Nothing here is a hit piece. iplocate/free-proxy-list has customers who are well served by it, and this page says which ones. It also says where we think the model costs a buyer money.
What we can and cannot tell you about iplocate/free-proxy-list
The company behind the name sits at github.com/iplocate/free-proxy-list. We carry them as a free proxy list.
What we do not hold is a current, sourced price for iplocate/free-proxy-list. Rather than print a figure we cannot stand behind, this page leaves it out and tells you what to look for when you read their page yourself.
Read their page for the reachable rate rather than the headline, the minimum spend, the expiry clause and the billing treatment of blocked requests. Write down the date, because all four move.
What iplocate/free-proxy-list says about itself today
As of 9 September 2026 the tab reads "GitHub - iplocate/free-proxy-list: ⚡️ Free Verified HTTP, SOCKS5, and SOCKS4 Proxy List ⏰ Updated every 30 minutes · GitHub". Their own summary of the product runs: "⚡️ Free Verified HTTP, SOCKS5, and SOCKS4 Proxy List ⏰ Updated every 30 minutes - iplocate/free-proxy-list"
Reading the same page for the things buyers actually ask about:
The product lines named on that page are residential and SOCKS5. Support is advertised as around the clock. Their pricing page is titled "Pricing · Plans for every developer · GitHub".
Treat all of it as advertising, because it is. Its value is that it is dated and quotable, which is more than most comparison pages offer.
The domain record
The domain was registered on 9 October 2007, through MarkMonitor Inc, which makes it about 18 years old. Those dates come from a registry query on 9 September 2026. Their registration is booked through 9 October 2028.
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.
Whose list this is
We checked this one by hand on 6 September 2026. It is a repository, and we record the operator as github. Evidence recorded: 277 stars, created 2025-07, pushed 2026-09-06. Ranks #3 for "free proxy list" (DE results) with 277 stars.
This one lives on GitHub. That means you can read exactly how the list is built, which no commercial list allows, and that it can stop the day the maintainer loses interest.
What none of that tells you is how many of the addresses answer today. We publish our own measurement of that on the free side: of 589918 addresses discovered, 4023 were alive at the last check, with a median lifespan of 145 hours. Any list without a check date is describing a past that has already gone.
Where published figures stop being useful
Logging, and who can read it
A service with no stated retention period has one anyway, and it is whatever their hosting provider does by default. Absence of a policy is a policy, and usually not the one you would choose.
Why the pool number is the least useful figure
Nobody audits pool totals in this market, and the counting rules differ between vendors. Even an accurate figure describes addresses that exist, not addresses you will be routed through. Treat it as a marketing unit rather than a capability.
The reputation you inherit
An address you share carries the reputation of everyone else on it. That is acceptable for some work and fatal for anything involving a login. The price difference between shared and dedicated usually reflects exactly this.
A comparison that admits what it cannot say
The rows below are the ones that change what you pay and whether the job runs:
| Question to ask | iplocate/free-proxy-list | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Not verified by us, read their page | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Check the current terms, this one moves | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Not published clearly, ask before paying | None |
| Identity checks | On their own terms page | 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.
A test worth more than this comparison
Do this once and you will never need a comparison page for this decision again.
- 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.
- Buy the one that won on your target, and diarise a re-test in three months.
The other names that come up
Other providers in the same bracket, priced and dated the same way:
- TheSpeedX PROXY-List (GitHub) alternatives
- Unblockvideos alternatives
- Unblockyoutube alternatives
- US-Proxy.org alternatives
- AliveProxy alternatives
- Anonymizing 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.
