Is 194.163.174.78:1089 a proxy? Yes.

194.163.174.78:1089 is a public SOCKS5 proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from France. It holds a spotty 32% uptime with a quick 170ms response time, and was last checked 7 min ago.

Live now
32%

uptime

Latency170ms
ProtocolSOCKS5Elite
Last checked7 min ago
CountryFR France
NetworkCONTABO

Other ports on this IP

194.163.174.78 is answering on 5 ports right now.

Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 14 of them on 194.163.174.78 and have run 23,300 checks against them since June 28, 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 answered13 of 14 ports on 194.163.174.78 have completed at least one connection
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Best responding ports

Best on this IP is 194.163.174.78:1089 at 31.9% across 2,226 checks

Ranked by uptime
PortUptimeAnsweredStatus
108931.9%709 / 2,226In the live pool
828231.2%461 / 1,476Not responding
108828.3%709 / 2,508Not responding
108727.9%557 / 1,994Not responding
108526.9%483 / 1,797In the live pool
108626.5%348 / 1,313In the live pool
108125.8%665 / 2,579In the live pool
108325.6%374 / 1,460Not responding
108424.9%379 / 1,520Not responding
109024.5%397 / 1,623In the live pool
108023.2%391 / 1,688Not responding
828620.9%135 / 646Not responding

See all 14 ports on 194.163.174.78

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 6,167 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 26% of the checks we send it.

32%

of 2,226 checks answered

median 26%

Pool median 26%. 194.163.174.78:1089 is in the better half.

170ms

on its last response

median 8,275ms

Pool median 8,275ms, so this one is roughly 49x quicker than typical.

44

days tracked, still in the live pool

Of the 272,239 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.

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 272,239 endpoints that stopped working.

Proxies that diedmedian 26 days
020406080

Middle halfMedianFull range

Half of the free proxies we have watched stop working were gone within 26 days of us first seeing them.

How quickly one answers

Response time on the last successful check, across the 6,167 proxies answering right now.

Live free proxiesmedian 8,275ms
020k40k60k
170ms 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 36 other free proxies on Contabo, and 260 in France. 194.163.174.78:1089 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 170ms it answers faster than the 1088ms median for France proxies (about 16% of it).

CONTABO is the 36th 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 1,744 addresses on AS51167, which is 0.22% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. That makes it the 36th largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 37 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.

AS51167 in the public proxy database
  • Answering now2%
  • Answered before15%
  • Never answered83%
Most addresses published on this network never worked. That is the normal shape of a scraped proxy list, and it is only visible because every one of them was actually tested.Source: HProxy verification engine
The networks that host the most free proxiesAddresses in HProxy's public proxy list, by network. AS51167 is marked.
  1. 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
  2. 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943779,187
  3. 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045447,197
  4. 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650944,504
  5. 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,924
  6. 6M247AS900919,105
  7. 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,275
  8. 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,248
  9. 27 networks between

    36CONTABOAS511671,744
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

How to use this proxy

Route a request through 194.163.174.78:1089 over SOCKS5. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.

bash

curl -x socks5://194.163.174.78:1089 \

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 194.163.174.78:1089

194.163.174.78:1089 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.

  1. Port 1089: Registered port range

    This port sits in the middle range, where any ordinary program can listen without special permission. The number itself carries no reserved meaning, which tells you somebody picked it on purpose instead of accepting a default.

  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 194.163.174.78:1089 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 SOCKS5.

  3. 2,226 checks, 709 answered

    That is 32% of the time, measured since July 30, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.

  4. It is being re-tested continuously

    194.163.174.78:1089 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 194.163.174.78:1089, and nothing it does not.

First seen
July 30, 2026
Last checked
September 12, 2026
Next check due
continuously
Checks run
2,226
Times it answered
709
Spoke
SOCKS5

32%

answered 709 of 2,226 checks

Is 194.163.174.78:1089 a proxy? Yes: a live free SOCKS5 proxy in France answering 32% of HProxy's checks.
194.163.174.78:1089 at a glance. The card renders from its live record, so a saved copy goes stale while this page stays current.

Questions about 194.163.174.78:1089

Is 194.163.174.78:1089 a working proxy right now?

Yes. 194.163.174.78:1089 answered HProxy's automated check 7 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 194.163.174.78?

It speaks SOCKS5, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 1089. Point your client at 194.163.174.78:1089 over socks5 to route a request through it.

Where is 194.163.174.78 located?

Traffic through it exits from Lauterbourg, France, on CONTABO (AS51167). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.

How fast is 194.163.174.78:1089?

It answered in 170ms 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 194.163.174.78:1089 been?

Across 45 days of tracking it answered 32% 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 194.163.174.78:1089?

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 Contabo?

36 other free proxies are live on Contabo (AS51167) in our pool right now, alongside 194.163.174.78:1089. 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 France?

Yes, 260 free proxies are exiting from France in our pool right now, answering in 1088ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.

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