Bright Data
Everything below comes from Bright Data's own pricing page or from published third-party review data. Read on 19 September 2026.
We have not used Bright Data. There is no verdict on this page, no score, and no opinion about how it feels to work in — because we would be making that up. What we do instead.
Visit Bright DataThe facts
- Free plan
- No free plan. Free trials are available, subject to business verification (KYC)
- Paid from
- Residential proxies from $2.50/GB
- Billed on
- Pay as you go by GB, IP or request. Enterprise contracts available
- G2 rating
- 4.7 / 5 from 343 reviews
- Trustpilot rating
- 4.3 / 5 from 1,021 reviews
- Checked
- 19 September 2026
Plans, as printed on their pricing page
| Plan | Price | What the page lists |
|---|---|---|
| Residential proxies | from $2.50/GB | 400M+ IPs across the globe |
| Datacenter proxies | from $0.90/IP | Cheaper, easier to detect |
| Web Scraper API | from $0.75/1k records | Prebuilt scrapers with IP rotation and CAPTCHA handling |
| SERP API / Web Unlocker | from $1/1k requests | Search engine data; billed on successful requests |
| Datasets | from $250/100k records | Ready-made datasets, no coding |
Source: brightdata.com/pricing. Prices are US list prices in USD, read from each vendor pricing page on the date above. Vendors localise pricing by country — we saw GetResponse quote in Vietnamese dong from a Vietnamese connection — so what you see may differ. Always confirm on the vendor page before buying.
Reasons to consider it
- You need serious scraping infrastructure — price data, SERP monitoring, AI training data — at pay-as-you-go rates
- Compliance-first vendor: KYC is annoying but it is also why big companies use them
- Both review samples are solid: 4.3 on Trustpilot (1,021) and 4.7 on G2 (343)
Reasons to look elsewhere
- KYC review can be slow, and reviewers complain about the AI bot gatekeeping support
- Costs climb quickly at volume — model your per-unit economics first
- Overkill if you just need a handful of proxies for light use
What the review scores say
Bright Data holds 4.7 out of 5 on G2 from 343 reviews, and 4.3 out of 5 on Trustpilot from 1,021 reviews. The samples broadly agree, which is the more reassuring pattern — verified-buyer sites and open review sites landing in the same place means less hidden friction to discover.
What we cannot tell you
How Bright Data feels after a month of real use. Whether support actually answers when something breaks. Whether the workflow fits your specific case. Those need an account and real use, and we have not done that. Anyone publishing those answers without doing the work is guessing, and you deserve to know which is which.
We have not compared this against rivals yet
Bright Data is the first product we have documented in web data & proxies. A single product is not a comparison, so there is no category page for it yet — we will build one once we have read the pricing pages of its main competitors and can put them side by side on the same facts.