# SOCKS5 Proxies – Included on All Plans | QuantumProxies.io

SOCKS5 proxies on residential, datacenter, mobile and IPv6 networks, included with every plan at no extra cost. From $0.50/GB, crypto accepted.

A SOCKS5 proxy relays raw TCP connections instead of interpreting web requests, which makes it protocol-agnostic: browsers, scrapers, bots, games, messengers — anything that can speak to a socket can ride through it. Every QuantumProxies plan includes SOCKS5 alongside HTTP and HTTPS at no extra charge, on residential, datacenter, mobile, ISP and IPv6 networks.

## What Is a SOCKS5 Proxy?

SOCKS5 is the fifth version of the SOCKS protocol, a session-layer standard that forwards network traffic between client and destination without inspecting it. Where an HTTP proxy understands and rewrites web requests, a SOCKS5 proxy simply opens a tunnel and passes bytes — which means it carries any TCP-based protocol, supports remote DNS resolution so lookups happen at the exit, and authenticates with username and password. The result is a proxy that works with applications HTTP proxies can't handle.

## SOCKS5 vs HTTP Proxies: When the Protocol Matters

For ordinary web scraping through libraries like requests or Scrapy, HTTP(S) proxying is fine and slightly simpler to debug. Choose SOCKS5 when the traffic isn't plain web requests: custom TCP clients, antidetect browser profiles that expect socks5://, tools that need remote DNS to avoid leaking lookups, or applications where you don't want a proxy layer touching headers at all. Performance is equivalent on our network — both protocols exit through the same pools at the same speed, so the choice is purely about compatibility.

## Included Free on Every Plan

Some providers sell SOCKS5 as a separate product or a paid add-on. Here it is a checkbox: the same credentials that authenticate your HTTP proxy work over SOCKS5, on every plan and every network type, at the same per-GB or per-IP price — residential from $2.50/GB, Residential Basic from $0.80/GB, datacenter from $0.50/GB, IPv6 from $0.20/GB and ISP proxies from $2.50/IP. Switch protocols by changing the scheme in your connection string, not by buying anything.

## Residential, Datacenter or Mobile SOCKS5 — Picking the Pool

The protocol is only half the decision; the exit network is the other. Residential SOCKS5 proxies give antidetect browsers and automation tools real home IPs with rotating or sticky sessions — the usual pick for multi-account work. Datacenter SOCKS5 is the budget option for high-volume TCP jobs on tolerant targets. Mobile SOCKS5 rides 4G/5G carrier IPs for the platforms that challenge everything else, and IPv6 SOCKS5 handles bulk work on IPv6-ready sites at the lowest rate. All four pools accept the same SOCKS5 handshake.

## Setup: Same Credentials, Different Scheme

Generate a proxy in the dashboard and use the standard host:port:username:password string. In cURL, prefix with socks5h:// to resolve DNS at the exit; in Python requests, set the proxies dict to a socks5h:// URL with requests[socks] installed; in antidetect browsers, select SOCKS5 as the proxy type and paste the same four fields. Rotating and sticky session behavior is identical to HTTP mode, and IP-whitelist authentication works over SOCKS5 too if you prefer credential-free connections.

SOCKS5 here is not a product tier — it's a protocol every plan already speaks. Pick the network that matches your target, flip your connection string to socks5://, and run any TCP application through 90M+ residential IPs, fast datacenter ranges, carrier-grade mobile exits or bulk IPv6 pools.

## Sources

- [RFC 1928: SOCKS Protocol Version 5](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1928.html)
- [RFC 1929: Username/Password Authentication for SOCKS V5](https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1929.html)
- [SOCKS (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS)
- [SOCKS proxy (everything curl)](https://everything.curl.dev/usingcurl/proxies/socks.html)
- [CONNECT request method (MDN)](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Methods/CONNECT)