Webshare review
The budget leader — now the cheapest residential AND datacenter entry, with a free tier.
How we sourced this
We haven't yet run Webshare first-hand at scale. This review is compiled from the provider's public documentation, pricing, and community reports. The scores are our editorial assessment, not measured benchmarks — we'll update them once it's in our own pipeline. Our methodology →
Scorecard
Strengths & trade-offs
Strengths
- Lowest prices of the group on both residential ($1.4/GB) and datacenter ($0.018/IP)
- Genuine free tier and the fastest self-serve onboarding here
- Fast, developer-friendly dashboard; great for high-speed jobs on easy targets
Trade-offs
- No scraping-API / unblocker layer — you handle blocks yourself
- Datacenter IPs still get blocked on the hardest targets; residential pool is smaller than the enterprise providers
Full product lineup & pricing
Webshare is more than one proxy type — here's the current lineup and where each product starts. free tier (10 proxies/1GB) then very low-cost datacenter & residential, self-serve. Free 10-proxy plan, no card.
| Product | From | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Rotating Residential | $1.4/GB | 80M+ IPs, pay only for bandwidth — cheapest residential here |
| Static Residential | $0.23/IP | Premium static residential IPs |
| Datacenter (Proxy Servers) | $0.018/IP | Lowest datacenter price of the group |
| Private Static Residential | $0.53/IP | Dedicated allocation |
| Free tier | Free | 10 free proxies / up to 1GB/mo, no card |
Starting prices as of 2026-05 · lowest-tier / promo where noted · confirm current rates on the provider's site.
Source: webshare.io pricing pages. Pool: 80M+ residential IPs; large datacenter fleet.
Who it's for
Budget-conscious scraping — the lowest datacenter and residential per-unit prices of the group, plus a genuine free tier to start.
Ready to try Webshare?
Free 10-proxy plan, no card.