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Free proxy list: HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5.
Thousands of public HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 proxies from 116 sources, re-checked around the clock. Filter by country, protocol and anonymity, copy or download the set, or call the free API. No signup.
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The biggest, and why
Every public source, one pool, checked by us.
116 sources feed this pool, and the average live proxy is listed by 17.86 of them. 94.7 percent appear on more than one list, so a proxy published anywhere is very likely already here, and it is here with a real check behind it, not a copied file. Measured on 5 September 2026.
The whole list is published to GitHub every couple of minutes and served as a keyless API, so you can take it, build on it and check it against ours.
919,891
addresses tracked, all time
Every proxy the pool has ever seen keeps its record and its own page.
43,569
in rotation, re-checked around the clock
Alive now, or alive recently and still being tested.
37,712
in the 48h working pool
What the table above draws from.
9,504
alive right now
Passing a real request at this minute.
351,750,190
checks run, all time
One real request per check, not a port probe.
Every slice of the pool
The same live list, one thing at a time.
A page per country, protocol, anonymity grade, operator, port, network and block, each with its own count, download and API call.
Free proxies by country
123 pagesUnited States4,527
Indonesia1,393
China265
Philippines236
Colombia230
Mexico214
Brazil207
India199
Russia165
Bangladesh139
Germany129
Vietnam124
Canada119
Netherlands112
Venezuela106
France95
Thailand85
Dominican Republic84
Argentina79
Ecuador78
Singapore71
Peru71
Hong Kong62
Pakistan59
Turkey55
South Africa54
Japan52
Iran47
South Korea43
Chile43
Ukraine42
Poland36
United Kingdom36
Spain34
Cambodia32
Kenya32
Egypt28
Nigeria27
Libya26
Malaysia24
Bulgaria23
Syria23
Guatemala23
Hungary23
Australia23
Honduras21
Finland21
Paraguay18
Iraq16
Italy15
Georgia15
Taiwan14
Latvia14
Sweden14
Cameroon14
Switzerland13
Nepal13
Ireland11
Israel11
Albania11
Serbia9
United Arab Emirates9
Tanzania9
Puerto Rico8
Armenia8
Czechia8
Seychelles8
Mongolia8
Austria7
Uzbekistan7
Greece6
Botswana6
Kazakhstan6
Bolivia5
Slovakia5
Romania5
Palestinian Territories5
Panama5
Cyprus4
Kosovo4
Afghanistan4
Morocco4
Myanmar3
Kyrgyzstan3
Uganda3
Belgium2
Belarus2
Estonia2
Republic of the Congo2
Senegal2
Montenegro2
Costa Rica2
Uruguay2
Moldova2
Burundi2
Lebanon2
Equatorial Guinea2
Lithuania2
Malta2
Croatia2
Cuba2
Saudi Arabia2
Macau1
Bosnia & Herzegovina1
Bhutan1
Mozambique1
Malawi1
New Zealand1
South Sudan1
Angola1
Papua New Guinea1
Côte d’Ivoire1
Mayotte1
DR Congo1
Qatar1
Denmark1
Tajikistan1
Ghana1
Sierra Leone1
Jamaica1
Luxembourg1
Norway1
Slovenia1
Free proxies by protocol
4 pagesFree proxies by anonymity
3 pagesFree proxies by port
18 pages- Port 8080 · HTTP alternate3,051
- Port 1080 · SOCKS1,057
- Port 3128 · Squid default695
- Port 999 · Compact alternate1,779
- Port 31251,065
- Port 80 · HTTP354
- Port 8888 · HTTP alternate314
- Port 8082305
- Port 1081 · SOCKS neighbour112
- Port 8081 · HTTP alternate172
- Port 1080866
- Port 4145 · SOCKS4 convention299
- Port 8118 · Privoxy default86
- Port 3129 · Squid neighbour85
- Port 1111210
- Port 5678 · SOCKS convention239
- Port 8090142
- Port 8181195
Free proxies by block
18 pages- 45.74.31.0/243,952
- 144.124.251.0/2467
- 120.133.82.0/2457
- 203.205.49.0/2432
- 62.210.189.0/2422
- 18.190.253.0/2415
- 103.172.42.0/2415
- 16.52.81.0/2414
- 40.176.175.0/2414
- 116.204.166.0/2414
- 18.144.86.0/2412
- 35.183.127.0/2411
- 54.215.41.0/2411
- 35.183.29.0/2411
- 102.244.78.0/2411
- 103.48.71.0/2411
- 184.178.172.0/2411
- 56.112.93.0/2410
About these free proxies
Free, shared, and gone without warning.
The largest free proxy list on the web, updated live. We collect and verify thousands of free residential, datacenter and mobile proxies from every public source available, plus our own private network on top, then check each one around the clock for real uptime and latency. Filter, test and export any proxy for free with no signup, or contribute your own to the pool.
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 the HProxy free proxy list.
The list above is the working set, not an archive. Every row is an IP address and a port, free to copy and use without signup. Open any row to see when that proxy was last checked. Filter by protocol, country or anonymity, or take the whole set as a file or an API call.
We run this pool ourselves rather than copy a file from somewhere else. On 5 September 2026 it held 9,451 proxies alive out of 72,230 in rotation. It has seen 763,409 addresses in all and logged 115,078,758 checks. Every proxy in rotation had been checked within the previous day, and 14,762 within the previous five minutes.
A free proxy does not last long, and our own records show how long it does. Most of the proxies our engine had set aside by 28 September 2026 never answered once. Those that did work lasted a median 235 hours, about 10 days. 4.9 percent stopped within their first hour, and 30.9 percent lasted over a month. We count from the day we first saw a proxy until it stopped answering. Only addresses with fewer than 20 such proxies count, which leaves out 802 hosts with many ports. Entries on Amazon's networks are left out too, as is one June evening when our checker failed.
Being alive is not the same as being dependable. The median live proxy in our pool succeeds on 45.5 percent of its own checks. Only 401 of 9,452 live entries met a bar of ten checks at 90 percent success. Median latency was 1,050 ms, and 28.1 percent answered slower than three seconds.
The reason a working free proxy still fails is rarely the proxy itself. Of 9,462 live entries carrying fraud data, 89.3 percent are flagged for recent abuse. The average fraud score is 72.5, and 82.9 percent sit on datacenter address space. None of them are residential. The address was burned long before you found it, which is why the site still blocks you.
Comparing free lists is close to pointless, and our own records show why. 116 sources feed this pool, and the average live proxy is listed by 17.86 of them. 94.7 percent appear on more than one, so the lists are republishing one shared pool. What separates them is whether they check the entries, and whether they tell you when.
01
What is a free proxy?
A proxy is a server that sits between you and the internet and relays your requests. The site you reach sees the proxy address and location instead of yours. A free proxy is one that is open to the public at no cost. It is published on public lists and reachable by anyone who has the address.
Nobody is paid to keep these servers running, and everybody is using them at once. That is the whole explanation for the numbers above. They are useful for a test or a geo check, and the wrong tool the moment reliability matters.
02
How to use a proxy from this list
Pick a row and note its IP address, port and protocol. Enter them in your browser proxy settings, or as the proxy option in your scraper. The usual form is http://IP:PORT or socks5://IP:PORT. Then request a page that echoes your address, to confirm the proxy really changes what the site sees.
Free proxies die constantly, so build for failure rather than trusting one address. Pull several, rotate between them, and drop any that time out or return an error. Use the download button for the filtered set as plain text. The free API returns the same list as txt, JSON or CSV, with the same filters.
03
How to tell a good free proxy list from a bad one
Almost every free list advertises a count and an interval, and neither can be checked by a reader. On 5 September 2026 we tested one whose README claimed 2,326 working proxies, validated every five minutes. We fetched its published file in the same hour and tried every entry in it.
The test was not a port check: through each proxy we fetched a real page. An entry counted as working only when the reply carried an exit address that was not ours. That rule matters, because an earlier pass counted 287 addresses as leaking proxies. They turned out to be CDN edges that answered our own Host header and proxied nothing.
| Declared protocol | Advertised | Answered TCP | Actually relayed |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOCKS5 | 197 | 122 | 92 (46.7%) |
| SOCKS4 | 445 | 322 | 162 (36.4%), lower bound |
| HTTP | 1,569 | 1,326 | 52 (3.3%) |
| All entries | 2,211 | 1,770 | 306 (13.8%) |
Tested by HProxy on 5 September 2026, within the same hour as that list's own update stamp. The SOCKS4 row is a lower bound, because our checker speaks HTTP and SOCKS5.
1,770 entries accepted a TCP connection, which is all a port check measures. Only 306 of them carried traffic. So four entries in five pass the cheap test and fail the real one. HTTP was 71 percent of what that list published and 3.3 percent of what worked.
That result belongs to one list, on one day, from one datacenter, and we do not widen it. What it gives you is the question to ask any list, this one included. Ask what a check actually consists of, and ask when this entry was last checked. The Checked column above answers the second question for every row.
04
What a live free proxy is actually worth
A live entry is a working entry only in the loosest sense. These are the numbers behind our own pool, measured on 5 September 2026.
| Measured on the live set | Result |
|---|---|
| Median success rate across a proxy's own checks | 45.5% |
| Entries passing ten checks at 90 percent success | 401 of 9,452 |
| Median latency | 1,050 ms |
| Answered in under 500 ms | 24.1% |
| Slower than three seconds | 28.1% |
| Flagged for recent abuse | 89.3% |
| Residential addresses | 0 |
HProxy pool, live set, queried 2026-09-05. The anonymity grade is unknown for 5,097 of the 9,452 live entries. The elite and transparent counts describe the classified part only.
The success rate is the line to read twice. A typical live free proxy fails more often than it works, and that is normal for the category. It is also why rotating through several beats picking one carefully.
05
HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5: which one to pick
HTTP and HTTPS proxies carry web traffic, and a plain HTTP proxy handles ordinary web requests. An HTTPS proxy adds tunnelling for encrypted traffic, which almost every modern site now uses. For browsing and scraping, that is usually the one you want.
SOCKS proxies work lower down and carry any TCP traffic. Web requests are one case among many, so they suit tools outside the browser. Between the two versions, SOCKS5 is the newer one. RFC 1928 (IETF, March 1996) adds authentication, UDP support and remote name resolution. That last part keeps your DNS lookups inside the tunnel, so SOCKS5 is the better pick when offered.
06
What a free proxy cannot do for you
A free proxy changes the address a site sees, and it does not make the connection private. SOCKS5 defines no encryption of its own. RFC 1928 makes security depend on the method the two sides negotiate. Anyone can run a free proxy, and whoever runs it can read traffic that is not encrypted.
A proxy can also relay your request and still tell the site who you are. RFC 7239 (IETF, June 2014) defines the Forwarded header, which carries "the originating IP address of a request". The same document calls client addresses "privacy sensitive". That is what a transparent proxy does, and it is standard behaviour rather than a fault. Our pool classifies 600 of the live set as transparent. Never send a password, a payment detail or anything private through one.
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Free proxies compared with paid proxies
Free proxies suit a test or a geo check, and this list makes that easy. When a job has to keep running, the numbers above explain why they stop. The address is shared and already flagged. By the count above, half of those that work stop answering within about 10 days.
HProxy paid proxies use residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter addresses that are not already flagged. They add city-level targeting and sticky sessions, which no free entry can offer. They are billed by the gigabyte, with no subscription. The rate is $0.44/GB from 2,000 GB+, or $0.50/GB for a single GB. Most people land on the same split, using this list for experiments and paying when it matters.
Questions
Frequently asked.
A public list of proxy servers, each shown as an IP address and a port. Anyone can route traffic through them at no cost. This one is live. HProxy runs the pool and re-checks every entry, so the table shows what answered at its last check.
Continuously. On 5 September 2026 all 72,230 proxies in rotation had been checked within 24 hours. 14,762 of them had been checked within the previous five minutes. The Checked column shows the age of each entry, so no interval has to be trusted.
Half of those that work at all are gone within about 10 days. That is the median for proxies our engine set aside by 28 September 2026. It counts only addresses with fewer than 20 such proxies, from first sighting until they stopped. It leaves out Amazon's networks and one June evening when our checker failed. 4.9 percent stopped within their first hour, and 30.9 percent lasted over a month. Most never work at all: they never answered a single check.
Because most published entries answer a connection without carrying traffic, and a port check cannot tell the difference. On 5 September 2026 HProxy tested one list that advertised 2,326 working proxies. 1,770 of its 2,211 entries accepted a TCP connection. 306 relayed a real request. That is one list on one day. It is the reason to ask any list what its check consists of.
No. Of 9,462 live entries carrying fraud data on 5 September 2026, none were residential. 82.9 percent sat on datacenter address space, and 89.3 percent were flagged for recent abuse. That is why an entry that connects perfectly can still be blocked.
HTTP and HTTPS proxies carry web traffic, and HTTPS adds support for encrypted sites. That covers most of the modern web. SOCKS proxies work lower down and carry any TCP traffic, so they suit tools outside the browser. SOCKS5 is the newer version and adds authentication, UDP support and remote name resolution.
Here, with no signup and no key. Copy any row, or download the filtered set as a text file. The free API at /docs/free-proxy-list serves the same list. A copy is also published on GitHub, at hproxy-com/free-proxy-list. The table puts the highest uptime first. Start at the top, and test each one before you rely on it.
Nobody is paid to keep them fast, and the same addresses sit on many lists at once. On 5 September 2026 the average live proxy appeared on 17.86 of our 116 sources. The median one answered in 1,050 ms, and 28.1 percent took longer than three seconds. Latency also depends on where you are, and ours was measured from one datacenter. Sort the table by Speed to see the fastest first. A short timeout in your tool stops one slow proxy from stalling the rest.
For a small test, yes, and for a job that has to finish, rarely. On 5 September 2026 the median live proxy failed more than half of its own checks. Pull a batch, test each one, and drop any that time out or fail. Expect to refill the batch often, and test each new one first. Keep within the terms of each site, and never send a login through a free proxy.
Yes. Every proxy on this page is free to copy and use, with no signup and no key. They are free in price but shared and unstable, so expect some to be slow or already offline.
Copy the IP address, port and protocol. Enter them in your browser proxy settings, or as the proxy option in your scraper. The usual form is http://IP:PORT or socks5://IP:PORT. Test it against a page that echoes your address before relying on it. Rotate through several, because free proxies drop often.
Very few. Of 763,409 proxies the pool has ever seen, 401 met a strict bar on 5 September 2026. That bar is ten checks at 90 percent success. The uptime filter in the console is looser, because it asks for no minimum check count. Set it to 90 percent, or pass min_uptime_pct=90 to the free API.
Treat them as public. Anyone can run one, and whoever runs it can read traffic that is not encrypted. Never send passwords or payment details through one. SOCKS5 defines no encryption of its own, and RFC 1928 leaves security to the method negotiated. A transparent proxy can also pass your original address on, in the header RFC 7239 defines.
Yes. Use the download button for the filtered set as plain text, or copy single addresses from the table. For automation, the free proxy list API at /docs/free-proxy-list returns the whole live list in one call. It serves txt, JSON or CSV, with the same filters and no key. There is a free proxy checker API at /docs/free/proxy-checker for testing proxies of your own.
Some do, for a while. On 5 September 2026, 9,451 of the 72,230 proxies in our rotation were alive. The median live proxy succeeded on 45.5 percent of its own checks. So take several, test each one, and expect to replace them.
No. Every proxy on this list is an open proxy, so anyone can use it without a login. Each one passed our checker with no credentials, so leave those fields empty. An HTTP proxy that wants a login answers with status 407, as RFC 9110 defines it. SOCKS5 has its own login step, set out in RFC 1929. Only the owner of such a proxy can give you that login.
Elite and anonymous ones do, and transparent ones do not. A transparent proxy passes your address on, in a header such as Forwarded from RFC 7239. An anonymous proxy hides it, but a header such as Via shows a proxy is in use. An elite proxy adds neither. Each grade comes from our last check, and our proxy anonymity checker at /proxy-anonymity-checker tests one again. A site can still use scripts in your browser to look for your real address.
For work that has to keep running, HProxy sells residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter proxies. Those addresses are not already flagged, and they add city-level targeting and sticky sessions. You pay by the gigabyte, at $0.44/GB from 2,000 GB+, or $0.50/GB for a single GB. There is no subscription, so this list stays useful for experiments.
This list is aggregated from publicly available sources. If an IP address is yours, you can have it removed (Art. 21 GDPR).
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89.3 percent of the free pool is already flagged
Of the live free proxies carrying fraud data, 89.3 percent show recent abuse and none are residential. The paid pools are clean, targetable to a city, and able to hold a session.
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.
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Proxy IP Checker
Your public address as a site sees it, with a plain proxy and VPN verdict.
WebRTC Leak Test
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Proxy Leak Test
WebRTC, IPv6 and headers against the address a site really sees. One verdict each.
The Free Proxy Industry
Who runs the free lists, what they sell, and how much of what they publish works, measured.
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Terms on this page, explained
What the columns on this list mean, and why so many public proxies never work.
Open proxy
A proxy that accepts connections from anyone with no authentication, which is what almost every address on a free proxy list actually is.
Elite proxy
A proxy that hides your real IP and forwards no header admitting a proxy is in the path, so the request reaches the site shaped like a direct connection.
Transparent proxy
A proxy that passes your real IP address through and often intercepts traffic without you configuring it, common in networks, useless for anonymity.
Uptime
The share of time a proxy is actually reachable and working, which for residential pools is a live measurement rather than a guarantee.
Browse the full glossary for every term across proxies, networking and scraping.