Proxyrack Residential Proxies Benchmark: What Independent Tests Found

We could tell you our residential proxies are fast and reliable. Every provider says that. It's more useful to show you what an independent tester measured, including the parts that don't flatter us.

ProxyVero runs test traffic through residential proxy networks and records what happens. ProxyVero sent these requests through Proxyrack's residential proxies. Every provider gets the same targets and the same rules, so you can compare the results fairly. Its tests only cover residential proxies.

In ProxyVero's most recent Proxyrack benchmark (October 8–28, 2026), our network handled 1,260 requests across six test scenarios with these results:

• Overall success rate: 87.1%

• Average latency: 1,301 ms

• Block rate: 10.0%

The averages hide a lot of variation. Instagram came in at 100% and TikTok at 99.5%. Google Search managed 66.7% and Amazon 67.6%. That gap is the main reason we'd tell you to check results for the sites you actually use before you trust any single headline number, ours included.

A quick note before we get into it: this is a Proxyrack article about Proxyrack. We've used ProxyVero's published figures as they stand and linked to the source pages so you can check them. These numbers describe one testing window. They aren't a promise of future performance. The live Proxyrack benchmark and ProxyVero's testing methodology have the latest data and the full testing details.

What ProxyVero Measures

ProxyVero looks at three things: success rate, latency, and block rate. Each one tells you something different about a proxy network, and none of them means much by itself.

Success Rate

Success rate is the share of requests that meet ProxyVero's success criteria for a test. If you send 100 requests and 90 pass, that's a 90% success rate. (That's just an example, not one of our results.)

A failed request usually means a retry, and retries cost time, bandwidth, and money. If you're running a few hundred requests a day you might not notice. If you're running a few million, a five-point difference in success rate turns into a real line item.

Latency

Latency is the time between sending a request and getting a response, measured in milliseconds (ms). Lower is faster.

Speed matters when you're running big jobs, but a quick response doesn't help much if it's a CAPTCHA page or an error. That's why latency only makes sense when you look at it next to success rate and block rate.

Block Rate

Websites try to spot and stop automated traffic. They might show a CAPTCHA, display an "unusual traffic" warning, or refuse the request outright. Block rate is the share of test requests that ProxyVero classified as blocked.

Lower is better. As with success rate, it depends heavily on the target. A network can get through one site without trouble and struggle with another.

How Proxyrack Performed on Each Website

Here's the breakdown by test scenario from ProxyVero's October 8–28, 2026 benchmark:

Source: ProxyVero, Proxyrack benchmark, October 8–28, 2026.

A few things are worth pointing out.

Social platforms were our strongest results. Instagram came in at 100% and TikTok at 99.5%, and ProxyVero recorded no blocks on either one.

Nike, a retail site, also did well. It reached a 99% success rate with no blocks. It was slower, averaging 2,571 ms, but requests got through.

Google Search and Amazon were the hardest targets. Both sites have strict anti-bot systems. On Google, nearly every failed request was a block (66.7% success, 32.4% blocked). On Amazon, most failures were blocks and a small number failed for other reasons.

Fast doesn't always mean successful. Google Search had our lowest average latency at 637 ms, but also our lowest success rate. Some of those quick responses were Google refusing the request. This is why latency alone can be misleading.

Generic HTTPS shows a different kind of failure. The ipify test had no blocks, but the other 10% of requests were non-block failures: timeouts, connection errors, or other HTTP errors. That's a different problem from anti-bot blocking.

How Proxyrack Compares With Other Residential Proxy Providers

ProxyVero also has a side-by-side comparison tool. We used it to see where Proxyrack sits among seven other residential providers.

The comparison tool doesn't use exactly the same data as the single-provider benchmark above, so Proxyrack's figures here (84.45% success, 1.10s average latency) don't match the 87.1% and 1,301 ms from the earlier section. That's expected when two tools draw from different test samples. Treat each table on its own terms and check the comparison page for its exact test window.

Source: ProxyVero shared provider comparison.

ProxyVero also lists each provider's reported IP pool size and its own consistency score:

Providers report their own IP pool sizes, and ProxyVero doesn't verify them. The consistency score is ProxyVero's rating based on success and block rates. ProxyVero calculates this score from the success rate and block rate.

What the Comparison Tells Us

Speed is where we do well. Proxyrack's 1.10s average latency is the second fastest of the 8 providers. Only ProxyEmpire (0.86s) was quicker. Our P95 latency of 1.99s is also second best. That puts us ahead of 9HTTP, IPRoyal, Geonode, Froxy, Crawlbase, and Bright Data on both measures.

Success and block rates are where we need to improve. An 84.45% success rate puts us fifth of 8. Our 14.37% block rate is the second highest in the group, behind only Bright Data. ProxyEmpire, the only provider faster than us, also got more requests through. That's the standard we're working toward.

A bigger IP pool doesn't guarantee better results. Bright Data reports the largest pool here (150M+) and had the weakest results. ProxyEmpire reports the smallest (30M+) and finished near the top. How a pool is sourced, rotated, and managed seems to matter more than its size.

Our 7.3 consistency score puts us in the middle of the table, behind the top four. That fits with our block rate. You can explore the full ProxyVero comparison to sort and filter the data yourself.

Reading the Results for Your Own Use Case

Overall figures are a good starting point, but your experience will depend on the sites you're accessing.

Response Times You Can Plan Around

P95 latency is the response time that 95% of requests come in under. In other words, it shows how slow the slower requests get. Ours is 1.99s against a 1.10s average, so even the slower requests don't take dramatically longer than a typical one.

That helps when you're setting timeouts, sizing worker pools, or estimating how long a scraping job will take. Providers with a P95 above 4 seconds are much harder to plan around, even if their averages look fine.

Results Depend on the Target

Every website treats automated traffic differently. Our per-site results show how wide the range can be:

• Instagram: 100% success

• TikTok: 99.5% success

• Nike: 99% success

• Generic HTTPS (ipify): 90% success

• Amazon: 67.6% success

• Google Search: 66.7% success

If your work is mostly social media monitoring, retail sites like Nike, or general HTTPS endpoints, these results are much closer to what you'd likely see than the overall average. If Google SERP data or Amazon product pages are your main targets, the lower numbers are the ones to pay attention to. We'd suggest running a trial against those sites first.

Keeping Block Rate in Context

All of our blocks in the per-site benchmark came from two targets: Google Search and Amazon. Instagram, TikTok, Nike, and generic HTTPS all recorded 0%.

So the overall block rate is mostly a measure of how hard those two sites are. If neither one is part of your workload, that average likely overstates the blocking you'd see.

The Overall Picture

Here's an honest summary. Proxyrack's residential network is fast and predictable, and it performs very well on several popular targets. It also needs to get better on heavily protected sites like Google and Amazon. We'd rather tell you that directly than have you find it out halfway through a project.

The best benchmark is still the one you run yourself, on your own targets.

Where to Find Proxyrack's Latest Results

Benchmark figures change over time. The numbers in this article are a snapshot, not a permanent rating. ProxyVero keeps three Proxyrack pages up to date:

• Proxyrack Profile: an overview of Proxyrack and our proxy services

• Proxyrack Review: ProxyVero's written review

• Proxyrack Benchmark: the latest success rate, latency, and block rate data

ProxyVero's testing methodology explains how it tests and scores providers.

Why Independent Proxy Testing Matters

Advertised features and IP pool sizes are easy to compare. What's harder to find out is how a network performs on the sites you actually need to reach. Independent benchmarks help with that, because they show you how a network performs on specific targets.

When you're evaluating any provider, including us:

1. Look at success rate, latency, and block rate together, not one at a time.

2. Find the results for the sites you plan to target, not just the overall average.

3. Check the test dates. A good result from six months ago may not still hold.

4. Run your own trial before committing at scale.

If you're considering Proxyrack for your next project, start with the live ProxyVero benchmark for the latest data, then test it on your own targets.