Is 167.233.169.253:1081 a proxy? Yes.
167.233.169.253:1081 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from Germany. It holds an excellent 100% uptime with a high 1320ms response time, and was last checked 20 min ago.
uptime
GermanyOther ports on this IP
167.233.169.253 is answering on 3 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 3 of them on 167.233.169.253 and have run 108 checks against them since September 3, 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.
Best responding ports
Best on this IP is 167.233.169.253:1083 at 100.0% across 96 checks
How this one compares
Reliable enough to sit in the top 5% 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 9,664 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 44.3% of the checks we send it.
100%
of 6 checks answered
Pool median 44.3%. 167.233.169.253:1081 is in the top 5%.
1320ms
on its last response
Pool median 1,551ms.
0
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 228,060 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 26 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.
How long one lasts
Days from the first time we saw an address to the last time it answered, across 228,060 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 9,664 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 31 other free proxies on Hetzner, and 1,654 in Germany. 167.233.169.253:1081 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 1320ms it is slower than the 1070ms median for Germany proxies.
HETZNER-AS is the 18th 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 4,782 addresses on AS24940, which is 0.63% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. That makes it the 18th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 32 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.
- Answering now1%
- Answered before12%
- Never answered87%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,187
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045444,791
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650941,972
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,910
- 6M247AS900918,020
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,272
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,219
9 networks between
18HETZNER-ASAS249404,782
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 167.233.169.253:1081 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://167.233.169.253:1081 \
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 167.233.169.253:1081
167.233.169.253:1081 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 1081: SOCKS, alternate
Port 1081 is where the second SOCKS tunnel goes when 1080 on the same machine is already busy. Seeing it usually means somebody set up more than one.
It has answered every single check
Each check opens a real connection to 167.233.169.253:1081 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. 167.233.169.253:1081 has completed that handshake on all 6 attempts so far, which is rare on a free public proxy and worth treating with some suspicion until the record is longer. The handshake is attempted across HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5, which is how we know it spoke HTTP and HTTPS.
6 checks, 6 answered
That is 100% of the time, measured since September 5, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
167.233.169.253:1081 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 167.233.169.253:1081, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- September 5, 2026
- Last checked
- September 5, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 6
- Times it answered
- 6
- Spoke
- HTTP, HTTPS
100%
answered 6 of 6 checks
Questions about 167.233.169.253:1081
Is 167.233.169.253:1081 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 167.233.169.253:1081 answered HProxy's automated check 20 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 167.233.169.253?
It speaks HTTP, HTTPS, and our checks grade it transparent. The port is 1081. Point your client at 167.233.169.253:1081 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 167.233.169.253 located?
Traffic through it exits from Germany, on HETZNER-AS (AS24940). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 167.233.169.253:1081?
It answered in 1320ms 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 167.233.169.253:1081 been?
Across 1 day of tracking it answered 100% 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 167.233.169.253:1081?
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 Hetzner?
31 other free proxies are live on Hetzner (AS24940) in our pool right now, alongside 167.233.169.253:1081. 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 Germany?
Yes, 1,654 free proxies are exiting from Germany in our pool right now, answering in 1070ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.
Where to go next
Upgrade to the paid network
This one is good, and it will still disappear.
167.233.169.253:1081 has answered 100% of our checks, which puts it well above most of what we track. It is still a public endpoint with nobody standing behind it: nobody agreed to serve you, no capacity is set aside for you, and there is no warning on the day it stops. Fine for a test, a bad foundation for anything that has to work tomorrow.
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Every proxy here is aggregated from publicly available sources. We do not scan or collect these IP addresses ourselves: we verify entries that are already public (live status, latency, uptime) and store nothing else about the devices behind them. The list is provided as-is, with no warranty, for lawful use only, on the basis of our legitimate interest in a free, transparent proxy directory (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Never route passwords or sensitive data through a public proxy. If an IP address is yours and you'd like it removed, email legal@hproxy.com and we'll take it down (Art. 21 GDPR). Full details on the report abuse page.