Bright Data Proxies: Features and Pricing in 2025

Bright Data is a platform specializing in web data collection and proxy services, offering various web scraping solutions such as a web scraper API, web unblocker, scraping browser, datasets, and proxies. Their proxy network includes datacenter, ISP, residential, and mobile proxies, catering to both businesses and individual users.

This article examines Bright Data’s proxy solutions, highlighting their key features and offering an in-depth analysis of their pricing structure.

Bright Data proxy network

Bright Data, initially known for its large residential IP network, has expanded into a versatile proxy service that now includes datacenter, mobile, and ISP proxies.

Comparison table showcasing the monthly-based pricing structure of Bright Data proxy servers, detailing different proxy types and their associated costs.

Key differentiators

• Enterprise-ready, compliant proxies: The industry often relies on applications commonly used by retail users (e.g., games) to generate IP addresses for web scraping. Although ethically sourcing these IPs is more costly, it is essential for any ethical enterprise. Bright Data leads the industry in transparency regarding its sourcing methods.
• Precise geo-targeting: Users can target specific cities, choose IP addresses from particular networks, or even focus on specific ZIP codes for greater accuracy.
• Flexible pricing models: Users can opt for a pay-as-you-go model without a monthly subscription or choose commitment plans at discounted rates. Additionally, custom plans are available to suit unique needs, ensuring customers only pay for necessary features.
• Customized solutions: As the provider with the largest team among top proxy service companies, Bright Data can efficiently meet customer demands, ensuring swift resolution of user inquiries and issues.
• Diverse scraping services: Bright Data offers a broad range of web scraping tools and services, such as scrapers and ready-to-use datasets, making it an attractive option for a wide variety of users.

Residential proxy

• Proxy pool: 72 million
• Supported protocols: Bright Data’s residential proxy network is compatible with both HTTP(S) and SOCKS5 protocols (the latter requires additional software). To utilize the SOCKS5 proxy, you need to configure your application or web scraping tool to route through the proxy server using the Proxy Manager.
• Targeting: Country, city, ASN, ZIP code, coordinates, and OS

• Proxy IP type: Shared proxies and dedicated IPs. The cost per user is lower than dedicated residential IPs.
• Rotation: Proxies rotate with each request, and you can customize sticky sessions via the Proxy Manager.

Pricing:

You can choose between a subscription plan or pay-as-you-go option. A free trial (7 days) is available for registered companies.

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Datacenter proxy

• Proxy pool: 1.6 million shared and dedicated datacenter IPs from 98 countries. The USA, Canada, UK, Germany, and France are significant hubs for datacenter proxies.
• Proxy IP type: Bright Data offers four different types of IP:
  • Shared (Pay per usage): A pool of 20,000 datacenter IPs that can be rotated. Users are charged only for the usage, allowing them to monitor their bandwidth consumption and adjust activities accordingly.
  • Shared (Pay per IP): Users are charged a set fee for each IP address they access. For high-volume tasks like large-scale web scraping, the unlimited bandwidth option could provide more value.
  • Dedicated IP: The datacenter IP is assigned to a single user, no other user can engage in questionable activities on the same IP address.
  • Premium IPs: Better uptime, speed, and lower risk of being detected. Charges are based on actual usage.
• Targeting: Country and city level targeting using a shared (pay-per-IP) or dedicated proxy network.
• Rotation: After each connection request, or keep the IPs for as long as available.
• Supported protocols: HTTP(S), SOCKS5

Pricing:

Bright Data offers both subscription-based plans and pay-as-you-go options for its datacenter proxies. 7-day trial for businesses with up to 15 datacenter IPs and 2 GB/month for free.

Mobile proxy

• Proxy pool: 7 million 3G/4G/5G mobile IPs distributed by ISPs
• Proxy IP type: Shared and dedicated mobile IP addresses
• Targeting: Country, city, zip code, carrier & ASN targeting
• Protocols: HTTP(S), SOCKS5 (requires extra software)
• Rotation: Each connection request, sticky sessions for as long as available

Pricing:

Subscription-based plans and pay-as-you-go options. 7-day trial for businesses and 3-day refund for individual users.

Static residential proxy (ISP Proxies) 

• Proxy pool: 77OK static residential IPs
• Proxy IP type: Shared (Pay per usage), shared (Pay per IP), dedicated
• Targeting: Country, city, zip code, carrier & ASN targeting
• Protocols: HTTP(S), SOCKS5
• Rotation: Offers proxy manager to rotate the User-Agent header automatically and assign a fresh IP address.

Pricing details

Bright Data offers two main pricing plans for proxy network and scraping solutions: monthly and annual. Instead of adhering strictly to predefined packages, the proxy provider provides custom proxy plans to understand and cater to the specific needs of each client. They also offer a pay-as-you-go model, ensuring clients only pay for the duration and resources they use.

The proxy provider prices their proxy services based on bandwidth consumption. Bandwidth consumption is the amount of data transferred over a network, typically measured by gigabytes (GB), or terabytes (TB).

Where data scraping is the main goal, a bandwidth-based proxy pricing model can be more cost-effective than other pricing models, such as pricing per port.

The pricing information in the table below is derived from the vendor’s public claims. Please note that the information given for each package is on a monthly basis. Since pricing models can evolve, it’s advisable to check the proxy providers’ websites for the most up-to-date details.

Customer stories and case studies

This section provides some case studies to help you get an overview of the benefits that Bright Data has offered in the past.

Powerful omnichannel solutions driven by online data – Canopy, Advantage Solutions

• Industry: Retail and eCommerce
• Challenge: Canopy faced challenges in gathering public online data due to IP address restrictions and even exhausted the IP resources of a proxy company they collaborated with. ²
• Solution: Bright Data’s residential and datacenter proxies as well as the Bright Data Web Unlocker to access the needed data and extract it from the target websites.
• Results: Was able to access and scrape the target data without IP bans and restrictions.

Seamless Digital Automations

• Industry: Digital advertising
• Challenge: ThyssenKrupp, one of the customers of Seamless Digital Automations, wanted to automate the daily compilation of top industry news, commodity prices, and global currency exchange rates from multiple websites for distribution to its employees, a task that was previously done manually.³
• Solution: Bright Data’s Web Scraper IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to build a custom public web scraper to automatically manage the task.
• Results: Collected public web data, including daily exchange rates and commodities pricing, from various web sources.

Alternative travel solutions enabled by online data – Railofy

• Industry: Travel
• Challenge: Railofy encountered difficulties in obtaining sufficient public online data to nourish its pricing algorithm, and offer their waitlisted passengers the option to fly at a cost similar to their train ticket. ⁴
• Solution: Used Bright Data’s Datacenter IPs and Residential IPs as well as the Bright Data Proxy Manager to access the required data points such as flight options, number of seats and prices of flights.
• Results: Was able to collect the needed public online data and set its pricing effectively based on the collected data.

Transparency statement

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External Links

• 1. How to Get Started with Residential Proxies - Bright Data Docs.
• 2. Powerful omnichannel solutions driven by online data - Canopy, Advantage Solutions - Bright Data. Bright Data
• 3. Seamless Digital Automations - Bright Data. Bright Data
• 4. Alternative travel solutions enabled by online data - Railofy - Bright Data. Bright Data