# Webshare alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 206 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Webshare holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/webshare/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- Bright Data: 50
- Oxylabs: 43
- Decodo: 40
- Smartproxy: 11
- IPRoyal: 6
- Cloudflare One: 2

## Proxy and web data providers

**Small business**: 56 of 84 answers did not name Webshare (Webshare is #2 of 9 at 20%).

- Decodo: first choice in 19 of those 56
- Smartproxy: first choice in 5 of those 56
- Bright Data: first choice in 4 of those 56
- IPRoyal: first choice in 4 of those 56
- Oxylabs: first choice in 2 of those 56
- ScraperAPI: first choice in 2 of those 56
- ZenRows: first choice in 2 of those 56
- Crawlbase: first choice in 1 of those 56

**Mid-market**: 69 of 84 answers did not name Webshare (Webshare is #3 of 11 at 13%).

- Decodo: first choice in 20 of those 69
- Bright Data: first choice in 10 of those 69
- Oxylabs: first choice in 9 of those 69
- Smartproxy: first choice in 6 of those 69
- IPRoyal: first choice in 2 of those 69
- SOAX: first choice in 2 of those 69
- FloppyData: first choice in 1 of those 69
- NodeMaven: first choice in 1 of those 69

**Enterprise**: 81 of 84 answers did not name Webshare.

- Bright Data: first choice in 36 of those 81
- Oxylabs: first choice in 32 of those 81
- Cloudflare One: first choice in 2 of those 81
- Decodo: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Forcepoint Web Security: first choice in 1 of those 81
- NetNut: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Netskope: first choice in 1 of those 81
- Proxy-Cheap: first choice in 1 of those 81

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