SOCKS5 Proxies — Buy Premium Datacenter and ISP Plans

Name: SOCKS5 Proxy Plans
Brand: PapaProxy.net
Availability: InStock

What can SOCKS5 do?

SOCKS5 is the current version of the SOCKS protocol — a session-layer tunnel that forwards your traffic without reading or modifying it. Compared to SOCKS4 it added three things that matter in practice: username/password authentication, remote DNS resolution, and UDP. That's why a SOCKS5 proxy service works with almost any application you route through it: browsers, scrapers, antidetect tools, messaging apps, game clients, and custom TCP protocols.

Remote DNS is the feature most people miss. When your software sends the hostname to the proxy instead of resolving it locally, DNS lookups happen on our side — the target site can't cross-check your DNS region against the proxy's location. Most SOCKS5 clients have a switch for this; the exact settings are in the FAQ below. UDP is supported too, but as a plan add-on, not by default: it adds 50% to the package price and is only worth it for voice, gaming, and streaming traffic. All TCP traffic works without it.

SOCKS5 is included with every static plan—packages start at 100 IPs, and private SOCKS5 proxies are available starting with a single IP. For a side-by-side comparison of SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies, see the table below. Product specs are listed in the adjacent panel.

Product specs at a glance

IP pool100,000+ IPv4

ProtocolsHTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5

Bandwidthunlimited

Speedup to 500 Mbps per proxy

Uptime99.9%

IP whitelistingup to five source IPs included

Username/passwordoptional, in addition to IP whitelisting

List refreshesup to three free refreshes per month

Minimum order100 IPs; 1 IP for dedicated proxies

Deliveryautomatically after payment

Refund24-hour money-back guarantee

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Which proxies should you choose?

Four proxy protocols — how they differ and when to use each one.

	HTTP	HTTPS	SOCKS4	Our recommendation SOCKS5
Traffic encryption	✕ No TLS to the proxythe proxy connection is unencrypted	✓ TLS tunnelto our server and the target site	Depends on the application protocolHTTPS traffic remains encrypted	Depends on the application protocolHTTPS traffic remains encrypted
Header handling	May add or modify HTTP headers	TunneledHTTP headers inside the tunnel are not modified	Passes application traffic unchanged	Passes application traffic unchanged
TCP / UDP	TCP	TCP	TCP	TCP + UDP
Username/password auth	✓ Supported	✓ Supported	✕ No password authentication	✓ Supported
Remote DNS resolution	Client-dependent	Client-dependent	✕ Nothe client resolves the hostname	✓ Supportedwhen the client sends the hostname to the proxy
When to choose it	Web and API traffic, especially with software that supports HTTP proxies	When you need a TLS-encrypted connection to the proxy	Legacy software that only supports SOCKS4	General-purpose applications, gaming, streaming, and UDP traffic
	HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS4, and SOCKS5 are included with every static proxy plan. Rotating plans support HTTP and SOCKS5. Buy now

Connect in 60 seconds

Copy the example for your stack, or paste it into your AI coding assistant for help adapting it to your project.

# HTTP or HTTPS proxy
curl -x http://login:password@IP:port https://example.com

# SOCKS5
curl --socks5-hostname IP:port \
  --proxy-user login:password \
  https://example.com

import requests

proxy = "http://login:password@IP:port"  # your proxy from the Dashboard

r = requests.get(
    "https://example.com",
    proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
)
print(r.status_code)

import { ProxyAgent } from "undici";

const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent("http://login:password@IP:port");
const res = await fetch("https://example.com", { dispatcher });
console.log(res.status);

$ch = curl_init("https://example.com");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXY, "IP:port");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_PROXYUSERPWD, "login:password");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$response = curl_exec($ch);

Fill in the credentials from your Dashboard. If you use IP whitelisting, you don't need a username or password.

Export in any format

Choose a standard format or create a custom one with any field order and delimiter your software requires.

IP:port login:password@IP:port {scheme}{ip}{port}{login}{password} — builder

HTTP HTTPS SOCKS4 SOCKS5 HTTP/2 ✓

See the FAQ for the ports used by each protocol.

Setup guides for browsers and antidetect tools

PapaProxy API

You can automate purchases, renewals, whitelist changes, and proxy list exports. Create an API key in your Dashboard in a couple of clicks.

Create a key in your Dashboard

MCP server for AI agents

Claude, Cursor, and other agents buy proxies, renew plans, and export updated proxy lists through an access token you create in your Dashboard. See how it works.

Works with

Playwright

Scrapy

Selenium

Puppeteer

ZennoPoster

BAS

Dolphin

AdsPower …and 500+ more tools

IP	Country	Port	Protocol
98.175.31.222	US	4145	SOCKS5
199.187.210.54	US	4145	SOCKS5
192.252.210.233	US	4145	SOCKS5
68.1.210.189	US	4145	SOCKS5
124.248.177.43	KH	1080	SOCKS5
184.181.178.33	US	4145	SOCKS5
5.255.123.162	NL	1080	SOCKS5
66.42.224.229		41679	SOCKS5
184.182.240.12	US	4145	SOCKS5
184.178.172.5	US	15303	SOCKS5

Reviews

A few service metrics—and feedback from our customers.

27,000+

proxy packages sold since 2019

60%

of customers upgrade their plan after the first month

100,000+ IPs

in our own pool across 22 locations

The quality of proxies is top notch. The prices are lower comparing to competitors one. I would also like to offer their responsive support team that will help me instantly in answering my requests. I have been using them many times and they always help me.

B Benjamin November 2025

Quite a good service for the price it has. The downside is that some IPs have the wrong location. If the service team solves this problem it will be just great.

TJ Thomas Jane April 2026

I had to buy proxy for scraping. I have chosen this company and I have not lost my luck as everything is rather good. There are practically no bans for proxies. I have also been using them for a couple of days and then they are working well again.

AL Ashton Lester May 2025

Prompt service, as well as a large number of different tariff plans. Can subscribe to several packages at the same time to use them via API.

MF Mark Fergus April 2025

Frequently asked questions

Can't find your answer? Message us in live chat — real humans reply.

I set up SOCKS5 with a username and password in Chrome, but it ignores the credentials. What's wrong?

You didn't do anything wrong—Chrome has never supported SOCKS5 authentication. It's a documented Chromium limitation (bug 1309413): the browser silently drops the credentials, and proxy extensions can't add them either. Two ways around it: use IP whitelisting instead — at PapaProxy.net, it's the primary access method, so once your IP is in the Dashboard, Chrome connects with no credentials at all — or use Firefox, the only major browser that supports SOCKS5 credentials natively.

How do I set up a SOCKS5 proxy on iPhone and Mac?

On a Mac it's built in: System Settings → Wi-Fi → Details → Proxies → SOCKS proxy — enter the address and port, and it applies system-wide. On an iPhone there's no native option: iOS Wi-Fi settings only accept HTTP and HTTPS proxies, and entering SOCKS5 details there just kills the connection. Use an app that routes device traffic through a local tunnel — Shadowrocket or Potatso — or the built-in proxy support in specific apps (Telegram, for example, lets you enter a SOCKS5 server directly in its settings). One more mobile-specific detail: your carrier IP changes as you move, so when the connection drops, update the whitelisted IP in your Dashboard — it takes about a minute and doesn't require a support ticket.

Why does a website still detect my real region when I'm connected through SOCKS5?

Usually it's DNS, not the proxy. Many programs resolve the hostname locally first and only then connect to the SOCKS5 proxy IP address and port — so every DNS query still goes out through your own ISP. The fix is remote resolution: in curl use --socks5-hostname (or a socks5h:// URL), in Firefox enable "Proxy DNS when using SOCKS v5", and Chrome always resolves through the proxy on its own. If DNS is clean and a site still flags you, check WebRTC — browsers can expose the real IP through it regardless of proxy settings; antidetect browsers disable it by default.

Should I use a VPN instead of a SOCKS5 proxy?

They solve different problems. A VPN encrypts all of your device's traffic and routes it through one server — good for privacy on public Wi-Fi, but you get a single IP for everything. A SOCKS5 proxy changes the IP for one specific application and adds no encryption of its own — though since most of the web runs over HTTPS, your sessions are already encrypted between your machine and the destination site; the proxy only sees where the traffic goes, not what's inside. For scraping, multi-account management, and automation the proxy model wins: you can run hundreds of IPs in parallel and route each tool separately, which a VPN can't do.

Does UDP over SOCKS5 work out of the box for gaming and streaming?

Not by default. UDP associate is a plan add-on: it's enabled with the UDP toggle at checkout and adds 50% to the package price. Web traffic, scraping, messaging apps, and anything else running over TCP work without it, so most customers never need the option. If your workload involves gaming, voice, or video streaming, enable the add-on — the details and setup notes are on the UDP proxies page. The same applies to torrent clients: DHT, magnet links, and udp:// trackers silently fail without UDP support — if qBittorrent hangs at "downloading metadata" through a proxy, a missing UDP associate is usually the reason.