Webshare is trading, and for two jobs it is hard to beat: testing for free and renting cheap datacenter addresses. On 26 September 2026 its free plan still gave 10 proxies without a card. Shared datacenter proxies started at $2.99 a month for 100 addresses. Its rotating residential proxies are the weaker buy: $3.50 a gigabyte on the smallest plan, and the traffic resets every month. Oxylabs has owned the company since 2022. The like-for-like residential prices are in the alternatives table.
Is Webshare legit? The record in one table
| what we read on 26 September 2026 | |
|---|---|
| website | webshare.io redirects to www.webshare.io, which answers normally |
| company | Webshare Software, Company, in California |
| owner | Oxylabs, since the acquisition announced on 20 September 2022 |
| domain | registered 10 January 2017, renewed to 10 January 2030 |
| products | datacenter proxies, static residential (ISP) proxies, rotating residential proxies |
| free plan | 10 proxies, up to 1 GB a month, no card |
| payment | cards, Google Pay and Apple Pay |
| Trustpilot | 4.1 from 1,104 reviews, in a capture of 25 March 2026 |
It is a real business with a long record. The questions that matter are what it charges and what its terms allow.
What Webshare sells, and what a first order costs
Webshare sells three paid products on two meters. Datacenter proxies, which it calls Proxy Server, are rented per proxy per month. So are static residential proxies, which it also calls ISP proxies. Both come with a bandwidth allowance. Rotating residential is sold by the gigabyte, on a monthly plan.
| product | smallest paid order | lowest rate printed | what that rate needs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proxy Server, shared datacenter | 100 proxies, $2.99 a month | $0.0179 a proxy | 60,000 proxies, $1,076.40 a month |
| Private Proxy Server | 25 proxies, $18.52 a month | $0.43 a proxy | not stated |
| Dedicated Proxy Server | 20 proxies, $26.60 a month | $0.77 a proxy | not stated |
| Static residential, shared | 20 proxies, $6.00 a month | $0.225 a proxy | 10,000 proxies, $2,250 a month |
| Static residential, dedicated | 20 proxies, $42.00 a month | $1.47 a proxy | not stated |
| Rotating residential | 1 GB, $3.50 | $1.40 a GB | 3,000 GB, $4,200 a month |
Source: the Webshare pricing page and homepage, read 26 September 2026. Private proxies are "Shared with 1-2 users". Dedicated ones are "Fully owned by you".
Every residential rung is printed beside a struck-through $7.00 a gigabyte, so no plan charges that figure. A yearly toggle advertises 30 percent off. The full ladders, and where that yearly figure holds, are in our Webshare pricing breakdown. Our datacenter vs residential explainer covers which meter fits which target.
The fine print that decides the cost
Plans renew until you cancel. The terms say it in capitals: fees "WILL AUTOMATICALLY RENEW EVERY MONTH ON A CONTINUOUS BASIS". A month you do not use is still a month you pay for.
Residential traffic resets. The help center puts it plainly: "Bandwidth limits are set monthly and do not roll over." It adds that going over the limit "will stop your proxies from functioning" until you change the plan. This is the cost a monthly headline hides for work that comes in bursts.
Refunds have a short window. A refund needs a request within 48 hours of purchase. It also needs less than 0.1 GB used on rotating residential, or less than 1 GB on the per-proxy products, and fewer than 1,000 proxies used. The terms add that Webshare "may, in its sole discretion, decline to issue any and all refunds."
Payment is cards and wallets only. The help center lists cards, Google Pay and Apple Pay. It adds: "Currently, Webshare does not plan to add additional payment methods like Crypto or PayPal."
Checks can pause an account. Webshare may ask for ID through Stripe Identity to confirm a payment or a use case. Until it is done, "your account may be temporarily suspended". Many requests to rate-limited sites can trigger a use-case review, answered "within 1 business day".
Some targets are restricted. On rotating residential, entertainment sites such as Netflix and PlayStation, banks, government sites, streaming, ticketing and mail services are restricted. "Certain targets can be unblocked after completing a brief KYC procedure."
Concurrency has a default cap. Every paid plan allows 500 simultaneous requests per account. More is a paid add-on called High Concurrency.
"Unlimited" has a threshold. Per-proxy plans sold with unlimited bandwidth guarantee at least 10 TB a month, more on pricier plans. Past that threshold, speed can be throttled step by step to "as low as 10Kbps".
IPv4 only, and no UDP. "All our Webshare proxies currently use IPv4 addressing technology." The help center also says Webshare does not support UDP proxy connections. HTTP and SOCKS5 work on the same port.
Disputes go to arbitration. The terms choose California law and individual arbitration, with a class action waiver. New users can opt out by email within 30 days.
Targeting and sessions on rotating residential
The Webshare endpoint generator targets 195 countries. On top of a country you may add one more filter: a state, a city or a ZIP code. States and ZIP codes are available in the United States only.
ISP targeting by ASN exists too, with one limit in its own words: it "cannot be combined with a country. ASN selection runs across the whole proxy pool." Sticky sessions last anywhere from 1 minute to 24 hours.
Where the residential IPs come from
The Webshare help center says every residential proxy comes "from physical user devices". Their owners join "our suppliers' pools" in return for "a financial reward or some other benefit". The pool is claimed at "80M+ Residential IPs" in 195 countries. The enterprise form on the same pages says "30M IPs from 195+ global locations". We did not measure either figure.
One sentence on its about page reads oddly beside that product. It says Webshare will "never route your sensitive business traffic over compromised servers or residential devices." Its rotating residential product does route traffic through residential devices, with the owners' consent by its own account.
How webshare.io got here
| date | what the record shows |
|---|---|
| 10 January 2017 | webshare.io is registered |
| 1 September 2017 | the first archived page, on proxy.webshare.io, titled "Free Proxy": "10GB free bandwidth each month", residential "Coming Soon" |
| 11 April 2019 | titled "Free Private Proxy": "5,000+ proxies from 50+ countries", plans from $3.99 a month |
| 20 September 2022 | Oxylabs announces the acquisition of Webshare Software; Webshare says plans and proxy lists stay the same |
| 23 October 2025 | the current terms of service take effect |
| 26 September 2026 | three paid products, 10 free proxies, "80M+" residential IPs claimed |
Sources: Internet Archive captures, the domain registry, and the posts of both companies, read 26 September 2026. The founding year differs by source: 2018 on the Webshare about page, 2019 in the Oxylabs post.
What customers say
Trustpilot showed 1,104 reviews and a TrustScore of 4.1 in its capture of 25 March 2026. Of those reviews, 876 gave five stars and 148 gave one star. The live page refused our request, so the capture is the newest figure we could read.
The Trustpilot summary of those reviews praises quick support and the dashboard. It also reports complaints about slow replies and "proxies being banned or not working as advertised". Customer counts on the Webshare pages vary too: "64,773 customers" and "90K+ Paying customers" on the homepage, "60,000+ paid customers" on the about page.
Webshare alternatives for residential traffic
Rotating residential is where Webshare is weakest on price, so the alternatives are compared on that product. Every figure comes from the pricing page of each vendor, read on 26 September 2026.
| provider | first order | lowest rate printed, and what it needs | unused traffic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webshare | $3.50 a GB, 1 GB plan | $1.40 a GB, 3,000 GB at $4,200 a month | resets monthly |
| Rayobyte | $3.50 a GB, from 1 GB | $0.50 a GB, 5,000 GB or more by contact | kept on pay as you go |
| Evomi | $0.99 a GB, from 15 GB | $0.49 a GB, the 100 GB plan at $49 a month | kept on pay as you go |
| DataImpulse | $1.00 a GB, 5 GB for $5 | $0.80 a GB, 1 TB for $800 | kept |
| Bright Data | $8.00 a GB, or $4.00 with its coupon | $2.50 a GB, 798 GB at $1,999 a month | commitments do not roll over |
| HProxy Residential Lite, country targeting | $0.50/GB, from 1 GB | $0.44/GB at 2,000 GB+ | kept, the balance never expires |
| HProxy Residential Premium, state, city and ISP targeting | $1.49/GB, from 1 GB | $1.00/GB at 1,000 GB+ | kept, the balance never expires |
The Webshare plan includes ASN targeting, so its like-for-like row on our side is Premium, from $1.49 per GB for a single gigabyte. Lite targets by country only. Both are on our price table, with no plan to buy first. Rayobyte and Evomi also advertise ISP or ASN targeting, and DataImpulse offers it at extra cost. The Bright Data page shows its prices rounded, and its price data holds $2.50 for the 798 GB plan. For residential zones opened after 7 July 2026, Bright Data also asks for a registered company, a company email and a KYC check by a person.
Where Webshare is the better buy
Testing for free. Ten proxies with no card and no end date is a rare offer. None of the five alternatives above has a standing free plan; Rayobyte, Evomi and Bright Data offer trials. HProxy has no free plan of its paid proxies; our free proxy list and proxy checker are public tools instead. We wrote about when free proxies are fine.
Datacenter addresses in bulk. At $0.0299 a proxy for 100, with 250 GB included, the shared plan is very cheap. Our IPv4 proxies are dedicated, at $1.58 per IP a month: a different product at a different price.
Static ISP addresses. Shared static residential starts at $0.30 a proxy, and a dedicated one costs $2.10 a month at 20 addresses. Our static ISP proxies cost $2.70 per IP a month, from a single address.
Fine US targeting. Webshare targets US ZIP codes, and its sticky sessions start at 1 minute. Our Premium pool, $1.49 per GB for a first gigabyte, targets states and cities, not ZIP codes, and holds sessions from 3 minutes to 24 hours.
Where HProxy is the better fit
Uneven residential use. Our residential traffic comes from a balance that never expires, with no plan to renew. At Webshare, traffic you did not use is gone at the next renewal.
An ISP inside a chosen country. Our Premium pool, $1.49 per GB for a first gigabyte, takes the AS number together with a country, and our API lists the networks each country offers. It can also exclude up to 20 networks from rotation. The Webshare ASN filter runs across the whole pool and cannot take a country. Our ISP targeting page lists the carriers.
UDP, mobile and IPv6. Our Premium pool relays UDP through SOCKS5, and we sell mobile proxies and IPv6 addresses. Webshare offers none of the three: UDP and IPv6 by its help center, and mobile is absent from its product menu.
Crypto and local payment. We take cards, 32 crypto assets and networks, Alipay, Pix, QRIS and more, listed on our payment options page. Webshare takes cards, Google Pay and Apple Pay.
Room to change your mind. Our refund policy covers unspent balance and unrouted residential traffic for 14 days after purchase. Webshare allows 48 hours and 0.1 GB.
Many threads. Our unlimited residential page states that we never cap concurrency. Webshare caps an account at 500 simultaneous requests unless you pay for more.
Both sides are laid out on the same terms in HProxy vs Webshare, and on the Webshare alternatives page. The ownership map behind Webshare and its parent is in who owns your proxy provider.
Before you commit
Use the Webshare free plan to prove your setup works, then buy the smallest residential amount at two providers. Divide what you spent by the requests that came back correct, because that is the price you actually pay. Our cheapest residential proxies in 2026 guide and full pricing are the next reads.
The limits of this record
We did not measure the Webshare network, so nothing here grades its speed or its success rate. The pool sizes and customer counts are its own claims, and they differ between its pages.
Prices, discounts and policies move. Every figure carries the day we read it. The Trustpilot numbers come from a capture of 25 March 2026, because the live page refused our request. This page is due for a check by 26 December 2026.
Sources
Every source below was read on 26 September 2026.
- Webshare, pricing page, homepage, rotating residential page, static residential page and about page.
- Webshare, terms of service, last updated 23 October 2025.
- Webshare help center: payment methods (10 April 2026), refunds, bandwidth limits, fair usage (10 August 2026), concurrency (23 March 2026), endpoint generator, UDP and IPv4 (13 November 2023), ID verification (7 August 2025), restricted websites (1 August 2026), residential sourcing (24 September 2024).
- Oxylabs, "Oxylabs Acquires Webshare Software Company", 20 September 2022, and Webshare, "Joining forces with Oxylabs".
- Trustpilot, review page for webshare.io, Internet Archive capture of 25 March 2026.
- Internet Archive, captures of proxy.webshare.io from 1 September 2017 and 11 April 2019.
- Identity Digital, registry record for webshare.io.
- Rayobyte, Evomi, DataImpulse and Bright Data, residential pricing pages, and the Bright Data residential network access policy.
- HProxy, our own product catalog, price table, refund policy and payment options.
