Side by side
PacketStream vs Webshare
The short answer
On residential, PacketStream and Webshare land within a few cents of each other, $1 against $0.98 a gigabyte, so price is not what separates them. One thing to read before you decide: we carry a warning on PacketStream and none on Webshare.
Sign-up
Just an email
Just an email
Pay with
Card
Card, PayPal, crypto
Free trial
None
10 IPs, free forever
IPs (their number)
7 million
30 million
Countries
190
195
Won't work for
Streaming
Ticketing, Streaming
Warnings
Gets its IPs from paid volunteers
None
PacketStream against Webshare, product by product
Residentialcompared above
$1.00/GBon Residential Proxies, read 12 Aug1 plan
$0.98/GBon 3,000 GB (Rotating Residential, yearly), read 12 Augfrom $3.5/mo on 1 GB (Rotating Residential), 14 plans
Fixed ISP
Does not sell this
—unlimited bandwidth, priced flatfrom $6/mo on 20 proxies (Static Residential), 11 plans
Datacenter
Does not sell this
—unlimited bandwidth, priced flatfrom $2.99/mo on 100 proxies (Proxy Server), 12 plans
Choose PacketStream if
your targets matter and Webshare rules out ticketing and streaming.
Choose Webshare if
the rate is lower, $0.98/GB against $1, and the country list is wider, 195 against 190.
Questions
Does PacketStream or Webshare ask for ID?
Both ask for the same thing: just an email.
Which is cheaper, PacketStream or Webshare?
Webshare, at $0.98 per GB against PacketStream's $1 per GB, both residential rates read from the providers' own pages and dated above.
Which has more addresses, PacketStream or Webshare?
Webshare, on their own numbers: 30 million, 195 countries against PacketStream's 7 million, 190 countries.
Neither of these?
We don't pick a winner, the numbers are the same ones on each provider's page, checked yesterday.