The Webshare alternative when you have outgrown the free plan

Three products, named plainly: proxy server (datacenter), static residential (ISP) and rotating residential plans.

The network runs at 100+ Gbps of aggregate bandwidth, with 50+ countries and a stated 99.97% uptime figure. Proxy server plans carry 500 to 3,000 threads and 250 GB to unlimited bandwidth. That is a lot of infrastructure described in a few short lines, which is the most Webshare thing about Webshare.

What is not on the page matters too. There is no mobile proxy line on its pricing page, and no Mac or dedicated server product. If either is on your list, this comparison is a short one.

Webshare offers a free plan with ten proxies and 1 GB of bandwidth a month. No card, no sales call, no trial credit to request.

We do not have an equivalent. Our way in is a wallet from $0.50, or 1 GB of Premium free when a new account links Google. Both are cheap, but neither is as frictionless as a free plan you can sign up for in a minute, and pretending otherwise would be silly.

If you are evaluating providers for a small first job, start on their free plan, get a result, and then decide whether the next gigabyte is worth paying their rate or ours. That is a sensible sequence and we would recommend it to a friend.

The catch is scale. A free plan is a sample, not a business, and the pricing that follows it is where the decision actually gets made.

Webshare charges a per-gigabyte rate that starts at $3. Plans are sized in monthly gigabytes, with a yearly option that takes a percentage off.

Our pricing has no plan sizes. Essential is $1.50/GB and Premium is $3.00/GB, from a wallet that starts at $0.50. There is no monthly allowance to fill and no unused balance to lose, and the rate does not depend on how much you commit to.

At the entry end that is a factor of two. At the volumes where their plan discounts kick in, the gap narrows but does not close, because their discounts are percentage reductions on a higher base.

The other difference is what you get for the rate. Their pool is 50+ countries; ours covers 150, and our targeting travels in the credential rather than needing a plan change. See residential proxies.

Webshare sells static residential (ISP) plans starting at $6 a month for 20 proxies. That is an extremely cheap way to buy a handful of static addresses, and it is better at that job than anything we sell.

Our static product includes a whole subnet at $255 a month, one customer per subnet. It is priced for a block that needs to look like a real network, not for five addresses behind a script.

So: if you want a few static IPs, buy theirs. If you want a block nobody else shares, ours is the cleaner product and the pricing is public.

The datacenter line is the same story: proxy server plans from $0.0299 per proxy, or $2.99 a month for 100, and we could not match it because we do not sell datacenter addresses at all.

Webshare supports HTTP and SOCKS5 endpoints, and authenticates with IP authorization, subject to a fair usage policy.

IP authorization is genuinely convenient when your traffic comes from a fixed server: no credential in the code, no rotation of an account password. Our authentication is a username and password that carries country, US state, city and ASN, which is more flexible per request and more to type once.

Session length is the quiet difference. Their rotating product is built around rotation; ours holds a pool that can stay on one exit for up to 24 hours (120 minutes on Essential), which is what makes multi-step flows survivable.

Neither model is wrong. They are answers to different questions, and the question is whether your job needs one address to persist.

Their refund rule is conditional but honest: a refund if the plan is cancelled within 2 days and usage is under the stated caps.

Ours is a request within 14 days of a top-up, handled under the refund policy. It is a longer window with fewer conditions, which is the one place our process is simpler.

Support is by email at [email protected]. On our side it is Discord tickets and email, answered by the people who run the network.

One thing worth noting: their free plan means you can check whether support exists before you have spent anything. That is a real advantage of their model.

Webshare is the right place to start a small project. A free plan, cheap static IPs, cheap datacenter proxies and a pricing page that does not make you talk to sales are all genuine advantages, and three of those products we either do not sell or cannot match on price.

The decision flips on rotating residential bandwidth. Their rate starts at a per-gigabyte rate that starts at $3 and ours at $1.50/GB, and our countries, targeting and session length are all larger. Once you are past the free tier, you are paying their per-gigabyte rate for a smaller pool and a shorter session.

Start on their free plan if you like. When the bill starts to matter, come back and run the same job on a wallet that starts at $0.50.

Webshare has a long public record on review sites and a stated uptime figure, a stated 99.97% uptime figure. We link no score of theirs onto this page and quote none, because a copied number is a claim we cannot keep current.

Our own record is the trust page, which lists what we can prove rather than what we claim.