Free public SOCKS5 servers, gathered from public checker networks and hard-filtered: every entry below was confirmed alive within the last few hours by its checker's most recent tests, and answered in under 2 seconds — sorted fastest first. Dead, stale, and slow proxies never make the list.
Terminal / curl:
curl --socks5-hostname 87.103.210.120:1080 https://api.ipify.org
If that prints the proxy's IP instead of yours, it's working. The same IP:port drops into Telegram (Settings → Data and Storage → Proxy), Firefox (Network Settings → SOCKS Host, v5), Proxifier, or any app with a SOCKS5 field. Free proxies die fast — if one stops answering, grab the next one down the list; that's exactly why this list only keeps recently-checked ones.
Free proxies are run by strangers. Traffic through them can be logged or tampered with, so never log into banking, email, or anything sensitive through a free proxy, and prefer sites/apps using HTTPS or end-to-end encryption. Speed and uptime figures come from the checker networks (Geonode / ProxyScrape), measured from their servers — your own speed will vary by distance.
Sources scraped for this list: Geonode proxy list · ProxyScrape free proxy API. Refresh re-fetches Geonode & ProxyScrape live and re-applies the same fresh / live / fast filters.