Vietnam proxies
Vietnam is arranged the opposite way round from most countries in our pool. There are 60 regions here, more than anywhere else, and only 17 carriers, fewer than anywhere else. Three networks cover the country entirely: VNPT appears in 159 of the 201 cities, Viettel in 121, FPT in 46. Everything else is small operators living in three to eight towns. So you can slice geography finely here, and you have exactly three autonomous systems to work with.
What we have in Vietnam
The price is the same as in every other country we cover.
What Vietnamese addresses get used for
Marketplace prices
Shopee, Lazada, Tiki
Electronics and appliances
The Gioi Di Dong, Dien May Xanh, FPT Shop
Classifieds
Chotot and local boards
Ad verification
How campaigns render for a Vietnamese audience
What looks different from outside Vietnam
These serve a Vietnamese visitor something other than what everyone else sees.
What a residential address gives you here
Cities people ask for here
A city is set with the _city_ suffix. The country has two centres rather than one, and the pool shows it.
The setups people take here most often
- 01Residential plus Ho Chi Minh CityWhen you need commercial results and the widest pool
- 02Residential plus HanoiWhen the northern half of the country is what matters
- 03Residential with VNPT or Viettel pinnedWhen the target counts autonomous systems: there are three options here
Connection strings for Vietnam
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 Vietnam that is worth doing for the half dozen cities listed above; beyond them the pool thins quickly.
Vietnamese exits, four ways
# rotating, a new address per request
curl -x login_c_VN:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# sticky, the same address for the session
curl -x login_c_VN_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# pinned to the commercial capital
curl -x login_c_VN_city_hochiminh:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org
# SOCKS5 instead of HTTP
curl -x socks5://login_c_VN:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10001 https://api.ipify.orgFine-grained geography and only three networks
Our catalogue lists 60 regions, 201 cities and 17 carriers for Vietnam. That is the most unusual combination of any country we have gone through, and it is almost the mirror image of Chile, where 17 regions carry 130 carriers.
VNPT covers 159 cities, Viettel 121, FPT 46. Then the list falls off a cliff: SaiGon Tourist in eight towns, MobiFone in six, the rest in three or fewer. The three large networks in Vietnam are state-linked, which explains how the market ended up this shape.
The practical conclusion runs both ways. On one hand you can pick a region here more precisely than almost anywhere: sixty provinces against seventeen regions in Chile. On the other, if your target counts by autonomous system, you have three baskets, and no amount of cycling through cities will change that. Plan your rate around three networks rather than two hundred cities.
There are two centres here, not one
Most countries in our catalogue pull towards a single capital. Vietnam does not: Ho Chi Minh City has thirteen carriers and fifteen cities in its agglomeration, Hanoi has eleven carriers and eighteen cities. Two comparable poles, the administrative one in the north and the commercial one in the south.
For jobs that matters more than it sounds. Retail prices, delivery and assortment differ between north and south, so if you take a country-wide snapshot from one city, you are taking a snapshot of half the country. If the job is about prices, it is worth running both centres and comparing.
Beyond them the distribution drops sharply: Haiphong six carriers, Da Nang, Can Tho and Nha Trang four each. The provinces are broadly represented by city count and thinly by network count.
What blocks you here beyond the address
Vietnamese is written with diacritics and sites are sensitive to it: an Accept-Language header without vi looks foreign on a local version of a page.
Prices are in Vietnamese dong and the nominal figures are very large, running into hundreds of thousands and millions. A basket in dollars gives away a foreigner instantly, more so than in many other countries, simply because the order of magnitude is different.
The country runs on one time zone and does not change its clocks, so a mismatch between device time and address time is visible.
How stable the exits are here
Connections in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi hold well. The provinces carry more unstable lines and sessions there live shorter lives.
On pool size specifically: seventeen carriers for a whole country is few, and under heavy load you will come back to the same addresses sooner than in countries with a hundred networks. Keep headroom in your rate and do not count on endless rotation.
Choosing the setup for a Vietnamese target
The short fork.
- You need commercial results: residential plus Ho Chi Minh City.
- You need the north of the country: residential plus Hanoi.
- The target counts autonomous systems: pin VNPT, Viettel or FPT, there is nothing else.
- You need volume: lower the rate, the network pool is small.
What a month of Vietnamese 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 Shopee or Tiki category: tens of gigabytes.
- Account work through a browser: a few hundred megabytes per account per day.
The legal part, stated plainly
Vietnam has a cybersecurity law and a separate decree on personal data protection which in some cases requires the data of Vietnamese users to be stored inside the country. That has no direct bearing on collecting publicly posted prices; it has a very direct bearing on processing 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 Vietnamese exit
Confirm the exit is Vietnamese, that the carrier is the one you asked for, and that the target serves its local version.
Three checks
# 1. is the exit Vietnamese, and on which carrier
curl -s -x login_c_VN: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_VN_s_600:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 https://api.ipify.org; echo; done
# 3. does the target serve the Vietnamese version
curl -s -x login_c_VN:password@proxy.sotaproxy.com:10000 -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} %{url_effective}
" -L https://tiki.vn/Questions people ask before buying Vietnamese addresses
Why only seventeen carriers?
That is how many our pool holds for the country. The Vietnamese home internet market is split between three large state-linked networks, and that is a structural property of the country rather than of our pool.
Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City?
It depends on the job. Ho Chi Minh City is the commercial centre with the widest pool; Hanoi is the administrative north. Prices and assortment differ between them, so for price snapshots it is sensible to take both.
Can I pin a carrier?
Yes, it is set when you create the endpoint. In Vietnam the choice is small: VNPT, Viettel or FPT.
Is one gigabyte enough to try?
For testing a hypothesis it usually is: a few thousand pages without images, or a couple of hundred full browser loads.