.
- University of Puerto RicoOne of the networks we used to check geolocation: it resolves as PR, San Juan.
- Claro Puerto RicoThe second widest network in our Puerto Rican pool: 16 cities out of 57.
- AeronetOne of the island wireless operators, of which our pool holds ten.
- Clasificados OnlineThe main classifieds platform on the island, open from outside without an address.
Questions people ask before buying Puerto Rican addresses
Puerto Rico is the US. Will the address be American?
No, and this is the main thing to know. We checked against real island networks: geolocation databases return country PR rather than US. The University of Puerto Rico network comes back as PR, San Juan, and the OSNET network as PR, Humacao. If you need an American trail, take the United States.
Why do you have no regions for Puerto Rico?
Our supplier serves the island as a flat list of cities with no municipal breakdown. So the city is the only detail available, and we do not show a regional level we do not have.
What are these wireless operators in the list?
Of the 39 networks, ten carry wireless, wifi or mesh in the name, and two of them, DM Wireless and OSNET, take third and fourth place by reach. Two satellite entries sit alongside. That is a property of the market: a noticeable part of the island is connected over the air, and sessions on such links live shorter.
Do Puerto Rican sites block foreigners?
No. Of the twenty domains we checked, sixteen opened, including banks, the government portal and the media. Of the four closed, only the Liberty PR site serves a Cloudflare challenge; the other three are a timeout, a TLS error and a domain that does not resolve.