Webshare
Budget-friendly proxies with a permanent free tier: 10 proxies and 1 GB a month, no card needed.
About
Webshare is a self-service proxy provider based in San Francisco, running since 2018. It sells datacenter, static residential (ISP), and rotating residential proxies with a fully self-serve dashboard and REST API. The provider advertises 80 million-plus IPs across 195 countries, with residential as the largest pool. The standout feature is the permanent free plan: 10 datacenter proxies and 1 GB of residential bandwidth per month with no credit card, which makes it a common first proxy for developers testing a scraping script.
Pricing is flat and visible: datacenter proxies from a few cents per IP per month, static residential per IP per month, and rotating residential billed per gigabyte (around $7/GB list, often discounted). The dashboard generates ready-to-paste code in Python, Node, cURL, and other languages. Independent 2026 benchmarks reported a 99.28% infrastructure success rate for the residential pool with 0.86s average response, and its datacenter pool won a real-target test in the same benchmark. Third-party reviews rate it 4.0 on Trustpilot and 4.8 on G2. Webshare offers no mobile proxies, which matters if your targets need them.
What it can do
- Datacenter, static residential (ISP), and rotating residential proxies
- 80M+ IPs across 195 countries (provider-claimed)
- Permanent free tier: 10 proxies and 1 GB per month
- HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 protocols
- Country and city-level geo targeting
- Self-service dashboard with REST API
- Ready-to-paste code generation for major languages
Setup
Register at webshare.io to get the free 10 proxies instantly; the dashboard generates code snippets for your language.
Prerequisites
A Webshare account; any HTTP client or scraper that accepts proxy configuration.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: webshare.io documents the free tier and pricing; independent 2026 benchmarks (Proxyway-style) measured 99.28% residential success rates and a datacenter-pool win on real targets; Trustpilot 4.0 and G2 4.8 ratings corroborate user satisfaction. Strengths: genuinely free permanent tier, flat transparent pricing, strong independent benchmark showing. Docked for: (1) no mobile proxies; (2) cheap datacenter IPs are easier for targets to fingerprint than residential; (3) IP pool size is provider-claimed. License: proprietary.
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 2.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · San Francisco proxy provider running since 2018
- · Datacenter, static residential (ISP), and rotating residential proxies; 80M+ IPs in 195 countries (provider-claimed)
- · Free tier needs no credit card; dashboard generates code snippets
- · Independent 2026 benchmark: 99.28% residential success rate, datacenter pool won real-target test
- · Trustpilot 4.0, G2 4.8; no mobile proxies offered
Sources
Every fact above was checked against these sources. Where a claim comes from the provider and couldn't be independently verified, the text says so.