Stop getting blocked. Start collecting the data.
Bright Data turns geo-fenced, bot-walled pages into clean, structured data. Residential and datacenter proxies, a Web Unlocker, a SERP API, and ready-built datasets — one account, no IP bans.
Free trial credits on signup · no card required to test · usage-based after that
Web scraping’s real bottleneck was never the code
It’s getting blocked. CAPTCHAs, rate limits, and IP bans stop most scraping projects long before the parsing logic does. Bright Data solves the network layer — routing your requests through real, consented residential IPs and managed unblocking infrastructure — so the data actually reaches you.
Founded in Israel in 2014 and used today by Fortune 500 retailers, ad-verification firms, travel aggregators, and the research teams behind most major language models, Bright Data has grown into the largest commercial proxy and public web data platform available — built on IPs contributed by users who opt in and are compensated, not scraped devices or botnets.
of the top 20 global LLM labs use Bright Data’s network to source public web data for training and grounding.
A network built from real devices, not data centers
Every residential IP in the network belongs to a real person who opted in and gets paid for sharing bandwidth. That’s why traffic through Bright Data looks, to a target site, exactly like an ordinary visitor browsing from home — in whichever of 195+ countries your project needs.
Pick a country, a city, even a mobile carrier, and route your request through that exact location. No shared blocklisted ranges, no data-center fingerprints to trip anti-bot systems.
Explore the network →What “unlocked” actually looks like
Send a URL to the Web Unlocker and it handles the CAPTCHA, the headers, and the JavaScript rendering for you.
Access denied
Verify you’re human · rate limit exceeded
200 OK — page rendered
Full HTML, ready to parse
One account, the whole data-collection stack
Each product solves a different part of the same problem: reaching a page without being detected, blocked, or fed the wrong content.
Residential proxies
72M+ real household IPs across 195+ countries. The hardest traffic to fingerprint as a bot — built for sites with serious anti-bot defenses.
Datacenter proxies
The fastest, cheapest way to move volume on sites without aggressive blocking. Ideal for open APIs and lightly protected pages.
ISP proxies
Datacenter speed registered to real internet service providers, so requests carry residential-level trust without residential latency.
Mobile proxies
Real 4G/5G carrier IPs for testing and collecting data the way a mobile user actually experiences a site or app.
Web Unlocker
A managed endpoint that handles CAPTCHAs, headers, retries, and JavaScript rendering automatically — send a URL, get back clean HTML.
SERP API
Structured, real-time search results from Google, Bing, and others — built for rank tracking and SEO monitoring at scale.
Scraping Browser
A cloud headless browser with built-in unblocking, for sites that need real rendering and interaction, not just a raw HTML fetch.
Web Scraper APIs
Pre-built scrapers for Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, and 100+ other sites — send a target URL, get parsed JSON back.
Datasets marketplace
Pre-collected, ready-to-download datasets across e-commerce, real estate, and social platforms — skip the scraping entirely.
Who’s actually running this in production
Bright Data isn’t built for a single use case — it’s infrastructure that different teams point at different problems.
Price & stock monitoring
Track competitor pricing and inventory across thousands of product pages without tripping rate limits.
Ad verification
See the ads competitors and partners actually serve in a given country, device, or IP range.
Fare aggregation
Pull live fares and availability from airline and OTA sites that geo-fence or throttle scrapers.
Rank & SERP tracking
Pull localized search results by country and device via the SERP API instead of maintaining your own scraper.
Brand & IP protection
Find counterfeit listings and unauthorized resellers across marketplaces before they scale.
LLM training & grounding data
Collect and refresh large public web corpora for pretraining, RAG, and model evaluation.
What it costs
Bright Data bills by usage — per GB for proxies, per successful request for the managed APIs. Committing to a monthly plan drops the per-unit rate significantly over pay-as-you-go.
| Product | Pay-as-you-go | On a committed plan |
|---|---|---|
| Residential proxies | ~$8 / GB | from ~$3 / GB |
| Datacenter proxies | ~$0.90 / GB | from ~$0.60 / GB |
| ISP proxies | ~$1.30 / GB | from ~$0.90 / GB |
| Web Unlocker | ~$3 / 1,000 requests | lower on volume |
| SERP API | ~$1–1.50 / 1,000 queries | from ~$0.55 / 1,000 |
| Datasets | free samples | priced per record / project |
Figures are approximate street rates and change with volume, region, and negotiated discounts — Bright Data doesn’t publish a single flat price. New accounts get trial credit to test before committing. Confirm exact current rates on the official pricing page after signup.
Proxy vs. managed unblocking — which do you need?
Raw proxies give you the IP; the managed products add the logic that keeps you from getting blocked in the first place.
| Need | Best fit | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Simple, high-volume requests on open sites | Datacenter proxies | Cheapest per GB, fastest response time |
| Sites with real anti-bot protection | Residential proxies | Traffic looks like a genuine home user |
| Don’t want to handle CAPTCHAs or headers yourself | Web Unlocker | Send a URL, get back rendered HTML |
| Search-engine result pages at scale | SERP API | Structured JSON, no scraper to maintain |
| No time to build a scraper at all | Datasets marketplace | Download data that’s already collected |
Compliance isn’t an afterthought here
Because the network runs on IPs from users who opted in and are paid for it — not compromised devices — Bright Data can meet the compliance bar that regulated industries actually require.
Questions people actually ask
Is Bright Data legal to use?
Collecting publicly available web data is generally legal, but what you scrape and how you use it is your responsibility — always check a target site’s terms of service and applicable law (like GDPR or CCPA) for your use case. Bright Data’s own network is built on IPs from users who explicitly opted in and are compensated, and the company holds SOC2, SOC3, and ISO 27001 certifications.
Do I need to know how to code to use it?
No. The Web Scraper APIs and Datasets marketplace are point-and-click — pick a target, get structured data back. Proxies, the Web Unlocker, and the SERP API are built for developers integrating into an existing pipeline.
Is there a free plan?
There’s no permanent free tier, but new accounts receive free trial credit across most products, and you’re not billed until you commit to a plan or start consuming pay-as-you-go usage.
What’s the difference between residential and datacenter proxies?
Datacenter IPs come from server farms and are fast and cheap but easier for anti-bot systems to flag. Residential IPs belong to real home internet connections, so they’re far harder to detect — at a higher per-GB cost. Most teams use datacenter for easy targets and residential for anything protected.
Can Bright Data be used for AI and LLM data collection?
Yes — it’s one of the platform’s fastest-growing use cases. Teams use the proxy network, Web Unlocker, and datasets to pull fresh public web data for pretraining, retrieval-augmented generation, and model evaluation at scale.
Try Bright Data before you commit to a plan
Sign up, claim your trial credit, and run your first request through the network today — no long-term commitment needed to see if it fits your project.