Free tool
Proxy ping testhow quick is your proxy to respond?
Paste a list and this tool times a real round trip through every proxy and reports its latency in milliseconds, sampled so one slow handshake does not decide it. You also get whether it works, its speed and its anonymity per line. Free, no account, no install.
Your list
Empty runs the sample listEvery common format works, mixed freely.
Load from a file
Drop your proxy files here
.txt or .csv, as many as you like. Every line lands in your list.
Probe settings
Protocol
Extra checks
The test
A round trip through the proxy,not a raw ping
Pinging the IP tells you little, because a proxy can answer a ping and refuse to relay. So we time a real request through the proxy, sampled more than once, which is the latency that actually affects your work.
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Time a real round trip
We send a request through your proxy and measure how long it takes to come back, the full round trip through the proxy, not a raw ICMP ping to the IP.
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Sample more than once
A single slow handshake should not define a proxy, so the latency is taken across more than one request rather than trusting the first number.
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Report it per proxy
Every line comes back with its latency in milliseconds, beside whether it worked, its speed and its anonymity.
Reading it
What the number means,and what it does not
A low ping is not the same as a fast proxy, and confusing the two is the most common mistake here. Latency is the wait; bandwidth is the volume.
Low latency
Under a couple of hundred milliseconds feels instant. This is what matters for many small requests, logins, form posts, price checks, where you make a lot of round trips.
High latency
Past a second, everything you do through the proxy waits that long, on every single request. It usually means the proxy is far away or overloaded.
Latency is not speed
Latency is the wait; bandwidth is the volume. A proxy can have a low ping and still download slowly, or a high ping with plenty of bandwidth. For throughput, use the proxy speed test instead.
Questions
Proxy ping FAQ
The things people actually ask about proxy latency, answered against what the test measures. If yours is not here, the live chat on this page reaches the people who run the network.
How do I test proxy latency or ping?
Paste it above and run the check. Every proxy comes back with its latency in milliseconds, measured as a real round trip through the proxy and sampled more than once. You also get whether it works, its speed and its anonymity, free and with no account.
What is a good proxy ping?
For most work, under about 200ms feels fast and anything under half a second is usable. It depends on distance: a proxy on another continent will always have a higher round trip, and that is physics, not a fault. Sort by latency and keep the lowest ones for anything you run in parallel.
Why is my proxy latency so high?
Usually distance or load. A proxy far from both you and your target adds a long round trip on every request, and a shared, overloaded proxy makes you queue behind everyone else on it. Residential proxies also tend to have higher latency, because the traffic really does traverse a home connection.
Is a low-ping proxy always fast?
No, and this is the common mix-up. Ping is the wait before data starts moving; bandwidth is how fast it moves once it does. A proxy can answer quickly and still trickle a download, or lag on the first byte and then transfer at full speed. If you care about volume rather than responsiveness, run the speed test, not the ping test.
Does latency or bandwidth matter more?
For lots of small requests, latency wins: every login and form post pays the round trip, so a snappy proxy feels fast. For moving large amounts of data, bandwidth wins. This tool measures latency; the proxy speed test measures throughput, so between them you get both halves of the answer.
After the test
Want proxies that stay quick?Stop re-testing free lists.
A free proxy that answers fast today is shared, and it slows as more people crowd onto it. If low latency is what your job needs, the fix is a pool that is not fighting a crowd for the same connection.
The upgrade
Residential proxies
$0.44per GB, and the balance never expires
Clean pools with city-level targeting and sticky sessions, running on the same network that just probed your list. You stop re-checking a file every morning, because the addresses are not shared out from under you.
Elsewhere on HProxy
Free proxy list
Thousands of live residential, datacenter and mobile IPs, verified around the clock. Something to test.
Datacenter and ISP
Dedicated IPs priced per address rather than per gigabyte, for work that needs a stable, fast exit.
Mobile proxies
Carrier IPs for the targets that treat everything else as a bot.
API and docs
The same checker and the same pools, wired straight into your own code.
Pricing
Every product on one page, with the volume ladder spelled out.