Free tool
Proxy speed testhow fast is your proxy?
Paste a proxy and this tool downloads a real file through it, then reports the download speed in Mbps. Actual throughput measured through the proxy, not an estimate from the ping. 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 real download,not a guess from the ping
You cannot read a proxy's speed off its location or its latency. The only honest measure is to move real bytes through it and time them, which is exactly what this does.
01
Download a real file
We pull a fixed-size payload through your proxy, a genuine download, not a ping or a port check.
02
Time it end to end
The clock runs from the request leaving to the last byte arriving, through the proxy the whole way.
03
Report the throughput
Speed is the bytes divided by the seconds, in Mbps. Compression is turned off, so the number is what actually crossed the wire.
Why it matters
When proxy speedactually decides the job
Speed matters for some work and barely registers for the rest. Knowing which one you are doing is what tells you whether a slow number is a problem or a non-issue.
Scraping at scale
Hundreds of pages a minute is a lot of bytes. A slow proxy caps your whole run no matter how many threads you throw at it, because the bottleneck is the pipe, not the CPU.
Video and large media
Streaming, downloads and media scraping move real volume. Under a few Mbps the proxy becomes the thing you are waiting on, on every single request.
When it does NOT matter
Logging in, checking a price, posting a form. These are tiny requests where latency, the round-trip time, decides how it feels, and a fast proxy with high latency still feels slow.
Residential trades speed for trust
The fastest proxies are datacenter and ISP addresses. Residential IPs route through real consumer lines, which is exactly why sites trust them and exactly why they are slower. That trade is the choice, not a fault.
Questions
Proxy speed FAQ
The things people actually ask about proxy speed, answered against what the test measures rather than what sells. If yours is not here, the live chat on this page reaches the people who run the network.
How fast is my proxy?
Paste it above and run the check with the speed test on. We download a fixed-size file through your proxy and time it, then report the download throughput in Mbps. It is a real transfer through the proxy, not an estimate from the ping.
How do I test proxy speed?
Run it through this page with the speed test enabled. There is no install and no account. The tool measures actual download bandwidth by moving real bytes through the proxy, which is the only way to know its speed rather than guess it from where it sits.
What is a good proxy speed?
It depends entirely on the job. For scraping text pages, even a few Mbps is plenty and latency matters more. For video, media or large downloads, you want tens of Mbps and up. A datacenter proxy can run hundreds of Mbps; a residential one is usually far slower, and for most anti-bot targets that is the correct trade.
Why is my proxy slow?
Usually one of three things. It is shared and overloaded, so you are queuing behind everyone else on the same endpoint. It is physically far away, so every byte makes a long round trip. Or it is a residential IP, where traffic really does traverse a home connection, which is slower by design and is what makes the address trusted.
Does latency or bandwidth matter more?
For small, frequent requests, latency wins: a proxy that transfers fast but answers slowly still feels slow on every login and form. For moving volume, bandwidth wins. This tool measures throughput; the main proxy checker reports latency, so between them you see both halves.
Which proxies are the fastest?
Datacenter and ISP addresses, by a wide margin, because the traffic runs on well-provisioned network links. Residential and mobile proxies are slower because they route through real consumer connections, and that is the whole point of them. If speed is what you need and residential trust is not, datacenter is the answer.
After the test
Need proxies that stay fast?Stop re-testing free lists.
A free proxy that is fast today is shared, and shared means slower tomorrow as more people find it. If speed is what your job needs, the answer is a pool that is not fighting a crowd for the same pipe.
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.