Proxy location checker

How to read the result

Each row is one database's answer for the same IP. The line above the table sums them up and names the reference: ipinfo.io, the database our Terms use for the country and city of an IP.

What we measured: 10 proxy exits in 10 countries

On 3 November 2026 we opened one session in each of 10 countries on our residential network, read the exit IP with this checker and looked it up in the seven databases. ipinfo.io placed all 10 exits in the country we asked for, and all seven databases agreed on the country: 70 of 70 answers. On the city they agreed for 1 exit of 10, the Italian one, which all seven placed in Milan.

Cities are counted once when two databases spell them differently, such as Zurich and Zürich. The exit IPs are not published: they belong to the residential connections that carried the test.

Why IP databases disagree

• Different sources. Each database mixes registry records, the location lists that networks publish, latency measurements and corrections sent by users, in its own proportions.
• Different update days. When a range moves to another country, some databases follow within days and others weeks later.
• Registered in one place, used in another. A network can register its addresses in its home country and announce them abroad. Databases that lean on the registry show the first country.
• Shared addresses cover wide areas. Mobile and carrier-grade NAT ranges serve a whole region, so the city is a guess even when the country is right.
• Anycast addresses have no single place. Public resolvers such as 8.8.8.8 answer from many cities at once; some databases leave them without a location.

Which database decides the country of a proxy

For the plans you buy from us, the country and city of an IP are the ones ipinfo.io shows: section 5 of our Terms says so. Websites each use their own database, so one of them can show a different country for an IP that ipinfo.io places where you asked. That is a difference between databases, not a different IP. If ipinfo.io itself shows a country other than the one you bought, write to us from the dashboard and we review it.

How the proxy test works

When you paste a proxy, our server opens one connection through it, HTTP CONNECT, SOCKS5 or SOCKS4, to an IP echo service (api64.ipify.org, or api.ipify.org for SOCKS4) and reads the address the echo saw. Without a scheme we try HTTP, then SOCKS5, then SOCKS4. A whole list goes to the proxy tester, which tests up to 100 at once. The test only works with a username and password: a proxy that accepts listed IPs only will refuse our server, so run the proxy tester commands from your own machine and paste the exit IP here instead.

The host must be a public address, ports of services that are not proxies are refused, and the password is used for that one connection: it is not stored, logged or sent back. Each visitor gets 40 checks a day, 15 of them proxy tests.