Bright Data review
ProxiesThe largest, longest-standing proxy provider, with a 400M+ IP residential network and pricing built for enterprise data teams.
- Pool size400M+ residential IPs; 1.3M+ ISP
- Countries195
- TrialYes, no credit card required, on all three proxy types
The $4/GB residential pay-as-you-go price relies on a 50%-off code shown permanently on-site over an $8/GB list price — worth checking it still applies at checkout. Datacenter and ISP proxies start lower, from $0.60/GB or $1.40/IP with no commitment.
Bright Data is a proxy and web data infrastructure provider aimed at companies and data teams that need to collect information at scale: scraping, price monitoring, ad verification or AI model training. It isn't built for casual users — access requires a KYC check, runs through its own management dashboard, and contracts range from pay-as-you-go entry tiers up to enterprise plans with an SLA and a dedicated account manager.
Its residential network exceeds 400 million monthly IPs across 195 countries, with free targeting down to city, ZIP code, carrier and ASN level. It also offers datacenter proxies (over 1.3 million IPs) and ISP proxies, though — unlike some competitors — it no longer markets a separate "mobile proxies" product on its current site. The company was founded in 2014 as Luminati Networks, part of the same group as the free VPN Hola, and was sold to EMK Capital in 2017 before being renamed Bright Data in 2021; those origins were publicly controversial, since free Hola users' bandwidth was resold as residential exit traffic without that relationship being made clear to them upfront. Today Bright Data explains its IP sourcing differently: per its own site, every residential IP "opts in" — app owners install an SDK and are paid monthly based on how many users join, and those end users are compensated with an ad-free experience or free premium features, and can opt out at any time; the company states this process is independently audited.
The pay-as-you-go entry price for residential proxies is $4/GB, though that figure reflects a 50%-off code over an $8/GB list price. Datacenter and ISP proxies, by contrast, start from $0.60/GB or $1.40/IP with no monthly commitment. An API covers both account management and scraping (SERP, Browser, Unlocker), concurrent sessions are unlimited by the provider's own account, and a free trial with no credit card is available across all three proxy types.
Features
- Proxy types
- Pool size
- 400M+ residential IPs; 1.3M+ ISP
- Countries
- 195
- Entry price
- From $0.60/GB or $1.40/IP on datacenter (pay-as-you-go, no commitment); residential from $4/GB with a coupon on a list price of $8/GB
- Pay as you go
- API
- City targeting
- Concurrent connections
- Unlimited (concurrent sessions at no extra cost, according to the provider)
- Trial
- Yes, no credit card required, on all three proxy types
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