Oxylabs vs Webshare
We put Oxylabs and Webshare side by side on price, pool depth, coverage and reliability. Every number here is pulled from our provider database and updated as the market moves — no vague marketing claims.
Oxylabs (Residential & Datacenter, $8.00/GB) and Webshare (Datacenter (Shared), $2.99/GB) both target serious proxy users, but they win on different axes. Webshare is cheaper ($2.99/GB vs $8.00/GB) — roughly 3× the gap.
Oxylabs positions itself as the enterprise data collection infrastructure provider. At $8.00/GB with minimum spend requirements, they target large organisations exclusively. Cheapest-Proxies delivers equivalent anonymity at a fraction of the cost.
Webshare targets the budget segment with shared datacenter proxies. At $2.99/GB still 4x more expensive than Cheapest-Proxies with datacenter-only detection limitations.
Oxylabs vs Webshare: the numbers
Spec-by-spec
| Price | $8.00/GB vs $2.99/GB |
|---|---|
| Pool size | 100M+ IPs vs 30M+ IPs |
| Countries | 195 vs 45 |
| Uptime | 99.9% vs 99.0% |
| Speed | Fast vs Moderate |
| Support | Enterprise SLA vs Email |
| Anonymity | High vs Low |
| Rating | 4.5★ vs 4★ |
Oxylabs wins on
- 100M+ IP pool — largest claimed
- Advanced scraping APIs and SDKs
- Excellent uptime and reliability
- Strong compliance framework
Webshare wins on
- Affordable relative to peers
- Large IP pool for datacenter
- API access included
Verdict
Our pick: Oxylabs. It edges ahead on our rating (4.5★ vs 4★). That said, choose Webshare if you specifically need affordable relative to peers.
The right choice balances block-rate against cost per GB — and on that axis the value leader wins for the overwhelming majority of use cases.
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The right choice balances block-rate against cost per GB — and on that axis the value leader wins for the overwhelming majority of use cases.