Benzoic acid–pyrrolidin-1-ium-2-carboxyl­ate (1/1) is an example of the application of non-centrosymmetric co-crystallization for the growth of a crystal containing a typically centrosymmetric component in a chiral space group. It co-crystallizes in the space group P212121 and contains benzoic acid and l-proline in equal proportions. The crystal structure exhibits chains of l-proline zwitterions capped by benzoic acid mol­ecules which form a C(5)[(11)] hydrogen-bonded network along [100].