Martinique residential proxies from TrueProxies: 72 of 72 test requests exited in Martinique 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
72/72
requests exited in country
2
cities seen
520 ms
median response
Market context
Martinican shoppers buy in French and pay in euros (EUR), but shelf prices are shaped by shipping from mainland France, the octroi de mer on imports and a lower VAT rate than in Paris. Food prices became the island's main public issue in 2024, when protests over the gap with the mainland began in September and put supermarket pricing under close scrutiny. The bouclier qualité-prix, a basket of everyday products whose price the prefect sets each year after negotiation under a 2012 law, gives price trackers a public benchmark.
Retail is concentrated. Groupe Bernard Hayot (GBH) runs the island's Carrefour hypermarkets as well as Decathlon and Mr.Bricolage stores, and much of the big-box shopping sits in Le Lamentin, near Martinique Aimé Césaire airport, and in Fort-de-France. Teams monitoring the island follow leboncoin's Martinique listings for cars and rentals, France-Antilles Martinique and Martinique la 1ère for news and display advertising, and RCI for radio-led campaigns. Fares to Paris on Air Caraïbes, Corsair and Air France are the other large pricing category, together with villa and hotel rates in Les Trois-Îlets and Sainte-Anne in the south.
Almost everyone speaks Martinican Creole as well as French, and it appears in social content more than in storefronts. Google in French is the main search engine, and map packs follow the commune, so results in Fort-de-France and Le Robert differ from a mainland search. Since 2015 a single Collectivité territoriale de Martinique has replaced the department and region, but data protection works as in the rest of France, under the GDPR and the Loi Informatique et Libertés of 1978.
Fares to Paris are only part of Martinique's travel pricing. From Martinique Aimé Césaire airport, Air Canada flies to Montreal all year and adds seasonal Quebec City and Toronto flights, Air Transat serves Montreal and Quebec City, and American Airlines flies to Miami, so North American fares and packages are a separate check. Regional hops run on Caribbean Airlines, Winair and Sunrise Airways, and Air France links the island with Cayenne. By sea, FRS Express des Îles connects Martinique with Guadeloupe, Dominica and Saint Lucia. Compare these fares from Fort-de-France as well as from the other end of the route, because the same trip is marketed to both.
Measured
Measured from our gateway in the Netherlands. Results describe the test, not a reserved exit, city or network. How we measure
In Martinique: Verify that campaigns for Martinique appear on France-Antilles Martinique, Martinique la 1ère and French Google results in Fort-de-France and Le Lamentin, and that mainland offers with delivery limits are not served to 972 addresses.
Ad verification proxies in MartiniqueIn Martinique: Track euro supermarket and household prices on the island against the yearly bouclier qualité-prix basket and against Guadeloupe, a comparison that drew close attention after the 2024 cost-of-living protests.
Market research proxiesIn Martinique: Check French-language Google rankings and map packs from Fort-de-France, Le Lamentin and the southern tourist towns, which differ from results seen from mainland France or from Guadeloupe.
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From $1.64 for 1 GB
Integration
Select Martinique with the country suffix -country-mq in your proxy username.
import requests
proxies = {
"http": "http://USER-country-mq:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT",
"https": "http://USER-country-mq:PASS@YOUR_HOST:YOUR_HTTP_PORT",
}
response = requests.get(
"https://httpbin.org/ip",
proxies=proxies,
timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())Most goods arrive by sea from mainland France, the octroi de mer is charged on imports, and retail is concentrated in a few groups, including GBH with its Carrefour hypermarkets. A reduced VAT rate offsets only part of this. The gap drove protests that began in September 2024. For monitoring, compare the same product loaded from a Martinican connection with a 972 delivery address against the mainland page, and check it against the bouclier qualité-prix basket.
For classifieds, leboncoin's Martinique section covers cars, rentals and household goods. For news and display advertising, France-Antilles Martinique, Martinique la 1ère and RCI are the main local outlets. Retail pricing centres on the GBH-run Carrefour hypermarkets and the Le Lamentin shopping zones, and travel pricing on Air Caraïbes, Corsair and Air France fares to Paris plus hotel and villa rates in Les Trois-Îlets and Sainte-Anne.
The two islands are linked by FRS Express des Îles ferries but work as separate markets. Martinique prices in euros, shops on French platforms such as leboncoin and falls under the GDPR. Saint Lucia prices in East Caribbean dollars, shops and searches in English, and has its own Data Protection Act from 2011. Resort and villa rates are the main overlap, so compare those from each island's own connection.
Yes. 72 of 72 test requests exited in Martinique on October 1, 2026, from 7 IPs in Le Lamentin and Fort-de-France on Orange, Outremer Telecom and Canal + Telecom. Both plans can also target a city there; GB-based plans add region and ASN targeting.
520 ms median response in our October 2026 test, timed from our gateway in the Netherlands.
Yes: 2 of 2 sticky sessions kept one IP for 30 minutes in our test.
