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Bright Data vs Oxylabs
The two largest proxy networks for web-scale data collection, overlapping heavily in product shape; the difference is scope and packaging, not capability.
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| Bright Data | Oxylabs | |||||||||
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| Vendor | Bright Data Ltd. | Oxylabs UAB | ||||||||
| Pricing model | Usage-based | Usage-based | ||||||||
| Free tier | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud | ||||||||
| Open source | No | No | ||||||||
| Best for | Teams that need IP diversity and anti-blocking infrastructure at scale rather than a scraping library. | Teams needing IP diversity at volume for price monitoring, ad verification or large-scale collection. | ||||||||
| Pricing | Per-GB proxy pricing and per-request API pricing, split across separate product pages (proxies, Scraper APIs, Scraping Browser, SERP API, datasets); a free trial is offered on several products. Checked on the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026: no prices are published. Expect to be quoted. | Proxies billed per GB or per port/month; scraper APIs billed as a monthly plan with included request volume; free trials offered on most products.
Prices read from the vendor's own page on September 21, 2026. Vendors change prices; check the source before you budget. | ||||||||
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Verdict
Bright Data and Oxylabs sell the same fundamental thing: residential, datacenter, ISP and mobile proxy pools priced by the gigabyte, wrapped in higher-level unblocking and scraper APIs so teams don't have to manage rotation themselves. Anyone choosing between them is choosing between two mature vendors in the same market, not between two different approaches.
Bright Data has pushed furthest into being a full data platform — a SERP API, a managed Scraping Browser, pre-built scrapers for specific sites like Amazon or LinkedIn, and a marketplace of ready-made datasets alongside the proxy network itself. Oxylabs covers similar ground with its Web Scraper API and Web Unblocker, and both companies sell SOCKS5 access and geo/session targeting. In practice the deciding factors are usually price at your specific volume, which the two vendors' quote-only structures make hard to compare from a comparison page, and which one's trial performs better against the specific sites you need.
Choose Bright Data if
- You want a single vendor covering proxies, a managed headless browser, SERP collection and ready-made datasets in one account.
- You need pre-built scraper APIs for major e-commerce or social platforms rather than building extraction yourself.
- Breadth of product line matters more than optimizing for one narrow use case.
Choose Oxylabs if
- You mainly need proxy access plus an unblocking layer, without the wider platform of pre-built datasets and browser-as-a-service products.
- You want published starting prices for proxies and the Scraper API rather than navigating a larger product catalog to find them.
- Your use case is price monitoring, SERP collection or real-estate data, where Oxylabs publishes purpose-built scrapers.
The honest caveat
Neither vendor publishes pricing that lets you compare total cost without a quote — Bright Data's pricing spans several separate product pages, and Oxylabs lists only "from" rates. Run the same target list through both trials before committing, because block rates and success rates on your specific sites vary in ways a features list cannot predict. Whichever you pick, the same rule applies: a residential-proxy vendor requires you to certify a lawful basis for use, and legality still depends on the target site's terms, not on which network you route through. See choosing a web scraping tool for how proxy networks fit against libraries and managed services.
Last reviewed September 22, 2026