Buyers rarely leave a proxy provider over features. They leave over a bill that grew, a balance that vanished, a country that stopped working, or a support ticket that went unanswered. This page is organised around those four.
The published numbers
Read from their own public pricing pages on 10 August 2026, and stated as advertised rather than as verified by us:
- Datacenter: from $0.03 per IP with no commitment, falling to $0.02 per IP on 100,000 proxies ($1,794.00/month).
- ISP: from $0.30 per IP with no commitment, falling to $0.23 per IP on 10,000 IPs ($2,250.00/month).
- Residential: from $3.50 per GB with no commitment, falling to $1.40 per GB on 3,000GB, at the sale rate.
Every one of those is a published rate rather than a measured outcome. That is not a criticism of Webshare: our own page is built from the same material. It is the reason the rest of this comparison is about what published rates leave out.
The site, as it reads today
On 9 September 2026 the site introduced itself as "Webshare, Fast Proxies, Free to Start, Fair to Scale". Their own summary of the product runs: "Rotating residential, static ISP, and datacenter proxies with a full API. 80M+ IPs, 195+ countries, 100+ Gbps backbone. Start with 10 free proxies, no credit card."
Taken from the same page, on the same day:
The product lines named on that page are residential, ISP or static residential and SOCKS5. They advertise 195 countries or locations. Payment methods mentioned: cards. The page offers some form of free trial. Support is advertised as around the clock. Their pricing page is titled "Proxy Pricing - Datacenter, ISP and Rotating Residential Plans Compared".
Treat all of it as advertising, because it is. Its value is that it is dated and quotable, which is more than most comparison pages offer.
How long Webshare has been trading
The domain was registered on 10 January 2017, through NameCheap, Inc, which makes it about 9 years old. The lookup behind those dates ran on 23 April 2026. The Internet Archive holds 20 snapshots of the site, the earliest from August 2020. As things stand the domain is held to 10 January 2030.
This proves nothing about the product. It is a cheap check against the one failure mode that costs buyers real money in this market, which is paying a provider that will not exist in six months.
Corporate history we have recorded: Owned by Oxylabs (acquired 2022-09-20).
Their published surface
Our own crawl reached 400 of their pages, last run 18 June 2026. The mix was 158 blog pages, 1 pricing page, 12 use-case pages and 1 integration page.
The number is not a compliment or a criticism. It describes how much of their effort goes into being found, which is worth knowing when you are weighing a marketing claim against a measurement.
Who actually runs Webshare
We checked this one by hand on 6 September 2026. It is a list, and we record the operator as a company that sells proxies. Ranks #6 for "free proxy list" (DE results). Ten free proxies per account.
A company that sells proxies runs this list. That is worth knowing before you judge the entries: a free list published by a vendor is a lead magnet, and the entries are chosen to make the paid product look necessary. It does not make them fake, and it does mean the list is not neutral about what free proxies can do.
The Internet Archive has it from 12 August 2020 to 3 January 2026, about 7 years of coverage.
What none of that tells you is how many of the addresses answer today. We publish our own measurement of that on the free side: of 589918 addresses discovered, 4023 were alive at the last check, with a median lifespan of 145 hours. Any list without a check date is describing a past that has already gone.
Whether anyone is still working on it
Our crawl of their site found 389 pages carrying a date, 157 of them articles. The oldest is from March 2025 and the newest from August 2026. 272 of them carry a date inside the last twelve months.
Read that as a liveness check rather than a review. It says the lights are on, and nothing about whether the proxies work on your target.
What the search data says about Webshare
Search volume around the name runs to 2,770 a month, split as 2,400 a month for their pricing, 280 a month for an alternative to them and 90 a month for a review of them. Figures read from Google Keyword Planner on 9 September 2026.
The biggest slice is people trying to work out what it costs, so the useful thing to hand a reader is evidence rather than an opinion.
The top bid on those terms reaches $8.89 a click. That is the market pricing its own customers, and it explains why almost every other result you found is an affiliate page.
What you still do not know after reading their site
The comparison that is not a comparison
Half this market prices bandwidth and half prices addresses. A per-address plan is cheap for heavy traffic through few exits and ruinous for light traffic through many, and the reverse holds for per-gigabyte plans.
Who else is using your address
Ask how many accounts can sit on one address at once. Where the answer is unlimited or unspecified, price the plan as shared regardless of what the product is called.
Ask whether failed requests are billed
Divide the spend by the successful responses, not by the requests sent. That single change reorders most price comparisons in this market, and your accounting will use it eventually anyway.
The two of us, on the questions that matter
Set the two side by side on the questions that decide the outcome, rather than on feature counts:
| Question to ask | Webshare | HProxy |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | Published, see above, dated 10 August 2026 | From $0.44/GB, pay as you go |
| Does unused balance expire? | Their terms page answers this | Never |
| Minimum commitment | Lower rates require one, see above | None |
| Identity checks | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Card orders are screened, and verification is sometimes requested |
| Targeting | On their own terms page | Country, city and ISP |
| Free way to evaluate | Not published clearly, ask before paying | Free proxy list and proxy checker |
Read the table as a list of questions rather than a scoreboard. The answers on their side move, and the row that decides the outcome, success rate on your target, is not printable by anyone.
What to do instead of reading more comparisons
The steps below take about ten minutes and settle the question properly.
- Fund both accounts with the least money each will accept, and note what that minimum was, because it is part of the comparison.
- Aim both at the page that matters to you rather than a test endpoint, and keep every other variable fixed.
- Write down two numbers per provider: the share of requests that succeeded, and the traffic it cost.
- Take a handful of the addresses you were given and verify their country and type against a checker you do not control.
- Keep the winner, and repeat the whole thing quarterly, because pools age.
Comparable providers
We hold the same record for these, and the same honest limits apply to each:
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What we sell, stated plainly
Our position is narrow. Residential from $0.44 per GB, no subscription, no expiry on the balance, and a public record of what our free network actually does. A provider unwilling to be measured is telling you something, and so is one that asks to be.
