Readers land here mid-decision, usually with a cart open somewhere. The fastest thing we can do is set out what FreeProxy publishes, what it does not, and what a few dollars of testing settles better than any argument.
The record we hold
The domain is freeproxy.world. They are filed here as a free proxy list.
A price is missing here on purpose. We have not captured a sourced rate for FreeProxy recently enough to publish one, and a stale number in this market is a wrong number.
Look for the tier you would actually land in, not the one at the bottom of the table, and find the expiry and failed-request clauses before the rate impresses you.
How FreeProxy presents itself
Read 9 September 2026, the homepage titles itself "Free Proxy List - FreeProxy.World". The one-paragraph pitch on their own page: "Worldwide free proxy list. Free fresh working proxy, including HTTP/SOCKS/SSL"
Taken from the same page, on the same day:
The product lines named on that page are SOCKS5. We found no separate pricing page linked from the homepage, which usually means the price arrives by quotation.
Nothing there has been tested. It is a record of what the page said on the day, which is the honest limit of what a page like this can offer without a measurement.
What the registration record shows
The domain was registered on 7 December 2019, through Dominet (HK) Limited, which makes it about 6 years old. That record was read from the registry on 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 20 snapshots of the site, the earliest from August 2018. The registry shows it renewed to 7 December 2027.
Read that as a floor rather than a recommendation. Longevity says somebody has kept paying the registrar, and in a market with this much churn that is worth ten seconds of your attention.
Who is behind the list
We checked this one by hand on 6 September 2026. It is a list, and we record the operator as independent. Ranks #5 for "free proxy list" (DE results).
No proxy seller behind it that we could find. Independent lists tend to live on ad revenue, so expect the page to be busier than the data warrants.
The Internet Archive has it from 11 August 2018 to 7 June 2026, about 8 years of coverage. The domain was registered 7 December 2019 through Dominet (HK) Limited.
The number that matters, and that no list page prints, is how many entries still work. Ours is public: 589918 addresses discovered, 4023 alive at the last check, median lifespan 145 hours. Apply that decay to any undated list you are reading.
What the advertised numbers cannot tell you
A pool total is not a promise
The number that matters is how many usable exits you can reach in the one country your job needs, this week. A pool total averages that away, which is why two providers with similar totals produce opposite results on the same site.
Why 195 countries tells you nothing
Almost every provider claims almost every country. What differs is depth, and depth decides whether a single city or a single carrier is usable. No published figure tells you that.
The day something goes wrong
Every provider works when nothing is wrong. The difference shows up on the day a subnet gets flagged or a gateway stops answering. Before committing volume, send one real question through the support channel and time the reply.
What separates them, in a table
This is the shortest table that still decides the purchase:
| Question to ask | FreeProxy | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Worth confirming in writing before you commit | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Their terms page answers this | None |
| Identity checks | Check the current terms, this one moves | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | On their own terms page | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
That comparison covers what is publishable. What is not publishable, and what actually decides this, is how many of your requests come back correct.
The ten minute version of this decision
For a few dollars you can get a verdict specific to your job, which no comparison page can honestly promise you.
- Open an account on each and add the smallest amount they take. Skip the trial if a paid unit is cheap enough to buy outright.
- Point both at your real target, through your real tool, on the same day, with the same mix of requests.
- Log successes, failures and gigabytes used. Cost per successful request is the figure you are after.
- Verify a slice of the exits independently. Country labels in this market are self-reported and are not always right.
- Take the winner and set a reminder to run this again, since a result has a shelf life of about a quarter.
The other names that come up
Other providers in the same bracket, priced and dated the same way:
- clarketm proxy-list (GitHub) alternatives
- DidSoft alternatives
- Fauvet alternatives
- Free Proxy alternatives
- Free Proxy List alternatives
- FreeProxyList.cc alternatives
Where HProxy sits in that test
We sell residential proxies from $0.44 per GB with no subscription and a balance that does not expire, plus ISP, mobile and datacenter in the same account. That is the pitch, and the test above is a better judge of it than this paragraph.
