Side by side
Shifter vs Webshare
The short answer
On residential, Shifter is the cheaper of the two at $0.75/GB against Webshare's $0.98/GB, a gap of about 23%.
Sign-up
Just an email
Just an email
Pay with
Card, crypto
Card, PayPal, crypto
Free trial
None
10 IPs, free forever
IPs (their number)
31 million
30 million
Countries
130
195
Won't work for
Nothing we know of
Ticketing, Streaming
Warnings
None
None
Shifter against Webshare, product by product
Residentialcompared above
$0.75/GBon Popular (200 GB), $149/mo, read 12 Augfrom $50/mo on Starter (50 GB), 4 plans
$0.98/GBon 3,000 GB (Rotating Residential, yearly), read 12 Augfrom $3.5/mo on 1 GB (Rotating Residential), 14 plans
Fixed ISP
—priced per IP addressfrom $42/mo on Starter (25 IPs), 4 plans
—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 Shifter if
the rate is lower, $0.75/GB against $0.98, and your targets matter and Webshare rules out ticketing and streaming.
Choose Webshare if
the country list is wider, 195 against 130.
Questions
Does Shifter or Webshare ask for ID?
Both ask for the same thing: just an email.
Which is cheaper, Shifter or Webshare?
Shifter, at $0.75 per GB against Webshare's $0.98 per GB, both residential rates read from the providers' own pages and dated above.
Which has more addresses, Shifter or Webshare?
Shifter, on their own numbers: 31 million against Webshare's 30 million, 195 countries.
Neither of these?
We don't pick a winner, the numbers are the same ones on each provider's page, checked yesterday.