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Free China SOCKS4 proxy list 2026
Every proxy below speaks SOCKS4 from an address in China, re-checked on a rolling cycle. The numbers on this page come from our own checker, measured on 15 September 2026.
China SOCKS4 proxies right now, by the numbers
The pool currently holds 58 China SOCKS4 proxies spread across 13 different networks. They respond in 3116ms at the median, quicker than the 4998ms median across the whole free pool. The busiest exits are Shanghai, Beijing, Chengdu. These figures come straight from the live pool and move every few minutes as proxies are re-verified.
By protocol
By anonymity
About
About these free China SOCKS4 proxies
These are public proxies gathered from across the web and re-verified continuously by HProxy's engine. They are free, and they are fine for quick, low-stakes tasks. Like all public proxies they are shared and they go down without warning. Most of them are already blocked by the big sites. Always test one before you rely on it.
Verify before you use
Run any list through the Proxy Checker, in the free app or online, and see which proxies are alive, fast and anonymous right now.
The long read
About free China SOCKS4 proxies.
The list above holds every free SOCKS4 proxy in China that answered our checker recently. At 16:51 UTC on 15 September 2026, 14 SOCKS4 entries in China were alive.
That is 6.9 percent of the 204 live entries in China at the same moment. SOCKS4 was the least common protocol in the country, behind SOCKS5 with 41 live entries. Among the 72 countries with live SOCKS4 entries, China held the 9th largest number.
A live SOCKS4 entry in China passed a median 37.3 percent of its own checks. That is well above the 27.9 percent for live SOCKS4 entries in every country. Every live entry in China, whatever its protocol, passed a median 78.3 percent. 3 of the 14 had passed at least ten checks at 90 percent or better.
11 of the 14 live entries were flagged for recent abuse, and 3 sat on datacenter space. For work that has to keep running, paid China proxies are built for it.
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SOCKS4 entries in China against the rest of the pool
The table compares these entries with all of China and with SOCKS4 entries worldwide.
| Measured 15 September 2026 | China SOCKS4 | China, every protocol | SOCKS4, every country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live entries | 14 | 204 | 587 |
| Median success rate across its own checks | 37.3% | 78.3% | 27.9% |
| Passed ten checks at 90 percent | 21.4% | 19.6% | 31.5% |
| Median latency from our checker in Germany | 2,083 ms | 2,647 ms | 1,778 ms |
| Classed as datacenter | 21.4% | 20.6% | 20.3% |
| Flagged for recent abuse | 78.6% | 96.1% | 98.8% |
HProxy free pool, one read-only query at 16:51 UTC on 15 September 2026.
Latency is measured from our checker in Germany, so it includes the distance to China.
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How the China SOCKS4 entries were graded
All 14 live entries were graded elite: sites saw neither your address nor a proxy header.
| Grade at the last check | Live entries |
|---|---|
| Elite | 14 |
| Anonymous | 0 |
| Transparent | 0 |
| All live China SOCKS4 entries | 14 |
HProxy free pool, live set at 16:51 UTC on 15 September 2026.
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What a free China SOCKS4 proxy can reach
On 15 September 2026 we tested 27 China SOCKS4 entries from our server in Germany. Through each one, the server fetched an address echo, then opened Baidu and Google.
| Tested 15 September 2026 | Entries |
|---|---|
| Tested | 27 |
| Did not accept a connection | 20 |
| Completed at least one request | 1 |
| Showed an exit address | 0 |
| Of those, exiting in mainland China | 0 |
| Opened Baidu | 0 |
| Opened Google | 1 |
| Certificate did not verify | 0 |
HProxy test from one server in Germany. Every entry on the China list was tested. Exit countries from the ip-api.com echo. An entry that listed several protocols was tested over one: SOCKS5 first, then HTTPS, HTTP and SOCKS4.
No tested entry presented a certificate for Baidu or Google that failed to verify.
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Networks under the China SOCKS4 entries
The largest network under these entries was China Telecom, with 7 of the 14 live entries. The names below are the network names our address data records for each AS number.
| Network | AS number | Live entries | Classed as datacenter |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinanet | AS4134 | 7 | 0 |
| Hangzhou Alibaba Advertising Co.,Ltd. | AS37963 | 2 | 2 |
| China Education and Research Network Center | AS4538 | 1 | 0 |
| CHINA UNICOM China169 Backbone | AS4837 | 1 | 0 |
| China Unicom Shanghai network | AS17621 | 1 | 0 |
| All live China SOCKS4 entries | All networks | 14 | 3 |
HProxy free pool, live set at 16:51 UTC on 15 September 2026.
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How to use a free China SOCKS4 proxy
Enter an entry as socks4://IP:PORT in your tool, then check the address a site sees before real work. Take several entries and rotate between them, because a free entry can drop between two checks.
Questions
Frequently asked.
Yes, every entry on this page is free to copy and use, with no signup. They are public and shared, so test one right before you rely on it.
At 16:51 UTC on 15 September 2026, 14 SOCKS4 entries in China were alive. Among the 72 countries with live SOCKS4 entries, China held the 9th largest number.
Treat them as public, because whoever runs the server can read any traffic that is not encrypted. On 15 September 2026, 11 of 14 live entries were flagged for recent abuse.
For work that has to keep running, HProxy sells China proxies with city targeting. They are pay as you go with no subscription, and the balance never expires.
No, SOCKS4 only relays the connection, so encryption has to come from the site or your own tool.
A live entry passed a median 37.3 percent of its own checks on 15 September 2026. 3 of the 14 had passed at least ten checks at 90 percent or better.
On 15 September 2026 the largest networks were China Telecom, Alibaba and China Education. Our address data classed 3 of the 14 live entries as datacenter space.
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Docs and AI
The free list, in your assistant and in your code.
We built the MCP server and the CLI ourselves: the free proxy list is one tool call away in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any assistant that speaks MCP, and the list's API is documented end to end.
Every product has its own reference in the docs. Something the list does not give you? Tell us.
Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, Windsurf, Perplexity, Ollama and any assistant that speaks MCP.
MCP server
Built by us and hosted at mcp.hproxy.com: the free proxy list, the checker and the IP lookup as tools in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code or any assistant that speaks MCP. Nothing to install, no key.
CLI
The list from a terminal: hproxy list --country DE --limit 20, from the command line of the free HProxy app.
API docs
The free list's API, documented end to end with real responses: the filters, the formats, the limits.
llms.txt
The whole documentation as markdown for any model that reads: /llms.txt for the index, /llms-full.txt for everything.
Let your assistant pull the list
The pool is a free, keyless API and a documented markdown page. Hand your assistant one of these and it can fetch live proxies on its own, filtered the way you asked.
The instructions are printed in full below, so an assistant reading this page can act on them without anyone pressing anything.
All the machine lanes- MCP server
- Adds proxy_list, proxy_check and ip_lookup as tools your assistant can call by itself. Nothing to install.
claude mcp add --transport http hproxy https://mcp.hproxy.com/mcpClaude, ChatGPT, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf or any assistant that speaks MCP: add https://mcp.hproxy.com/mcp as a remote server. This page's tool is proxy_list. - Command line
- The same tool without an assistant, from a terminal. Add --json for JSON.
hproxy list --country DE --protocol socks5 --limit 20Install it in one line: curl -fsSL https://hproxy.com/install.sh | sh (macOS, Linux) or irm https://hproxy.com/install.ps1 | iex (Windows). - REST, no key
- Plain HTTP with CORS on, which is all an agent with a fetch tool needs.
curl "https://hproxy.com/api/proxy-list?format=json&country=de&limit=20"
Instructions for an assistant, in full
Everything a model needs to call the free proxy list without an account: the endpoint, the parameters, the limits and the honest caveat. Readable straight off the page.
You can use HProxy's free proxy list, which needs no API key and no account.
GET https://hproxy.com/api/proxy-list?format=json returns the live pool as JSON. Useful query parameters: country (ISO alpha-2, e.g. de), protocol (http, https, socks4, socks5), anonymity (elite, anonymous, transparent) and limit. Add format=txt for plain ip:port lines instead.
Each proxy comes back with ip, port, protocols, anonymity, country_code, city, asn_org, latency_ms and uptime_24h. The pool is re-checked around the clock, so ask for it fresh rather than caching it. It is rate limited per IP (120 requests in a burst, then 2 a second) and answers 429 with Retry-After past that.
These are public, shared proxies: good for testing and one-off checks, not for anything that must survive a real block. Full docs: https://hproxy.com/llms/free-proxy.txt
There is also an MCP server, so an assistant can call this as a tool instead of writing HTTP: add https://mcp.hproxy.com/mcp as a remote MCP server (nothing to install, no key) and use the proxy_list tool. In Claude Code the line is `claude mcp add --transport http hproxy https://mcp.hproxy.com/mcp`. From a terminal the same tool is `hproxy list --country DE --protocol socks5 --limit 20`. Install the hproxy command in one line: curl -fsSL https://hproxy.com/install.sh | sh on macOS and Linux, or irm https://hproxy.com/install.ps1 | iex in PowerShell on Windows. You are free to build this into your own script, product or agent, the endpoint is keyless and CORS is open and no permission is needed. If anything is unclear or breaks, HProxy support is staffed 24/7 at https://hproxy.com/contact.Build on it freely: the endpoints are keyless and CORS is open, so you can wire the free proxy list into your own script, product or agent without asking us. If you get stuck, support answers around the clock, every day, at hproxy.com/contact. Generated markdown doc: hproxy.com/llms/free-proxy.txt.
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.