Free proxies for Clash of Clans can open the Clash of Clans website some of the time, and nothing more. On 27 September 2026 we sent a dated sample of 100 working free proxies, drawn from every entry of our own list, to the official page. 27 loaded it, 63 timed out, and the site refused none. One proxy presented a certificate our client refused, which is how an attempt to read HTTPS traffic looks. The game is another matter: a proxy on a phone is for web traffic.
This page covers the test and what the Supercell rules say about bans, accounts and gems. It then shows how to keep a free proxy away from your village, and where one is fine.
Do free proxies for Clash of Clans actually work?
For the game, no. Clash of Clans is an app, and Supercell says its games are "globally available for free on iOS and Android phones and tablets". On a phone, a proxy goes into the Wi-Fi settings. Android shows a warning next to those fields. It reads: "The HTTP proxy is used by the browser but may not be used by the other apps". Clash of Clans is one of those other apps.
For the website, sometimes. The Clash of Clans pages on supercell.com are ordinary HTTPS, the kind of traffic a working proxy can relay. That is what we measured.
We sent 100 free proxies to the Clash of Clans website
We picked 100 entries at random from the whole working part of our free proxy list on 27 September 2026. That makes it a dated sample over every entry: our pool figures now leave out addresses that hold 20 or more working entries, and this sample did not. All of them had passed our HTTPS check. Through each one we asked for the official Clash of Clans page on supercell.com, where clashofclans.com points, with 20 seconds per request. A page counted as real only when it came from the servers of the site with HTTP 200. It also had to match the real page byte for byte. Each proxy first fetched a test address of our own, which tells a dead proxy apart from a site that says no.
- 27 loaded the real page, byte for byte. Their median time was 6.6 seconds for one page.
- 63 timed out after 20 seconds, and 9 had no working connection. The Clash of Clans site refused none.
- 1 proxy presented a certificate our client refused, both for the Clash of Clans page and for our own test address. Our checker had graded it elite, so an anonymity grade says nothing about whether a proxy is honest.
- 2 of the 27 that worked are graded transparent. They pass the address of their user on to the site.
So in that sample a free proxy opened the Clash of Clans website about one time in four, slowly. That fits a look at the news, and nothing that involves your village.
What the Supercell rules say
The Supercell terms of service have been in force since 6 November 2024. They cover the "games, store, sites and related services" of Supercell. The terms, the Safe and Fair Play Policy and the Supercell guide for parents do not mention VPNs or proxies. They do draw these lines.
- Cheats, bots and emulators. You may not take part "in the use of cheats, exploits, automation software, emulators, bots, hacks, mods or any unauthorized third-party software designed to modify or interfere with the Service".
- Modified games. You may not "Modify or cause to be modified any files that are a part of the Service or any Supercell game without Supercell's express written consent".
- Shared accounts. Supercell Support says selling, buying, sharing or giving accounts to other players "is against our Terms of Service. Each game account should be used by just one player".
- Playing after a ban. You may not "use the Service if you have previously been removed by Supercell, or previously been banned from playing any Supercell game".
Several accounts are fine the supported way. Supercell Support calls Supercell ID "the only supported method for playing several game accounts on the same device". The Safe and Fair Play Policy answers prohibited third-party software with "a permanent ban for any offending account(s)". None of these rules turns on the IP address, so a proxy changes nothing about them.
How long a ban lasts
Supercell Support says the length "mostly depends on the severity of the offence".
- A short ban of "a few days" is sometimes enough as a reminder.
- For a repeat, "we may ban the account for longer (e.g. 7 days, or even 31 days)".
- Cheating, systematic account theft and fraud end in a permanent ban.
A shared account can be caught too: "if Supercell detects a shared account, the account will be suspended and potentially even permanently banned".
Your Supercell ID is worth protecting
A village can hold years of upgrades and purchases. Supercell ID has no password. A login sends a verification code to your email. The Supercell guide for parents says these codes "should not be shared with anyone else other than Supercell Support". The web-based Supercell Store uses the same login: "Players must log in to the Supercell Store with a Supercell ID". Supercell Support also warns about email. Your Supercell ID, it says, "is only as secure as the email you sign up with".
A proxy is a server run by a stranger, in the middle of your traffic. It adds no encryption of its own. The Supercell pages run over HTTPS, so on a clean connection your code is encrypted in transit. A hostile proxy can still present a fake certificate and hope you click past the warning, and one proxy in our dated sample did exactly that. A 2018 study of more than 107,000 listed open proxies also found TLS man-in-the-middle attacks.
Never log in to Supercell ID, the Supercell Store or your email through a free proxy. Our guide to whether free proxies are safe covers the rest.
Free gems are a scam
A proxy cannot add gems to an account, and neither can a website that promises them. Supercell Support is direct: "Never trust websites that offer free gems in return for your log-in details or passwords". The Safe and Fair Play Policy adds: "Certain websites and individuals might offer cheaper gems/diamonds. Don't be fooled - it's a scam". Real free gems come from inside the game, and Supercell Support lists the ways.
- Completing achievements.
- Clearing trees and rocks in your village, some of which grow back.
- Opening the gem box that appears in your village now and then.
- Events that reward gems.
- Repairing the Gem Mine in the Builder Base.
The Supercell guide for parents gives one more check: "Any browser-based interactions with Supercell will take place on a website under the supercell.com domain".
Where free proxies for Clash of Clans are fine
Free proxies suit anonymous, throwaway, browser-only tasks. A dead proxy, or a watched one, costs you nothing there.
- Looking at the Clash of Clans website or its news as they appear in another country.
- Learning how a proxy works in a browser, with a throwaway request.
None of these involve your login, your village or your money. The moment one of those enters the picture, a free proxy is the wrong tool.
| What you want to do | Free proxy? | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Play Clash of Clans through it | No | The Wi-Fi proxy is for web traffic, and other apps may not use it. |
| Run several accounts | No need | Supercell ID is the supported way to play several accounts on one device. |
| Get unbanned or play after a ban | No | Bans follow the account, and banned players may not use the service. |
| Log in to Supercell ID or the Store | No | One proxy in our dated sample presented a certificate our client refused. |
| Get free gems | No | Free-gem websites are a scam, and gems come from inside the game. |
| See the website or its news from abroad | Sometimes | A web request with no login. 27 of 100 in our dated sample loaded it. |
Where a free proxy costs you
Anything you want to last is the wrong job for a free proxy. 73 of the 100 in our dated sample failed on the proxy side, and one of them tried to read HTTPS traffic. For web work that has to keep running, a residential proxy is the better tool. Its address belongs to a home connection, and it stays up while you work. Ours start at $0.44/GB, pay as you go, and purchased traffic has no scheduled expiry date. No proxy of any kind makes a shared account, a modified game or playing after a ban allowed.
Test any proxy before you use it
A free proxy that worked ten minutes ago may already be gone. Two things decide whether it is usable: whether it is alive, and where it actually exits. Paste any candidate into our free proxy checker, with no signup. It makes a real connection through the proxy and reports the exit address, country, latency and anonymity grade. From the command line, the same check is one request to our free checker API.
# Tests one proxy from our server: alive or dead, protocols, anonymity, latency, country
curl "https://hproxy.com/api/proxy-check?proxy=203.0.113.7:1080"
A good grade is not a promise of honesty, as the proxy with the refused certificate showed. The full method is in how to check if a proxy is working. It also shows how to spot a proxy that leaks your address in the headers.
The plain answer
Free proxies for Clash of Clans have a small job. In our dated sample over every entry, 27 of 100 working free proxies loaded the official Clash of Clans page, slowly, and the site refused none of them. One presented a certificate our client refused. They cannot carry the game, since a proxy on a phone is for web traffic. The Supercell rules do not mention proxies. They do forbid cheats, emulators, mods, modified files and shared accounts, and bans run from a few days to permanent. Keep free proxies to anonymous, browser-only looks at the website, and never log in through one. For web tasks that can fail, start with our free proxy list, and check anything you find elsewhere with the proxy checker.
How we measured
The website test ran from our server in the United States on 27 September 2026 at 21:24 UTC. It used 100 working entries of our free pool, picked at random over every entry, a dated sample. It did not leave out addresses that held 20 or more working entries, as our pool figures now do. All had passed our HTTPS (CONNECT) check, and each request had 20 seconds. The official page is one static file served through Amazon CloudFront. A page counted as real when it came through CloudFront with HTTP 200 and matched the page we fetched directly. All 27 matched it byte for byte. The refused certificate is curl error 60: the certificate the proxy showed was "deemed not OK" by our client. We store no proxy addresses from these tests, and every time is in UTC.
Sources
- Supercell, Terms of Service, effective 6 November 2024, read on 27 September 2026.
- Supercell, Safe and Fair Play Policy and Parent's Guide, read on 27 September 2026.
- Supercell Support, Clash of Clans articles: What Determines a Ban's Length?, How Can I Get Free Gems and Resources?, Sharing Your Account Is Never Okay!, Playing with Multiple Game Accounts and How Can I Keep My Account Safe?, read on 27 September 2026.
- Supercell, announcement on the Brawl Stars blog, Russian edition, 9 March 2022, about all Supercell games.
- Android Open Source Project, the Settings app strings, on the Wi-Fi proxy warning, read on 27 September 2026.
- Akshaya Mani, Tavish Vaidya, David Dworken and Micah Sherr, An Extensive Evaluation of the Internet's Open Proxies, arXiv 1806.10258, 27 June 2018.
- curl, libcurl error codes, on error 60, read on 27 September 2026.
- HProxy documentation: the proxy checker API, read 27 September 2026.
