Alternatives
Leaving Webshare? Alternatives for each proxy type
Free datacenter, cheap shared IPs, ISP or residential: which Webshare alternative fits each, priced at the same volumes, and which share an owner.
Pick a Webshare alternative by the product you’re replacing, because for cheap datacenter IPs there may be nothing to switch to. Webshare’s 1,000 shared datacenter proxies for $26.91 and 100 static residential IPs for $30 were the lowest prices I could confirm. For rotating residential, DataImpulse at $1/GB is far cheaper, and its traffic never expires.
Below I check the usual reasons for leaving against Webshare’s own docs, price the same four workloads across six vendors, and mark which “alternatives” sit in the same company group as Webshare.
Short on time?
Here's my take
- Free or cheap shared datacenter IPs
- Stay on Webshare
- 1,000 shared proxies for $26.91 plus a free 10-proxy tier. The nearest rival is Decodo at $29.70, a sister company.
- ISP IPs with city or ASN targeting
- Decodo
- 100 shared ISP IPs for $35, and its pricing page says city, state and ASN targeting is live. Proxyway says Webshare's fixed IPs target by country only.
- Residential use that varies month to month
- DataImpulse
- $1/GB, and 'Unused GBs never expire'. IPRoyal never expires either, but lists $5.25 to $7.35/GB.
- A steady 75 GB of residential a month
- DataImpulse
- $75 at $1/GB, against $225 on Webshare's 100 GB card. If you need a fallback, Rayobyte's Premium rate comes to $150.
- Mobile proxies
- Decodo
- 50 GB for $150 on a 50%-off sale with no end date. Outside Webshare's group, IPRoyal lists 50 GB at $5.60/GB.
- Paying with crypto or PayPal
- IPRoyal
- Lists crypto, PayPal and Alipay. Crypto payments are never refunded.
- A company that wants proxies plus an unblocker
- Bright Data
- Web Unlocker at $1.50 per 1,000, billed on success only. Residential is for verified companies only.
- A supplier outside Webshare's group
- DataImpulse or Rayobyte
- Neither is in the Source group. DataImpulse for residential, Rayobyte for fixed IPs with a no-card trial.
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Who replaces what, at a glance #
Prices verified 2026-11-12, USD, before tax. “Same group?” means the company is in the Source group with Webshare.
| Your job | My pick | Fallback | Why | Verified price | Same group? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free datacenter IPs | Webshare (stay) | Rayobyte trial | Free 10 proxies, 1 GB a month, no card | $0 | |
| 1,000 shared datacenter IPs | Webshare (stay) | Decodo | Lowest confirmed per-IP price | $26.91 | |
| 100 static ISP IPs, city or ASN targeting | Decodo | Bright Data | Targeting beyond country | $35 shared | Yes |
| Irregular residential use | DataImpulse | IPRoyal | Traffic never expires | $1/GB | No |
| Steady 75 GB residential | DataImpulse | Rayobyte Premium | Lowest price at this volume | $75 | No |
| Mobile | Decodo | IPRoyal | Sale cards from 2 GB | $150 for 50 GB (sale) | Yes |
| Crypto or PayPal | IPRoyal | DataImpulse | Payment methods | $5.25–$7.35/GB | No |
| Proxies plus an unblocker | Bright Data | Decodo | Success-only Web Unlocker | $1.50 per 1K | No |
Sources: Webshare, Decodo ISP, DataImpulse, Rayobyte, Decodo mobile, IPRoyal, Bright Data Web Unlocker.
Which Webshare product are you replacing? #
Most “Webshare alternatives” pages compare residential proxies only. But Webshare sells five different things, and each has a different best replacement. Here’s the baseline for each, verified 2026-11-12:
- Free datacenter: 10 shared proxies, 1 GB a month, no card. Pricing.
- Shared datacenter: $2.99 for 100 proxies down to about $0.018 each at 60,000+, with 250 GB a month included. Pricing.
- Private or dedicated datacenter: private from 25 for $18.52, dedicated from 20 for $26.60. Full tables are in Webshare pricing.
- Static residential (ISP): $0.30 an IP at 100 ($30), or $178.50 for 100 dedicated. Static, dedicated static.
- Rotating residential: $3.50 for 1 GB down to $1.40/GB at 3,000 GB; 25 GB is $65 and 100 GB is $225. Residential.
Webshare doesn’t sell mobile proxies or a scraping API, so if that’s your reason for leaving, skip to that section.
Why do people leave Webshare, and is it true? #
I can’t read the Reddit thread that ranks for this search, so I took the common complaints from the ranking pages and checked each one against Webshare’s own documents.
| Reason | What Webshare’s pages say | True? | Who fixes it |
|---|---|---|---|
| Traffic doesn’t roll over | “Bandwidth limits are set monthly and do not roll over”, and going over “will stop your proxies from functioning” (help) | Yes | DataImpulse, IPRoyal |
| Throttling | Fair use drops speed to 100 Mbps, then “as low as 10 Kbps” on datacenter and static plans (policy) | Yes | Per-GB datacenter (Decodo, DataImpulse, Bright Data) |
| Country-only targeting | Residential lists country, state, city, ZIP and ASN (residential); Proxyway says fixed IPs are country-level only (review) | Only for fixed IPs | Decodo, Bright Data |
| No mobile or scraping API | Neither is sold | Yes | Decodo, IPRoyal, Bright Data |
| Card-only payment | Cards, plus Google Pay and Apple Pay on mobile (pricing) | Mostly | IPRoyal, DataImpulse |
| Short refund window | 2 days, with usage limits and “sole discretion” (terms §8.2) | Yes | Decodo (14 days, with limits) |
| ID-check suspensions | No KYC “unless suspicious activity is detected”, but refusing ID means suspension (FAQ, terms §1.4) | Conditional | Not really: Bright Data and IPRoyal verify identity too |
| No pay-as-you-go | Monthly plans that auto-renew (terms §8.3) | Yes | Decodo, DataImpulse, Rayobyte, IPRoyal |
| Support hours | Proxyway says human support is 24/5 (review) | Per Proxyway | Decodo (24/7 per Proxyway) |
Webshare’s own FAQ also says ZIP and ASN targeting are “coming soon”, which conflicts with its residential page. FAQ.
On Trustpilot, Webshare has 4.1 from 1,491 reviews, 15% of them one-star. Recent reviews praise its support and criticise its per-GB price and frozen accounts; Trustpilot doesn’t verify reviews. Trustpilot.
Is anything as cheap for datacenter IPs? #
Not that I could confirm. Webshare’s 1,000 shared datacenter proxies cost $26.91 a month, and Decodo’s are close behind at $29.70. Everyone else charges per IP at many times that. Prices verified 2026-11-12.
| Provider | 1,000 datacenter IPs | Per IP | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webshare, shared | $26.91 | $0.0269 | Free 10-proxy tier; 250 GB a month included |
| Decodo, shared | $29.70 | $0.03 | $0.035 at 100 IPs down to $0.02 at 15,000; dedicated $1.85 down to $1.35 |
| Rayobyte, semi-dedicated | $750 | $0.75 | Shared by up to 3 users; US and Canada, other countries from $1.20 |
| Bright Data, shared | $900 | $0.90 | $1.40 at 10 IPs; dedicated 1,000 for $1,300 |
| IPRoyal | $1,570 for 30 days | $1.57 | $1.48 and $1.39 for 60- and 90-day terms; no volume tiers |
Sources: Webshare, Decodo, Rayobyte, Bright Data, IPRoyal.
If you’re leaving because of the fair-use throttle, per-GB datacenter is the other route. Decodo runs $0.60/GB at 10 GB down to $0.38 at 10 TB, Bright Data $0.60 down to $0.42 at 5 TB, and DataImpulse sells 100 GB for $50 with traffic that “never expires”. Decodo, Bright Data, DataImpulse.
Decodo’s datacenter page also says city, state and ASN targeting is now live for datacenter and ISP proxies, which is the main thing Webshare’s fixed IPs lack. Decodo.
For static residential (ISP) IPs #
At 100 IPs, Webshare’s shared plan is the cheapest I found at $30, and Decodo’s is next at $35. I’d move to Decodo only for the targeting or the 24/7 support. Prices verified 2026-11-12, monthly.
| Provider | 100 IPs, shared plan | 100 IPs, dedicated or per-IP plan | Countries |
|---|---|---|---|
| Webshare | $30 | $178.50 | 15+ |
| Decodo | $35 | $260 | 17 shared, 19 dedicated |
| Bright Data | $145 | $275 | Not compared here |
| IPRoyal | $270 for 30 days | 31+ | |
| Rayobyte | $480 | Not compared here |
Sources: Webshare, Webshare dedicated, Decodo, Bright Data, IPRoyal, Rayobyte.
IPRoyal’s terms add a cap: “Each proxy includes a monthly data allowance of 100 GB”, with throttling past it. IPRoyal terms §8.2. If you’re not sure static IPs are what you need, ISP vs residential proxies explains the trade-off.
For rotating residential #
This is where leaving pays off most. Webshare’s cards are monthly and its GB don’t roll over, while two outside vendors sell traffic that never expires. All prices verified 2026-11-12.
DataImpulse is my pick for most switchers. It lists $1/GB and says “Buy any volume you like. Unused GBs never expire.”
Cards run $5 for 5 GB (once, for new customers), $50 for 50 GB, $800 for 1 TB, and custom from $4,000. DataImpulse.
The fine print: city, ZIP and ASN targeting cost extra, and the 7-day refund applies “only to the first-time purchase” of the Intro plan. It doesn’t state a minimum top-up for returning buyers. DataImpulse, terms §10.1.
IPRoyal also never expires, but costs more: $7.00, $5.95 and $5.25/GB at 1, 2 and 10 GB on subscription, or $7.35, $6.25 and $5.51 pay-as-you-go. Its cards stop at 10 GB and jump to a custom rate from 10 TB. Its terms say fees are non-refundable unless the service is faulty within 24 hours. IPRoyal, terms.
Decodo is Webshare’s sister company. It lists $4/GB pay-as-you-go and monthly cards from 3 GB for $11.25 to 1,000 GB for $2,000, plus VAT. Unused plan GB are “not transferred” at renewal, and its licence says Wallet credits expire after 12 months unused. Decodo, unused GB, licence.
Rayobyte Premium is pay-as-you-go: $3.50/GB up to 49 GB, $2 from 50 GB, $1.50 from 250 GB and $0.70 from 1 TB, with country, city, ZIP and ASN targeting. I couldn’t find whether its traffic expires. Its cheaper Scale plan has no targeting, so I don’t compare it here. Rayobyte.
Bright Data lists $8/GB pay-as-you-go, or $4 with the RESIGB50 coupon for three months. Residential is “available only to verified companies”, and personal Gmail or Outlook accounts “are not eligible”. Bright Data, access rules.
For a six-vendor price study at 1, 10, 100 and 1,000 GB, see the cheapest residential proxies, and for a ranked list, the best residential proxies.
Need mobile proxies or a scraping API instead? #
Webshare sells neither, so this is a reason to add a vendor, not to replace one.
Mobile: Decodo, or IPRoyal outside the group. Every Decodo mobile card is on a “SAVE 50%” sale with no end date shown: 2 GB for $7.50 (list $15), 50 GB for $150, and 500 GB for $1,125 (list $2,250). IPRoyal lists $6.80/GB at 2 GB down to $5.20/GB at 100 GB, or dedicated mobile from $10.11 a day. Decodo mobile, IPRoyal mobile.
DataImpulse sells mobile at $2/GB ($50 for 25 GB), and Rayobyte’s mobile plans start at $250 a month for 83 GB. DataImpulse mobile, Rayobyte.
Bright Data’s mobile pricing page shows no plan cards but still claims “7M+ Mobile IPs”, and its October 24, 2026 release notes retired Immediate-access mobile proxies, deleted on November 9. Proxyway says Bright Data discontinued mobile in 2026. I’d treat it as unavailable until Bright Data says otherwise. Bright Data mobile, release notes, Proxyway.
Scraping API: Decodo’s Web Data API or Bright Data’s Web Unlocker. Decodo’s API has a free tier and paid plans up to $1,499, and its docs say “You only pay for successful requests.” Bright Data’s Web Unlocker is $1.50 per 1,000 pay-as-you-go, success-only, with 5,000 free requests a month shared across its APIs. Decodo, Decodo billing, Bright Data, release notes.
Whether you need an API at all is covered in scraping API vs proxies.
What do the same volumes cost elsewhere? #
I priced four workloads Webshare customers commonly run: 15 GB and 75 GB of rotating residential a month, 1,000 datacenter IPs, and 100 static ISP IPs. For each vendor I took the cheapest published purchase that covers the volume. Verified 2026-11-12, USD, before tax; totals are my arithmetic.
| Provider | Residential 15 GB | Residential 75 GB | 1,000 datacenter IPs | 100 ISP IPs | Unused traffic | Same group? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Webshare | $65 (25 GB card) | $225 (100 GB card) | $26.91 shared | $30 shared | Resets monthly, no rollover | |
| Decodo | $60 PAYG | $275 (100 GB card) | $29.70 shared | $35 shared, $260 dedicated | Plan GB lost at renewal | Yes |
| DataImpulse | $15 at $1/GB | $75 at $1/GB | No per-IP plan | No ISP product | Never expires | No |
| Rayobyte | $52.50 | $150 | $750 semi-dedicated | $480 | Not stated | No |
| Bright Data | $120 PAYG list; $60 with coupon | $600 PAYG list; $300 with coupon | $900 shared | $145 shared | Commitment doesn’t roll over | No |
| IPRoyal | Not published | Not published | $1,570 for 30 days | $270 for 30 days | Never expires | No |
Inputs: Webshare, Decodo residential, Decodo datacenter, Decodo ISP, DataImpulse, Rayobyte, Bright Data, IPRoyal.
Bright Data’s coupon prices last three months only. IPRoyal’s residential cards stop at 10 GB, so I don’t add cards together to make 15 or 75 GB. DataImpulse’s figures are $1/GB times the volume, because its page says “Buy any volume you like” and “no monthly minimum”; it states no minimum top-up.
The pattern is clear. For residential, DataImpulse is cheapest at both volumes, with Rayobyte next. For fixed IPs, Webshare is cheapest, with its sister company Decodo a few dollars behind.
Which alternatives are really the same company? #
Two of the most common “alternatives” sit in the same group as Webshare. Oxylabs announced in September 2022 that it had acquired Webshare, which would “continue to operate as an independent entity”. Oxylabs.
Since 13 October 2026, Oxylabs, Decodo, Webshare, ScrapingBee and Honeygain are the five companies in Source, a Vilnius group, and the launch release says the brands “continue to operate independently”. Source calls Webshare its “entry-market leader” and Decodo its “mid-market driver”. Launch release, Source.
So Decodo is a sister company, not a Webshare or Oxylabs subsidiary as far as any primary page says. If you’re leaving over price or features, that doesn’t matter. If you want a supplier outside the group, look at DataImpulse, IPRoyal, Rayobyte or Bright Data; none of them appears on Source’s pages. For the same question from the Oxylabs side, see Oxylabs alternatives.
Where do the speed and success numbers come from? #
From Proxyway, a proxy review site that says it uses affiliate links. None of these figures are mine. The table below is its 2026 residential round, measured against a small test endpoint rather than real target sites.
| Provider | Success rate | Average response | Test dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Decodo | 99.92% | 0.53 s | March–April 2026 |
| DataImpulse | 99.74% | 0.97 s | March–April 2026 |
| Webshare | 99.28% | 0.86 s | March–April 2026 |
| Rayobyte | 98.02% | 1.86 s | March–April 2026 |
| IPRoyal | 96.11% | 1.24 s | March–April 2026 |
| Bright Data | Not in this round (“isn’t participating this year”) |
Source: Proxyway market research 2026. Proxyway’s separate Webshare review measured its datacenter proxies at 99.93% and 0.67 s in April 2026, and counted 1,745,672 unique residential IPs against 80M+ advertised. Proxyway review.
Every pool size on this page is a vendor claim. Fresh comparisons are also rarer than you’d expect: Decodo’s licence bars licensees from publicly sharing “benchmarks”. Decodo licence.
When I’d stay with Webshare #
If you mainly buy shared datacenter IPs, I’d stay. At $26.91 for 1,000 and a free 10-proxy tier, nothing I priced beats it. Pricing. How a vendor’s free tier differs from a public proxy list is covered in free vs paid proxies.
If 100 static IPs at country level are enough, I’d stay. $30 a month is the lowest ISP price I found. Static.
If you use about 1 GB of residential a month, I’d stay. The $3.50 card is cheap, and with that little traffic the lack of rollover costs you almost nothing. Residential. For a wider field, see the best proxy providers for web scraping.
Switching without paying twice #
- Check your renewal date. Webshare plans renew monthly. The pricing FAQ says to switch to the free plan in the dashboard, but the terms say cancellation takes effect “IN THE MONTH FOLLOWING” your notice, so do it early. Pricing, terms §8.3.
- Don’t run dry mid-month. Webshare’s proxies stop at the bandwidth cap, so keep the old plan until the new one is working. Bandwidth help.
- Trial the new vendor first, carefully. Rayobyte says every self-serve product has a free trial with no card. Decodo’s 100 MB, 3-day trial starts the paid plan automatically unless you cancel. Rayobyte, Decodo.
- Read the refund rule before you pay. Decodo gives 14 days, but its pricing page and FAQ set different usage limits (20% of traffic, or 20% or 1 GB, whichever comes first). Decodo pricing, refund FAQ.
- Clear KYC early if you’re going to Bright Data. Residential approval needs a company and funds first. Access rules.
What other lists still say #
Claims I checked on November 12, 2026
- “Acquired by Oxylabs in 2024” (Roundproxies). Oxylabs announced the deal in September 2022.
- “Country-only” residential targeting (Roundproxies). Webshare’s residential page lists country, state, city, ZIP and ASN.
- Throttling “as low as 5 Mbps” (Roundproxies). The fair usage policy says as low as 10 Kbps.
- Bright Data at “$8.40/GB” with “72M+” IPs (Roundproxies). Bright Data lists $8 list, $4 with the coupon and claims 400M+. Its own Webshare-alternative page says both 400M+ and “over 72million”.
- A $7/GB reference price and a $30 Oxylabs entry plan (Proxys.io). Webshare’s cards now strike through $3.50/GB, and Oxylabs’ Starter is $15.
- Residential “as low as $1.75/GB” (Byteful). Its own FAQ says pricing starts at $3.25/GB and only scales down to $1.75 at higher volumes.
- Webshare with “30+ million” IPs (SOAX, table dated October 2024). Webshare now claims 80M+.
- US-only state and ZIP targeting and 1 minute to 24 hour sessions (Databay). I couldn’t find these limits in Webshare’s own docs.
So which one would I switch to? #
Cheap shared datacenter IPs: stay on Webshare. If you must move, Decodo is $2.79 more for 1,000 IPs; outside the group, Rayobyte’s semi-dedicated IPs cost far more but come with a no-card trial.
Static ISP IPs: stay at $30 for country-level work, or go to Decodo at $35 if you need city, state or ASN targeting.
Rotating residential, steady or irregular: DataImpulse. $1/GB that never expires beats every Webshare card I priced, at 15 GB ($15 vs $65) and at 75 GB ($75 vs $225). If you’d rather pay as you go with deeper targeting included, Rayobyte Premium is next.
Mobile: Decodo while its sale lasts, or IPRoyal outside the group. Neither Webshare nor, as far as I can tell, Bright Data sells it today. See the best mobile proxies for more options.
Crypto or PayPal: IPRoyal. Proxies plus an unblocker for a registered company: Bright Data. For more on Decodo as the next step, see Decodo alternatives.
FAQ #
What is the best alternative to Webshare? #
It depends on which Webshare product you’re replacing. For residential traffic I’d pick DataImpulse, for ISP IPs with city or ASN targeting Decodo, for mobile proxies Decodo, and for crypto or PayPal payment IPRoyal. For cheap shared datacenter IPs I’d stay on Webshare. Picks by job.
Is there a cheaper alternative to Webshare? #
For residential, yes. At 75 GB a month DataImpulse lists $75 at $1 per GB, against $225 for Webshare’s 100 GB card.
For datacenter and ISP IPs, no. Webshare’s 1,000 shared datacenter proxies for $26.91 and 100 static IPs for $30 were the lowest prices I could confirm. Price table.
Is Webshare owned by Oxylabs? #
Oxylabs announced in September 2022 that it had acquired Webshare. Since 13 October 2026 both are among the five companies in the Source group, which says each brand runs independently. Oxylabs, Source.
Are Webshare and Decodo the same company? #
They are sister companies in the Source group, with separate brands, prices and terms. I found no primary page saying who legally owns Decodo, so I don’t claim Oxylabs or Webshare owns it. Source.
Which Webshare alternative has a free plan or trial? #
Rayobyte says every self-serve product has a free trial with no card. Decodo offers 100 MB for 3 days, but the paid plan starts automatically unless you cancel. Decodo’s Web Data API has a free tier, and Bright Data gives 5,000 free API requests a month. Rayobyte, Decodo, Bright Data.
Which alternative’s traffic doesn’t expire? #
DataImpulse says unused GB never expire, and IPRoyal lists never-expiring traffic. Decodo’s plan GB are lost at renewal, and its Wallet credits expire after 12 months unused. DataImpulse, IPRoyal, Decodo licence.
Does any Webshare alternative accept crypto or PayPal? #
IPRoyal lists crypto, PayPal and Alipay, though crypto payments are never refunded. DataImpulse lists crypto, Alipay, Apple Pay, Google Pay, cards and wire. Webshare takes cards, plus Google Pay and Apple Pay on mobile. IPRoyal, DataImpulse.
Sources
48 sources, accessed .
Official pricing, docs, changelogs and status pages 38
- Webshare pricing and free plan
- Webshare rotating residential
- Webshare static residential
- Webshare dedicated static residential
- Webshare terms
- Webshare fair usage policy
- Webshare FAQ
- Webshare bandwidth limit help
- Decodo residential pricing
- Decodo datacenter pricing
- Decodo ISP pricing
- Decodo mobile pricing
- Decodo Web Data API pricing
- Decodo Web Data API billing
- Decodo unused GB FAQ
- Decodo refund FAQ
- Decodo licence agreement
- IPRoyal residential pricing
- IPRoyal datacenter pricing
- IPRoyal ISP pricing
- IPRoyal mobile pricing
- IPRoyal terms of service v10
- DataImpulse residential pricing
- DataImpulse datacenter pricing
- DataImpulse mobile pricing
- DataImpulse terms
- Rayobyte pricing
- Bright Data residential pricing
- Bright Data residential access rules
- Bright Data datacenter pricing
- Bright Data ISP pricing
- Bright Data mobile pricing page
- Bright Data Web Unlocker pricing
- Bright Data release notes
- Bright Data's Webshare-alternative page
- Oxylabs acquires Webshare (2022)
- Introducing Source
- Oxylabs pricing
