The honest truth: most "free proxy lists" are 90% dead on arrival. Here is a working free proxy list, how it stays alive, and when to stop fighting free proxies and just buy one.
Anyone can scrape a "free proxy list" and dump a thousand ip:port lines onto a page. The problem is nothing is tested. Grab a random free list right now and run it through a checker: typically less than a third will connect, and most of those will be so slow or so blocked that they are worthless for scraping, geo-work, or ad verification.
Free proxies are also dead on a timer. The free proxy that answered today is usually gone by tomorrow. A list that is not continuously re-tested becomes junk within hours.
Every proxy in our free proxy list is verified, not scraped. We pull from 11 upstream feeds and check each candidate twice, independently:
That is the difference between a list and a verified list: we show you what answers right now, by protocol (HTTP, SOCKS4, SOCKS5), by country, with real latency and real egress geolocation.
ip:port batches.Be honest about what you are doing. If your use case is one-off, low-volume, and failure-tolerant, a free tested list is fine. But the moment you need to do any of these, free proxies will cost you more than they save:
Paid datacenter proxies from Webshare start around $0.018/IP with 99.9% uptime and sticky sessions, which is cheaper than your own retries for any real workload. There is even a free tier to try before you pay.
Use a tested free list for casual work — that is exactly what ProxyHub gives you. The instant "free" starts costing you time, switch. That is not an ad, it is the economics of proxies.
Proxy data is generated automatically and refreshed continuously. Geo-information is best-effort. Home