Do mobile proxies support SOCKS5?

You do not have to choose at checkout, and you are not upsold on it later. Both protocols point at the same physical device and the same carrier IP — only the port and the username differ.

The difference in plain English

An HTTP proxy understands web requests. It reads the request line, knows you are asking for a page, and can act on that. It is the format nearly every browser, browser-profile tool and scraping library expects by default.

SOCKS5 sits a layer lower. It forwards the connection without caring what is inside it, which means it carries traffic that is not web traffic at all — a desktop app, a messaging client, a mobile app talking to its own API. It also handles UDP, which an HTTP proxy cannot.

Which one to use

• Browsers and anti-detect profiles: HTTP/HTTPS is the safe default. Most profile managers assume it.
• Scrapers and HTTP libraries: either works. Use whichever your library supports more cleanly.
• Desktop or mobile apps that are not browsers: SOCKS5, because the traffic is not HTTP.
• Anything needing UDP: SOCKS5 is the only one of the two that can carry it.

There is no performance penalty for picking one over the other here. The bottleneck on a mobile proxy is the carrier link, not the protocol wrapper — and the line is dedicated to you, so you are not queuing behind anybody else's traffic either.

The mistake that looks like a broken proxy

By far the most common support message is a working proxy configured with mismatched settings: the SOCKS5 port entered into an HTTP field, or the HTTP username paired with the SOCKS5 port. The connection fails instantly and looks like a dead device. Check that the protocol, port and username in your tool all come from the same row of your dashboard before you conclude anything is wrong — the full checklist is in what happens if my mobile proxy goes down.

What you get when the proxy is provisioned

Host, port, username and password for each protocol, listed in the dashboard the moment the order is fulfilled — usually within seconds of the payment confirming. Rotating the IP does not change any of it: the credentials stay put and only the public address changes, which is why you can leave a tool configured and rotate underneath it.