Free United States SOCKS5 Proxies

21 live, validated United States SOCKS5 proxies — checked every 30 minutes. Free proxies are unreliable; see our paid pools.

21Live right now
56%Average uptime
1669 msAverage response
131 msFastest in this list
Free public proxies are run by unknown third parties. They are slow, short-lived, and a share are honeypots that can log or tamper with your traffic. This list is provided as-is for testing and research — never send sensitive or logged-in traffic through a free proxy. We validate liveness only; we do not operate, audit, or endorse these proxies.
Updated 7 min ago
Live free proxies — address, protocol, country, anonymity, latency, uptime and score. Sortable by latency, uptime or score.
ProxyProtocolCountryAnonymity
69.55.49.177:38182socks5United Stateselite321 ms99%97
3.128.83.74:17000socks5United Stateselite255 ms99%97
193.25.215.182:22222socks5United Stateselite1775 ms99%85
212.58.132.5:1080socks5United Stateselite2104 ms99%82
43.162.94.99:1080socks5United Stateselite1575 ms81%76
45.76.164.255:1085socks5United Stateselite131 ms59%74
34.229.113.62:1080socks5United Stateselite3561 ms99%74
144.24.47.42:1080socks5United Stateselite743 ms55%67
104.234.124.3:1080socks5United Stateselite168 ms43%64
64.83.12.6:1080socks5United Stateselite1610 ms60%63
8.221.101.239:1080socks5United Stateselite192 ms30%57
104.207.139.62:1080socks5United Stateselite4254 ms67%55
67.207.92.87:1088socks5United Stateselite3289 ms57%49
3.129.27.9:17000socks5United Stateselite213 ms58%42
31.76.15.189:1080socks5United Stateselite664 ms53%39
107.191.44.214:1081socks5United Stateselite2971 ms36%29
178.130.47.21:1082socks5United Stateselite2605 ms24%22
129.151.9.55:10808socks5United Stateselite578 ms27%16
216.106.179.216:49229socks5United Stateselite3698 ms11%7
104.161.23.122:5020socks5United Stateselite716 ms9%5
137.131.12.103:1080socks5United Stateselite3623 ms6%4
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Free United States SOCKS5 Proxies, answered

Are free proxies safe to use?

Free public proxies are run by unknown third parties. They are slow, short-lived, and a share are honeypots that can log or tamper with your traffic. This list is provided as-is for testing and research — never send sensitive or logged-in traffic through a free proxy. We validate liveness only; we do not operate, audit, or endorse these proxies.

How reliable are these free United States SOCKS5 proxies right now?

21 free United States SOCKS5 proxies are passing our liveness check right now, averaging 56% uptime and 1669 ms response time, with the fastest answering in 131 ms. They are shared and unmanaged, so read that as a snapshot from the last 30 minutes rather than a guarantee — the same list an hour from now will look different.

Why do these free United States SOCKS5 proxies stop working?

Free proxies are shared, unmanaged, and frequently pulled offline, rate-limited, or blocked. Most entries die within minutes to hours, which is why we re-validate the whole list every 30 minutes and drop dead proxies automatically.

How is this list kept fresh?

We continuously pull from public sources, then check each proxy through our own endpoint to confirm it actually forwards traffic. Only proxies confirmed alive within our freshness window are shown, ranked by a reliability score (uptime, latency, recency).

What's the difference between free and paid proxies?

Free proxies are unreliable, anonymous in origin, and unsuitable for anything that matters. Proxmint paid proxies are dedicated, fast, geo-targetable, and stay up — pay only for the bandwidth you use. If a free proxy keeps failing you, that's the gap our plans close.

Wondering how many public proxies actually work? We publish the liveness data behind this list — alive rate, check success rate, latency and geography, refreshed every 30 minutes.

Free proxies dying on you?

Free lists are fine for a quick test. For real work you want dedicated, geo-targetable residential proxies that stay up — and we'll add your first 1 GB of residential free on your first top-up. Pay only for the bandwidth you use after that.