Every category where a model named Webshare for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Proxy and web data providers	Data platform	13%	3 of 92	8%	24	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Webshare yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Webshare across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	2	0	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	1	1	0	3
Mistral Small	1	0	1	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	0	1
Kimi K2	0	0	3	0	3
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	0	0	2
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	1	1
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	1	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	0	0	0	1

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct9 labelsNone

Paraphrase3 labelsNone

Comparative18 labels3not counted in share

Budget-constrained26 labels16

Scale-constrained2 labelsNone

Negative4 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative62 labels in all, every segment counted; 16 of the 19 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Best overall affordable all-rounder: Webshare ... It's the most recommended "best cheap proxy provider" for small businesses.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · first choice

“Webshare is often recommended for datacenter proxies due to its affordability and decent performance for small businesses” Mistral Small · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · first choice

“Webshare — Best Overall Value ... Start with Webshare's free 10 proxies or their $2.99/month datacenter plan.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · first choice

“Webshare stands out as the best proxy network for a company with a limited budget.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“More straightforward and budget-oriented, but less ideal if you need a more robust mid-market setup” Perplexity Sonar · Proxy and web data · direct prompt · soft negative

“great for quick demos, but limited support & reliability compared to above” MiniMax M2.5 · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Webshare, over the 62 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Webshare was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Decodo48 of 6213Compare →

Oxylabs43 of 629Compare →

Bright Data40 of 6214Compare →

IPRoyal33 of 622Compare →

DataImpulse23 of 622Compare →

SOAX23 of 620Compare →

Smartproxy17 of 625Compare →

Zyte API10 of 621Not among the top eight

NetNut10 of 620Not among the top eight

Proxy-Cheap9 of 621Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Webshare. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 60 of the 62 answers that named Webshare and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

proxyway.com38

decodo.com36

brightdata.com31

aimultiple.com28

cnet.com25

me.pcmag.com25

techradar.com19

oxylabs.io18

proxidize.com17

roundproxies.com17

254 of the 254 domain citations in answers naming Webshare came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/best-proxy-servers25

decodo.com/blog/best-proxy-providers24

me.pcmag.com/en/proxy/22143/the-best-proxies-for-202424

oxylabs.io/blog/best-proxy-providers15

proxyway.com/research/proxy-market-research-202415

aimultiple.com/proxy-providers14

proxyway.com/best/proxy-service-providers14

proxyway.com/research/proxy-service-awards-202411

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

webshare.io is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Webshare takes 13% of first choices and Decodo takes 41%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “proxy network”

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not in the top ten

Position for “best proxy network”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 8,100 a month (“webshare”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 51 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 125,578 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 5,164 · 795 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 3,136
Paid Google search: 2 searches its ads show for, about 19 clicks and $41 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

61 ads · 34 text, 24 image, 3 video · 27 shown in the last 30 days

First shown February 2023, as WEBSHARE SOFTWARE, COMPANY, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 16 in the year, 45 before. 2 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

13%

rank 3 of 92 in proxy and web data

Segment leader

41%

Decodo

First choices: 16 across its categories
Named in: 62 answers
Its own site cited: in 60 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on webshare.io

501

subdomains included

Content

269

counted in the table below

Documentation

Product · Integration

24 · 0

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest
Blog	146	69	2026-09-21
Glossary or explainer	103	3	2026-09-21
Comparison	18	2	2026-09-21
Webinar or virtual event	1	0	2025-09-26
Report or ebook	1	undated

Most recent

2026-09-21Ad verification for cybersecurity firms blog
2026-09-21Adspower proxy blog
2026-09-21Android free proxy blog
2026-09-21Anti bot system blog
2026-09-21Bing proxy blog
2026-09-21Bitbrowser proxy blog

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page webshare.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Webshare

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Webshare; a claim can dispute any of them.

IPRoyal/Webshare 1Webshare/IPRoyal 1

Follow Webshare

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Webshare is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Fast, reliable proxies you can set up yourself
webshare.io
For: From your first free proxies to billions of requests, Webshare makes it simple to start and scale.
webshare.io
Price stated: $2.99 /month, $6.00 /month, $3.50 /month, $0.741 /IP billed monthly, $1.33 /IP billed monthly, $0.926 /IP billed monthly, $2.10 /IP billed monthly webshare.io
Starting price: $2.99 webshare.io
Free plan or trial: 10 Proxies Free Today. No credit card required webshare.io
Integrations claimed: 50 webshare.io/integrations
Hosting: 195 countriesUnited StatesUnited KingdomGermanySpainFranceCanadaNetherlands
Not stated on the pages read: Certifications, customers

What Webshare's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: webshare.io, webshare.io/pricing, webshare.io/features/dashboard, webshare.io/integrations. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Webshare's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Webshare, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Webshare by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Webshare is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Webshare, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where Webshare is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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Webshare is among the products AI models recommend first in Proxy and web data providers this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

Show the code

<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/proxy-networks/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/webshare--proxy-networks-wide.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Proxy and web data providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Proxy and web data providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/proxy-networks/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/webshare--proxy-networks-square.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Proxy and web data providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Proxy and web data providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/it-data/proxy-networks/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/webshare--proxy-networks-compact.svg" alt="Among AI models' top three in Proxy and web data providers, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Proxy and web data providers standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.