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ScraperAPI vs Webshare

By Daniel Fitzpatrick Proxy infrastructure tester. Updated 2026-06-21

Both can do the job. The gap is price, pool size, and how hard your targets push back. Here is how they line up on the numbers I track, then a straight call on which one to start with.

Starting residential rates and pool size, measured per provider.
	ScraperAPI	Webshare
Starting price	request-based pricing	from $3.50/GB
Pricing model	per-request / credits	subscription + per-GB
Pool size	5M+ residential	80M+
Free trial	Free plan, 1000 credits; 7-day trial of 5000 requests	10 free proxies, no card
Best for	web-scraping, managed-api	budget, seo, web-scraping
Try it	Visit ScraperAPI	Visit Webshare

The call

Webshare runs the larger pool (5M+ residential vs 80M+), which shows up when a target blocks IPs aggressively.

If price is the whole constraint, start on Webshare and move up only when a job needs it.

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