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Bright Data pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

Bright Data (brightdata.com) is a web scraping tool. Pay as you go per 1,000 requests (Web Unlocker, SERP API) or per GB (Browser API), or a $499/month Scale plan with included usage and custom Enterprise quotes.. Free plan: Free Tier: 5K requests a month (Web Unlocker, SERP API) and 5K credits plus 1 GB a month (Browser API), no credit card needed..

What Bright Data costs

  • 10k pages: $15/mo (Web Unlocker pay as you go: 10,000 requests x $1.5 per 1,000 = $15.00. JavaScript rendering is included in every plan. The Free Tier (5K requests/month) is too small, and Scale ($499/month) costs more.)
  • 5k searches: $7.50/mo (SERP API pay as you go: 5,000 searches x $1.5 per 1,000 = $7.50. The Free Tier (5K requests/month) is not counted because the page does not say it may be used commercially. Scale ($499/month) costs more.)
  • 100 browser hours: $160/mo (Browser API pay as you go: 20 GB x $8/GB = $160, with unlimited concurrent sessions. Scale ($499/month, 71 GB) costs more, and the Free Tier has only 1 GB.)

Plan compared: Pay as you go: Web Unlocker at $1.5 per 1,000 requests. Prices are USD per month on monthly billing for three jobs: scraping 10,000 JavaScript-rendered pages (the headline), running 5,000 web search queries and using 100 hours of cloud browser time, each on the cheapest self-serve plan or pay-as-you-go rate that fully covers it. A product that does not do a job shows no price for it.

What Bright Data does

Core: URL scraping API (partly), Anti-bot unblocking (partly), Proxy network.

Important: LLM-ready output (partly), Search engine results, Cloud browsers (partly), Pre-built scrapers, Ready-made datasets, Exports & integrations (partly), AI agent integrations (partly), Compliance & ethical sourcing (partly).

Also has: Site crawling (partly), AI data extraction (partly), Web search API (partly), No-code visual scraper (partly), Scheduling & change alerts (partly), Custom scraper hosting (partly), Open source & self-hosting (partly).

Bright Data price hikes

Alternatives to Bright Data

Bright Data is the cheapest web scraping tool we track at 10,000 pages scraped a month. The others:

Bright Data alternatives: 2 web scraping tools compared, at every size.

Every change we logged

  • Jan 9, 2025 · Price increase: Beta Scraper APIs went from $1 to $1.50 per 1,000 requests on pay as you go, the same new rate as Web Unlocker and SERP API. The source is dated 2025-01-09 and gives no effective date.
  • Jan 9, 2025 · Price cut: Bright Data cut Web Unlocker and SERP API pay-as-you-go rates by 50%, from $3 to $1.50 per 1,000 requests, so 10,000 pages fell from $30 to $15 a month. The source is dated 2025-01-09 and gives no effective date.

Sources

Pricing page: brightdata.com/pricing. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Rates come from Bright Data's own Web Unlocker, SERP API and Scraping Browser pages, which PricingSaaS confirms; annual prices are not shown. The 2025 cut and Scraper API rise come from one Proxyway article with no effective date, and unverified 2026 third-party reports (CostBench, UsagePricing) were not recorded.