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Webshare review 2026
Hard to beat on price for datacenter IPs, with a free tier to test before you commit. Residential performance is decent rather than exceptional.
Benchmark results
- Pool size
- 30M+ IPs
- Success rate
- 96.4%
- Avg. response
- 0.6s
- Price
- from $2.99 / GB
Proxy types offered
- Datacenter
- Residential
- ISP
What we liked
- Free plan to test
- Very low datacenter pricing
- Fast self-serve setup
What could be better
- Weaker on heavily protected targets
- Support is email-first
Verdict
Webshare scores 8.5/10 in our 2026 benchmark and is the option we recommend for budget-conscious developers. If your workloads look different, compare it against the rest of the field before committing to a plan.
Next steps: compare it in the full provider ranking, confirm the proxy type matches your use case, and size your plan with the buying guides.
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