BrightData
The largest ethically sourced proxy network
- Pool size
- 150M+
- Countries
- 195
- Uptime (claimed)
- 99.99%
- Response (claimed)
- 0.7s
- From
- $5.04/GB
- Free trial
- Yes
- Founded
- 2014
The default answer for teams whose crawls must not fail. You pay a premium per GB for one of the broadest published footprints.
Editorial rating 4.7/5 · last reviewed 2026-07-01
BrightData operates the broadest proxy infrastructure on the market — 150M+ residential IPs across all 195 countries, plus datacenter, ISP and mobile pools. Its pricing is not the cheapest per gigabyte; it is aimed at teams that need the widest coverage and enterprise tooling.
- Established reputation on protected targets
- All 195 countries with city and ASN targeting
- Mature API, SDKs and dashboards
- Published compliance and ethical-sourcing programme
- Premium per-GB pricing
- KYC required for some pools
- Dashboard has a real learning curve
8 editorial criteria
Rated by our editors against published criteria. It is an opinion with its weights shown — not a performance test.
| Signal | Score | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Reliability | 4.4 | 21% | Editorial rating of reliability, based on the provider's published success-rate figures, SLA terms and reader reports. |
| Weight 21% ·Editorial rating of reliability, based on the provider's published success-rate figures, SLA terms and reader reports. | |||
| Value for money | 4.6 | 17% | Value for money across every published plan tier. |
| Weight 17% ·Value for money across every published plan tier. | |||
| Speed | 5.0 | 14% | Editorial rating of speed, based on the provider's published performance figures and reader reports. |
| Weight 14% ·Editorial rating of speed, based on the provider's published performance figures and reader reports. | |||
| Trust & transparency | 4.7 | 14% | Sourcing transparency, logging policy, KYC friction and published audits. |
| Weight 14% ·Sourcing transparency, logging policy, KYC friction and published audits. | |||
| Location targeting | 4.5 | 10% | Country, city and ASN targeting options, as listed in the provider's documentation. |
| Weight 10% ·Country, city and ASN targeting options, as listed in the provider's documentation. | |||
| Pool size | 4.8 | 10% | Pool size and subnet/ASN diversity, as published by the provider. |
| Weight 10% ·Pool size and subnet/ASN diversity, as published by the provider. | |||
| Docs & API | 4.4 | 7% | API and documentation quality, rated by our editors against a fixed rubric. |
| Weight 7% ·API and documentation quality, rated by our editors against a fixed rubric. | |||
| Support | 4.9 | 7% | Support channels and hours the provider offers, and how readers describe their support experience. |
| Weight 7% ·Support channels and hours the provider offers, and how readers describe their support experience. | |||
- Reliability
- 4.9
- Value for money
- 4.2
- Pool size
- 4.2
- Session options
- 4.2
- Reliability
- 5.0
- Value for money
- 4.3
- Pool size
- 4.3
- Session options
- 4.3
- Pool size
- 4.4
- Session options
- 4.4
- Reliability
- 4.8
- Value for money
- 4.4
- Reliability
- 5.0
- Value for money
- 4.6
- Pool size
- 4.6
- Session options
- 4.6
What it actually costs at your volume
The advertised rate is $2.42, but at 50 GB you pay $4.13 — 1.7× the headline. That gap is why we normalise every tier.
| Tier | From | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | 1 GB | $5.04 |
| Growth | 50 GB | $4.13 |
| Scale | 500 GB | $3.28 |
| Enterprise | 5,000 GB | $2.42 |
3-day trial. 14-day refund window.
What you can buy
| Type | From | Pool |
|---|---|---|
| Datacenter | $0.09/GB | 770K |
| Static ISP | $1.27/IP | 700K |
| Mobile 4G/5G | $11.36/GB | 7M |
| Residential | $5.04/GB | 72M |
33 of 37 features listed
- Supported: Bandwidth caps
- Supported: Crypto pay
- Supported: Free trials
- Supported: Pay-as-you-go
- Supported: Price / GB
- Supported: Refund policy
- Supported: SLA credits
- Supported: ASN diversity
- Not supported: City targeting
- Supported: Geo coverage
- Supported: Pool size
- Supported: Subnet spread
- Supported: CAPTCHA handling
- Supported: Dedicated IPs
- Not supported: Published speed figures
- Supported: Success-rate SLA
- Supported: Unblocker product
- Supported: Unlimited concurrency
- Supported: Uptime SLA
- Supported: Custom headers
- Supported: HTTP/2
- Supported: IPv6
- Supported: Rotation
- Supported: SOCKS5
- Supported: Sticky sessions
- Supported: Whitelist auth
- Supported: API access
- Supported: Dashboards
- Not supported: Public documentation
- Supported: Sub-user seats
- Supported: Support SLA
- Not supported: Usage alerts
- Supported: Ethical sourcing
- Supported: IP reputation filtering
- Supported: KYC verification
- Supported: Logs policy
- Supported: Public status page
Current offers
Use the code at checkout for 20% off any BrightData plan.
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About BrightData
Is BrightData worth it?
The default answer for teams whose crawls must not fail. You pay a premium per GB for one of the broadest published footprints.
Does BrightData offer a free trial?
Yes — BrightData offers a trial. Terms vary by plan tier.
How many countries does BrightData cover?
195 countries at the time of our last review.