The short answer
- 1 NodeMaven Longest sticky mobile sessions Visit site
- 2 ProxyEmpire Widest mobile country reach Visit site
- 3 AnyIP.io Week-long carrier sessions Visit site
17 best proxies for Telegram, compared
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| 1 | 4.8/5 | $2.20 / GB | 88% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Lists SOCKS5, 250K mobile IPs, 190+ countries and sticky sessions up to 24 hours on a 99.99% uptime claim. Good for this job
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| 2 | 4.5/5 | $0.35 / GB | 90% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5, HTTP/2 | ||
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Lists SOCKS5, 4M+ mobile IPs across 170+ countries and unlimited sessions, but no maximum sticky duration is published. Good for this job
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| 3 | 4.4/5 | $2 / GB | 80% | HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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Offers SOCKS5, mobile and residential on one plan, sticky sessions up to 7 days, but only 38+ countries. Good for this job
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| 4 | 4.3/5 | $0.08 / GB | 100% | HTTP(S), SOCKS5 | ||
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Supports SOCKS5 across 195+ locations with mobile proxies from $2.25/GB and 30-minute sticky sessions. Good for this job
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| 5 | 4.1/5 | ₽490 / day | 83% | SOCKS5, HTTP | ||
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Mobile proxies over SOCKS5 in 53 countries with unlimited traffic and 99.9% uptime; rental is priced per day. Good for this job
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| 6 | 4.0/5 | $0.30 / GB | 96% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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SOCKS5 across 220+ locations with 99.7% uptime, but mobile coverage reaches only 20+ countries. Good for this job
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| 7 | 3.8/5 | $0.63 / GB | 86% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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Supports SOCKS5 and mobile proxies across 195 countries, with a 100 MB trial but no session length published. Good for this job
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| 8 | 3.7/5 | $0.02 / month | 100% | — | ||
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SOCKS5 on 195 countries and 99.97% uptime, but the record lists no mobile proxy product. Good for this job
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| 9 | 3.6/5 | — | 81% | SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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SOCKS5 and mobile/residential pools in 190+ countries with 99.95% uptime, but no trial or refunds. Good for this job
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| 10 | 3.5/5 | $0.06 / GB | 100% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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SOCKS5 and 200+ countries on residential, but no mobile addresses appear in the record. Good for this job
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| 11 | 3.4/5 | $2 / GB | 88% | SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS | ||
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SOCKS5, 190+ residential countries and sticky IPs up to 72 hours, but mobile covers Poland and Ukraine only. Good for this job
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| 12 | 3.1/5 | $0.50 / GB | 88% | HTTP(S) | ||
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Publishes mobile IPs in 120+ carriers and 195+ countries, but protocol support lists HTTP(S) only, not SOCKS5. Good for this job
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| 13 | 3.0/5 | $5 / proxy | 85% | — | ||
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Sells mobile proxies across 150+ locations with 99.7% connection success, but no SOCKS5 support is stated. Good for this job
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| 14 | 2.9/5 | $0.40 / GB | 100% | — | ||
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Mobile proxies and 195 locations are listed, but no SOCKS5 support appears in its published record. Good for this job
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| 15 | 2.7/5 | $1 | 82% | — | ||
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SOCKS5 and a mobile product line are sold, but shared IPs put multiple users on one address and no country count is given. Good for this job
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| 16 | 2.5/5 | $2 | 82% | HTTP/S | ||
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Sticky mobile sessions of 30 minutes exist, but SOCKS5 is listed for B2B only and no country count is published. Good for this job
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| 17 | 2.4/5 | $0.90 / GB | 86% | HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 | ||
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SOCKS5 across 195+ countries, but the record explicitly lists no mobile proxies in the line-up. Good for this job
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Ordered by how well each provider fits this job, from the figures the providers publish, our review scores and reader votes — see our methodology.
Why Telegram supports proxies natively
Telegram is one of the few messengers that ships proxy support inside the official client rather than leaving it to a separate app. There is a proxy entry in settings on Android, iOS, Windows, macOS and Linux, and it routes Telegram's own traffic while everything else on the device carries on as normal. That was not an engineering nicety. Telegram has been blocked or restricted in a number of countries, and a client-side proxy had to exist so the app kept working on networks that did not want it to.
What breaks without one: on a network where Telegram's addresses are null-routed, or where the connection to its datacentres is reset during the handshake, the app sits on "Connecting..." and never gets past it. Media and voice notes stall before text does, so people often think the account is broken when the network is. The other common case is a network that reaches most of the internet but blocks Telegram specifically — office, school, hotel, some mobile carriers on roaming plans.
Two things a proxy does not do, since they get assumed constantly. It does not hide your phone number from Telegram: the service still knows which number the account belongs to, and privacy settings govern who else can see it. And it does not make you anonymous to the proxy operator, who sees your IP address, when you connected, and how much data moved. Message content is covered by Telegram's own encryption; the metadata around it is not.
One design point worth knowing: a proxy covers Telegram only, where a VPN tunnels the whole device. On a metered phone connection that difference is the reason to pick one over the other.
MTProto against SOCKS5
Telegram clients accept two kinds of proxy, and they are not interchangeable.
MTProto is Telegram's own protocol. The proxy server speaks it, and the client is configured with a server address, a port and a secret. The secret is a hex string, and its prefix tells the client which obfuscation mode to use: dd for random padding, ee for fake TLS. The fake-TLS variant wraps the connection so it resembles an ordinary HTTPS session to a deep packet inspection appliance, which is why it survives on networks where plain obfuscation does not. An MTProto proxy carries Telegram and nothing else.
SOCKS5 is a general-purpose circuit-level proxy. The client opens a connection to the proxy, asks it to reach a destination, and passes bytes through. Telegram's desktop and mobile clients take SOCKS5 directly with server, port and optional username and password, and the client hands the destination hostname to the proxy rather than resolving it locally — so a local DNS block on Telegram's domains does not automatically break the connection.
The trade-off in plain terms. SOCKS5 is not encrypted in itself; the handshake is readable, and the payload inside is Telegram's own encrypted transport, so the operator sees connection metadata and not message content. What SOCKS5 lacks is camouflage: its handshake has a fixed signature that any DPI box can match, so on a network blocking by protocol rather than by address, a SOCKS5 proxy can be blocked too. MTProto with a fake-TLS secret is the one more likely to survive that. Against that, MTProto only does Telegram, and the proxies are usually run by volunteers or strangers and shared with everyone who has the link.
Rough rule: if the block is on Telegram's addresses, either works. If the block is protocol-level, pick MTProto. If you want one proxy for Telegram and other applications, pick SOCKS5. If you are setting it up for someone non-technical, MTProto, because a t.me/proxy?... link fills every field with one tap.
How to add a proxy in Telegram, step by step
Menu paths drift slightly between versions, but the entries live in the same place on each platform.
- Android: Settings → Data and Storage → Proxy. Turn on "Use proxy", then Add proxy, choose MTProto or SOCKS5, and enter the fields. There is a separate toggle for using the proxy for calls.
- iOS: Settings → Data and Storage → Proxy → Add Proxy. The on/off switch sits at the top of that screen.
- Windows and Linux desktop: Settings → Advanced → Connection type → Add proxy. You can also click the connection indicator in the bottom-left corner of the window.
- macOS: Telegram → Settings → Advanced → Connection type.
The quickest route is a link. An MTProto proxy is shared as https://t.me/proxy?server=...&port=...&secret=... and a SOCKS5 one as https://t.me/socks?server=...&port=...&user=...&pass=.... Tapping either opens the client with the fields pre-filled; you confirm and it connects.
Check the address before you add it, because most published proxies are dead and you will otherwise spend an hour debugging the wrong thing. From a terminal:
curl --socks5-hostname HOST:PORT -m 10 https://core.telegram.org
HTML back means the proxy is passing traffic. A timeout, a refused connection or a 407 means it is dead or wants credentials. Our proxy checker does the same job in a browser if you would rather not use a terminal, and what is my IP shows the address you appear as before and after — worth checking both ways so you know the proxy is what changed and not something else on the network.
Once it is added, send a message rather than trusting the toggle. The status should settle on "Connected" and stay there. If it alternates between connected and connecting, the address is unstable, and instability is felt immediately on a messenger because the connection is long-lived rather than a series of separate requests.
Free Telegram proxies and what they cost you
Free MTProto and SOCKS5 proxies circulate through public channels and lists, and the same few thousand people work through them. The price is not money, but you pay in other ways.
- They die. A public MTProto proxy can be gone within hours. A client left pointed at a dead address keeps retrying and flapping.
- They are shared. Hundreds of accounts exiting through one address is precisely the pattern that makes an address look bad, and you inherit that reputation the moment you connect.
- They are logged. Whoever runs the proxy sees your IP address, your connection times and your data volume. Telegram's encryption covers the content of messages, not the fact that you connected.
- They are slow. Media, voice notes and calls are the first things to fall over.
- Some are bait. A proxy that works flawlessly and is handed out free to a large channel is a network you do not control, run by someone who has an interest in who uses it.
The live table on this page comes from our own verified list and is re-checked continuously rather than scraped once, which puts it ahead of a random channel post. It is still free infrastructure: fine for reading public channels from a throwaway account, not fine for the account tied to your own phone number. The full free proxy list shows what is live now, and the paid providers covered in our provider reviews are the other side of that trade — you are buying stability and a smaller pool of users per address, not magic.
Which address type suits an account
Three address types, three different signals sent to anyone watching.
Datacentre addresses are the cheapest and the most obviously not a person. The ranges are published by the hosting companies that own them, so any service that wants to know whether you are on a server can look up the ASN and answer in milliseconds. For Telegram they are fine for reading, poor for anything tied to an account you want to keep.
Residential addresses belong to consumer ISPs and look like a house. The catch is rotation: most residential pools change the exit address on every request by default, which is the opposite of what a messenger needs. A Telegram session wants the same exit address for hours, so if the provider cannot give you a sticky session, the pool is the wrong shape for this job regardless of how good it is elsewhere.
Mobile carrier addresses sit behind carrier-grade NAT, where thousands of subscribers share one public address. That is what makes them look ordinary to an extreme degree, and it is why they cost more. Account creation and first login are phone-shaped events — the thing being verified is a phone number — so a carrier address is the closest match to what the account claims to be.
Two further decisions. Country: the address should sit somewhere Telegram is not blocked, and ideally not contradict the phone number's country in a way no real person could produce. Session length: reconnecting from a fresh address every few minutes is the single most reliable way to trigger a verification prompt, because that is what a stolen session looks like. Pick one address and stay on it.
Is using a Telegram proxy legal where you are
Worth separating three questions that get muddled together.
- Using a proxy is legal in most jurisdictions. It is ordinary network plumbing, used by offices, hospitals and airlines.
- Circumventing a state block is a different matter. Where Telegram is restricted by law rather than by a filtering accident, the restriction is often backed by rules aimed at the user, not only at Telegram. Those rules change, and they change without much notice. Check the position where you actually are rather than trusting a page written earlier.
- Operating a proxy server is a separate question again, and some jurisdictions regulate that more tightly than they regulate using one.
Then there is the fourth question, which is not legal at all: what you do through the proxy. Bulk account creation, unsolicited messaging and scraping member lists breach Telegram's terms whatever address they arrive from. Being within the law does not put you within the terms, and Telegram's enforcement — limits, code prompts, number bans — is not a court and does not need to be proportionate. Nothing here is legal advice.
Mistakes that get a Telegram account limited
Most limitations people blame on "Telegram detecting my proxy" come from the pattern of use around the address rather than the address itself.
Creating the account through a datacentre IP. The sign-up request carries the address you came from, and a hosting range at the moment a number is first registered is one of the clearest signals available. Register on the connection you intend to keep.
Jumping countries. Logging in from the Netherlands, then Brazil, then Singapore within an hour is not something a person holding a phone does. If you route through a rotation pool, pin the session.
Many accounts on one address. A handful of accounts sharing one exit address is the pattern anti-abuse systems are built to find. One address per account, kept separate.
Behaving like a new account. A fresh account that immediately messages strangers, joins a long run of groups or adds contacts in bulk gets limited whether or not a proxy is in the path. Warm it up slowly.
Changing proxy and device at once. New address, new device and new session in the same hour is the combination that lands you on the code screen. Change one thing at a time and let the session settle before the next.
Leaving a dead proxy toggled on. Repeated reconnects look like flapping and trigger repeated code requests. Delete the entry rather than keeping it enabled out of optimism.
Using an address everyone else is using. The free-list problem again, and the most common cause of a limit that looks unexplained.
One honest note to finish: no proxy makes an account unfindable, and a provider advertising "Telegram-optimised" addresses is selling an address, not immunity.
What to look for
- SOCKS5 support
- Telegram's own clients take a SOCKS5 proxy directly, which makes stated SOCKS5 support the first requirement.
- Connection stability
- A messenger holds a long-lived connection, so an address that drops is felt immediately rather than at the next request.
- Countries available
- Telegram is restricted in several countries, and the useful address is one outside them.
- Session length
- Reconnecting from a new address repeatedly is what triggers verification on an account.
- Mobile addresses
- Account creation and verification are phone-shaped, and a carrier address matches that.
Free SOCKS5 proxies, live right now
These are from our own list, checked around the clock. They are free, which also means they are shared, short-lived and wrong for anything that holds a login — but they are the cheapest way to see whether a proxy fixes your problem at all before you pay for one.
| Ip Address:Port | Type | Country | Anonymity | Speed | Uptime | Response | Updated |
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| SOCKS5 |
United States
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Elite | 0.09% |
2%
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2830.37 ms | 17s ago | |
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United States
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Elite | 0.07% |
38%
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4462.88 ms | 17s ago | |
| SOCKS5 |
United States
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Elite | 0.08% |
21%
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2945.48 ms | 17s ago | |
| SOCKS5 |
United States
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Elite | 0.08% |
13%
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2899.66 ms | 17s ago | |
| SOCKS5 |
United States
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Elite | 0.05% |
17%
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4433.23 ms | 17s ago | |
| SOCKS5 |
United States
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Elite | 0.06% |
16%
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4069.15 ms | 17s ago | |
| SOCKS5 |
United States
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Elite | 0.06% |
16%
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4363.48 ms | 17s ago | |
| SOCKS5 |
United States
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Elite | 0.08% |
19%
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3067.57 ms | 17s ago | |
| SOCKS5 |
United States
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Elite | 0.08% |
25%
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2747.72 ms | 17s ago | |
| SOCKS5 |
United States
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Elite | 0.09% |
13%
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2861.44 ms | 17s ago |
Every provider, in order
1. NodeMaven — Longest sticky mobile sessions
4.8 / 5 for this job · from $2.20 / GB
NodeMaven takes the top slot here on the strength of one figure: sticky sessions quoted at up to 24 hours. A Telegram client holds one connection open for as long as it is running, and every reconnect from a fresh address is a data point the platform can weigh against the account. A single address that stays put for a day does not solve that on its own, but it removes the churn that makes an account look automated.
SOCKS5 is supported alongside HTTP and HTTPS, which is what Telegram's own clients want: the proxy field takes a host, port, username and password directly, with no wrapper. Mobile is the pool that matters for anything phone-shaped, and the provider quotes 250K real-device 5G/LTE mobile IPs, against 295K+ in third-party records — the gap is worth knowing before you size a plan. Geo-targeting reaches 190+ countries with ZIP level claimed, which covers the case where the reason for the proxy is simply to sit outside a country where Telegram is restricted. Concurrent sessions are unlimited.
The catch is cost and the way in. Billing is per gigabyte from $2.20/GB; a messenger is light on bandwidth, but a fleet of accounts on residential addresses is not free. There is no free trial: $3.50 buys 750MB, and a third-party write-up says the free-trial route is limited to registered companies that pass KYC. Smaller locations are reported to be uneven in depth, refunds are pro-rated rather than full, and the provider's own figure for mobile average speed is under 0.6s — the slowest of its three product lines.
Key features
- Sticky sessions quoted at up to 24 hours (provider)
- SOCKS5, HTTP and HTTPS support
- 250K real-device 5G/LTE mobile IPs, provider figure; 295K+ in third-party records
- Geo-targeting to 190+ countries, ZIP level claimed (provider)
- Unlimited concurrent sessions
- No free trial; 750MB entry point at $3.50
Best suited for: best suited for holding a Telegram account on one mobile address for a full day without a reconnect
2. ProxyEmpire — Widest mobile country reach
4.5 / 5 for this job · from $0.35 / GB
Second place goes to the size of the mobile country list rather than the size of the pool. ProxyEmpire quotes mobile coverage in 170+ countries and 4M+ rotating mobile IPs, which is the widest country reach on this page. When the reason for the proxy is that Telegram is restricted where you are, a long country list is the practical thing: there is more chance of an address in the jurisdiction you actually need.
SOCKS5 is supported alongside HTTP, HTTPS and HTTP/2, so a client can be pointed at it directly. Sessions are quoted as unlimited, with IP control by time, by session or on request — but no maximum sticky duration is published in the record, and that is the number a messenger user wants before committing. Dedicated mobile is the thinner product: 5+ countries and 50+ locations, with targeting cut back to country, city and carrier. On the GB plans, unused bandwidth rolls over and does not expire, and the $1.97 trial gives 150MB without converting into a subscription.
The catch is that the cheapest route to a mobile address is metered. Rotating mobile starts at $4.50/GB on the one-gigabyte pay-as-you-go block and $4.17/GB on the smallest monthly block, falling to $1.25/GB for custom volume above 1TB. Unlimited bandwidth is sold per day or week and starts at $200/day with no rollover, so it is not the budget option it first appears. The trial excludes static ISP and datacenter, and the provider quotes its Trustpilot score as both 4.6 and 4.5 from 100+ reviews.
Key features
- 4M+ rotating mobile IPs across 170+ countries (provider)
- SOCKS5, HTTP, HTTPS and HTTP/2
- Unlimited sessions and concurrent connections for approved use cases
- Unused GB roll over and never expire on GB-based plans
- Dedicated mobile limited to 5+ countries and 50+ locations
- $1.97 trial with 150MB, no auto-conversion to a subscription
Best suited for: best suited for reaching a mobile address in an uncommon country where Telegram is restricted
3. AnyIP.io — Week-long carrier sessions
4.4 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
Third, and the strongest answer here if the problem is reconnects rather than country count. AnyIP.io quotes sticky sessions of up to 7 days, and its Smart Sessions keep the address inside the same carrier and area for the life of the session. For a Telegram client left running, a week on one carrier address is closer to the shape of a real phone than a rotation every few minutes, and the platform sees far fewer address changes to explain.
One plan covers residential and mobile at the same price, metered only by bandwidth, with unlimited IP rotation and unlimited concurrent requests — a second device or a second account is not a separate line item. SOCKS5 and HTTPS are both supported. Unused data rolls over to the next billing cycle on every plan, and quota control and alerting are included, which matters if one account quietly eats the allowance.
The catch is geography and the price ladder. Coverage is 38+ countries, a short list if you need one specific country outside the usual set. The headline $2/GB is the Enterprise rate on a 500GB, $1000 monthly plan; extra traffic is $5/GB on the $25 Micro plan and $4/GB on the $80 Basic. There is no free trial — Micro is the paid entry point — and crypto payments sit outside the refund policy, while the 14-day money-back guarantee covers card purchases only. The provider quotes a ~98.6% request success rate and ~0.6s average response time.
Key features
- Sticky sessions of up to 7 days (provider)
- Smart Sessions keep the IP inside the same carrier and area
- HTTPS and SOCKS5 support
- 100M+ residential and mobile IPs on one plan, bandwidth-metered
- 38+ countries of coverage
- ~98.6% quoted request success rate, ~0.6s average response time
Best suited for: best suited for long-lived Telegram sessions that need one carrier address held for up to a week
4. Decodo (ex Smartproxy) — Broad SOCKS5 coverage
4.3 / 5 for this job · from $0.08 / GB
Fourth, and the widest plain SOCKS5 support in the ordinary sense: SOCKS5 is listed alongside HTTP and HTTPS, and 195+ locations on a 115M+ residential pool means an address outside most restricted countries is a routine request rather than a special one. The company has traded as Decodo since April 2025, which matters when you are reading documentation under the old Smartproxy name.
For a messenger, the weakness is session length. Sticky IPs are held for up to 30 minutes, which is a scraping session, not a messenger session — a Telegram client that reconnects twice an hour is exactly the pattern that draws verification. The record also publishes no mobile country count, only mobile pricing from $2.25/GB, so if the plan is a carrier address in a particular country you will need to confirm it exists. What is published is solid: 99.99% uptime, a 99.92% success rate on residential proxies and an average residential response time under 0.5s.
The entry route has a wrinkle worth reading twice. There is a 3-day, 100MB trial, but it and the 14-day money-back option are mutually exclusive — using the trial removes refund eligibility on a first purchase. Pay as you go at $4/GB is wallet-only, sold a gigabyte at a time, and cannot be combined with a monthly subscription. Refund caps are also low: under 20% of a residential plan's traffic, or under 10% of an Enterprise plan's.
Key features
- HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 support
- 115M+ residential IPs across 195+ locations (provider)
- Sticky IPs held for up to 30 minutes only
- Mobile proxies from $2.25/GB, no mobile country count published
- 99.99% uptime and 99.92% residential success rate (provider)
- Trades as Decodo since April 2025
Best suited for: best suited for SOCKS5-only clients and country-level placement rather than long-running sessions
5. MobileProxy.Space — Mobile-first unlimited traffic
4.1 / 5 for this job · from ₽490 / day
Fifth, and the one that behaves most like handing a client a phone. MobileProxy.Space rents dedicated mobile proxies by the day rather than by the gigabyte, with unlimited traffic, a one-day minimum and a quoted IP change time of 2–7 seconds on a timer or by hitting an API link. Up to 250 simultaneous connections are allowed per mobile proxy. That mix suits Telegram account work: an address that is genuinely a carrier address, held for as long as you rent it, with changes made deliberately rather than by accident.
SOCKS5 and HTTP are both supported, so Telegram's own client can take the proxy directly. Dead proxies are replaced automatically according to the provider, and the dashboard carries a proxy checker, port checks and a speed test. Support runs through Telegram among other channels, which is convenient when the thing that is broken is Telegram. Coverage is given as 53 countries and 223 cellular operators by the provider, against 30+ countries and 130+ operators in third-party records.
The catch is that the disagreement does not stop at pool size. Third-party write-ups flag the prices, from ₽490/day for mobile, as relatively high, and there are reports of laggy proxies and occasional late-night maintenance windows — both of which land squarely on a long-lived connection. Some customers have reported problems with geographical locations. The trial length is given as 2 hours in one record and 3 hours by the provider, which is not long to judge stability.
Key features
- Mobile proxies rented per day with unlimited traffic, from ₽490/day
- SOCKS5 and HTTP support
- IP change in 2–7 seconds by timer or API link (provider)
- Up to 250 simultaneous connections per mobile proxy (provider)
- 53 countries and 223 cellular operators (provider); 30+ countries in third-party records
- Trial length given as 2 hours in one record, 3 hours by the provider
Best suited for: best suited for rent-by-the-day carrier addresses with unlimited traffic and deliberate IP changes
6. Proxy-Seller — 220+ locations, thin mobile
4.0 / 5 for this job · from $0.30 / GB
Sixth, and the compromise is visible in the angle. Proxy-Seller publishes 220+ locations on a 47M+ residential pool, which is real breadth for anything country-shaped, and SOCKS5 sits alongside HTTP and HTTPS with RESTful API and IP whitelisting. Uptime is quoted at 99.7%, connection success at 99.5%+, and residential response time at around 0.35s — figures that would suit a long-lived connection if the addresses were the right kind.
Mobile is where it thins. Mobile coverage reaches 20+ countries against 220+ residential locations, on networks named as Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange across 5G, 4G and LTE, priced from $10/IP. If the account you are protecting needs a carrier address in one of those 20+ countries, this works. If it needs one anywhere else, the mobile list will not stretch, and residential is the fallback — a different proposition for anything phone-shaped.
The second catch is that the performance numbers are the provider's own, with no independent test cited in the record. That is not a reason to disbelieve them, but it does mean they cannot be set against the third-party figures quoted elsewhere on this page. Compliance, by contrast, is unusually well documented: ISO/IEC 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certification, GDPR, CCPA and ePrivacy compliance, DPA/SCC readiness and an EWDCI trust seal. That matters more to a procurement review than to one person pasting a host and port into a client.
Key features
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 support
- 47M+ rotating residential IPs across 220+ locations (provider)
- Mobile coverage in only 20+ countries, on Vodafone, T-Mobile and Orange
- 5G/4G/LTE mobile networks, from $10/IP
- 99.7% uptime and 99.5%+ connection success rate (provider)
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022, ISO 9001:2015, GDPR, CCPA and ePrivacy stated
Best suited for: best suited for residential breadth and documented compliance, with mobile treated as a short-list extra
7. Floppydata — Trial-backed mobile options
3.8 / 5 for this job · from $0.63 / GB
Floppydata is here because of the trial. There is 100 MB free on mobile, and 100 MB free separately on residential and datacenter. For Telegram that is the right shape of test: Telegram's own clients take a SOCKS5 proxy directly, so you can put the endpoint into the app, check that the connection opens and stays open from your network, and only then decide whether to buy traffic. SOCKS5, HTTP and HTTPS are all listed, and the pool is described as covering 195 countries with country, city, ASN and IP-type targeting.
Mobile is the part that matters for accounts rather than for reading messages. Sign-up and verification on Telegram are phone-shaped, and a carrier address is the shape the platform expects, which is why a provider's mobile pool is worth paying over the odds for. Floppydata sells mobile as its own pool with its own trial rather than bundling it into a residential headline. Mobile traffic runs $2.36/GB at 96 GB and $2.07/GB at 120 GB; residential is priced on the same ladder. Rotating, static residential, static datacenter, mobile and ISP products all sit under one account, so an address can be swapped without a second contract, and support runs over live chat, email and Telegram.
The awkward part is what the trial is not. A 100 MB allowance proves the handshake works; it is not a load test, and it tells you little about how a mobile address behaves after several days of a long-lived connection. Documentation is thin on anything past the basics, custom rotation logic especially. There is no phone support, so an escalation that needs a voice on the line is not available, and the 99.99% uptime and sub-0.3-second response times are provider claims with nothing independent behind them. The company itself dates from April 2024, which is short.
Key features
- SOCKS5, HTTP and HTTPS endpoints
- 100 MB free trial on mobile, residential and datacenter, taken separately
- Mobile at $2.36/GB for 96 GB and $2.07/GB for 120 GB
- 195 countries with country, city, ASN and IP-type targeting
- Rotating, static residential, static datacenter, mobile and ISP proxies under one account
- Live chat, email and Telegram support channels
Best suited for: a mobile-first Telegram setup where you want to prove the SOCKS5 handshake on a free 100 MB trial before paying for carrier traffic
8. Webshare.io — Cheap SOCKS5 without mobile
3.7 / 5 for this job · from $0.02 / month
Webshare sits at eight because it is the cheapest way on this list to get a SOCKS5 endpoint you can paste into Telegram's proxy field, and because it does not sell mobile at all. HTTP and SOCKS5 run on the same credentials, so the same account details work whether the client speaks SOCKS5 or HTTP. There is a permanent free plan of ten proxies with no card required, which is enough to confirm the endpoint is reachable. Beyond that, per-IP pricing falls from $0.0299 to $0.0179 per proxy as volume grows, and yearly billing takes another 30% off, per the provider.
A messenger holds one connection open rather than making a request and closing it, so per-IP plans suit it better than per-GB ones: the connection is cheap in traffic and expensive in stability. Webshare's three pools are datacenter, static residential (ISP) and rotating residential. Static residential starts at $6.00 a month with up to unlimited bandwidth, subject to a Fair Usage Policy, and IP authorisation is offered as an alternative to username and password. Rotating residential targets country, state, city, ZIP code and ASN at $3.50 a month, against 80M+ IPs across a stated 195 countries. There is a Chrome extension and 24/7 support.
The catch is the missing product. There is no mobile pool anywhere in the record, so account creation and verification, which are phone-shaped and reward carrier addresses, have nothing to draw on here. The smallest published private bundles are 20 and 25 IPs, which is a lot of addresses for one chat account. The provider's own pages quote both 195 countries and 50+ locations, so the real footprint is hard to pin down, and the static ISP list names Comcast and AT&T and then stops at "& more", so a specific carrier cannot be checked before buying. The 99.7% success rate and 99.97% uptime are the provider's figures, unaudited.
Key features
- HTTP and SOCKS5 endpoints on the same credentials
- Permanent free plan with 10 proxies, no credit card
- Per-IP pricing from $0.0299 down to $0.0179 per proxy at volume
- Static residential (ISP) from $6.00/month, up to unlimited bandwidth under a Fair Usage Policy
- Rotating residential targeting country, state, city, ZIP and ASN at $3.50/month
- IP authorisation as an alternative to username and password
Best suited for: cheap, stable per-IP SOCKS5 sessions for an existing Telegram account, with no need for a carrier address
9. Nsocks — Large pool, no trial
3.6 / 5 for this job
Nsocks is at nine on the strength of pool size and reach rather than on anything you can check first. The residential pool is put at 80M+ real-user IPs across 195 countries, with country and city targeting, and third-party records add ISP and ASN targeting. SOCKS5, HTTP and HTTPS are all listed. That combination is what matters when the address you need is an exit outside a country where Telegram is restricted: city-level targeting lets you pick the jurisdiction rather than take whatever rotation hands you.
Rotating, static, datacenter, ISP and unlimited proxies are sold as separate products with separate billing. Static residential and datacenter run on per-IP plans with fixed monthly costs and unlimited bandwidth, which suits a long-lived messenger connection better than metered rotation. There are dashboard traffic statistics, nine interface languages, listed integrations with most anti-detect browsers plus Playwright, Selenium and an API, and 24/7 support over live chat and email. Uptime is put at 99.95%.
The awkward part is that none of this can be sampled. There is no free trial, and the provider states it does not support refunds on products sold, so the first month is the test. Session length is the other gap: rotation is listed as a feature, but no sticky window is quoted, and for a messenger the sticky window is the figure that decides whether an account gets asked to verify itself again. The pool figure also moves depending on which page you read, 80M+ on one and 90M+ across 190+ country and city-level regions on another. The operating history is short, with the company founded on 26 August 2024 per third-party records.
Key features
- 80M+ residential IPs claimed, with 90M+ also quoted on the provider's home page
- SOCKS5, HTTP and HTTPS listed
- 195 countries with country and city targeting; ISP and ASN targeting reported by third parties
- Static residential and datacenter sold per IP on fixed monthly billing with unlimited bandwidth
- No free trial, and the provider states it does not support refunds
- Founded 26 August 2024 per third-party records; 99.95% uptime is a provider figure
Best suited for: picking an exit jurisdiction by city for a restricted region, where you are willing to pay for the first month to find out whether it holds
10. ProxySale.com — Wide countries, no mobile
3.5 / 5 for this job · from $0.06 / GB
Proxy-Sale is at ten because of the country count. 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries, by the provider's own count, with country, state and city targeting on residential and HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 all supported on that product. When the point of the proxy is to appear in a specific country, that spread is the feature, and city targeting narrows it further than a country list alone.
Billing is the second reason. Residential runs from $0.5/GB on usage-based billing, and a Telegram session is light traffic: text, occasional media, mostly idle. Paying per GB in that pattern is cheaper than buying time on an unlimited plan, and the metered product is the one that carries the SOCKS5 endpoint. Sticky rotation is offered on the unlimited residential plan at $69.68 a day with no cap on IPs or traffic, and random rotation alongside it. If a fixed address is what the account needs, static residential is $5/IP and static datacenter $3/IP. There is also a Web Scraper API billed only for successfully delivered results, with a 30-day trial, and 24/7 support by email, live chat and account managers.
The catch is the product line. There is no mobile pool, so the phone-shaped half of Telegram, registration and verification, has nothing here to match a carrier address. The free trial covers the Web Scraper API and not the proxy network, so pool quality is untested until you pay. The daily rate on unlimited residential, $69.68 a day, is a poor fit for a messenger that moves very little data over a long connection. The service is not available in mainland China by the provider's own policy, and the 99.9% uptime, 99.5% success rate and sub-0.6-second response time are all provider-declared with no third-party audit shown.
Key features
- 86M+ residential IPs across 200+ countries, provider's count
- HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 on the residential product
- Country, state and city targeting on residential
- Residential from $0.5/GB on usage-based billing
- Static residential at $5/IP; static datacenter at $3/IP
- Not available in mainland China by the provider's policy
Best suited for: reaching a specific country or city cheaply on metered per-GB billing, for an account that is already registered elsewhere
11. GonzoProxy — Long sticky, narrow mobile
3.4 / 5 for this job · from $2 / GB
GonzoProxy is at eleven because of one number: sticky sessions up to 72 hours. A messenger is a single connection held open, and the thing that gets an account flagged is reconnecting from a fresh address every few minutes. Three days on one address is the longest published window here, and it is the reason this card exists rather than the pool size, which is 20M+ IPs across 190+ countries. SOCKS5 is supported alongside HTTP, per third-party records with SOCKS4 and HTTPS as well, and concurrent connections are unlimited on every plan.
The billing suits a chat account too. Traffic is pay-per-GB, never expires and rolls over to the next plan, so a low-volume month is not lost. Targeting runs to country, city, state, continent, ZIP code and ASN. There is no KYC and access is described as live in about 30 seconds, which matters if an account is locked and you need an address now. Support is a 24/7 Telegram helpdesk staffed with technical people, alongside email, and ready configs exist for Dolphin Anty, Go Login, Undetectable, Octo Browser, Linken Sphere and others, plus a REST API. Mobile is sold with unlimited traffic at $7 for 3 days, $15 for 7 days and $45 for 30 days.
Then the catch, which is severe for this job. Mobile coverage is Poland and Ukraine only as of writing. Telegram registration and verification are phone-shaped, so if the number is not Polish or Ukrainian the mobile pool is no help at all, and unlimited mobile traffic does not fix a missing country. The demo is not free, at $1.99 for 0.3 GB, with a separate $4.50 trial for 1 GB. Two published residential ladders quote different per-GB rates for the same volumes. The dashboard lacks detailed per-request logs, and there is no browser extension or desktop app.
Key features
- Sticky sessions claimed up to 72 hours, alongside rotating sessions
- SOCKS5 supported; SOCKS4, HTTP and HTTPS listed by third parties
- Mobile proxies limited to Poland and Ukraine, with unlimited traffic at $7/3 days, $15/7 days, $45/30 days
- Traffic never expires and rolls over to the next plan
- Unlimited concurrent connections on every plan
- Demo at $1.99 for 0.3 GB; separate 1 GB trial at $4.50
Best suited for: holding one address for days at a time so a Telegram account is not asked to re-verify, where a Polish or Ukrainian mobile address is acceptable or not needed
12. Novada — Mobile reach without SOCKS5
3.1 / 5 for this job · from $0.50 / GB
Novada is at twelve because of its mobile inventory and its sticky ISP sessions, and it is last because of the protocol line. The mobile pool is 2M+ IPs across 120+ carriers, sold from $1.5/GB, and carrier addresses are what the registration and verification side of Telegram is shaped around. Rotating ISP sessions are quoted at 360 minutes, six hours on one address, across 100+ countries at $0.65/GB, which is a workable window for a long-lived chat connection. Residential sits at 100M+ IPs over 195+ countries with city-level targeting, sessions of 1-120 minutes, and published country counts including 8,426,658 US IPs and 3,167,312 in Brazil.
The commercial terms are unusually easy to check. There is a $10 credit with no card required, and a 10GB new-user residential pack for $10, so an address can be held and watched for a while before a larger commitment. Static ISP is $1.18/IP and dedicated datacenter $0.72/IP if the account needs a fixed address instead of a rotating one. Compliance is published as GDPR and CCPA with a consent-based sourcing claim, and support is 24/7 with account managers.
The catch is decisive. Protocol support is listed as HTTP(S). Telegram's own clients take a SOCKS5 proxy in their built-in proxy settings, so an HTTP-only endpoint cannot simply be pasted in; you would need a client, a converter, or a separate hop in front of it, which is extra moving parts for a connection that has to stay up. Beyond that, the residential session window of 1-120 minutes means frequent re-addressing if you use that pool, and the headline 99.99% success rate does not clearly cover every pool, since rotating datacenter is quoted at 99%. Unlimited Proxies, IPv6 and Datasets carry no published price and are quoted through an account manager.
Key features
- 2M+ mobile IPs across 120+ carriers, from $1.5/GB
- Rotating ISP sticky sessions of 360 minutes across 100+ countries at $0.65/GB
- Residential sessions of 1-120 minutes; 100M+ IPs over 195+ countries with city targeting
- Protocol support published as HTTP(S)
- $10 credit with no card required; 10GB new-user residential pack for $10
- Static ISP at $1.18/IP; dedicated datacenter at $0.72/IP
Best suited for: mobile carrier reach and six-hour sticky ISP addresses, where your client can be pointed at an HTTP proxy rather than Telegram's built-in SOCKS5 field
13. ASocks.com — Mobile proxies, protocol unstated
3.0 / 5 for this job · from $5 / proxy
ASocks sits on this list for its mobile line, and the mobile line is the expensive one: $15 per proxy per month against $5 for residential and corporate. That price structure is the whole argument for a messenger. Telegram holds a long-lived connection, so per-gigabyte billing charges you for keeping a socket open as much as for the messages themselves; a flat per-proxy monthly rate does not. If you are running a small set of accounts on carrier addresses, the cost is knowable before you buy.
The provider claims 7M+ IP addresses across 150+ locations, a 99.7% connection success rate and 100,000+ clients. All of those are provider-reported and unaudited, so they are claims rather than measurements. The pool is described as expanding daily in both geography and address count, and support is 24/7 with a stated average response time under 10 minutes — the sort of detail that only matters when a session drops at an awkward hour. Volume discounts run at 5% from ten proxies, 10% from fifty and 15% from a hundred, and billing stops being per-gigabyte at any tier.
The catch is the protocol. The record does not state SOCKS5 support here, and Telegram's own desktop and mobile clients take a SOCKS5 proxy directly in their settings — there is no browser to fall back on, so an HTTP-only line is no use for that route. Confirm the mobile product speaks SOCKS5 before paying. Mobile also costs three times the residential rate; if the accounts are not phone-shaped work, that premium buys you an address type you do not need.
Key features
- Mobile at $15 per proxy/month; residential and corporate at $5 per proxy/month
- 150+ locations and 7M+ IP addresses, provider-reported
- 99.7% connection success rate, provider-claimed
- Volume discounts of 5% from 10 proxies, 10% from 50, 15% from 100
- 24/7 support with stated average response under 10 minutes
- SOCKS5 support not stated in the record
Best suited for: per-proxy mobile budgets where one address has to stay up through long messaging sessions
14. Oxylabs.io — Enterprise mobile, no SOCKS5
2.9 / 5 for this job · from $0.40 / GB
Oxylabs is here for its mobile pool rather than for cheap Telegram access, and the honest description of it is procurement-grade. Mobile traffic runs $7.5/GB at Starter, $6.67/GB at Basic, $5/GB at Flexible and $3.5/GB at enterprise level, published openly per tier, so a budget can be modelled before anyone speaks to sales. Behind that sit 177M+ IPs in total, 175M+ of them residential, across 195 locations, all provider-reported.
The reason a messenger user might care about any of that is the paperwork. ISO/IEC 27001:2022 covers three named products, SOC 2 Type II covers two named endpoints, and GDPR compliance, EU AI Act alignment and technology errors-and-omissions plus cyber insurance are all stated. If Telegram access is part of a corporate rollout that has to clear a security review, this is the sort of provider that survives that review. One subscription carries the whole catalogue, and card, wire in USD or EUR, AliPay and PayPal are all accepted.
The catch is twofold. SOCKS5 does not appear in the record, and Telegram clients want to be handed a SOCKS5 proxy in their own settings; without it you are terminating the tunnel somewhere else and routing the app through that, which is more moving parts than a single account needs. Second, per-gigabyte mobile billing against a connection that is deliberately kept open is the worst shape of cost for this job. The entry point is $5 in welcome credits, under a gigabyte at Starter rates, the cheapest paid plan is $30/month and enterprise starts at $2,500/month through sales.
Key features
- Mobile proxies from $7.5/GB at Starter to $3.5/GB at enterprise tier
- 177M+ IPs total, 175M+ residential, across 195 locations, provider-reported
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 on three named products, SOC 2 Type II on two named endpoints
- GDPR compliance and EU AI Act alignment stated
- $5 welcome credit; paid plans from $30/month, enterprise from $2,500/month
- SOCKS5 not listed in the record
Best suited for: compliance-heavy deployments that need mobile addresses and can terminate the tunnel internally
15. ChangeMyIP.com — Cheap shared SOCKS5
2.7 / 5 for this job · from $1
ChangeMyIP is the cheap route to the protocol Telegram actually speaks. Shared SOCKS5 is listed at $1.00 and dedicated SOCKS5 at $2.20, alongside ShadowSocks at $2.20, Trojan at $3.00, DNS proxy at $2.00 and Wireguard VPN at $4.00. Bandwidth is unlimited on the plans it sells, there is no contract or long-term obligation, and the provider states more than twelve years in the proxy business. For someone who wants to point a Telegram client at a SOCKS5 address this afternoon and see whether the account stays up, that is a low bar to clear.
The problem is what shared means. The provider itself says shared proxies put multiple users on the same IP address and that bandwidth is shared and may be slow on busy servers. A messenger holds one connection open for hours; that is precisely the workload where a busy neighbour is felt immediately rather than at the next request. Other people's traffic on the same address also shapes how that address is treated, which is not something you control. Torrents and paypal.com are blocked at proxy level on every product, and a $10 minimum order applies even if you want a single $1.00 shared proxy.
Two more things to weigh. The 30-day money-back guarantee does not apply once the service has been used, with refunds limited to bugs or slow performance, so a trial is not really a trial. And the fully anonymous and undetectable wording is marketing with no published independent test behind it. Buy a dedicated SOCKS5 address rather than a shared one if a session has to survive.
Key features
- Shared SOCKS5 at $1.00; dedicated SOCKS5 at $2.20
- Unlimited bandwidth on the plans sold
- HTTP, SOCKS5, ShadowSocks, Trojan, DNS proxy and Wireguard VPN offered
- Provider states shared bandwidth may be slow on busy servers
- $10 minimum order; no contract or long-term obligation
- 30-day guarantee void once the service has been used
Best suited for: cheap protocol testing where a SOCKS5 endpoint is needed quickly and the session is not business-critical
16. Live Proxies — B2B-only SOCKS5 mobile
2.5 / 5 for this job · from $2
Live Proxies offers SOCKS5, but only on its B2B tier, and that single fact decides whether it is usable here. The retail plans in the record — rotating residential listed at $45.00 per plan on the home page and B2C plans starting from $70 on the pricing page, rotating mobile at $55.00 per plan — list HTTP/S as the connection protocol. If a Telegram client is going to hold the connection itself, SOCKS5 has to come from the enterprise side, where plans are quoted monthly and the pool is described as 10M+ IPs.
What the enterprise side offers is relevant to messaging. IPs are described as privately allocated and shared only with you, which matters when an address is tied to an account, and there is no concurrency limit, with unlimited threads and unlimited requests. Sticky sessions run to 60 minutes on rotating residential and 30 minutes on rotating mobile, and unused bandwidth rolls over to the standby plan. Dashboard access, API access, IP whitelisting and a dedicated account manager come with it, and payments run through Stripe with cards, Apple Pay and Google Pay.
The catch is the paperwork around the pricing. Static residential is priced at $65.00 per plan on the home page while the pricing page marks it permanently unavailable; the home page starting prices do not reconcile with the pricing page figures; and the free trial goes to custom plan users after an agreement, with retail buyers told to purchase a small plan instead. Geography is given as available countries or state-level options with no count, and state IPs are US only. Mobile sessions rotate at 30 minutes, which is short for an account you want left alone.
Key features
- SOCKS5 available on the B2B tier only; retail plans list HTTP/S
- Rotating mobile sticky sessions of 30 minutes; rotating residential at 60 minutes
- Private IP allocation, IPs described as unique and shared only with you
- No concurrency limit, unlimited threads and unlimited requests stated
- B2B enterprise tier on a 10M+ IP pool, quoted at $2K per month
- Static residential marked permanently unavailable; home page and pricing page figures do not reconcile
Best suited for: business accounts buying at enterprise level where SOCKS5 mobile is negotiated as part of a custom plan
17. FlyProxy — No mobile product
2.4 / 5 for this job · from $0.90 / GB
FlyProxy is a residential-only operation and that is the first thing to say, because for Telegram it removes the strongest address type. Third-party reviewers flag the absence of mobile proxies as a weakness, and account creation and verification are phone-shaped, so a carrier address is the one that matches. What is left is a residential pool described as over 100 million addresses by the provider and 69 million by a third-party listing, covering 195+ countries and regions, with unlimited concurrent sessions stated by both.
Protocol support is the reason it stays on the page at all. SOCKS5 appears on the third-party listing alongside HTTP and HTTPS, and in the provider's own protocol line beside HTTP, with encrypted connections. That means a Telegram client can be pointed at it directly. On the numbers, residential is $2.50/GB at 20 GB, $2.40/GB at 50 GB and $0.90/GB at 10,240 GB. Third-party country tests put success between 96.8% in Mexico and 98.7% in Germany, with response times of 0.52s to 1.00s. Support is rated 4.7 by users and experts in third-party reviews, with 24/7 cover over Telegram, email and the site.
The awkward parts are real. The provider states no refunds once products are sold. The third-party listing records no personal dashboard and no IP rotation control, which for a long-lived messenger session means you cannot pin an address yourself, and IP lifetime is put at around 24 hours — a new address mid-session is exactly what triggers verification. Pool size, protocol list and dashboard availability disagree between the provider's pages and the third-party listing, so confirm the specifics before committing. One listing says no free trial; the provider advertises 500M of free traffic through sales.
Key features
- SOCKS5 listed alongside HTTP, with encryption stated
- Residential from $2.50/GB at 20 GB down to $0.90/GB at 10,240 GB
- Pool given as over 100 million by the provider and 69 million by a third-party listing
- IP lifetime around 24 hours, per third-party data
- No refunds once products are sold, stated by the provider
- No mobile proxies in the line-up
Best suited for: residential SOCKS5 work across many countries where a mobile address is not the requirement
Telegram proxies: questions we get
Do I need a proxy to use Telegram?
Only if the network in front of you blocks it. On an ordinary home connection Telegram works without one and a proxy adds latency for nothing. The case for one is a filtered network, a country where Telegram is restricted, or a need to keep several accounts on separate addresses.
What is the secret in an MTProto proxy link?
It is a hex string that tells the client how to obfuscate the connection. The prefix matters: dd means random padding, ee means the traffic is wrapped to look like TLS. Copy the whole string exactly; trimming or editing characters will stop it working.
Can I use a SOCKS5 proxy with Telegram on iPhone?
Yes. The iOS client accepts SOCKS5 directly, with fields for server, port and optional username and password, alongside MTProto. The setting lives under Settings → Data and Storage → Proxy.
Does a Telegram proxy work for Telegram Web?
No. The web client has no proxy setting of its own, so it uses whatever proxy the browser is configured with. If you need a proxy for Telegram on a desktop, the installed client is the one to use.
How do I check if a Telegram proxy is still alive?
Run curl --socks5-hostname HOST:PORT -m 10 https://core.telegram.org and see whether HTML comes back. For MTProto, add it in the client and watch whether the status settles on Connected or keeps flapping. Our proxy checker does the SOCKS5 part in a browser.
Will a proxy stop Telegram from showing my phone number?
No. The number is attached to the account and Telegram knows it regardless of the connection. Who else can see it is governed by the privacy settings under Settings → Privacy and Security → Phone Number.
Why does Telegram ask for a verification code after I change proxy?
A new exit address looks like a login from somewhere new, and a login from somewhere new triggers a code. Changing address, device and session at the same time makes it near-certain. Keep the same address for a session and change one variable at a time.
Can I run several Telegram accounts through one proxy?
You can, and it is the fastest way to get them all limited. Accounts sharing one exit address are trivially linked, and if one is reported the others inherit the suspicion. One address per account keeps them genuinely separate.
Does a proxy slow Telegram down?
Usually, yes, by whatever the round trip to the proxy adds. Text messages barely notice. Media, voice notes and calls do, and a distant or overloaded proxy will make calls unusable. Test with a call before committing to an address.
How long should I keep the same proxy address?
As long as the account is active, within reason. A stable address is what a normal phone on a normal network looks like. Switching every few minutes is the pattern that gets accounts challenged, so pick a proxy that offers sticky sessions rather than one that rotates on every request.
Will a proxy get a banned Telegram account back?
No. Ban evasion through a proxy is itself a terms violation, and the number tied to the account is what enforcement follows. A new address on a banned number does not restore the account; it tends to extend the ban to the number.
Is a VPN better than a proxy for Telegram?
They solve different problems. A VPN tunnels the whole device, which is simpler and covers every app, but it is heavier and changes your entire network identity. A proxy covers Telegram alone, which is usually what you want if the block is on Telegram rather than on everything.
Other jobs people buy proxies for
- Web scraping
- SEO and rank tracking
- Ad verification
- Price monitoring
- Multi-account management
- Antidetect browsers
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