Is 16.52.81.236:443 a proxy? Yes.

16.52.81.236:443 is a public SOCKS4 proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from Canada. It holds a spotty 21% uptime with a high 517ms response time, and was last checked 15 min ago.

Live now
21%

uptime

Latency517ms
ProtocolSOCKS4Elite
Last checked15 min ago
CountryCA Canada

Other ports on this IP

16.52.81.236 is answering on 165 ports right now.

Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 170 of them on 16.52.81.236 and have run 320,060 checks against them since June 11, 2026. When an address turns up on public lists across this many ports, each port is published as its own entry, so each one gets its own record here.

93% of the ports on this IP have answered158 of 170 ports on 16.52.81.236 have completed at least one connection
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Best responding ports

Best on this IP is 16.52.81.236:7531 at 15.0% across 3,569 checks

Ranked by uptime
PortUptimeAnsweredStatus
753115.0%534 / 3,569In the live pool
190314.8%540 / 3,655In the live pool
556614.8%532 / 3,601In the live pool
4530814.7%540 / 3,663In the live pool
2532714.7%541 / 3,680In the live pool
905814.7%536 / 3,646In the live pool
3164114.6%537 / 3,677In the live pool
4103014.6%533 / 3,652In the live pool
1534914.6%531 / 3,639In the live pool
2150614.4%527 / 3,649In the live pool
4921914.4%519 / 3,595In the live pool
712514.4%520 / 3,607In the live pool

See all 170 ports on 16.52.81.236

How this one compares

Reliable enough to sit in the better half of everything we are watching.

Every free proxy list quotes an uptime figure. Almost none of them tell you what a normal one looks like, so here is ours: across the 4,558 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 15.5% of the checks we send it.

21%

of 68 checks answered

median 15.5%

Pool median 15.5%. 16.52.81.236:443 is in the better half.

517ms

on its last response

median 3,203ms

Pool median 3,203ms, so this one is roughly 6x quicker than typical.

2

days tracked, still in the live pool

Of the 195,398 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.

What normal looks like

Every number above is measured against these two.

A percentage on a proxy list means nothing without the shape of the thing it came from. These are the two distributions the rest of this page compares against, drawn from HProxy's own checks rather than from anybody's marketing page.

What a normal free proxy looks likeTwo distributions from HProxy's own checks rather than from anybody's marketing page. Tails trimmed at the 5th and 95th percentile.

How long one lasts

Days from the first time we saw an address to the last time it answered, across 195,398 endpoints that stopped working.

Proxies that diedmedian 28 days
0204060

Middle halfMedianFull range

Half of the free proxies we have watched stop working were gone within 28 days of us first seeing them.

How quickly one answers

Response time on the last successful check, across the 4,558 proxies answering right now.

Live free proxiesmedian 3,203ms
05,00010k15k20k
517ms puts this one at the fast end of that spread.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Where this address sits

Right now our free pool holds 1,979 other free proxies on Amazon, and 420 in Canada. 16.52.81.236:443 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 517ms it answers faster than the 592ms median for Canada proxies (about 87% of it).

Amazon.com, Inc. is the 2nd largest source of free proxies we have ever measured.

Open proxies cluster rather than spreading evenly across the internet. Hosting providers and cloud platforms run enormous numbers of near-identical servers, so a handful of networks end up carrying a disproportionate share of every public proxy list, including ours. HProxy tracks 29,225 addresses on AS16509, which is 4.9% of every address in the database and a substantial share of everything HProxy tracks. That makes it the 2nd largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 1,980 of them are answering right now, so if this particular address is not usable, the network is a reasonable place to look for one that is.

AS16509 in the public proxy database
  • Answering now7%
  • Answered before73%
  • Never answered20%
1,980 of the 29,225 addresses HProxy holds on this network are answering right now.Source: HProxy verification engine
The networks that host the most free proxiesAddresses in HProxy's public proxy list, by network. AS16509 is marked.
  1. 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,266
  2. 2Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650929,206
  3. 3Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,186
  4. 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045419,475
  5. 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,141
  6. 6Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510211,711
  7. 7GloboTech CommunicationsAS3666611,542
  8. 8ChinanetAS41348,421
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

How to use this proxy

Route a request through 16.52.81.236:443 over SOCKS4. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.

bash

curl -x socks4://16.52.81.236:443 \

https://api.ipify.org?format=json

Not a terminal person? Pick your device and we walk you through it, nothing assumed.

Continuous monitoring

How HProxy checks 16.52.81.236:443

16.52.81.236:443 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.

  1. Port 443: HTTPS

    Port 443 carries encrypted web traffic. It is the last port any network will block, because blocking it breaks almost everything else, and that is exactly why proxies get put there.

  2. Every check is a real connection

    HProxy does not read this address off somebody else's list and pass it on. Each check opens a real connection to 16.52.81.236:443 and gives it up to 90 seconds to answer. Slow is not the same as unreachable, and plenty of working proxies take half a minute to reply. Anything that does not answer in that budget counts as a failure and is recorded as one, which is why the percentage on this page moves rather than sitting at a marketing number. The handshake is attempted across HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, which is how we know it spoke SOCKS4 and SOCKS5.

  3. 68 checks, 14 answered

    That is 21% of the time, measured since August 17, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.

  4. It is being re-tested continuously

    16.52.81.236:443 is in the live rotation, so it is re-tested continuously rather than on a daily cycle. If it stops answering it is marked down immediately, and if it stays down for 3 days it moves into the public proxy database with its full record intact. Nothing is deleted at any point.

This endpoint

The record

Everything HProxy holds on 16.52.81.236:443, and nothing it does not.

First seen
August 17, 2026
Last checked
August 19, 2026
Next check due
continuously
Checks run
68
Times it answered
14
Spoke
SOCKS4, SOCKS5

21%

answered 14 of 68 checks

Is 16.52.81.236:443 a proxy? Yes: a live free SOCKS4 proxy in Canada answering 21% of HProxy's checks.
16.52.81.236:443 at a glance. The card renders from its live record, so a saved copy goes stale while this page stays current.

Questions about 16.52.81.236:443

Is 16.52.81.236:443 a working proxy right now?

Yes. 16.52.81.236:443 answered HProxy's automated check 15 min ago and is in the live free proxy pool as we publish this page. It is re-tested every few minutes, so open this page again for its current state rather than trusting a copy of it.

What kind of proxy is 16.52.81.236?

It speaks SOCKS4, SOCKS5, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 443. Point your client at 16.52.81.236:443 over socks4 to route a request through it.

Where is 16.52.81.236 located?

Traffic through it exits from Montreal, Canada, on Amazon.com, Inc. (AS16509). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.

How fast is 16.52.81.236:443?

It answered in 517ms on the last check. Free public proxies are shared, so real-world speed varies with how many other people are using it at the same moment.

How reliable has 16.52.81.236:443 been?

Across 3 days of tracking it answered 21% of our checks. The chart on this page shows every day we have recorded for it, including the days it was down.

Is it safe to use 16.52.81.236:443?

Treat it the way you would any public proxy: it is operated by someone we have no relationship with, it is shared with strangers, and anything you send unencrypted over it can be read. Fine for a quick geo check or a scrape of public data, never for logins, payments or anything private.

How many free proxies are on Amazon?

1,979 other free proxies are live on Amazon (AS16509) in our pool right now, alongside 16.52.81.236:443. Networks that host one open proxy usually host several, which is why the whole AS is worth browsing rather than just this address.

Are there other free proxies in Canada?

Yes, 420 free proxies are exiting from Canada in our pool right now, answering in 592ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.

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