The alternatives to TheSpeedX PROXY-List that test their entries are Proxifly, monosans, ProxyScrape and our free proxy list. TheSpeedX published 9,091 public proxies on November 7, 2026, from just 3,350 IP addresses, and states no test. For logins or a country you rely on, a paid proxy with public terms fits better than any free list.
The list itself is active. On November 7, 2026, its README showed an update at 09:30 UTC that morning and "Total Proxies: 9091": 2,688 HTTP, 2,248 SOCKS4 and 4,155 SOCKS5 addresses in three text files. It costs nothing and needs no account. Its owner is plain about it. They "collected them from the Internet for easy access" and are "not in charge of these proxies". Nothing in the repository says the addresses are tested before they are published. The alternatives table compares five lists, read the same day.
The record, with dates
| date | what happened |
|---|---|
| August 2019 | First archived copy, under the name SOCKS-List. The raw links in the README still use that name. |
| September 27, 2026 | The README reads "Last Updated: Sunday 27-09-2026 03:12:36 UTC". |
| September 27, 2026 | Our count: 9,390 addresses, 5.8k stars and 1,337 commits. |
| November 7, 2026 | The README reads "Last Updated: Saturday 07-11-2026 09:30:53 UTC" and "Total Proxies: 9091". |
| November 7, 2026 | Our count: 9,091 addresses from 3,350 IP addresses, 5,875 stars and 1,504 commits. |
Aug 2019
First archived copy, under the name SOCKS-List. The raw links in the README still use that name
Sep 27, 2026
The README reads "Last Updated: Sunday 27-09-2026 03:12:36 UTC"
Sep 27, 2026
Our count: 9,390 addresses, 5.8k stars and 1,337 commits
Nov 7, 2026
The README reads "Total Proxies: 9091", updated at 09:30 UTC
Nov 7, 2026
Our count: 9,091 addresses from 3,350 IP addresses, 5,875 stars, 1,504 commits
Sources: the Internet Archive, the repository page, and our own counts on September 27 and November 7, 2026.
What it is, and how people use it
The repository holds three plain text files, http.txt, socks4.txt and socks5.txt, with one address and port per line. People fetch a file with a script and pass it to their tool. That is why search engines suggest "thespeedx proxy list master http txt". The README calls the list "updated from time to time", while the title says it "gets updated everyday".
The history backs the title. From September 27 to November 6, 2026, every day brought 3 to 6 automated commits named "Updated Proxies", with a median of 5.6 hours between two of them.
The list does not rotate, test or filter anything. You get what was collected, and your tool has to find out what still works.
How big the list really is
The headline count is a count of lines. On November 7, 2026, the three files held 9,091 entries. But 1,696 address and port pairs appeared in two or three files at once, so only 6,047 pairs were distinct. Those pairs pointed to 3,350 IP addresses.
A few addresses carry much of the list. Five IP addresses accounted for 2,357 entries, a quarter of the total, with 277 to 667 ports each. On September 27, the same count gave 9,390 entries, 5,307 distinct pairs and 4,142 IP addresses, so the gap was there six weeks earlier too.
How fast it changes
Six weeks replace most of it. Of the 9,390 entries listed on September 27, 2,464 were still listed on November 7, about one in four. In the same time, 6,627 new entries arrived. The SOCKS5 file changed the most: 581 of its 3,050 September entries remained.
- still listed November 7
- listed September 27
A file you saved in September is mostly a list of addresses the project itself has since dropped. Fetch the current file each time, and test it before use.
What the list does not tell you
- How many addresses answer. We contacted none of them, and the repository publishes no test result.
- Where they come from. "I collected them from the Internet" is the only answer.
- Who runs the machines. The owner says outright they are "not in charge of these proxies".
- Country, speed and anonymity. The files carry none of it.
That is the nature of public proxies, not a flaw of this one list. Our own free list says it plainly: public proxies "are shared and they go down without warning", and "Most of them are already blocked by the big sites."
Where TheSpeedX is the stronger choice
- One fixed file address per protocol, easy to fetch from any script.
- Thousands of entries in three protocol files, refreshed several times a day.
- 5,875 stars and more than 1,500 commits: a list many people already build on.
- Nothing to sign up for, and no terms to accept.
Where HProxy is different
| TheSpeedX PROXY-List | HProxy | |
|---|---|---|
| price | free | a free list, and paid proxies from $0.50/GB for 1 GB |
| who answers for the addresses | Nobody: "not in charge of these proxies". | Paid lines come with public terms and a refund policy. |
| testing | none stated | the free list is re-checked around the clock |
| details per address | none | country, latency and anonymity on the free list |
| city and ISP targeting | none | Premium, at $1.49 for one GB |
Five alternatives, read the same day
Every line below comes from the page of each list, read from our server on November 7, 2026.
| list | how often it changes | what it says about testing |
|---|---|---|
| Proxifly, free | "every 5 minutes" | It "found 11253 working proxies from 136 countries" in its update of November 7, 2026. |
| monosans, free | "re-checked every hour" | "Every proxy here was verified minutes before the last commit." It adds response time, exit IP, network owner and location. |
| ProxyScrape, free | "refreshed every minute" | Its proxies are "verified by automated checkers", from 180+ countries. |
| HProxy free proxy list | re-checked around the clock | Live HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies. Filter and export, no sign-up. |
| HProxy Lite, paid | a rotating residential line | $0.50/GB for 1 GB, $0.18/GB at 1,000 GB+, under public terms and a refund policy. |
All four free lists share the limits of public proxies: shared addresses, no uptime promise, and nothing private sent through them.
Which one to pick
- You need thousands of raw addresses for a tool that tests them itself: TheSpeedX works, as long as you expect dead entries and repeats.
- You want only addresses that answered recently: a list that tests, such as Proxifly, monosans, ProxyScrape or our free proxy list.
- You need a login, a checkout or a country you can rely on: pick a paid line. HProxy Lite costs $0.50/GB for 1 GB, and Premium adds city and ISP targeting at $1.49 for one GB.
Whichever list you use, run it through our free proxy checker first. It tests HTTP and SOCKS proxies with no sign-up.
What this page could not check
We counted the files, compared two commits and read the pages; we did not connect to any address on any list. A count of IP addresses says nothing about how many of them answer. The counts change with every update, several times a day, and so do the claims of the other lists. This page is due for a check by January 7, 2027.
Sources
Read on November 7, 2026, unless a line says otherwise:
- TheSpeedX PROXY-List on GitHub: the repository, its README, the three files at the updates of September 27, 2026 (03:12 UTC) and November 7, 2026 (09:30 UTC), and the commit history between them, read through the GitHub API.
- Internet Archive: the capture index for the repository under its earlier name, read September 27, 2026.
- Proxifly and monosans repositories, and the ProxyScrape free proxy list page, read from our server.
- HProxy, our free proxy list, proxy checker and product catalog.
