Proxy & data infrastructure

Bright Data review

Enterprise-scale proxy network and unblocking/scraping APIs with a huge residential IP pool.

Visit Bright DataPricing checked Oct 29, 2026

Starting price

Pay as you go

Pay-as-you-go: Web Unlocker $1.50 per 1K successful requests PAYG; Scale plan $499/mo with ~383K requests (search snippet of official pricing page, not fetched directly)

Free tier

Web Unlocker / MCP: 5,000 free requests per month (per official MCP docs and pricing page as indexed by search); first deposit matched up to $500 in promo credits (docs)

Pricing model

per GB (proxies) and per 1K successful requests (Unlocker/SERP/Scraper APIs)

Best for

Companies scraping heavily protected sites at scale that need the strongest proxy and unblocking infrastructure.

What it does well

Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxy networks
Web Unlocker with automatic CAPTCHA/anti-bot handling
Browser API (hosted headless browsers)
SERP API and site-specific Web Scraper APIs
Ready-made datasets
Official MCP server with free monthly quota

Limitations

Pricing is complex and spread across many products
Overkill and expensive for small projects
Promotional vs list prices make cost comparison tricky
KYC/compliance review for some proxy use cases

Capabilities

AI extraction

Structured JSON

JS rendering

Proxies / anti-bot

API

No-code UI

Open source

MCP server

Bright Data alternatives

Tool	Best for	From	Link
Browserbase Proxy & data infrastructure	Teams building AI agents that need to log in, click and navigate real browsers reliably in the cloud.	$20/mo	Visit
Oxylabs Proxy & data infrastructure	Businesses needing reliable proxies and a managed scraping API for search and e-commerce data at scale.	$30/mo	Visit
BestAIScraper APIOur product AI extraction API	Developers who just need clean, typed JSON from public pages, without a subscription.	$9 one-time	Try it free
Firecrawl AI extraction API	Developers building LLM/RAG apps or agents who want clean markdown or JSON from any URL with minimal setup.	$19/mo	Visit
Apify Scraping API	Teams that want a ready-made scraper for a popular site (Google Maps, Amazon, social media) or a platform to host their own.	$19/mo	Visit

Bright Data vs Browserbase Bright Data vs Oxylabs Bright Data vs Firecrawl Bright Data vs Apify

Sources: docs.brightdata.com . Spotted something out of date? Email hello@bestaiscraper.com.