FleetProxy vs Bright Data
Choose FleetProxy when your team owns the scraping stack and needs egress. Choose Bright Data when you want the collection problem outsourced.
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Head to head
Webshare is the best-known entry point in this market. It publishes a free tier, sells shared and dedicated datacenter proxies at aggressive rates, and is the first proxy account a very large number of developers ever create. That is a genuine achievement and it makes the comparison a fair one to run.
The comparison is really about where a workload stops being served by cheap datacenter addresses. Until it does, price is the only variable that matters and the answer is straightforward.
Last reviewed 15 Jan 2026.
At a glance
Webshare while cheap datacenter IPs still work. FleetProxy the moment your targets start scoring the network type.
There is no argument to be made for paying more for datacenter egress that is doing the job. The decision point arrives when block rates climb on targets that weigh network reputation — most commercial sites with an anti-bot vendor in front of them — because no amount of datacenter address rotation fixes an address whose ASN is the problem. At that point you need residential or ISP egress, and the comparison becomes whether your provider sells it.
How the claims on this page are written
Webshare
A high-volume, low-cost provider centred on shared and dedicated datacenter proxies, with a free tier and a self-serve model aimed at developers and small teams. Residential offerings exist alongside the datacenter core.
Side by side
Eight dimensions that actually change the decision. Rows describe positioning rather than quoting figures we cannot keep current.
| Dimension | FleetProxy | Webshare |
|---|---|---|
| Product centre | Residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter | Datacenter proxies, with residential alongside |
| Entry price | 50MB free trial, then a published per-GB rate card | Free tier, then very low datacenter pricing |
| Address exclusivity | Dedicated on leased products; pooled on metered products | Shared at the entry tier, dedicated available |
| ASN targeting | On every bandwidth-billed product | Limited by the datacenter-centric model |
| Anti-bot resilience | Residential and mobile egress for targets that score network type | Datacenter egress is inherently easier to score |
| Bandwidth model | Prepaid gigabytes that never expire | Plan-based, with bandwidth and thread limits |
| Best fit | Workloads hitting reputation-sensitive targets | High-volume access to targets that do not score the ASN |
| Support | Direct technical support | Self-serve first, appropriate to the price point |
Dedicated datacenter IPv4
Dedicated IPv4 on Tier-1 backbones, 10 Gbps and unmetered
The honest part
A comparison that concludes we win on every axis is an advertisement. These are the conditions we would use ourselves.
Block rates are rising and rotation is not fixing it
That pattern means the ASN is being scored, not the request rate. The fix is a different network type, not more datacenter addresses.
You need consumer or carrier addresses in specific countries
Residential, ISP and mobile pools with country, city and ASN targeting are the core of what we sell.
Sessions need to persist across a login
A shared address that changes underneath a logged-in session is what gets accounts challenged. Static residential exists for exactly this.
Your targets do not care about the network type
Plenty do not. Internal APIs, tolerant public sites and your own infrastructure are all fine behind cheap datacenter addresses, and paying residential rates for them is waste.
You are learning and want a free tier to experiment on
A free tier that works is a good way to learn how proxies behave before spending anything.
Volume is enormous and per-request value is tiny
When the economics only work at the very bottom of the price curve, the cheapest datacenter pool is the correct answer.
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Recommendation
Buy the cheapest egress that works, and escalate only what fails. If cheap datacenter addresses are still working on your targets, this comparison has an easy answer and it is not us.
Choose FleetProxy when your team owns the scraping stack and needs egress. Choose Bright Data when you want the collection problem outsourced.
Oxylabs if you want managed scraping products with an account team behind them. FleetProxy if you want the network, priced per gigabyte, with no sales cycle.
Two providers built for the same buyer. Choose on bandwidth expiry, ASN targeting and how you want to pay — not on pool-size claims.
Every claim on this page is checkable in an afternoon. Claim 50MB of free residential bandwidth, run your own hostname list through it, and compare block rate and cost per successful request against whatever you use now.
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