Webshare Review 2026 ✓

Key takeaways

The TL;DR. 6 headline facts about Webshare pulled from our test rig + their public documentation.

• ▸Webshare residential pool is now 80M+ IPs (up from 30M+ in 2024) across 195+ countries, with city-level targeting freshly rolled out mid-2026 — a long-requested feature that closes the geo-precision gap versus Bright Data and Decodo.
• ▸City-level targeting is configured through the Endpoint Generator by appending `city-NAME` to the username string (e.g. `user-12345-country-us-city-newyork`) — no separate enterprise SKU and no extra GB cost like Bright Data charges for city targeting.
• ▸The genuine free tier (10 datacenter proxies, 1 GB residential bandwidth, no payment method) is the strongest self-serve onramp in the proxy industry — indefinite, not a 7-day trial.
• ▸Entry pricing starts at $2.99 for 100 shared datacenter IPs ($0.0299/IP) and scales down to roughly $0.018/IP at volume; residential bandwidth begins at $0.99/GB — the lowest sticker in the category for both per-IP and per-GB models.
• ▸Performance benchmarks land at 98.5% success rate on neutral targets and sub-200ms datacenter latency from US and EU pops, but datacenter ASNs still fold against Cloudflare Enterprise, Akamai Bot Manager, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, and most sneaker drops.
• ▸Setup is self-serve in 60 seconds: no sales call, no KYC, no minimum spend, full REST API + Chrome extension + SOCKS5 / HTTP parity, plus IP allowlist and user/password auth running in parallel on the same proxy.

The verdict

Independent nightly benchmarks since March 2024 — here's where Webshare lands.

What we think after testing Webshare

Editorial review by Maya Cortez · last tested May 31, 2026

How to Use Webshare Residential Proxies

Watch our hands-on walkthrough of Webshare — dashboard, API, real workload, the bits the marketing pages skip.

Live performance

Numbers from our continuous test rig — same workloads, every month.

Targets tested: Google SERP US/UK/IN, Amazon US/UK/DE, Walmart, eBay, Cloudflare-fronted retailers. Concurrency: 200. Run nightly since Mar 2024. Full data in our methodology page →

Performance vs the market

How Webshare compares to the directory-wide average across our four standard target panels. = market average, bar fill = Webshare.

Sample size: 120+ providers with published benchmark data. Bars show this provider's measured rate; the vertical tick is the directory-wide average.

IP pool size — ranked

Where Webshare ranks against the largest networks in the directory. Bars are scaled to 226M.

Bars rank total advertised IP pool size. Webshare publishes 80M+ residential + 30M+ datacenter IPs across 195+ countries — see the full breakdown in the specs above.

Pricing

From $0.99/GB. Detailed plan breakdown not yet published.

Features & integrations

What's included out of the box.

SDK, API & integrations

Languages, endpoints and tooling shipped out of the box.

Code examples

Drop-in snippets to start using Webshare from your stack. Replace USER, PASS and the gateway with what you get from your dashboard.

# pip install requests
import requests

proxy = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
resp = requests.get(
    "https://httpbin.org/ip",
    proxies={"http": proxy, "https": proxy},
    timeout=10,
)
print(resp.json())

// npm install undici
import { fetch, ProxyAgent } from "undici";

const dispatcher = new ProxyAgent("http://USER:[email protected]:7777");
const resp = await fetch("https://httpbin.org/ip", { dispatcher });
console.log(await resp.json());

curl -x http://USER:[email protected]:7777 \
  https://httpbin.org/ip \
  --max-time 10

# scrapy-rotating-proxies works with any provider gateway
# settings.py:
DOWNLOADER_MIDDLEWARES = {
    "scrapy.downloadermiddlewares.httpproxy.HttpProxyMiddleware": 400,
}
HTTP_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"
HTTPS_PROXY = "http://USER:[email protected]:7777"

// npm install playwright
import { chromium } from "playwright";

const browser = await chromium.launch({
  proxy: {
    server: "http://gate.webshare.com:7777",
    username: "USER",
    password: "PASS",
  },
});
const page = await browser.newPage();
await page.goto("https://httpbin.org/ip");
console.log(await page.locator("body").innerText());
await browser.close();

Independent benchmarks

Last run 2026-05-06

Compliance & privacy

Auditable certifications, sourcing and data-handling posture.

Company & resources

Who builds and operates this product.

Key markets covered

195+ countries served.

Webshare vs alternatives

How Webshare stacks up against the closest providers in our directory. Tap any column header to read that review.

How to get started with Webshare

A 5-minute walkthrough from sign-up to your first successful request. Total setup time: ~10 minutes.

1. 1

   Claim the free 10 proxies before paying

   Sign up with email only — no card, no KYC, no phone verification. The free plan drops 10 shared datacenter IPs and 1 GB of residential bandwidth into your dashboard immediately. Use these to test target compatibility before committing to a paid tier; if your targets bounce on free DC IPs, premium DC will not fix the underlying ASN reputation problem and you should consider a residential plan or a different vendor entirely.

2. 2

   Open the Proxy Generator and pick your auth mode

   Inside Dashboard → Proxy → List, the Proxy Generator outputs proxies in host:port:user:pass or host:port format with download buttons for cURL, Python requests, Puppeteer, and Scrapy. Decide upfront between IP authentication (whitelist your scraping server's egress IP, then connect without credentials) and username/password auth (works from anywhere but leaks creds if logged). For containerized workloads on rotating egress, user/pass is the only sane choice.

3. 3

   Configure country, state, AND city targeting on residential

   On the residential plan, the Endpoint Generator now exposes country, state (US + select EU), and city-level targeting — the city dropdown shipped mid-2026 and is the headline feature versus 2024-era Webshare. Append parameters directly to the username: `user-12345-country-us-city-newyork-session-abc`. Sticky sessions hold the same exit IP for up to 30 minutes, while per-request rotation pulls a fresh IP on every connection. For SEO rank tracking by metro, geo-fenced ad verification, or city-level review monitoring, this is the right setup.

4. 4

   Install the Chrome extension for manual QA

   Webshare ships an official Chrome extension that pulls your proxy list directly from the dashboard and lets you toggle between IPs from the browser toolbar. This is genuinely useful for manually verifying that a scraper-broken target loads under a specific exit, debugging geo-gated content (now city-precise), or QA-ing fingerprint behavior — the kind of thing other vendors force you to do with FoxyProxy and a copy-pasted list.

5. 5

   Wire the REST API for programmatic refresh

   The full REST API exposes proxy list retrieval, bandwidth usage, subuser creation, and IP replacement (you can swap 25% of your pool per month on most plans). Set up a daily cron that pulls the latest list and writes it to your scraper config — Webshare occasionally rotates underlying IPs, and stale lists cause silent connection failures. SOCKS5 and HTTP run on parallel ports, so the same proxy works for both protocols without separate provisioning.

Stuck? Check Webshare's documentation or email us.

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