GatherProxy Review 2026

GatherProxy (gatherproxy.com) is a long-running free public proxy resource rather than a commercial proxy network. Historically it operated as two things: a website that published free, country-sorted lists of public HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS and web proxies, and a downloadable Windows utility (the GatherProxy Scraper/Checker) that harvested and validated proxies. It belongs to the older generation of free proxy-list directories that scraped publicly exposed open proxies and republished them, sitting alongside tools like ProxyScrape and similar harvesters. It is not a residential, ISP, mobile or datacenter proxy seller in the modern sense, and it does not run its own managed IP pool.

On the website, the model was straightforward. The homepage surfaced the most recently checked proxies with the time of update, country of origin, anonymity level (anonymous, elite, transparent), uptime and response time. A distinctive quirk is that GatherProxy reported uptime as a live/down ratio using "L" for live and "D" for down rather than a percentage or bar. Navigation tabs let you browse proxy by country, proxy by port, anonymous proxies, web proxies and a separate SOCKS list, with counts shown per country and port. Independent write-ups noted a database in the rough order of 11,000 proxies, of which roughly half were confirmed active within the prior 24 hours. The key access friction is that you must register an email and obtain login credentials before you can view or download the lists; the service itself was free, but it gated access behind a free account. Lists could be exported in .txt format, and there was an embeddable widget to add a free proxy list to your own site.

The companion GatherProxy Scraper is a lightweight, portable Windows freeware tool that leaves no registry traces. It harvested proxies from a large set of source sites (reviewers cite 200+), supported multi-threaded harvesting and checking (commonly capped around 25 threads), custom leeching sources and page-leeching to discover more proxy links, smart filtering, clipboard copy, plain-text export, and the ability to set the system proxy for Firefox, Internet Explorer and Chrome. The tool displayed level, country, last update, SSL support and the L/D uptime ratio. It was genuinely useful as a starting point for anyone building a scraping pipeline or learning how proxy harvesting works.

Pricing is the biggest unknown. GatherProxy was fundamentally a free, email-gated service, and no verifiable, current pricing page or concrete subscription figure could be confirmed for any paid or "Premium" tier. Scattered third-party mentions of a "Gather Proxy Premium" with rotating and dedicated HTTP/HTTPS/SOCKS5 options exist, but none of them quote a confirmable price from the official site, so no entry price is reported here. Treat any premium claims as unverified. Note also that several search results surface "Gather Proxy Premium crack" downloads and cracked-software listings, which are a clear malware red flag and should be avoided entirely.

The most important caveat is current status. Multiple recent signals indicate the service is effectively defunct. Late-2025 and 2026 checks describe the page title as "This website is for sale!", and the domain points to ParkLogic parking nameservers (a domain-monetization provider). Similarweb's May 2026 snapshot shows roughly 390 monthly visits with a 100% bounce rate and traffic down about 83% month over month, with rankings below trackable thresholds. The official homepage repeatedly failed to load during research, consistent with a parked or abandoned domain. The downloadable scraper tool itself has not seen genuine development in years; "update" dates on download aggregators are typically automated and do not reflect active maintenance.

Beyond the defunct-status problem, GatherProxy inherits every weakness of free public proxies. The IPs are scraped open proxies shared with countless other users, so they are frequently overused, slow, unstable and already blacklisted by major target sites. There is no SLA, no authentication-based per-user pool, no city or ASN targeting, no rotating-session API in the modern managed sense, no support, and no accountability for how the underlying IPs behave. Using anonymous open proxies also carries real security and privacy risk, since you have no idea who operates the upstream server.

Who is it for? Realistically, almost no one as a primary solution today. Its historical audience was hobbyist scrapers, SEO tinkerers and learners who needed a free, organized, country-filterable proxy list and a simple harvester to experiment with. For any production scraping, sneaker, social-media, ad-verification or commercial use case, a managed residential, ISP, mobile or datacenter provider with authenticated access, real rotation and support is the correct choice. GatherProxy is best viewed as a piece of proxy-history and a free learning tool rather than a live service you should depend on.