# The week in free proxies: Sep 25 – Sep 28, 2026

Every hour, [proxy-scraper](https://github.com/maximilianfeix/proxy-scraper) collects public HTTP, SOCKS4 and SOCKS5
proxies from 700+ lists and keeps only the ones that pass a real handshake, a honeypot check and a content check.
This is what 78 of those runs looked like.

24,246 different proxies passed every check at least once. Of the 22,763 that dropped off again, 87 % were gone by the next check, and only 1 (under 0.1 %) made it through 24 checks in a row (about a day) or more. 121 proxies on the list right now have been up for 24 checks in a row or more.

Between 846 and 4,223 proxies worked at any one time. Right now: 1,481, 53 % of them tunnel HTTPS, 50 % exit from a datacenter.

Downloading 100 KB through them: half manage 85 KiB/s or more, the fastest tenth over 145 KiB/s.

Most of them sit in United States (669), China (187), ET (74), Netherlands (57), Indonesia (54).

![How long free proxies last](https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/report/lifetimes-light.svg)

The list, filters and a page per proxy: https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/
Raw data (JSON, CSV, TXT): https://maximilianfeix.github.io/proxy-scraper/proxies.json

*Generated automatically from the hourly checks. Public proxies are run by strangers – never send passwords or
personal data through them.*