Shifter vs Webshare
Looking for a Webshare alternative? Webshare returned the larger raw pool in four countries, but drew it from far fewer networks, and Shifter answered roughly twice as fast in every market tested while costing 46% less per GB.
신뢰하는 기업 50,000+ 전 세계 클라이언트
Half the latency, half the price
Lowest published rate per GB from each provider. Webshare reaches $1.40 on its 3 TB plan at $4,200 a month.
| 월간 사용량 | Shifter | Webshare | 절약 금액 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Entry plan | $10 5 GB at $2.00/GB | $3.50 1 GB at $3.50/GB | 43% |
| 10 GB | $20 $2.00/GB | $27.50 $2.75/GB | 27% |
| 50 GB | $50 $1.00/GB | $122.50 $2.45/GB | 59% |
| 100 GB | $100 $1.00/GB | $225 $2.25/GB | 56% |
| 최저 요금 | $0.75/GB from 200 GB | $1.40/GB 3 TB at $4,200/mo | 46% |
테스트 중 온라인 상태였던 실시간 IP
Distinct IPs each network had live and reachable at test time, not the size of its total network. Residential IPs rotate all day, so both providers serve far more addresses across 24 hours.
국가별 모든 지표
Pick a country to see the complete measurement, including the numbers that did not go our way.
| 지표 | Shifter | Webshare |
|---|---|---|
| 전송된 요청 | 250,000 | 250,000 |
| 테스트 중 실시간 IP | 136,667 | 150,512 |
| 고유 네트워크(ASN) | 1,606 | 1,518 |
| 고유 도시 | 5,813 | 5,954 |
| 평균 지연 시간 | 364 ms | 975 ms |
| 성공률 | 99.8% | 99.9% |
Shifter reached 1,606 US networks against Webshare's 1,518 and answered in 364 ms against 975 ms, close to three times faster. Webshare held only 9.2% more live IPs, at $1.40 per GB against $0.75.
How we measured this
For every request we opened a new connection through the provider's rotating residential gateway and read back the exit address from an IP echo service. A fresh connection forces a fresh exit, so distinct addresses map directly to how much of the pool was reachable.
Webshare and Shifter were tested with the same request counts, concurrency of 1,000, a 10 second timeout and the same target, one provider at a time on one server so the two never competed for bandwidth.
Each country ran at a fixed volume applied equally to both providers, ranging from 60,000 requests in the smallest market to 250,000 in the United States, 560,000 per provider overall.
What these numbers mean
Each figure counts IPs that were live and reachable during the test window rather than the total size of either network. Residential addresses rotate constantly as real devices connect and disconnect, so across a full day both providers serve millions of them. What matters to a running crawl is how many respond at the same moment, which is what this measures. Because sample size varies by country, the bars compare the two providers inside a country, not between countries.
사용하는 이유 Shifter 레지덴셜 프록시?
Roughly twice as fast, everywhere
324 ms against 937 ms in Canada, 364 ms against 975 ms in the United States. Shifter answered faster in all five countries, usually by a factor of two or more.
Far wider network spread
148 French networks against 96 and 276 German against 188. Webshare's larger address count sits on noticeably fewer autonomous systems, which is what anti-bot systems key on.
Ahead in the United Kingdom
53,506 live British IPs against 51,564, the one country where Shifter also led on raw count.
46% less per GB at scale
$0.75 against $1.40, and $100 against $225 for a 100 GB month, without the 3 TB commitment Webshare's best rate requires.
자주 묻는 질문
Common questions about how we benchmarked Webshare.
Point an HTTP client at an IP echo endpoint through both gateways, opening a fresh connection per request so each one rotates, and count distinct addresses. Use identical request counts, the same machine and the same hour for both providers.
Because this is the number of IPs live at the time of the test, not a total. Advertised figures count every address a network has ever seen. Residential IPs rotate all day, so both providers serve millions across 24 hours. We measured how many were reachable in one country at one moment, which is the number that limits a crawl.
Two reasons the tables show. Shifter drew its addresses from substantially more networks in the United States, France and Germany, and answered roughly twice as fast in every country. A larger pool concentrated on fewer networks is easier for anti-bot systems to fingerprint.
It compounds. At the Canadian medians here, a million requests is about 90 hours of waiting with Shifter against 260 with Webshare. On long crawls that difference shows up as throughput rather than a number on a page.
Measure it on your own workload
Pool size and latency behave differently on every target. Run the same test against the sites you scrape, in the countries you need, and let your own numbers decide.