CoProxy sells residential, mobile and datacenter proxies, and its free web proxy lives on the same domain as a tool page. It is a tidy one: a URL box, quick links to Google, YouTube, Facebook, Wikipedia, Reddit, TikTok, X, Twitch and Pinterest, and no AdSense on the page when we checked,. The copy frames it for business uses such as competitor intelligence and integration previews.
What the page does not let you choose is where your traffic comes out. The free tool has no location picker, and in our test it exited in Poland through OVH, a hosting company, not through one of the residential IPs CoProxy sells. That matters when the reason you opened a web proxy is to see a site as it looks from one particular market.
Shifter Web Proxy is built the same way, by a proxy company as a free way to try its network, so we will not pretend the business model is different. The difference is in what you get on the free page: a choice of 54 countries, residential exit IPs stated up front, and a country switch in the toolbar. In return, the free allowance is capped at 30 minutes and 100 MB a day.
Shifter Web Proxy vs CoProxy Free Web Proxy
| Feature | Shifter Web Proxy | CoProxy Free Web Proxy |
|---|---|---|
| Countries | 54 countries | No location choice |
| Exit IP | Residential | Datacenter |
| Ads | None | None |
| Allowance | 30 minutes and 100 MB a day | No published limit |
| Account | Not required | Not required |
| Logs | No page logs | No policy |
| Operator | Shifter | CoProxy |
| Quick links | None | Nine sites |
| Pitched for | Geo browsing | Competitor research |
Facts checked on each site's own pages. Where we could not confirm something, the table says so.
What we measured
CoProxy Free Web Proxy figures come from our scripted browsing session. Shifter Web Proxy figures come from its own service configuration and code.
| Test | Shifter Web Proxy | CoProxy Free Web Proxy |
|---|---|---|
| Median page load | 1287 ms | 2360 ms |
| Pages that loaded | 100% | 100% |
| Ad slots added to proxied pages | 0 | 1 |
| YouTube playback | Worked | Failed |
| Countries listed / verified in our test | 54 listed | No location choice |
| Ad-network requests per page | 0 | 0 |
| Exit IP observed | Residential | Datacenter |
Why people switch from CoProxy Free Web Proxy
You choose the country
CoProxy's free proxy has no location picker; our test session exited in Poland. Shifter shows all 54 before you start, and you can switch from the toolbar mid-session to compare how the same page looks in another market.
Residential IPs on the free tool, stated plainly
CoProxy sells residential proxies, but its free web proxy exited through OVH, a hosting network, in our test. Shifter Web Proxy exits through the same residential network its paid customers use, so what you test for free is what you would buy.
Competitor research needs a fixed market
CoProxy pitches its tool for competitor intelligence, but pricing, search results and ads change by country. Checking them properly means knowing which country you are viewing from. On Shifter that is the first thing you set.
No log of the pages you visit
Shifter Web Proxy does not record the pages you open. We found no logging statement for CoProxy's free web proxy, so it is not disclosed.
A clear line between free and paid
Shifter's free tier is published: 30 minutes and 100 MB a day, no account. CoProxy does not publish limits for its free tool, so you find out what it allows by using it.
Encryption that starts in your own tab
With Shifter, the encrypted connection to an HTTPS site is set up inside your browser tab, so the gateway passes the traffic along without reading the pages you open. That matters when you preview client or partner sites through any proxy.
CoProxy Free Web Proxy pros and cons
- No AdSense on the free proxy page
- Quick links to nine popular sites
- Run by a named proxy provider with residential, mobile and datacenter plans
- Published per-GB prices for its paid proxies
- Every test page loaded, with no ad requests, in our check
- No location picker on the free tool
- Our test exit was an OVH hosting IP, not a residential one
- A "Proxy terms of use" box covers the first proxied page until you accept it
- Free limits and logging for the tool are not disclosed
Verdict
CoProxy's free web proxy is tidy and made no ad-network requests in our test, and if you already plan to buy proxies from CoProxy it is a reasonable first look. If you need to choose the country you browse from, or want to know the free tool exits through residential IPs, Shifter Web Proxy gives you 54 countries to pick from, within a daily allowance of 30 minutes and 100 MB.