Is 45.74.31.40:14243 a proxy? Yes.

45.74.31.40:14243 is a public SOCKS5 proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from United States. It holds a spotty 16% uptime with a high 11338ms response time, and last answered our checker 15 hr ago.

Live now
16%

uptime

Latency11338ms
ProtocolSOCKS5Elite
Last answered15 hr ago
NetworkM247

Other ports on this IP

45.74.31.40 is answering on 5,411 ports right now.

Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 8,776 of them on 45.74.31.40 and have run 2,432,880 checks against them since September 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.

92% of the ports on this IP have answered8,092 of 8,776 ports on 45.74.31.40 have completed at least one connection
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Best responding ports

Best on this IP is 45.74.31.40:5542 at 25.8% across 636 checks

Ranked by uptime
PortUptimeAnsweredStatus
554225.8%164 / 636In the live pool
687025.0%160 / 639Not responding
788724.4%172 / 704In the live pool
688623.9%182 / 760In the live pool
677222.6%166 / 734In the live pool
660322.5%152 / 676In the live pool
976722.3%196 / 880In the live pool
1136918.9%179 / 947In the live pool
463615.6%189 / 1,213In the live pool
952715.6%213 / 1,368In the live pool
411913.7%187 / 1,362In the live pool
1053113.4%190 / 1,413In the live pool

See all 8,776 ports on 45.74.31.40

How this one compares

154 checks in, its uptime is ordinary for a free proxy.

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 4,923 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 34.5% of the checks we send it.

16%

of 154 checks answered

▲ median 34.5%

Pool median 34.5%. 45.74.31.40:14243 sits below it, which is ordinary for a public proxy.

11338ms

on its last response

▲ median 6,102ms

Pool median 6,102ms.

3

days tracked, still in the live pool

Of the 396,772 free proxies we have watched stop working, half were gone within 22 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 396,772 endpoints that stopped working.

Proxies that diedmedian 22 days
22 days
0 days20 days40 days60 days80 days

Middle halfMedianFull range

Half of the free proxies we have watched stop working were gone within 22 days of us first seeing them.

How quickly one answers

Response time on the last successful check, across the 4,923 proxies answering right now.

Live free proxiesmedian 6,102ms
6,102 ms
0 ms10k ms20k ms30k ms
The spread runs from 817ms to 23,114ms across the same list.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Where this address sits

Right now our free pool holds 440 other free proxies on M247, and 24,231 in United States. 45.74.31.40:14243 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 11338ms it is slower than the 2064ms median for United States proxies.

M247 is the 3rd 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 82,358 addresses on AS9009, which is 8.9% of every address in the database and a substantial share of everything HProxy tracks. That makes it the 3rd largest source of free proxies of every network we have ever seen. 441 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.

AS9009 in the public proxy database
  • Answering now1%
  • Answered before85%
  • Never answered14%
441 of the 82,358 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. AS9009 is marked.
  1. 1LimitedNetwork-ASAS213790227,474
  2. 2SECURED SERVERS LLCAS19437120,032
  3. 3M247AS900982,354
  4. 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
  5. 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650950,075
  6. 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,933
  7. 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,281
  8. 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,394
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

How to use this proxy

Route a request through 45.74.31.40:14243 over SOCKS5. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.

bash

curl -x socks5://45.74.31.40:14243 \

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 45.74.31.40:14243

45.74.31.40:14243 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.

  1. Port 14243: 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 45.74.31.40:14243 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. 154 checks, 25 answered

    That is 16% of the time, measured since October 12, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.

  4. It is being re-tested continuously

    45.74.31.40:14243 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 45.74.31.40:14243, and nothing it does not.

First seen
October 12, 2026
Last checked
October 15, 2026
Next check due
continuously
Checks run
154
Times it answered
25
Spoke
SOCKS5

16%

answered 25 of 154 checks

Is 45.74.31.40:14243 a proxy? Yes: a live free SOCKS5 proxy in United States answering 16% of HProxy's checks.
45.74.31.40:14243 at a glance. The card renders from its live record, so a saved copy goes stale while this page stays current.

Questions about 45.74.31.40:14243

Is 45.74.31.40:14243 a working proxy right now?

Yes. 45.74.31.40:14243 answered HProxy's automated check 15 hr 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 45.74.31.40?

It speaks SOCKS5, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 14243. Point your client at 45.74.31.40:14243 over socks5 to route a request through it.

Where is 45.74.31.40 located?

Traffic through it exits from United States, on M247 (AS9009). That is where the destination site will think your request came from.

How fast is 45.74.31.40:14243?

It answered in 11338ms 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 45.74.31.40:14243 been?

Across 4 days of tracking it answered 16% 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 45.74.31.40:14243?

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 M247?

440 other free proxies are live on M247 (AS9009) in our pool right now, alongside 45.74.31.40:14243. 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, 24,231 free proxies are exiting from United States in our pool right now, answering in 2064ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.

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