Webshare

Score Breakdown

Performance 6.8/10Usability 9/10Value 9.9/10Privacy NaN/10

Pros

• Low prices at every proxy type and data level
• High level of plan customization options
• Ethically sourced residential proxies
• Easy setup for beginners
• 30% discount for annual payments on all plans

Cons

• No HTTPS or SOCKS5 (with UDP) protocols
• Doesn’t offer mobile proxies
• Slow response times, especially with popular targets
• No city-level targeting

Searching for a cheap proxy server is always a compromise: You might pay less upfront, then find your IPs getting blocked and paying for more data than you would have if you'd gone with a pricier proxy server to begin with. 

Webshare is the cheapest all-around proxy company I tested, but its IPs are pretty average compared to the rest of the industry. That means your web scraping or data aggregation isn’t likely to get blocked more than most proxies, but it’s not quite as good as our other top picks, Decodo and Oxylabs, at dodging those flags. (Oxylabs acquired Webshare in 2022, but the two companies maintain separate proxy pools.)

You also won’t get much in the way of third-party integrations or developer tools with Webshare, and it’s missing key features like mobile proxy servers and support for HTTPS. But if you just want to pay the lowest price, its performance is perfectly acceptable in both industry-wide metrics and my own testing. 

Cost

No matter how much data you need each month, Webshare is likely to be the cheapest residential proxy server you’ll find. The only other company that comes close is DataImpulse, which charges $1 per GB for 50GB. Ultimately, I’d recommend paying a little more for Webshare for its superior proxy pool and success rate, particularly with popular targets (more on that below).

In addition to being the lowest-priced proxies around, Webshare also offers the most flexibility. You can choose from nine different data tiers, which makes it easier to get the best price possible without paying for more than you’ll use.

Webshare’s pricing is a little knottier when you move outside the rotating residential plans. (These are typically called “residential proxy servers” by default, but Webshare also offers “static residential” plans.) To buy static residential proxies from Webshare, you’ll pay by the IP instead of the GB, with plans starting at $0.30 per IP for 20 IPs. Here’s how its residential plans compare to other top proxy servers:

Webshare offers a level of differentiation among its products that’s uncommon with proxy companies. You can also purchase private static residential, dedicated static residential and either private or dedicated data center proxies. 

If you’re looking for the cheapest possible option, Webshare’s data center proxies start at $0.03 per IP for 100 IPs -- a staggeringly low price, and far cheaper than any other data center plan I saw. For comparison, Oxylabs, Decodo and Brightdata all charge $1.00 per IP or more for the same volume. 

Performance

To see how Webshare’s proxies performed, I used data from Proxyway’s 2025 Research report, which sends out over a million requests every year to top proxy servers to assess metrics such as success rate, response time and IP quality. 

Webshare delivered a middling performance overall in my analysis. Activities like web scraping and data aggregation are more likely to be flagged than other top proxies, and you may need more data to accomplish the same tasks than you would with Oxylabs or Decodo. But with those lower prices, the math could work out in your favor, and its metrics on response time and success rate were perfectly adequate for most proxy use cases.

Proxy pool and quality

Webshare advertises more than 80 million IPs in its residential proxy pool, which is about average overall. The company says its residential proxies are all “ethically sourced,” which it defines as “consenting and fully aware individuals become a part of a residential proxy network in return for a financial reward or some other benefit.” Our other top picks, Decodo and Webshare’s parent company, Oxylabs, also use similar standards for proxy procurement.

But just because Webshare’s residential proxies are ethically sourced doesn’t necessarily mean they’re the highest quality. Proxyway uses an industry standard called IPQualityScore (IPQS), to determine what percentage of a proxy server’s IP addresses are likely to be flagged as fraudulent. By this measure, Webshare ranked fifth globally and fourth in the US out of 13 proxy companies. That wasn’t bad by any means, but there’s a sizable gap between Webshare’s fraud scores and our other top picks, Decodo and Oxylabs.

Success rate and response time

Webshare’s residential proxy performance was serviceable overall, if not necessarily eye-popping. It has an infrastructure success rate of 99.58%, according to Proxyway -- good for sixth overall. There’s not much of a difference between Webshare and first-place Oxylabs (99.9%), but if your business is running thousands of requests every day, those decimal points become more important. 

Webshare’s success rate is more impressive when you narrow it down to popular targets. It completed its requests to Amazon, Google and Instagram 92.19% of the time, which ranked fourth overall and only slightly behind top-ranked Infatica (95.12%). 

Its response times were a little more concerning, at least on paper. At 1.49 seconds, Webshare had the second-slowest score of any residential proxy server. For context, that’s about 124 times slower than the average internet connection in the US currently gets. It was dreadfully slow with Amazon, Google and Instagram, taking a full 5.44 seconds to complete requests. While proxy use cases like automated web scraping don’t necessarily require ultra-low latency, that kind of laggy performance could be a dealbreaker for others.

On a more anecdotal level, I didn’t notice such slow response times when I tested Webshare myself. My latency was always under 20 milliseconds when I connected to residential proxies in Lahore, Seoul and Marseille. I also spent a few minutes searching for flights on Google, and while it did feel a little laggy at times, it wasn’t to an unusable degree. 

Features and usability

Unlike its parent company, Oxylabs, Webshare is light on developer tools. It has a list of eight integration guides for applications like proxy browsers and YouTube automation software, but that was about it -- no web scraping APIs, no site unblockers and few third-party integrations. 

Developers might find Webshare lacking in tools, and if you’re already using specific software for data aggregation, it’s unlikely that Webshare will have an integration built for it. But as a newcomer to proxies, I found its bare-bones interface refreshingly easy to use, and it still had all the essential features: a dashboard that made it easy to keep track of my data usage, a browser extension that lets you connect or disconnect with a click and a host of customization options.

While Webshare’s browser extension was a little more basic than others I tested, it still had most of the functionality I looked for: the ability to filter by country and select servers in specific locations. Unlike Decodo, you aren’t able to access your data dashboard or add websites to a bypass list directly in the browser extension. For anything other than simple connecting or disconnecting, you’ll have to visit your account on its own page.

Despite being one of the cheapest proxy servers around, Webshare doesn’t cut corners on customer service. None of the proxies I tested came with a phone number, but the best, like Oxylabs and Webshare, allowed you to connect with an actual human in the web chat within a few minutes.

Webshare’s chat is initially just a list of support topics with an AI bot. But when I asked to speak to a human in the chat, the AI agent said a representative would get back to me in a few hours. Five minutes later, a real person had entered the chat and had detailed answers to my questions. 

Webshare’s residential proxy servers were easy to connect to on my own, so I didn’t necessarily need the help. But if I was working on a project that required assistance, it was nice to know that someone would be around to help with any roadblocks that popped up.

Webshare’s proxy networks

So far, I’ve limited this review to Webshare’s residential proxy servers, as those are the most common types for most use cases. But Webshare started off by selling data center proxies, and those are still some of its best plans. The company doesn’t currently offer mobile proxies, but we’ll update this review if that changes in the future.

Data center

Webshare offers three types of data center proxies: shared, private and dedicated. Its shared data center proxy servers are the cheapest type, starting at $0.03 per IP for 100 IPs. You also get the first 10 IPs free on these plans. The Webshare prices below show how much you’ll pay per IP each month, but the company also offers a 30% discount when you pay annually.

They’re the cheapest data center proxies I saw by far, and you get what you pay for, to a degree. Proxyway’s report found that Webshare’s data center proxies had an infrastructure success rate of 98.61% -- seventh out of nine proxies tested. That dropped to 35.92% when limited to Amazon and Google, compared with 88.5% with SOAX’s first-place data center proxies.

If you want a middle ground between these dirt-cheap datacenter proxies and pricier residential IPs, Webshare also offers private and dedicated data center proxy servers. 

Webshare’s private data center proxies start at $0.798 per IP for 25 IPs each month. These are meant to be shared between two users at most, and have a lower chance of being blocked than the shared proxies. 

Its dedicated data center proxies are the premium option: The IPs are only assigned to you and have the lowest chance of being blocked among the three data center options. Prices start at $1.33 per IP for 20 IPs, and decrease to $0.77 per IP if you buy a package of 10,000. 

ISP (static residential)

Webshare’s ISP, or static residential, proxy servers also come in private and dedicated tiers. The prices below are for monthly payments, but like the data center proxies, you can get a 30% discount if you opt for annual payments.

The distinction between Webshare’s private and dedicated static residential proxies is the same as its datacenter tiers. Dedicated IPs are assigned only to you, while private ones are shared between a maximum of two users.

The bottom line

Webshare has the cheapest overall proxy servers of any company I looked at, but its IP pool and performance generally outperform that low price. You’ll get access to 80 million IPs in the residential pool -- a far cry from the 175 million with Oxylabs and 115 million from Decodo, but still a much deeper selection than other cheap proxies.