Is 198.12.116.108:1080 a proxy? Yes.
198.12.116.108:1080 is a public HTTP proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from United States. It holds an excellent 100% uptime with a high 1839ms response time, and was last checked 15 min ago.
uptime
Other ports on this IP
198.12.116.108 is answering on 2 ports right now.
Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 2 of them on 198.12.116.108 and have run 10 checks against them since September 2, 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 198.12.116.108:1080 at 100.0% across 9 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 10,787 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 28.9% of the checks we send it.
100%
of 9 checks answered
Pool median 28.9%. 198.12.116.108:1080 is in the top 5%.
1839ms
on its last response
Pool median 1,411ms.
0
days tracked, still in the live pool
Of the 207,048 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.
How long one lasts
Days from the first time we saw an address to the last time it answered, across 207,048 endpoints that stopped working.
Middle halfMedianFull range
How quickly one answers
Response time on the last successful check, across the 10,787 proxies answering right now.
Where this address sits
Right now our free pool holds 9 other free proxies on HostPapa, and 30,700 in United States. 198.12.116.108:1080 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 1839ms it is slower than the 1564ms median for United States proxies.
HostPapa is the 21st 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 3,569 addresses on AS36352, which is 0.48% of every address in the database and a meaningful pocket of the database. That makes it the 21st largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 10 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 now<1%
- Answered before6%
- Never answered93%
- 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
- 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS1943776,803
- 3SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045440,183
- 4Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650938,676
- 5Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,891
- 6M247AS900917,957
- 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,258
- 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,184
12 networks between
21HostPapaAS363523,568
How to use this proxy
Route a request through 198.12.116.108:1080 over HTTP. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.
curl -x http://198.12.116.108:1080 \
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 198.12.116.108:1080
198.12.116.108:1080 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.
Port 1080: SOCKS
Port 1080 is the officially registered home of SOCKS, which forwards any kind of connection instead of only web traffic. An address offered on 1080 is being presented as a general purpose tunnel, not just a web proxy.
It has answered every single check
Each check opens a real connection to 198.12.116.108:1080 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. 198.12.116.108:1080 has completed that handshake on all 9 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.
9 checks, 9 answered
That is 100% of the time, measured since September 2, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.
It is being re-tested continuously
198.12.116.108:1080 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 198.12.116.108:1080, and nothing it does not.
- First seen
- September 2, 2026
- Last checked
- September 2, 2026
- Next check due
- continuously
- Checks run
- 9
- Times it answered
- 9
- Spoke
- HTTP, HTTPS
100%
answered 9 of 9 checks
Questions about 198.12.116.108:1080
Is 198.12.116.108:1080 a working proxy right now?
Yes. 198.12.116.108:1080 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 198.12.116.108?
It speaks HTTP, HTTPS, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 1080. Point your client at 198.12.116.108:1080 over http to route a request through it.
Where is 198.12.116.108 located?
Traffic through it exits from Seattle, United States, on HostPapa (AS36352). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.
How fast is 198.12.116.108:1080?
It answered in 1839ms 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 198.12.116.108:1080 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 198.12.116.108:1080?
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 HostPapa?
9 other free proxies are live on HostPapa (AS36352) in our pool right now, alongside 198.12.116.108:1080. 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 United States?
Yes, 30,700 free proxies are exiting from United States in our pool right now, answering in 1564ms 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.
198.12.116.108:1080 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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About this list & IP removal
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.