// Every number on this site is the output of one repeatable process. Here's exactly how a proxy network earns its score — and why you can trust it.
The constraints that keep our rankings honest, no matter who's paying.
We buy access at standard public pricing — never sponsored or comped accounts.
Scores come from millions of logged requests — measured outcomes, not opinions.
Anyone running the same protocol against the same targets reaches the same result.
Networks drift. Every entry is re-tested on a weekly cycle to stay accurate.
Each network's final score out of 10 is a weighted blend of four measured signals.
A step-by-step trace of what happens from the moment a network enters our index.
We purchase access at standard public pricing — never sponsored or comped accounts. This keeps test conditions identical to what a real reader would experience.
Our 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 blended using the weights above, then compiled into the public score 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.
Every network in the index is graded by exactly this process.
