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title: "Proxy checker: exit IP, location, network type and speed of any HTTP or SOCKS5 proxy"
description: "Paste a proxy as your provider lists it. We connect through it three times and show the exit IP, country, network operator, datacenter ranges, speed and whether the exit rotates."
canonical: "https://scalebrowser.net/check/proxy-checker"
last_modified: "2026-10-24T14:28:47.000Z"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://scalebrowser.net/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

one check

# Proxy checker

Paste a proxy the way your provider lists it. Our server connects through it three times and shows the address websites will see, the network it belongs to, where it sits and how fast it answers.

How does this proxy checker work?

Our server opens three separate connections through your proxy to an address of our own, which reports the address each connection arrived from. That is the exit websites see. A fourth connection goes to our TCP observer, which reads how the device at the exit set up the connection. The exit address is then looked up in local copies of free datasets: country, network operator, datacenter ranges, Tor exits and VPN ranges.

Is it safe to paste my proxy password here?

The line travels over HTTPS to our server, is used for these four connections and is then gone: it is not stored, not logged and not part of the answer. The connections only ever lead back to us, so the proxy is never used for anything else. If you want to be careful anyway, check a sub-user or change the password afterwards.

HTTP or SOCKS5: which one is my proxy?

The checker tries HTTP CONNECT first and SOCKS5 second, so you do not need to know. For an HTTPS website the two carry the same encrypted connection; SOCKS5 can also carry other protocols. Many gateways answer both on the same port. To force one, put http\:// or socks5:// in front of the line.

Why does my exit address change on every connection?

A rotating gateway hands each new connection a new exit unless you ask for a sticky session, usually with a session ID in the username. Three different addresses in one check mean exactly that. For an account that should look like one person, keep one exit for the whole session, or a site sees the same login jump between networks.

What do elite, anonymous and transparent mean?

Those levels describe whether a proxy adds headers such as Via or X-Forwarded-For to a request. A proxy can only do that to plain HTTP. For an HTTPS site it forwards an encrypted tunnel it cannot read or change, so on today's web the level says almost nothing. What gives a proxy away is its address and the inconsistencies around it.

Is my proxy residential?

No free dataset can prove that. They can prove the opposite: an address inside a known datacenter range is a datacenter address, whatever the proxy was sold as. Outside those ranges the network operator is the best hint you get, a home broadband or mobile carrier rather than a hosting company.

Can a website tell that I am using a proxy?

Often, and rarely from the address alone. Sites compare it with your time zone, your WebRTC addresses and the TCP handshake your browser's system would make. Open [the proxy detection test](https://scalebrowser.net/check/proxy) in a browser that uses this proxy to see those signals for your own setup.

[The full check. Reads all five layers and shows where they contradict each other.](https://scalebrowser.net/check)

What this one page cannot tell you

How a given site rates this address: its reputation lives in each site's own records. We also never call an address residential. Free data can prove a datacenter, never the opposite.