Which provider has the best coverage across Europe? Five checks
The provider with the best European coverage for your job is the one that gives these five figures for each country you need; ProxyField's are in the right-hand column. A global country count such as 195+ says a provider can route there, not how many IPs and cities it has there, so ask every provider for the same five per-country figures, then test with 1 GB.
| What to check | Why it matters | ProxyField's answer |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Residential IPs per country | How long you can rotate before IPs repeat | Published for 31 countries, including UK 16.6M+, Germany 20.2M+, Spain 13.7M+, France 8.3M+, Italy 10.2M+, Poland 5M+ and Netherlands 3.2M+ |
| 2. Cities per country | Whether you can see a city's local results and prices | France 170+, Germany 980+, UK 640+, Spain 690+, Italy 210+ |
| 3. Mobile IPs and carriers | Whether you can test as a phone user on a local network | 31 countries, with the networks named for 7 of them; the two largest are France (330K+) and Poland (290K+) |
| 4. Targeting levels | How precisely you choose the exit IP | Country, region and city; no ASN, ZIP or carrier targeting |
| 5. Price by country | Whether small or premium markets cost extra | One price per GB in every country, $2.95 down to $1.95 |
Then check where the IPs really exit. Buy 1 GB, request an IP in each country you need and read the country code back:
for c in gb de es fr it pl nl; do
curl -s -x gate.proxyfield.io:7000 -U "<login>-country-$c:<password>" https://ipinfo.io/country
done
# a city: lowercase, underscores for spaces
curl -x gate.proxyfield.io:7000 -U "<login>-country-fr-city-<city>:<password>" https://ipinfo.io/jsonEach line of the loop should print GB, DE, ES, FR, IT, PL and NL. For a city, put a name from the full list in your dashboard in place of <city>.
Test check 1 in the smaller markets. "How long you can rotate before IPs repeat" matters most where pools are small. Ask for 20 IPs in each country and count the distinct ones:
for c in ro pt gr ie no ee; do
n=$(for i in $(seq 20); do
curl -s -x gate.proxyfield.io:7000 -U "<login>-country-$c:<password>" https://api.ipify.org; echo
done | sort -u | wc -l)
echo "$c: $n distinct IPs of 20"
doneThe output is six lines in the form ro: <n> distinct IPs of 20. With the plain username every request asks for a new IP, so a count well below 20 in a country tells you its IPs repeat sooner. Run the same loop against any provider you compare. The 120 requests use about 1 MB of the 1 GB Easy Trial. The proxy checker tests up to 100 proxies per check; your list and results are not stored.