Is Bright Data Worth It?
Updated August 7, 2026· every figure checked against the vendor’s own pricing page
On price alone, no. On 100 GB of residential traffic Bright Data comes to $400 against Evomi's $49, which puts it 5th of the 6 providers here whose rates can be totalled at that volume. What it does publish that most of the field does not is a rate at every commitment level, including none at all, so you can work out the bill before you speak to anyone. Its advertised rate is also closer to its real one than most: 1.6 times its entry rate, against 5.9 times at the widest here. The catch is the coupon: every rate it publishes is currently a code price, and the code is printed rather than applied. We have not used Bright Data and make no claim about how well it works.
A per-gigabyte rate on its own is not a price. Every rate on this page is printed with the volume and the commitment that unlock it, because in this category the advertised figure is almost always the cell in a tier table that sits behind the largest plan a vendor sells — and at one provider here, behind a coupon code as well. Rates are for rotating residential traffic unless the product name says otherwise; static, ISP and datacenter proxies are priced per IP per month and scraping APIs per request, and none of those is converted into a per-GB figure here.
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What the rate card buys, in Bright Data’s own words
Every line below is quoted from Bright Data's pricing page, read on 2026-08-07. It is what you are buying, stated by the seller; it is not a judgement about whether the thing described is any good.
| Product | Published rate | Terms | The provider's own words |
|---|---|---|---|
| Residential proxies, pay as you go | $4/GB list $8/GB, needs the code RESIGB50 | per GB no monthly commitment | “PAY AS YOU GO $8 $4.00 / GB No commitment” |
| Residential proxies, $499 tier | $3.50/GB list $7/GB, needs the code RESIGB50 | per GB $499 a month for 141 GB | “141 GB Included $7 $3.50 / GB $499 Billed monthly” |
| Residential proxies, $999 tier | $3/GB list $6/GB, needs the code RESIGB50 | per GB $999 a month for 332 GB | “332 GB Included $6 $3.00 / GB $999 Billed monthly” |
| Residential proxies, $1999 tier | $2.50/GB list $5/GB, needs the code RESIGB50 | per GB $1,999 a month for 798 GB | “798 GB Included $5 $2.50 / GB $1999 Billed monthly” |
| ISP proxies, 10 IPs | $1.80/IP | per IP per month $18 a month for 10 IPs | “10 IPs $1.8 / IP $18 Billed monthly” |
| ISP proxies, 1000 IPs | $1.30/IP | per IP per month $1,300 a month for 1000 IPs | “1000 IPs $1.3 / IP $1,300 Billed monthly” |
| Datacenter proxies, 10 IPs | $1.40/IP | per IP per month $14 a month for 10 IPs | “10 IPs $1.40 / IP $14 Billed monthly” |
| Datacenter proxies, 1000 IPs | $0.90/IP | per IP per month $900 a month for 1000 IPs | “1000 IPs $0.90 / IP $900 Billed monthly” |
The useful comparison inside Bright Data's own range is between committing and not. Traffic bought with no commitment costs $4 a GB; the same traffic on its largest published plan costs $2.50, a difference of $1.50 a GB, but that plan is $1,999 a month whether you use it or not. The break-even is the point where your monthly traffic times the saving covers the plan, which on its own two figures is about 1333 GB a month. Below that the no-commitment rate is cheaper despite being the higher rate.
A per-gigabyte rate on its own is not a price. Every rate here is printed with the volume and the commitment that unlock it, because in this category the advertised figure is almost always the cell in a tier table sitting behind the largest plan the vendor sells — and at one provider here, behind a coupon code as well. Rates are rotating residential unless the product name says otherwise; ISP and datacenter proxies are priced per IP a month and scraping APIs per request, and none of those is converted into a per-GB figure.
What it costs against the alternatives, at the same volume
Price is one axis and the cheapest provider is not automatically the right one. But it is the axis that can be checked, so here it is: for 100 GB of rotating residential traffic in one month, Bright Data is 5 of 6 at $400, against Evomi at $49. The gap is $351 a month, or $4,212 a year. Read the product names beside those two figures before drawing a conclusion from them: Evomi's cheapest entry is Core Residential, pay as you go, which that vendor prices separately from and far below its own premium residential line on the same page.
| Provider | Lowest rate it publishes | What unlocks that rate | Cheapest way in | 100 GB in one month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evomi | $0.49/GB | $49.99 a month | $0.49/GB no commitment | $49 |
| Webshare | $1.40/GB | $4,200 a month | $3.50/GB $3.50 a month | $225 |
| Decodo | $2/GB | $2,000 a month | $4/GB no commitment | $275 |
| SOAX | From $0.85/GB | $3,000 a month | $5/GB no commitment | $300 |
| Bright Data | $2.50/GB | $1,999 a month, plus the code RESIGB50 | $4/GB no commitment | $400 |
| Oxylabs | $2.50/GB | $2,500 a month | $6/GB $30 a month | $500 |
| IPRoyal | From $1.75/GB | a volume it states as 10 TB | $5.51/GB no commitment | Not calculable IPRoyal publishes residential rates up to 10 GB and then jumps straight to a custom plan its own page says begins at 10 TB. At the 100 GB this index prices there is no published rate to use, so nothing is computed for it. |
| Zyte | No per-GB rate | The full matrix is in the served HTML: five website-difficulty tiers by two response types by four commitment levels, fo | Not published | Not calculable Zyte does not sell rotating residential bandwidth by the gigabyte at all. It prices successful responses instead, so there is no per-GB figure on its own page and none is constructed for it here. |
2 of the 8 providers cannot be placed in that table at all, and this page names why rather than leaving a gap: IPRoyal publishes residential rates up to 10 GB and then jumps straight to a custom plan its own page says begins at 10 TB. At the 100 GB this index prices there is no published rate to use, so nothing is computed for it. Zyte does not sell rotating residential bandwidth by the gigabyte at all. It prices successful responses instead, so there is no per-GB figure on its own page and none is constructed for it here.
The thing Bright Data publishes that most of this category does not
A rate you can buy without committing to a month. 6 of the 8 providers here publish one — Bright Data, Decodo, SOAX, IPRoyal, Zyte and Evomi — and 2 do not, selling only monthly plans with included allowances: Oxylabs and Webshare. Bright Data goes further than the others in that pool by saying in its own FAQ which products the option covers: “Yes, you can buy proxies without commitment. Bright Data offers a Pay-As-You-Go plan for all proxies (Data Center, Residential, ISP, and Mobile) as well as for Web Unlocker, self-service Web Scraper IDE, Web Scraper APIs, and SERP API.” That is a genuinely useful thing to publish, and it is the reason a small buyer can price this vendor at all.
What that option is not is a saving. At 2 of the 8 providers here, including this one, buying without a commitment costs more per gigabyte than the vendor's own largest plan, not less: Bright Data at 1.6 times and Decodo at 2.0 times. That is the normal shape of this market and none of these vendors hides it; it is simply never collected in one place.
What we cannot tell you
- Whether Bright Data’s network works well: success rates, ban rates, latency and pool freshness are the things that actually decide a proxy purchase, and no pricing page can answer any of them. We have not run traffic through it.
- How its addresses are sourced, or whether the consent behind them is what the marketing says. That is the live ethical question in this whole category and we have not audited any provider on it.
- How long the coupon lasts. The page prints a code and a discount badge with no end date and no terms.
- What you would be quoted above 1 TB. Everything past its published tier table is priced on request.
- Whether it is worth it for you. That depends on how much traffic you move and how hard your targets are, and the figures above let you do the arithmetic yourself.
This page compares what each provider publishes about price and terms. It makes no claim about success rates, IP quality, ban rates, latency or how any of these networks source their addresses, because those are not things a pricing page can establish and we have not used any of them.
Worth saying plainly, because it shapes what you are reading: RangeYourself currently has no affiliate relationship with any provider on this page, and every provider link here goes straight to that provider’s own site. If that changes, this line changes with it. Nothing here is written to push you towards a trial, no provider pays for placement, and the ranked tables sort on published rates rather than on anything we are paid.
Frequently asked questions
Is Bright Data expensive compared with other proxy providers?
At 100 GB of residential traffic it sits 5 of 6 at $400, with Evomi lowest at $49 and Oxylabs highest at $500. Verified August 7, 2026. Read the product names beside the cheapest figure: one vendor here sells two residential products at very different rates and the cheaper one is what puts it top.
Is Bright Data worth it for a small scraping project?
For a small one the question is not the rate, it is the minimum. Bright Data sells traffic with no monthly commitment at $4 a GB with the code, so a project using a few gigabytes pays for a few gigabytes. On its own two published figures you need roughly 1333 GB a month before its largest plan beats paying as you go.
Does Bright Data have hidden fees?
Its pricing page publishes a rate for every commitment level and does not address overage, minimum spend or setup charges either way. That is not the same as stating there are none. What it does state, and what changes the arithmetic most, is that its published rates require a coupon code the page prints rather than applies. We report what each page says and do not infer from silence.
Is Bright Data better than the cheaper providers?
We cannot tell you, and nothing on this site should be read as saying so. Price is the only axis a pricing page supports, and on that axis Bright Data is mid-field at the volume this index prices. Success rate, pool quality and how addresses are sourced are the axes that would actually decide it, and we have tested none of them at any provider.
Do I need the coupon code to get Bright Data’s published price?
Yes, by Bright Data's own presentation. Each residential card prints a struck-through rate, a rate half of it, and a code, so the lower rate is a code price rather than a standing one. Both figures are published on this site and the ranking follows the one you can actually pay today, which is RangeYourself's standing rule for a live discount anywhere.
How we verify this
Every rate on this page was read from the provider’s own pricing page and is stored with that page’s URL, a verbatim quote, and the date it was checked (most recent: August 7, 2026). Where a provider publishes no rate at a volume, we say so instead of extrapolating one from a rate it publishes somewhere else. A rate the provider itself prefixes with “from” is printed as a floor, because that is the provider’s own distinction and not ours. Where a provider is currently discounting, both its list rate and the rate you can actually pay today are printed, and the ranking follows the one you can actually pay. Totals are arithmetic on published rates and published tier allowances only. See our editorial standards and how we verify.
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