Web scraping & data extraction · Bright Data Ltd.

Bright Data

Proxy network and web-data platform for large-scale scraping, with residential/datacenter IPs and hosted scraper APIs.

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Bright Data is primarily a proxy network: residential, datacenter, ISP and mobile IPs that route requests through real or carrier devices so a scraper looks like ordinary traffic. On top of the network it sells hosted products — Web Unlocker (automatic bot-detection bypass), Scraping Browser (a managed headless browser), SERP API, and pre-built Web Scraper APIs for sites like Amazon or LinkedIn — plus ready-made datasets. Deployment is entirely cloud/API; there is nothing to self-host. Because residential IPs route through consumer devices, Bright Data requires customers to certify a lawful basis for use, and scraping sites that prohibit it in their terms carries legal exposure independent of the tool. It suits teams that want infrastructure rather than a library, and are willing to pay for IP diversity and unblocking rather than build it.

At a glance

Vendor Bright Data Ltd.
Pricing model Usage-based
Free tier Yes
Deployment Cloud
Open source No
Best for Teams that need IP diversity and anti-blocking infrastructure at scale rather than a scraping library.

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.

Features

  • Residential, datacenter, ISP and mobile proxy networks
  • Web Unlocker for automatic CAPTCHA/bot-detection handling
  • Managed Scraping Browser (headless browser as a service)
  • SERP API for search engine results
  • Pre-built Scraper APIs for specific sites (e-commerce, social, maps)
  • Ready-made and custom datasets marketplace
  • Geo-targeting and session control (country, city, sticky sessions)

Integrations

Profile last reviewed September 21, 2026

Head to head

Alternatives

Oxylabs Proxy network provider (residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile) with add-on scraper APIs for unblocking and structured extraction. Apify Hosted crawler platform where scrapers run as cloud 'Actors', with a marketplace of pre-built ones and a proxy add-on. Zyte Hosted crawler platform and single unblocking API, built by the maintainers of the Scrapy framework. ScrapingBee Simple fetch API that renders JavaScript and rotates proxies, returning page HTML or extracted data for a credit per request.

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Terms to know

Search engine results page (SERP) The page a search engine returns after a query, containing organic listings alongside ads, snippets and other features.

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