Bright Data review

Bright Data is the infrastructure pick for teams scraping at real volume. Its Scraper APIs cover more than 1,200 websites, including LinkedIn profiles and Amazon products, and return parsed JSON or CSV. For sites without a ready scraper, the Unlocker, Crawl and Browser APIs handle blocks, CAPTCHAs and JavaScript, and Scraper Studio turns a site into a custom pipeline. Underneath sits a residential network of more than 400 million IPs, with ISP and datacenter proxies on top. Pricing on the web scraper page is clear: 5,000 free records a month, pay as you go at $1.5 per 1,000 records, or Scale at $499 a month with 384,000 records and $1.3 per extra 1,000. Proxies, unblocking, rendering and parsing are included, failed deliveries are not charged and concurrency is unlimited. Bright Data also sells pre-collected datasets from 900+ domains. The breadth comes with a learning curve, and SSO and premium SLAs sit on the Enterprise plan.

Who it is for

Enterprises and data teams that collect high volumes from hard-to-scrape sites and want proxies, unblocking and parsing in one bill.

Price

Free tier of 5,000 records a month; pay as you go from $1.5 per 1,000 records; Scale plan $499 per month with 384,000 records.

Scale $ 499 /month Start free 384,000 records included
Quoted from the vendor pricing page on November 9, 2026.

Key features

• Scraper APIs that return real-time data from more than 1,200 websites
• Unlocker, SERP, Crawl and Browser APIs for blocks, search results and remote browsers
• Proxies, JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA solving and JSON or CSV parsing included in scraper pricing
• Pre-collected datasets from more than 900 domains and a real-time data firehose
• Residential network of more than 400 million IPs, plus ISP and datacenter proxies

Strengths and weaknesses

• Strength: Billing only for successfully delivered records, with no charge for failures
• Strength: Unlimited concurrency on pay as you go and Scale
• Strength: Free tier of 5,000 records a month without a credit card
• Weakness: The cheapest monthly plan is $499, so small projects rely on pay as you go
• Weakness: Many separate products make the catalog harder to learn
• Weakness: SSO and premium SLA require the Enterprise plan

Key facts

• Free tier: 5,000 records per month
• Pay as you go: $1.5 per 1,000 records
• Scale plan: $499 per month, 384,000 records
• Customers: 50,000+, per Bright Data

Where it ranks

Bright Data is No. 2 in our Best Web Scraping Tools verdict.