Proxyium Review
Proxyium is a dependable free proxy for everyday pages: every test page loaded and its Poland/France and US servers exited where they said. YouTube would not play in our check, the homepage is full of ads despite promising otherwise, and the site names no operator and publishes no logging policy.
The short version
- Every one of the 10 test loads worked, with a median of 2,134 ms from click to visible content.
- Three locations listed; Poland/France and the United States verified, while the Singapore pick did not answer within our time limit.
- YouTube's page and player loaded, but the video did not start in our playback check.
- One ad slot added to every proxied page, a median of 2 ad-network requests per page, and no named operator or logging policy.
At a glance
| Feature | Proxyium |
|---|---|
| Countries | 3 countries |
| Exit IP | Datacenter |
| Ads | Yes |
| Allowance | No published limit |
| Account | Not required |
| Logs | No policy |
| Operator | Not disclosed |
| Monthly visits | 8.5M (Semrush, 2026-08) |
Facts checked on each site's own pages.
What we measured
Results from the scripted browsing session every proxy in this series goes through. Measured from a single connection in the EU, using test method wpb-1.1. Every proxy ran the same scripted session.
| Test | Proxyium |
|---|---|
| Median page load | 2134 ms |
| Pages that loaded | 100% |
| Ad slots added to proxied pages | 1 |
| YouTube playback | Failed |
| JavaScript app | Worked |
| Countries listed / verified in our test | 3 listed, 2 of 2 verified |
| Ad-network requests per page | 2 |
| Exit IP observed | Datacenter |
What Proxyium is
Proxyium is a free web proxy at proxyium.com with a URL box, a server picker and a dedicated YouTube proxy page, in 11 interface languages. There is no account, no paid tier and no app. It is one of the most visited free proxies, and Semrush estimates that most of its visitors come from Indonesia and India.
The server picker has three options, and Proxyium labels them itself: Poland/France (Fast), United States (Slow) and Singapore (Slow). That candour is useful, but it also means the site recommends one location for most visitors.
How it performed in our test
Proxyium was consistent. It did not drop a single one of the 10 test loads, and its median of 2,134 ms sits in the middle of the field. example.com, the Wikipedia article, the BBC homepage and the GitHub login form each passed their content checks, and the TodoMVC React app worked, so JavaScript-heavy sites have a fair chance. We did not sign in to anything, so whether a login stays active was not measured.
YouTube got as far as the player and stopped: no playback in our muted check, again after the cookie wall was dismissed on a retest. Proxyium promotes YouTube as a use case, so this may vary by day and server, but it did not pass our check.
We tested the location picker by loading an IP lookup page through each option. Poland/France exited in Poland on the MEVSPACE network and United States exited in the US on DigitalOcean, so both did what they claimed. The Singapore option did not reach the lookup page within our time limit, so we count it as untested rather than broken. The lookup labelled both working exits as corporate connections, the kind you get from hosting providers. We did not run a formal IP-type classification.
One observation from the screenshots: Proxyium's proxied pages showed a toolbar and address format very close to CroxyProxy's, so it may share technology with that platform. We have no ownership information to confirm it.
Is Proxyium safe?
The homepage promises browsing without annoying ads, yet when we checked, it carried 16 Google AdSense tags. Proxied pages carry one ad slot each, in the bar above the site, which stayed empty in our automated browser, and a median of 2 requests per page went to known ad networks, so ads are part of the session too.
The bigger question is who is behind it. Proxyium does not name an operating company and does not publish a logging policy on its homepage. The connection to the proxy is HTTPS and the site claims SSL for every proxied site, which protects you from others on your network, but it says nothing about what Proxyium itself keeps. We cannot vouch for it either way. Use it for public pages, and keep logins, payment details and personal data out of it, as with any free web proxy.
Who Proxyium suits
Proxyium suits quick visits to blocked pages through its Poland/France server, with no account and no published daily cap. It loaded everything we asked of it except video.
It is less suited to checking how a site looks in a specific country, to video, or to anyone who wants to know who handles their traffic. Our own Shifter Web Proxy offers 54 countries on residential IPs, no ads, a named company and no page logs. In exchange, each visitor gets 30 minutes and 100 MB with a reCAPTCHA check per session, so Proxyium is still the better pick for long, casual sessions.
Pros and cons
- All 10 test page loads succeeded
- Two of three locations verified in our check
- JavaScript app and login form rendered
- No signup, no upsell and no published daily cap
- YouTube loaded but did not play in our check
- Homepage ads despite promising browsing without annoying ads
- No named operator and no published logging policy
- Only three locations, two of them labelled slow by the site
Who Proxyium is for
- You want a free proxy that reliably opens ordinary web pages.
- A Polish, French or US IP is all you need.
- You do not want to sign up or install anything.
- You need a country other than Poland, France, the US or Singapore.
- You want video to play through the proxy.
- You want a named company and a published policy behind your traffic.
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.
- Speed measuredWeight 22% 8.3/10
2134 ms median page load against 16 proxies we timed, multiplied by the 100% of test pages that loaded.
- Countries measuredWeight 17% 0/10
Every exit we observed was on a hosting or cloud provider's network, so none count as residential. Log scale against the widest residential choice in the field (54).
- Ads measuredWeight 22% 4/10
Landing page ads: yes. Ad slots added to proxied pages, filled or empty: 1. Ad-network requests per proxied page: 2.
- Compatibility measuredWeight 22% 5/10
Passed 1 of 2 checks (YouTube playback, staying logged in, a JavaScript app).
- PrivacyWeight 17% 2/10
Operator named: no. Logging: no policy published. HTTPS to the proxy: yes.