5 Best Free Proxy Lists for Web Scraping (2026)

ScrapingBee is the best option if your goal is reliable web scraping without the headaches of free proxy lists. In this article, we benchmark five proxy list websites to see which ones still provide usable free proxies, scoring them by response time, error rate, and success rate on real targets like Google and Amazon. We’ll also show how to evaluate a free proxy before you use it (protocol support, anonymity, uptime, and geolocation) and why “free” often comes with tradeoffs: public proxies can be slow, unstable, shared by thousands, and sometimes operated by parties that log traffic, inject…