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KProxy Review

We could not test KProxy: its site failed to load at every attempt, with a certificate error on kproxy.com and timeouts on www.kproxy.com. Going by TechRadar's review, the free tier offers two countries, disconnects periodically and logs a lot, with more countries in a paid Pro plan.

4.0 /10
Computed score
Privacy
4

The short version

  • Unreachable in our test: kproxy.com presented a certificate for the wrong name, and www.kproxy.com timed out after 45 seconds, in both of our browser modes.
  • Per TechRadar, the free tier covers Canada and France, and Pro adds Germany, the UK, US East and US West.
  • Per TechRadar, free sessions disconnect periodically and make you wait, and the privacy policy lists a large number of logged details.
  • Nothing about its speed, ads, YouTube or exit IPs was measured, so its score rests on published facts only.

At a glance

Feature KProxy
Countries 2 countries
Exit IP Not published
Ads Not checked
Allowance No published limit
Account Not checked
Logs Records activity
Operator KProxy
Monthly visits 36K (Semrush, 2026-08)

Facts checked on each site's own pages.

What KProxy is

KProxy is one of the older names among free web proxies. Besides the web form at kproxy.com, it is known for browser extensions. TechRadar's review lists browser extensions (Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Kiwi) and a portable Windows browser, and says the web form spreads visitors over a set of public servers with no location choice.

The business model is a free tier with an upgrade. TechRadar puts KProxy Pro at $5 for 10 days, $10 for a month or $30 for six months. Pro adds Germany, the United Kingdom, US East and US West to the free tier's Canada and France, and removes the periodic disconnects.

What happened in our test

We tried to put KProxy through our standard session from the EU. It never got past the front door. kproxy.com presented a TLS certificate issued for a different name, which browsers reject as unsafe, and www.kproxy.com did not answer within our 45-second limit. We retried in a visible Chrome window and it timed out again.

So we have no measurement of KProxy's speed, ads, YouTube playback, JavaScript support or exit IPs, and its score is built only from the published facts. It may well have been a temporary outage, and the extensions may behave differently from the website, but a proxy that cannot be reached on the day is worth knowing about if you are trying to use it now.

Is KProxy safe?

KProxy is a named service with a long history, which counts for something. On logging, though, TechRadar found that the privacy policy names a very long list of logged details. If you use KProxy, assume your activity is recorded, and avoid signing in to sensitive accounts through it.

A certificate error is also a reason for caution in itself: if your browser warns that kproxy.com's certificate does not match, do not click through the warning.

Who it suits

If KProxy works for you, it suits people who prefer a proxy extension to a website and would pay for Pro when the free tier's limits start to bite. If you want more countries on a free tool, Shifter Web Proxy offers 54 through residential IPs, with no ads and no log of the pages you visit, within a free allowance of 30 minutes and 100 MB a day.

Pros and cons

Pros
  • A long-running, named service
  • Browser extensions and a portable Windows browser, per TechRadar
  • Pro starts at $5 for 10 days, per TechRadar
Cons
  • The website did not load in our test: certificate error, then timeouts
  • Only Canada and France on the free tier, per TechRadar
  • Periodic disconnects on the free tier, then a wait, per TechRadar
  • TechRadar says its privacy policy lists a long set of logged details

Who KProxy is for

Use it if
  • You want a proxy as a browser extension rather than a website.
  • Canada or France is all you need, or you are happy to pay for Pro.
Look elsewhere if
  • You need a proxy that works today from the website.
  • You want a wide choice of countries without paying.
  • You want a proxy that keeps little or no log of your activity.

How we scored it

Measured from a single connection in the EU, using test method wpb-1.1. Every proxy ran the same scripted session. Countries are scored on a log scale, because a jump from 3 to 20 countries matters far more to a visitor than one from 100 to 200, and only countries with residential exits count: every exit we observed is classified by its network, consumer ISP or hosting provider. Ads are scored on three parts: ads on the landing page (25%), ad slots added to proxied pages, filled or empty (45%) and ad-network code loaded while you browse, seen or not (30%). Any ad-network request caps that part at 6 out of 10.

Every criterion is calculated from published facts or our own measurements and normalised across all the free web proxies we track, Shifter included. Nothing is scored by hand, so a proxy that beats ours on a criterion scores higher on it.

  • Privacy
    Weight 100% 4/10

    Operator named: yes. Logging: records visitor activity. HTTPS to the proxy: unknown.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Common questions about KProxy.

It was not when we tested. kproxy.com presented a certificate for the wrong name and www.kproxy.com timed out, in both of our browser modes. It may have been a temporary outage, and its extensions may still work.

It is a known, named service, but TechRadar reports that its privacy policy lists a large number of logged details. Assume your activity is recorded, do not sign in to sensitive accounts through it, and never click through a certificate warning on its site.

We could not test it, because the site did not load for us. We have no measurement of YouTube playback through KProxy.

According to TechRadar, Canada and France. KProxy Pro adds Germany, the United Kingdom, US East and US West.

TechRadar lists $5 for 10 days, $10 a month or $30 for six months. We did not verify current prices, because the site did not load during our test.

Shifter Web Proxy is one option: 54 countries on the free tool, residential exit IPs, no ads and no log of the pages you visit. It runs in a browser tab rather than as an extension, and free use is capped at 30 minutes and 100 MB a day. Our other reviews cover more free proxies we were able to test.

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