Madagascar residential proxies from TrueProxies: 63 of 72 test requests exited in Madagascar on October 1, 2026. GB-based plans, from $1.64 for 1 GB, target by country, city, region or ASN; Unlimited plans, from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps, by country and city.
Coverage verified
63/72
requests exited in country
2
cities seen
940 ms
median response
Market context
Malagasy is the language most people speak and post in, but French still carries most websites, news and business communication, so a storefront or news check in Madagascar usually means French pages with Malagasy product names and comments. Prices are in ariary (MGA). Cards are rare; buyers pay with mobile money, led by MVola from the operator Yas (formerly Telma), which handles merchant QR payments and bills, with Orange Money and Airtel Money as the alternatives. Many shops in Antananarivo sell through Facebook pages and arrange delivery and payment by message.
Local publishers are where most ad checks start. L'Express de Madagascar, Midi Madagasikara and Newsmada publish daily, 2424.mg covers news as it happens, and Moov, the Telma group's news and lifestyle portal, also lists pharmacies on duty and exchange rates. Madagascar Airlines, the national carrier, sells domestic and regional flights, which matter in a large island where road travel between regions is slow.
Google is the search engine in practical use, and French queries surface Malagasy pages alongside results from France, Reunion and francophone Africa, so ranking checks need connections in Madagascar. Personal data is covered by Law No. 2014-038 on the protection of personal data, with an implementing decree adopted in 2023.
Tourism prices in Madagascar are often quoted in euros. Beach hotels on Nosy Be, the main resort island in the north-west, and on Île Sainte-Marie (Nosy Boraha) off the east coast, where humpback whales arrive during the southern winter to breed, commonly publish rates in euros for foreign guests, while small local guesthouses price in ariary. The Avenue of the Baobabs near Morondava and Isalo National Park in the south are fixtures of overland tours, which depend on long road journeys between regions. International flights land at Ivato airport in Antananarivo, with direct services from Paris, Reunion and Mauritius, so hotel and fare checks mix euro and ariary prices.
Measured
Measured from our gateway in the Netherlands. Results describe the test, not a reserved exit, city or network. How we measure
In Madagascar: Check display ads on L'Express de Madagascar, Midi Madagasikara, Newsmada, 2424.mg and Moov as readers in Antananarivo see them, and confirm landing pages show ariary prices and MVola payment.
Ad verification proxies in MadagascarIn Madagascar: Follow prices and delivery terms that Antananarivo shops post on public Facebook pages, compare MVola, Orange Money and Airtel Money offers, and track Madagascar Airlines fares on domestic routes.
Market research proxiesIn Madagascar: Run Google checks in French and Malagasy from Madagascar, since French queries otherwise return pages from France, Reunion and francophone Africa ahead of Malagasy businesses and publishers.
SEO monitoring proxiesFrom $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps
From $1.64 for 1 GB
Integration
Select Madagascar with the country suffix -country-mg in your proxy username.
import requests
proxies = {
"http": "http://USER-country-mg:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT",
"https": "http://USER-country-mg:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT",
}
response = requests.get(
"https://httpbin.org/ip",
proxies=proxies,
timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())Start with French, which carries most Malagasy news sites, business pages and online shops, then add Malagasy for consumer and social queries, where local wording differs. French queries match a large pool of pages from France, Reunion and francophone Africa, so run them from connections in Madagascar to see which Malagasy businesses and publishers, such as L'Express de Madagascar or 2424.mg, actually rank for local users.
Mobile money comes first. MVola, run by the operator Yas (formerly Telma), supports merchant QR payments and bill payments, and Orange Money and Airtel Money are the other wallets. Card payment is uncommon outside hotels and larger businesses. Many Antananarivo shops sell through Facebook pages and take payment by mobile money or cash on delivery, with prices in ariary (MGA), so checkout checks should use connections in Madagascar.
Law No. 2014-038 on the protection of personal data, modelled on the former EU data protection directive, with an implementing decree adopted in 2023. It creates the Commission Malagasy de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CMIL) to supervise processing, but the commission was still being set up when this guide was written.
Yes. 63 of 72 test requests exited in Madagascar on October 1, 2026, from 22 IPs in Antananarivo and Ivato on Starlink, Orange Madagascar and Telecom Malagasy. Both plans can also target a city there; GB-based plans add region and ASN targeting.
940 ms median response in our October 2026 test, timed from our gateway in the Netherlands.
Yes: 1 of 2 sticky sessions kept one IP for 30 minutes in our test.
