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India · Tamil Nadu · UTC+05:30
Residential exits in Chennai, India: one username segment, the same per-GB price as every other city, and local data to check before you buy.
Quick answer
Where can I buy Chennai residential proxies?
For a home IP in Chennai, India, Banyan Proxies charges $1.88 per GB on the 1 GB plan and $50 for 100 GB (October 2026). Use the parameter city-chennai with country-in; no surcharge applies. Traffic runs over JioFiber / JioAirFiber and other India broadband lines. Availability varies by hour. No ID, pay in crypto.
| City | Chennai (Madras), India |
|---|---|
| Region | Tamil Nadu (state) |
| Population | 6,748,026 (Greater Chennai Corporation within its expanded 426 km2 limits, Census 2011 figures) |
| Wider area | 8,653,521 (Chennai urban agglomeration, Census 2011) |
| Time zone | Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30) |
| Languages | Tamil, English, Telugu |
| Dialing | STD code 044 · country code +91 |
| Postal codes | PIN codes start with 600; 600001 = Chennai GPO / Sowcarpet / Flower Bazaar area |
| Fixed-line ISPs | JioFiber / JioAirFiber, Airtel Xstream Fiber, ACT Fibernet, Hathway, Tata Play Fiber, YOU Broadband |
| Currency | Indian rupee (INR) |
| Tax on digital services | 18% GST on digital services supplied to India |
| Data protection law | Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Rules notified November 2025; main duties apply from May 2027) |
| City parameter | -country-in-city-chennai |
| Price | $1.88 for 1 GB, $5.94 for 10 GB, $50 for 100 GB (October 2026) |
Chennai has a diversified industrial base with major automobile manufacturing; its metro GDP was estimated at $196.5 billion in 2024. That makes Chennai a market of its own for prices, ads and local search. Check Tamil-language search results and ads, and cinema ticket availability and prices for Tamil film releases as Chennai users see them.
Teams usually compare a few areas, for example T. Nagar, Mylapore and Adyar, by setting the address inside the target site once the page loads from a Chennai IP.
Put USERNAME-country-in-city-chennai in the username field and connect to gw.banyanproxies.com, port 7777 for HTTP and HTTPS or 7778 for SOCKS5. Each new connection gets another Chennai home IP; add a session ID and a duration to keep one. The city targeting page gives Python and Node.js versions.
# Rotating Chennai IP over HTTP
curl -x http://gw.banyanproxies.com:7777 \
-U "USERNAME-country-in-city-chennai:PASSWORD" \
https://ipinfo.io/json
# One Chennai IP kept for 10 minutes, over SOCKS5
curl --socks5-hostname gw.banyanproxies.com:7778 \
-U "USERNAME-country-in-city-chennai-session-che1-ttl-10:PASSWORD" \
https://ipinfo.io/jsonTRAI data for 31 August 2026 count 48.63 million wired broadband connections; Reliance Jio (14.81 million), Bharti Airtel (11.44 million) and BSNL (4.56 million) lead. In Chennai, fixed-line service is sold by JioFiber / JioAirFiber, Airtel Xstream Fiber, ACT Fibernet, Hathway and Tata Play Fiber, so exit IPs belong to these networks. ASN targeting is free: USERNAME-country-in-city-chennai-asn-24560 asks for Airtel Xstream Fiber only. Each filter shrinks the pool.
Expect some Chennai IPs to show as Tambaram, Avadi or Chengalpattu in lookup tools: they share networks and databases draw city borders differently. Use the city check guide on the database your target uses. Local clock: Asia/Kolkata (UTC+05:30).
India's data protection framework is Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (Rules notified November 2025; main duties apply from May 2027). If your checks collect personal data, that law applies on top of the target's terms. Local prices show in Indian rupee (INR), and 18% GST on digital services supplied to India. Our Acceptable Use Policy blocks banking, government and payment portals. Not legal advice.
The best India city proxies page ranks providers for cities like Chennai, and the price index lists each price with the day it was read. The marketplace price checks by city page shows a full job, and the glossary covers the rest.
One price per GB in Chennai and every other city, city and ASN targeting included. You top up the price of the plan you pick in crypto, never less than $25; unused GB never lapse.
1 GB
$1.88
$1.88/GB
10 GB
$5.94
$0.59/GB
Best rate
100 GB
$50
$0.50/GB
1 TB
$500
$0.50/GB
Crypto only (BTC, USDT, USDC, ETH, SOL, LTC). You top up the price of the plan you pick, never less than $25, and the plan is bought from the balance; anything left stays there. No KYC — no ID, no selfie, no documents. Prices in USD.
Occasionally. The Tamil Nadu government renamed Madras to Chennai in July 1996. Some older databases, institutions and brands still use "Madras". Most current services and delivery apps use "Chennai", with Tamil Nadu as the region. Search for both names when filtering older datasets.
English and Tamil. Tamil was the most spoken language in the 2011 census, at about 78% of residents. Telugu, Urdu, Hindi and Malayalam follow far behind. Search results default to English for most users. Tamil ads and local listings appear when the browser or account language is set to Tamil.
Chennai has a competitive fixed broadband market. JioFiber, Airtel Xstream Fiber, ACT Fibernet, Hathway, Tata Play Fiber and YOU Broadband all list Chennai among their service cities. A residential IP in the city can belong to any of these networks. Lookup tools show the ISP name alongside the city.
No. City targeting is part of every Banyan Proxies plan, so a Chennai GB costs the same as a country-level GB: $1.88 on the 1 GB plan and $0.50/GB on the 1 TB plan (October 2026). Some providers bill city traffic at a higher rate; the surcharge comparison lists them.
HTTP, HTTPS (CONNECT) and SOCKS5. Connect to gw.banyanproxies.com on port 7777 for HTTP and HTTPS, or 7778 for SOCKS5, with USERNAME-country-in-city-chennai as the username.
It can. Tambaram, Avadi, Chengalpattu and Tiruvallur sit close to Chennai, and geolocation databases draw city borders their own way. Check the exit city in the lookup your target uses before a large job; the city check guide shows how. Every page of a session stays on one IP with a sticky session.
Every city page we publish for India, with its parameter and local ISPs. The India overview compares them side by side, and the city index lists all 70 cities.
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