Used cars
25th and 47th by estimated search traffic. Japanese exporters with Burundi in their country menus and price filters in US dollars.
Burundi proxies for Japanese used-car listings, Le Renouveau tenders and pages in French and Kirundi
600 residential IPs in the pool, October 2026, on Lumitel, Econet Leo and other Burundian connections. Residential traffic starts at $3.49 per GB and falls to $1.69 with volume; mobile runs from $3.99 to $2.19. Put -cc-bi in the login for a Burundian exit; the dashboard generator lists the regions and cities on offer.
Residential IPs600
Burundian household connections in the pool, October 2026.
Hold on one address6 h
Set -sid- and -time-, 60 to 21600 seconds. No session key means a new address per request.
Internet penetration30.37%
ARCT, the telecoms regulator, at the end of 2025: 3,745,639 subscriptions, all but 6,321 of them mobile.
Searches on Google96.52%
StatCounter, October 2026, and 99.27% on phones.
Products
Burundian residential proxies and the other types, with prices
| Proxy | In Burundi | Session | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential | 600 residential IPs in the pool, October 2026, on Burundian home connections | Rotating, or sticky up to 6 h | $3.49 → $1.69 per GB |
| Mobile | Lumitel, Econet Leo and Onatel exits where the pool has them; the order page shows availability | Rotating, or sticky up to 6 h | $3.99 → $2.19 per GB |
| ISP | Static IPs, one customer each; availability by country on the order page | Static for the rental | $4.00 per IP / month |
| Datacenter | Dedicated IPs, up to 10 Gbps; availability by country on the order page | Static | $2.00 per IP / month |
Why Burundi
Imported cars, public tenders and pages in French
Japanese used-car exporters rank high for Burundian searches. In Ahrefs’ list for October 2026, ordered by estimated search traffic, BE FORWARD is 25th, SBT Japan 47th and SBI Motor 86th. BE FORWARD lists Burundi among its destinations and filters prices in US dollars.
That list prints 80 domains in its top 100. Fourteen end in .fr and one in .bi, the national weather service’s igebu.bi at 29th. Local pages mostly sit outside it: the daily Le Renouveau posts tenders, recruitment notices and public contracts at lerenouveau.bi, and the national broadcaster RTNB publishes in French, English, Swahili and Kirundi.
ISOKO sells in BIF at isoko.bi and delivers free above 75,000 BIF; its six departments held 26 products on 5 November 2026. A notice from ARCT dated 26 June 2026 says selling online in the country needs a prior declaration of conformity.
Desktops made 41.55% of page views in October 2026, and Android ran 91.65% of mobile traffic (StatCounter). Bing took 7.08% of desktop searches, so run desktop rank checks on both engines; SERP proxies has more.
Coverage
Bujumbura, Gitega and the largest communes of Burundi
Final census results, published on 20 October 2026, count 12,332,977 people. Figures for places come from the earlier release, which totals 12,332,788 across five provinces and 42 communes. Logins go no finer than -cc-bi; for regions and cities on offer, see the dashboard generator.
| Place | Province | Share of population | Residents, 2024 census |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bujumbura, urban agglomeration | Bujumbura | 10.13% | 1,249,519 |
| Ntahangwa | Bujumbura | 7.52% | 927,907 |
| Gitega | Gitega | 4.29% | 528,528 |
| Mugere | Bujumbura | 4.16% | 512,881 |
| Muyinga | Buhumuza | 4.02% | 495,927 |
| Kirundo | Butanyerera | 3.88% | 478,492 |
| Butihinda | Buhumuza | 3.52% | 434,166 |
| Rumonge | Burunga | 3.48% | 429,237 |
| Karusi | Gitega | 3.06% | 377,638 |
| Makamba | Burunga | 3.01% | 370,637 |
| Ngozi | Butanyerera | 2.57% | 316,808 |
| Cibitoke | Bujumbura | 2.11% | 260,776 |
Communes and the agglomeration: citypopulation.de, from the statistics office’s census release, and the agglomeration overlaps communes such as Ntahangwa. Provinces: Bujumbura 3,353,555, Butanyerera 2,530,206, Gitega 2,278,215, Burunga 2,118,551, Buhumuza 2,052,261. Where available, exits sit on household and phone lines around Bujumbura, Gitega, Ngozi, Kayanza and Kirundo. With 600 addresses a town can have none at a given moment; look an exit up in our IP checker before you depend on its location.
Networks
Lumitel carries most Burundian users, then Econet Leo and the ISPs
APNIC Labs puts 846,969 users on Viettel Burundi, the company behind the Lumitel brand, and 11,458 on Econet Leo, next in this table. RIPEstat shows AS327799 announcing 17,408 IPv4 addresses once overlaps are merged, or about 49 estimated users per address.
| Network | Registered as | ASN | Share of Burundian users | IPv6-capable | Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lumitel | VIETTEL BURUNDI SA | AS327799 | 113.49% | 0.05% | Mobile and fixed internet |
| Econet Leo | Econet - Leo SA | AS37336 | 1.54% | 0.00% | Mobile and fixed internet |
| BBS | Burundi Backbone System SM | AS37545 | 1.13% | 0.14% | Fibre and internet access |
| CBINET | CBINET Burundi | AS25429 | 0.72% | 0.00% | Internet access |
| Spidernet | SPIDERNET SPRL BURUNDI | AS37429 | 0.22% | 0.00% | Internet access |
User shares are APNIC Labs’ of 2 November 2026 (60-day window). The 113.49% is APNIC’s figure: its estimate for AS327799 is above its estimate for the whole country, so read it as nearly every user. IPv6: APNIC to 3 November 2026, when 2.51% of Burundian users were capable, against 4.90% for Eastern Africa. Starlink (5.14% of users, 55.27% IPv6), a research network and Cloudflare are left out. Only US, UK and German logins can pick an ISP or carrier; on a Burundian exit, read the network from the ASN in a lookup.
Mobile
Burundian mobile proxies: the operators ARCT names
ARCT counted 8,215,572 mobile subscriptions at the end of 2025, down from 8,657,968 a quarter earlier, all but 5,590 of them prepaid. It publishes no shares by operator. Mobile exits run on the three working at the end of 2025, where the pool has them; the order page shows availability.
| Operator | Status at 31 December 2025 | Also known as |
|---|---|---|
| Viettel Burundi | Operating | Lumitel; money service Lumicash |
| Econet Leo | Operating | Econet; money service EcoCash |
| Onatel | Operating | Fixed and mobile; no row of its own in APNIC’s table |
| Lyca | Started in October 2025 | In ARCT’s data from the first quarter of 2026 |
ARCT, market observatory for the fourth quarter of 2025, published April 2026.
Local targets
Sites to collect from Burundi: car prices, notices and forecasts
Tenders and jobs
The daily’s news sections, plus pages for tenders, recruitment and public contracts. Count notices by date and leave names out.
Weather and water
29th, the highest .bi domain. Daily and seasonal forecasts and a bulletin on rising Lake Tanganyika, in French, English, Kinyarwanda and Swahili.
Newspapers
French-language news by section, with dated articles.
National broadcaster
Radio and television news in four languages, among them French and Kirundi.
Business directory
110th. The development agency’s pages on investment sectors, exporter directories and company registration.
Marketplace
A small catalogue in BIF: six departments and 26 products on 5 November 2026. Store the list price and the sale price as separate fields, with the flash-sale end time.
Local search
Results for gl=bi in French (hl=fr) or Kirundi (hl=rn), and Bing as well for desktops. Rank checks by place.
Ranks are Ahrefs Top’s for Burundi, October 2026, by estimated organic search traffic; sites with no rank are outside its printed list. Collect signed-out pages only, under each site’s terms.
For developers
Check the country, then file the exit under its new province
The session below holds 30 minutes on -cc-bi. The script rejects any exit that does not say BI and maps the town it reports to one of the five provinces in force since the 2023 reform.
import requests, uuid
GATE = "gate.aeonproxy.com:7000"
# Country key only. Lookups can still print towns and old province names,
# so file each town under the province it has belonged to since the 2023 reform.
PROVINCE = {"Bujumbura": "Bujumbura", "Bubanza": "Bujumbura", "Cibitoke": "Bujumbura",
"Gitega": "Gitega", "Karuzi": "Gitega", "Muramvya": "Gitega", "Mwaro": "Gitega",
"Ngozi": "Butanyerera", "Kayanza": "Butanyerera", "Kirundo": "Butanyerera",
"Muyinga": "Buhumuza", "Cankuzo": "Buhumuza", "Ruyigi": "Buhumuza",
"Makamba": "Burunga", "Rutana": "Burunga", "Bururi": "Burunga", "Rumonge": "Burunga"}
def burundi_session(tries=10):
for _ in range(tries):
key = uuid.uuid4().hex[:8]
url = f"http://ap_a1b2c3-cc-bi-sid-{key}-time-1800:PASS@{GATE}"
try:
where = requests.get("https://ipinfo.io/json", proxies={"http": url, "https": url}, timeout=20).json()
except requests.RequestException:
continue # no answer: new session
if where.get("country") != "BI":
continue # not Burundi: skip it
return url, where.get("city"), PROVINCE.get(where.get("city"), "unknown"), where.get("org")
return None, None, None, None # few exits free: retry later
print(burundi_session()[1:])A pool this size can have nothing free on a given run, and the function then returns empty values. Session length goes in -time-, from 60 to 21600 seconds; leave -sid- out and every request rotates.
# one Burundian address, held for six hours
curl -x gate.aeonproxy.com:7000 \
-U "ap_a1b2c3-cc-bi-sid-buj01-time-21600:PASS" \
https://ipinfo.io/jsonA Burundian quirk
Five provinces on the map, older names in the lookups
Burundi redrew its map in 2023, and databases have not all followed. GeoNames, read on 5 November 2026, still lists 16 first-level names such as Bujumbura Mairie, Bujumbura Rural and Rumonge.
Organic Law 1/05
Sets today’s provinces and communes: five and 42.
Census day
The early total, 12,332,788, is tabulated on the new map, and ARCT uses it for penetration rates.
Final results
The government publishes 12,332,977 residents, 45.5% of them under 15.
GeoLite, data of 3 November 2026, places AS327799 blocks in Bujumbura, Gitega, Muyinga, Cibitoke and Ruhwa. Under the reform Cibitoke and Bubanza belong to Bujumbura province, Muyinga to Buhumuza, Ngozi and Kirundo to Butanyerera.
Burundi’s 2026 data law and the 2022 cybercrime law
Law 1/03 of 10 March 2026 on personal data, printed in French and Kirundi, took effect on promulgation (Article 55) and gives private-sector processing six months to comply (Article 53). A decree sets the remit of its data protection agency (Article 42). The law also reaches controllers abroad that use processing means in Burundi (Article 2). Under Article 48, unfair or illicit collection costs a person six months to five years, a fine of BIF 500,000 to 10 million, or either, and a private company BIF 5 to 20 million.
Law 1/10 of 16 March 2022 on cybercrime covers acts abroad whose effects are felt in Burundi (Article 1). Article 16 punishes fraudulent access to a computer system with six months to two years, BIF 2 to 5 million, or either. Article 29 matters for data collection: reproducing, extracting or copying computer data that belongs to someone else, on purpose and without right, carries five to ten years, BIF 10 to 15 million, or either. In the French texts we read, neither this law nor the Electronic Communications and Postal Code (Law 1/22 of 22 August 2024) names a VPN or a proxy; the Code’s authorisation and declaration rules (Articles 21 and 29) concern those who run services. Betting sites are not supported.
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Burundi proxy questions
It is a Burundian IP address on a household or phone line that carries your requests. Use one to read Le Renouveau’s tender notices or a used-car exporter’s page from inside the country, see search results set to Burundi, or look at an advert as someone there would.
600 residential IPs in the pool, October 2026. All are home connections, so the list shifts as the day goes on, and a rotating login soon meets the same addresses again. That is enough for one look at Le Renouveau’s tender page or a BE FORWARD price list from Burundi, and too few for collecting at volume. Mobile has no separate count; the order page shows availability.
Logins here stop at the country. See what the dashboard generator offers for regions and cities, where available, and open the exit in our IP checker before relying on its town, since databases disagree.
Homes and phones on the networks people there use: Lumitel above all, then Econet Leo, BBS, CBINET and Spidernet. Mobile exits, where the pool has them, use Viettel Burundi, Econet Leo or Onatel. A login cannot choose among them, as network keys are limited to the US, the UK and Germany.
Yes. The regulator and APNIC use the company name, and the brand customers see is Lumitel; its site speaks of a “Lumitel number”. In a lookup expect AS327799 and the Viettel name.
For Burundi you can buy residential or mobile; the order page lists the countries with static IPs. Residential suits car listings, news and search. Pages built for phones, 57.68% of Burundian page views in October 2026, suit mobile at an extra $0.50 per GB.
Residential costs $3.49 per GB at the smallest tier and $1.69 at the largest. Mobile goes from $3.99 to $2.19. For the countries on the order page, ISP IPs are $4.00 and datacenter IPs $2.00 per month. The pricing page has all tiers and the current free trial terms.
The French texts we read and searched do not name proxies or VPNs, and none asks the people using them for a licence; the 2024 Code’s authorisation rules concern those who run services in Burundi. Article 29 of the 2022 cybercrime law makes copying someone else’s computer data without right an offence, and Article 48 of the 2026 data law covers unfair collection. Stay on public pages, follow each site’s terms and leave personal details out. Not legal advice.
Free lists name no operator, and the operator can log or alter what you send, logins included. Test the address first: AS327799, AS37336 or AS37545 with country BI points to a local line, and a hosting company points to a rented server.
Use host gate.aeonproxy.com, port 7000, username ap_a1b2c3-cc-bi and your password in your browser, tool or code. Adding -sid-buj01-time-3600 to the username keeps the address for an hour. The docs explain SOCKS5.