// We don't rank on marketing claims. Every score is the output of an automated, repeatable test pipeline — documented below in full.
A live trace of what happens from the moment a proxy network enters our index.
We purchase access at standard public pricing — never sponsored or comped accounts. This keeps the test conditions identical to what a real reader would experience.
Our scraping bots fire identical request batches through each network against the full target list, recording success, latency, and IP uniqueness on every call.
Each network is held under sustained concurrent load to surface throttling, pool exhaustion, and latency drift that single-request tests never reveal.
Raw signals are normalized and weighted by use-case category, then compiled into the public Performance Matrix and the searchable index.
Networks degrade and improve. Every entry is re-run weekly so the index reflects current reality — not a one-time snapshot.
The Proxy Index earns affiliate commissions when readers sign up through some of our links. These relationships never influence rankings, scores, or test outcomes. A network cannot pay to rank higher — the data decides placement, full stop.
Our benchmark pipeline runs blind to commercial relationships, and every score is reproducible from the methodology above.
