Is 45.74.31.40:8438 a proxy? Yes.

45.74.31.40:8438 is a public SOCKS5 proxy in the HProxy free proxy list, exiting from United States. It holds an excellent 100% uptime with a high 3724ms response time, and last answered our checker 23 min ago.

Live now
100%

uptime

Latency3724ms
ProtocolSOCKS5Elite
Last answered23 min ago
NetworkM247

Other ports on this IP

45.74.31.40 is answering on 5,835 ports right now.

Ports like this one rarely travel alone. We hold 8,761 of them on 45.74.31.40 and have run 2,257,180 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.

89% of the ports on this IP have answered7,798 of 8,761 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 26.7% across 604 checks

Ranked by uptime
PortUptimeAnsweredStatus
554226.7%161 / 604In the live pool
788725.4%171 / 673In the live pool
687025.1%160 / 638Not responding
688625.0%182 / 728In the live pool
660323.6%152 / 644In the live pool
976723.0%195 / 849In the live pool
677222.8%160 / 702In the live pool
404220.5%151 / 737In the live pool
1136919.4%178 / 916In the live pool
463616.0%189 / 1,181In the live pool
952715.8%211 / 1,337In the live pool
411914.0%187 / 1,331In the live pool

See all 8,761 ports on 45.74.31.40

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 8,497 proxies answering right now, the middle of the pack answers 29.3% of the checks we send it.

100%

of 18 checks answered

▲ median 29.3%

Pool median 29.3%. 45.74.31.40:8438 is in the top 5%.

3724ms

on its last response

▲ median 5,645ms

Pool median 5,645ms, so this one is roughly 2x quicker than typical.

0

days tracked, still in the live pool

Of the 395,874 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 395,874 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 8,497 proxies answering right now.

Live free proxiesmedian 5,645ms
5,645 ms
0 ms5,000 ms10k ms15k ms20k ms
The spread runs from 956ms to 19,130ms across the same list.
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

Where this address sits

Right now our free pool holds 2,395 other free proxies on M247, and 23,586 in United States. 45.74.31.40:8438 sits inside that set, so if it is not usable the pages below are where its closest alternatives are. At 3724ms it is slower than the 2645ms 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 82,324 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. 2,396 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 now3%
  • Answered before82%
  • Never answered16%
2,396 of the 82,324 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. 3M247AS900982,322
  4. 4SECURED SERVERS LLCAS2045456,868
  5. 5Amazon.com, Inc.AS1650949,961
  6. 6Cloudflare, Inc.AS1333522,933
  7. 7Cloudflare, Inc.AS20924214,281
  8. 8Alibaba (US) Technology Co., Ltd.AS4510212,391
Source: HProxy verification engine · hproxy.comProxy.

How to use this proxy

Route a request through 45.74.31.40:8438 over SOCKS5. Free proxies are shared and rotate out fast, so test before you rely on it.

bash

curl -x socks5://45.74.31.40:8438 \

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 45.74.31.40:8438

45.74.31.40:8438 is in the live pool right now, and it stays there only for as long as it keeps answering.

  1. Port 8438: 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. It has answered every single check

    Each check opens a real connection to 45.74.31.40:8438 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. 45.74.31.40:8438 has completed that handshake on all 18 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 SOCKS5.

  3. 18 checks, 18 answered

    That is 100% of the time, measured since October 14, 2026. Every one of those results, successes and failures alike, is a connection HProxy opened itself.

  4. It is being re-tested continuously

    45.74.31.40:8438 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 45.74.31.40:8438, and nothing it does not.

First seen
October 14, 2026
Last checked
October 14, 2026
Next check due
continuously
Checks run
18
Times it answered
18
Spoke
SOCKS5

100%

answered 18 of 18 checks

Is 45.74.31.40:8438 a proxy? Yes: a live free SOCKS5 proxy in United States answering 100% of HProxy's checks.
45.74.31.40:8438 at a glance. The card renders from its live record, so a saved copy goes stale while this page stays current.

Questions about 45.74.31.40:8438

Is 45.74.31.40:8438 a working proxy right now?

Yes. 45.74.31.40:8438 answered HProxy's automated check 23 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 45.74.31.40?

It speaks SOCKS5, and our checks grade it elite. The port is 8438. Point your client at 45.74.31.40:8438 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 45.74.31.40:8438?

It answered in 3724ms 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 45.74.31.40:8438 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 45.74.31.40:8438?

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?

2,395 other free proxies are live on M247 (AS9009) in our pool right now, alongside 45.74.31.40:8438. 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, 23,586 free proxies are exiting from United States in our pool right now, answering in 2645ms at the median. If this address is not usable, that list is the place to look for a working one.

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This one is good, and it will still disappear.

45.74.31.40:8438 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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