Nothing here is a hit piece. monosans proxy-list (GitHub) 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 monosans proxy-list (GitHub)
The company behind the name sits at github.com/monosans/proxy-list. We carry them as a free proxy list.
monosans proxy-list (GitHub) is not in our priced record, so nothing about their rate appears below. That gap is stated rather than filled, which is the only honest option available.
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.
What monosans proxy-list (GitHub) says about itself today
Read 9 September 2026, the homepage titles itself "GitHub - monosans/proxy-list: Free HTTP, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxy lists, re-checked every hour. Plain text and JSON, sorted fastest first, with response time, ex". Their meta description, the sentence Google shows under the link, says: "Free HTTP, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxy lists, re-checked every hour. Plain text and JSON, sorted fastest first, with response time, exit IP, ASN and geolocation. No signup and no API key. - monosans/proxy-list"
Also on the page, stated plainly:
The product lines named on that page are SOCKS5. Support is advertised as around the clock. Their pricing page is titled "Pricing · Plans for every developer · GitHub".
None of that is verified performance. It is what the vendor chose to publish, recorded with a date so you can see whether it still says the same thing.
The domain record
The domain was registered on 9 October 2007, through MarkMonitor Inc, which makes it about 18 years old. That record was read from the registry on 9 September 2026. The registry shows it renewed to 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.
Ownership of the list
We checked this one by hand on 6 September 2026. It is a repository, and we record the operator as github. Evidence recorded: 1,506 stars, pushed 2026-09-06. Its scraper-checker keeps a public sources list.
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.
Every list in this category has the same underlying problem, which is decay. We measure it on our own network and publish it: 4023 alive right now out of 589918 ever discovered, median lifespan 145 hours. A list is only as good as its last check.
The parts no marketing page answers
Logging, and who can read it
Anything routing your traffic can read it unless it is encrypted end to end, and can alter anything that is not. Assume the operator sees the metadata and decide whether that is acceptable for the work.
Why the pool number is the least useful figure
Claims of ten million, one hundred million or more say nothing about whether your requests get through this week. Your job meets the handful of exits it draws, in your countries, against one target. Rotation policy and freshness move that outcome far more than the headline total.
The reputation you inherit
Ask how many accounts can sit on one address at once. Where the answer is unlimited or unspecified, price the plan as shared regardless of what the product is called.
Side by side, with the blanks left blank
The rows below are the ones that change what you pay and whether the job runs:
| Question to ask | monosans proxy-list (GitHub) | 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 | Their terms page answers this | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Check the current terms, this one moves | 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.
How to settle it yourself in ten minutes
Run this before you commit any volume. It replaces every opinion on this page, including ours.
- Buy the minimum each side offers. Prefer a small paid batch over a trial, because trial traffic does not always ride the same pool.
- Send an identical workload through each: same target, same tooling, same time of day, same request mix.
- Measure what came back correctly and what it consumed, then divide the spend by the successes.
- Push a sample of exit addresses through an independent checker and confirm the country and connection type are what was advertised.
- Take the winner and set a reminder to run this again, since a result has a shelf life of about a quarter.
Others in this market
Nearest alternatives by product shape rather than by who pays us, since nobody does:
- Free Proxy List alternatives
- Freeproxy alternatives
- FreeProxyList.cc alternatives
- Freeproxylists alternatives
- fyvri/fresh-proxy-list alternatives
- Geonix alternatives
The competing offer, for completeness
We are the pay as you go option in this market. Residential from $0.44 per GB, ISP and datacenter per address, mobile alongside them, all from one balance with nothing to forfeit. That model wins on irregular volume and loses on very large steady volume, which is worth knowing before you test.
