Bright Data alternatives and competitors

Oxylabs is the nearest equivalent to Bright Data in the market and the least disruptive switch if scale and enterprise support are why you were there in the first place. It advertises 175M+ proxies across 195+ countries, which is smaller than Bright Data’s advertised 400M+ but sits in the same class, and it covers the same enterprise expectations: SLAs, named account management, and a comparable spread of adjacent scraping products.

Pricing is per GB with the rate set by monthly commitment, starting at $6.00/GB on the $30/month Starter plan and reaching $2.50/GB on the $2,500/month Corporate plan with a 1 TB minimum. That structure will feel familiar coming from Bright Data because it has the same shape: the headline rate improves only when you commit to volume. If Bright Data’s list pricing was the problem rather than its promotional pricing, note that Oxylabs’ entry rate is lower than Bright Data’s $8.00/GB list but its committed rates are broadly comparable.

Choose Oxylabs when you need enterprise procurement, contractual guarantees, and a large pool, and when the switching cost of a smaller vendor outweighs the per-GB saving. It is the safe answer rather than the cheap one.

Decodo, formerly Smartproxy, occupies the space between the enterprise vendors and the budget tier. It advertises 115M+ IPs across 195+ locations with geo-targeting down to city and ZIP level, which is the capability most teams actually leave Bright Data expecting to lose and usually do not need to.

Pricing runs from $3.75/GB on the 3 GB plan at $11.25/month to $2.75/GB on the 100 GB plan at $275/month, with pay-as-you-go at $4.00/GB. The important detail against Bright Data is the entry point: you can be running at meaningful volume for a few hundred dollars a month rather than the $499 minimum that Bright Data’s cheapest committed tier requires. For teams whose usage is real but not enterprise, that difference in floor matters more than the per-GB rate.

Choose Decodo when you want most of Bright Data’s targeting capability, no meaningful commitment, and a rate that improves steadily as you grow. It is the default recommendation for teams that found Bright Data over-specified for what they were doing.

Webshare competes almost entirely on price and is transparent about it. It advertises 80M+ residential IPs across 195 countries, with per-GB rates from $3.50/GB at 1 GB down to $1.40/GB at 3,000 GB. Against Bright Data’s $5.00/GB list rate on its $1,999/month tier, that is a substantial difference at the volumes where it applies.

The self-service model is the trade. Webshare has no enterprise sales motion to speak of, and support is correspondingly lighter than what Bright Data provides. Its published discounts are also framed as percentage reductions off a higher regular price, so read the rate you will actually pay at your volume rather than the discount percentage.

Choose Webshare when your workload is large, predictable, and technically self-sufficient, and when nobody on your team needs a vendor to answer the phone. If you are moving thousands of gigabytes and the engineering is already handled internally, this is usually where the money goes furthest.

TrueProxies is the option to consider if the problem with Bright Data was the shape of the bill rather than its size. Alongside per-GB Residential IPv4 from $1.64/GB, it sells fixed-duration unlimited bandwidth by speed tier from $4.08/hour at 10 Mbps. That converts an unpredictable variable cost into a fixed one, which is the single thing per-GB vendors cannot offer.

That model suits workloads where throughput is the constraint and byte volume is hard to forecast: continuous monitoring, long-running crawls, and anything where a traffic spike currently turns into a billing incident. It suits per-GB billing badly if your usage is genuinely small or highly intermittent, in which case a pay-as-you-go vendor will cost less.

The honest limitation is scale. TrueProxies publishes 50M+ residential IPv4 addresses across 150+ countries, well below Bright Data’s advertised 400M+ and 195 countries, and it does not sell unblockers, scraper APIs, or datasets. If you depend on Bright Data’s managed collection layer, this is not a replacement for it and no amount of proxy capacity substitutes.

SOAX prices by destination rather than charging one global rate, which is unusual and occasionally decisive. It advertises 155M+ IPs across 195+ locations, with Tier 1 countries from $5.00/GB on the free Sandbox plan down to $0.85/GB on the $3,000/month Enterprise plan, and Tier 3 destinations from $2.00/GB down to $0.35/GB.

If your collection is concentrated in emerging or developing markets, that tiering can beat every flat-rate vendor on this list by a wide margin. If your targets are all in the United States and Western Europe, it does the opposite, and you are better served by a flat rate. This is a genuinely workload-dependent choice rather than a general recommendation, so map your traffic by destination country before comparing.

Plan levels run from a free Sandbox through Builder at $200/month and Team at $500/month, each including credits equal to the plan price. Choose SOAX when you know your geographic distribution and it skews away from Tier 1.

IPRoyal advertises 64M+ rotating residential proxies across 195+ countries, the smallest pool in this comparison, and sells with no contract on either a subscription or pay-as-you-go basis. Subscription rates run $7.00/GB at 1 GB down to $4.90/GB at 50 GB; pay-as-you-go runs $7.35/GB down to $5.15/GB. The site also advertises $1.75/GB for bulk volume.

Those headline rates are the highest here at small quantities, so IPRoyal is not the cost answer. What it offers instead is the ability to buy one gigabyte, use it whenever, and owe nothing further. For proof-of-concept work, irregular research, or a team that needs residential access a few times a quarter, that beats committing to a plan whose minimum exceeds actual usage.

Choose IPRoyal when the alternative is paying a monthly minimum you will not consume. Coming from Bright Data specifically, this is the right destination if you were on pay-as-you-go, used it lightly, and simply want the same flexibility at a smaller vendor.

Proxy-Cheap advertises the lowest entry rate in this comparison at $1.50/GB on its 3 GB plan, falling to $0.78/GB at 51 GB, against an advertised 80M+ IPs across 180+ locations. On price per gigabyte at modest volume, nothing else here comes close.

The caveats are real and worth stating plainly. Its advertised location count is the narrowest in this list, and its published bandwidth is capped under 100 Mbps, which is a constraint the other vendors here do not impose in the same way. Budget providers also tend to vary more in success rate on defended targets, and that variance does not appear on a pricing page. It is exactly the kind of difference that only a matched test on your own targets will reveal.

Choose Proxy-Cheap when cost dominates the decision and your targets are not heavily defended. Test before committing volume rather than after, and treat the saving as provisional until the success rate is measured.