Webshare is known for cheap datacenter proxies and a free starter tier, but its residential bandwidth lists at $7.00 per GB pay-as-you-go. QuantumProxies Residential Basic is
On residential proxies, QuantumProxies is the better choice by a wide margin. Webshare's reputation for cheapness is built on its datacenter tier and its free proxies — cross into residential, where the blocked requests actually get through, and it becomes one of the more expensive options in our index.
| What you actually pay | QuantumProxies Residential Basic | Webshare |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price per GB | .00 / GB | $7.00 / GB |
| Minimum to start | $5 (5 GB, no subscription) | $7 (1 GB, pay-as-you-go rate) |
| Pay-as-you-go without a plan | Yes | Yes |
| Cheapest advertised rate | $0.80 / GB | .40 / GB |
| What that cheapest rate requires | A 1 TB purchase ($800). No monthly contract. | a high-volume residential tier |
Competitor prices verified 2026-07-29. Webshare figures are advertised list prices for rotating residential proxies from its public pricing page, recorded in our residential proxy pricing index on the verification date shown above. Webshare's datacenter and free-tier products are priced separately and are not comparable to residential bandwidth. QuantumProxies figures are from our live plan catalogue. All prices in USD, excluding VAT.
Webshare built its reputation on giving away ten free proxies and selling datacenter bandwidth cheaply, and that reputation is largely deserved. The trouble starts when a project outgrows datacenter addresses — which happens the first time a target starts blocking them — and you look at what residential costs. At $7.00 per gigabyte it is among the more expensive residential rates in our pricing index, seven times what we charge for the same category of address.
Webshare's ten free proxies are datacenter addresses. Datacenter IPs are fast and cheap and perfectly good against targets that do not check, but they announce themselves: the address block belongs to a hosting provider, and any anti-bot system worth the name treats that as a signal. When your success rate collapses, the fix is residential bandwidth — and that is where the pricing changes character entirely.
Webshare lists rotating residential at $7.00 per gigabyte pay-as-you-go. Our Residential Basic is
Two things, honestly. Webshare gives away a free tier and we do not — our minimum is $5. And on pure datacenter bandwidth for undefended targets, Webshare is competitively priced and easy to get started with. If your workload genuinely never needs a residential address, this comparison does not apply to you and Webshare is a sensible pick.
The free tier is what draws people in and it is not what they end up buying. The moment your targets start filtering datacenter ranges, the relevant number is the residential rate — and there the free proxies have no bearing on what you pay. Comparing a free datacenter IP to a paid residential gigabyte is comparing two different products; on the product that actually gets through, we are seven times cheaper.
This is not a residential-only argument. Our datacenter proxies start at $0.50 per GB and our IPv6 proxies at $0.20 per GB, both on the same account and the same balance as residential. If part of your workload runs fine on datacenter addresses, run it there and keep the residential bandwidth for the targets that demand it — without opening a second account with a second vendor.
Real ISP-assigned residential addresses across 200+ countries, rotating and sticky sessions, HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5 included, and country-level targeting. The entry order is $5 for 5 GB with no subscription and no renewal. It is the same pool our premium residential plans use, offered at the basic tier.
Our residential rate falls with size and nothing recurs: 500 GB is $450, or $0.90 per GB, and 1 TB is $800, or $0.80 per GB. That is below Webshare's
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Webshare is a proxy provider best known for offering ten free datacenter proxies and low-cost datacenter bandwidth. It also sells rotating residential proxies, which list at a considerably higher rate than its datacenter product.
QuantumProxies does not give away free proxies — our minimum order is $5 for 5 GB. Free datacenter proxies are widely blocked by defended targets, so for anything that matters the meaningful comparison is the residential rate, where we are
As recorded in our pricing index on the verification date shown on this page, Webshare lists rotating residential proxies at $7.00 per GB pay-as-you-go, with a cheapest advertised tier of
On price per gigabyte, QuantumProxies Residential Basic at
Bright Data, Oxylabs, Decodo (formerly Smartproxy), IPRoyal and SOAX come up most often, with QuantumProxies at the value end. Our residential proxy pricing index compares ten providers on price per gigabyte.
On datacenter proxies and on its free tier, Webshare is competitive. On residential bandwidth it is not: $7.00 per GB against our
For residential proxies, yes — seven times cheaper at the entry point and cheaper again at volume. Webshare's free tier is real and we have not pretended otherwise, but it is datacenter bandwidth, and the moment your targets start blocking datacenter ranges it stops being part of the comparison. If you need residential addresses, $5 buys 5 GB and settles the question against your own targets.