Webshare

What is Webshare?

Webshare is a proxy provider. It rents out IP addresses that route a computer’s web traffic, so requests reach a website from another address and often another country. The company, Webshare Software, is based in California and sells mainly to developers, researchers and businesses that collect public web data, track prices, check search results in other locations or verify how ads appear.

Which Webshare proxy type suits which job?

It depends on whether the address must stay fixed and what kind of address a site expects. Proxy Server plans are datacenter proxies: fast, lower-cost addresses hosted in data centres, which Webshare suggests for high-volume work on less restrictive sites. Static Residential, also called ISP proxies, uses addresses registered to home broadband providers but hosted on servers, so each one stays fixed for tasks that need one consistent address, such as ad verification. Rotating Residential sends traffic through real home devices whose owners have agreed to share them, and the address changes by itself every few hours. Datacenter and static residential proxies come shared, private or dedicated, where dedicated means no other customer uses the address. Those plans pick locations by country, while rotating residential can also narrow down to a city, a US state or a ZIP code.

How does Webshare pricing work?

Webshare builds each price from a few choices rather than selling fixed tiers. Datacenter and static residential plans are priced by the number of proxies, how exclusive they are and a monthly bandwidth allowance; the unlimited option on larger plans falls under a fair usage policy. Rotating residential is sold by the gigabyte. Yearly billing costs less per month but commits the buyer to a full year, and bigger orders cost less per unit. Bandwidth resets each month and unused data doesn’t carry over. Prices are in US dollars, and Webshare’s terms say buyers pay any taxes that apply. The pricing page shows the figures for each combination.

How do you connect Webshare proxies to your tools?

Through the proxy list in the dashboard, which gives each proxy’s address, port, username and password, or through IP authorisation, which lets a registered IP address connect without a password. All connection types support HTTP and SOCKS5, and Webshare publishes set-up guides for browsers, operating systems, proxy managers and scraping libraries. There is an official Chrome extension, a REST API, a command-line tool and SDKs for Node.js, Python and Go. Webshare also runs an MCP server that lets AI assistants such as Claude Code and Cursor read proxy lists and usage, with changes off unless the account owner allows them.

What should you check before paying?

Three things: what the free plan covers, the verification rules and the refund terms. The free plan gives a small set of shared datacenter proxies with a monthly data allowance and no card, enough to test set-up, but it has no residential proxies. Webshare may ask for ID or for details of how proxies will be used, and some reviewers say their service was paused while that check ran. Its compliance policy lists restricted activities and blocked websites, with extra restrictions on rotating residential. Refunds are at Webshare’s discretion and only considered soon after purchase, on plans that have barely been used. Plans renew automatically. Cancelling moves the account to the free plan straight away and may leave credit for the unused part, while turning off auto-renewal keeps the proxies until the period ends.