Bright Data Pricing 2026: What Every Product Actually Costs

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Quick answer: Bright Data pricing in September 2026 runs from a genuinely free tier (5,000 Web Unlocker requests a month, no card) to $1,999 a month proxy plans, and the number on the menu is almost never the number you pay at the entry tier. Residential proxies are $8 per GB pay as you go, or $4 with a three month coupon; the $2.50 in the site navigation is the $1,999 a month tier with the coupon applied. Datacenter proxies start at $1.40 per IP, not the $0.90 the menu shows, and Web Unlocker starts at $1.50 per 1,000 requests, not $1. We read every pricing page on brightdata.com on September 5, 2026 and put the real entry prices, the plan ladders and the billing rules in one place below.

The menu price and the page price are different numbers

Bright Data has one pricing index and more than a dozen product pricing pages, and the index quotes a starting price for each product. Three of those starting prices do not appear as an entry price on the page they link to. This is the single most useful thing to know before you budget.

• Residential proxies. The menu says 50 percent off, from $2.50 per GB. The residential page's own meta description says "starting from $5.88/GB". The plan cards on that page show pay as you go at $8 per GB, and $4 with coupon code RESIGB50, which the banner says lasts three months. The $2.50 is the $1,999 a month, 798 GB tier with the coupon applied, which works out to $2.51.
• Datacenter proxies. The menu says from $0.90 per IP. That is the 1,000 IP shared tier at $900 a month. Ten shared IPs cost $1.40 each. The datacenter page's meta description says "starting from $0.077/GB", a figure that appears nowhere on the page; the lowest per GB rate on the cards is $0.42 on the $1,999, 5 TB plan.
• Web Unlocker. The menu says from $1 per 1,000 requests. The Web Unlocker pricing page lists pay as you go at $1.50 per 1,000 and the $499 Scale plan at $1.30 per 1,000 for overage. The $1 rate is not on the page.

None of this is hidden and none of it is unusual for the proxy market; we found the same pattern at four of six providers when we priced residential proxies in September. It simply means the entry price is the card, not the menu.

Residential proxy pricing, with and without the coupon

Residential is the product most people mean when they say Bright Data, and the page was last modified on August 31, 2026. Four plans, all billed monthly, with country, state, city and zip targeting included at no charge and a 400 million IP pool.

• Pay as you go: $8 per GB, no commitment. With RESIGB50, $4 per GB for three months.
• $499 a month: 141 GB included, which is $3.54 per GB at the coupon price and about $7.08 without it. The card rounds these to $4 and $7.
• $999 a month: 332 GB included, $3.01 per GB with the coupon, about $6 without.
• $1,999 a month: 798 GB included, $2.51 per GB with the coupon, $5 without.

Two things the cards do not say. First, the coupon is a three month promotion, so a $499 plan reverts from roughly $3.54 to roughly $7 per GB in month four unless you renegotiate. Second, residential and mobile networks require KYC before use: the FAQ says a representative may ask for a short video call and company or personal verification. Web Unlocker does not require KYC, which is one reason Bright Data itself steers scraping buyers to it in the FAQ on the proxy pages.

See current Bright Data pricing and the free tiers

Datacenter proxy pricing: three meters on one page

The datacenter page, modified September 1, 2026, sells the same 1.3 million IP pool three ways, and the right one depends on whether your bottleneck is IPs or bandwidth.

• Shared, pay per IP: 10 IPs at $1.40 ($14 a month), 100 at $1 ($100), 500 at $0.95 ($475), 1,000 at $0.90 ($900).
• Dedicated, pay per IP: 10 IPs at $2.20 ($22), 100 at $1.70 ($170), 500 at $1.50 ($750), 1,000 at $1.30 ($1,300).
• Shared, pay per GB: $0.60 pay as you go, then $0.51 (1 TB for $499), $0.45 (2 TB for $999) and $0.42 (5 TB for $1,999).

The per IP plans are labelled unlimited, and the FAQ defines unlimited: each IP carries a 100 GB fair use allowance a month, pooled across the order, so 10 IPs give you 1 TB to split however you like, and additional charges may apply above that. Ten shared IPs at $14 with 1 TB of fair use is one of the cheapest ways to get a small, stable set of datacenter addresses from a tier one provider; the per GB plan only wins once you need rotation across a huge pool rather than a fixed handful of IPs.

Web Unlocker, SERP API and the free tiers

Web Unlocker is Bright Data's request based product: you send a URL, it handles proxies, fingerprints, retries and CAPTCHAs, and you pay only for successful responses. The pricing page, modified August 25, 2026, shows a free tier of 5,000 requests a month with no credit card, pay as you go at $1.50 per 1,000 requests, a Scale plan at $499 a month for 383,000 requests with additional requests at $1.30 per 1,000, and a custom Enterprise tier. The FAQ is explicit that the pay as you go CPM is higher than the plan CPM and that you can switch at any stage.

The pricing index lists SERP API and Scraper Studio at $1 per 1,000 requests with free tiers, Crawl API at $1 per 1,000, Browser API at $5 per GB, and pre built Scraper APIs at $0.75 per 1,000 records, with the old $1 figure struck through. Those are index figures; on the evidence of the three pages above, treat each as the best volume rate until you have opened the product page and read the pay as you go card.

Datasets, Firehose and the managed tiers

Above the self serve products sit the data products, and the index prices them plainly: Datasets from $250 per 100,000 records, Data Firehose from $0.20 per 1,000 HTML pages, Retail Insights from $2,000 a month and Managed Data Acquisition from $1,500 a month. These are the tiers where Bright Data competes with an in house scraping team rather than with another proxy vendor. If you are an agency that needs a list pulled, cleaned and pushed into outreach rather than a proxy subscription, that is the shape of our done for you lead generation work, with the sending infrastructure to match, and it is usually cheaper than a managed data contract at this scale.

The billing rules that decide your real monthly cost

The proxy pricing FAQ is long and most buyers never read it. Five rules in it change the bill.

• Commitments are charged on the 1st and do not roll over. If your account is active all month and you use less than the minimum, the unused balance is gone. The FAQ says so in one sentence.
• Mid month joins are prorated in a specific way. Bright Data's own example: join a $500 plan on June 25, pay $500, and on July 1 you are billed 20 percent of the commitment for June's six active days, then topped back up to $500 for July.
• Bandwidth is measured both ways. Request headers, request bodies, response headers and response bodies all count, so a scraper that retries or pulls uncompressed HTML pays for it.
• Suspending your account forfeits allocated IPs. Dedicated datacenter or ISP addresses you paid for are not held.
• Accounts can be blocked for billing mismatches, including logging in from a country different from the card's, and reinstatement requires photo ID or company registration plus a photo of the card.

Two sweeteners sit alongside these: new signups get their first deposit matched dollar for dollar up to $500, and you can pay through the AWS Marketplace, PayPal, Payoneer, Alipay, Google Pay, wire or card. There is no refund policy on any pricing page we read, which is a real difference from Oxylabs, whose self service plans are refundable within three days if you have used less than 20 percent.

What three real teams would pay

• A solo developer testing a scraper on a protected site: $0. Web Unlocker's 5,000 free requests a month cover a proof of concept, and no KYC is needed.
• A small agency pulling 50 GB of residential traffic a month: $200 a month pay as you go for the first three months with the coupon, then $400 a month at $8 per GB from month four. The $499 plan with 141 GB is the better buy from month four if usage is climbing, and the worse buy if it is not, because the unused balance does not roll.
• A data team rotating through 20 fixed datacenter IPs: $28 a month on the shared ladder, with a 2 TB pooled fair use allowance, or $44 on dedicated IPs.

If those numbers are within budget, Bright Data is the deepest catalogue in the category and the one we send enterprise work to; our Bright Data review covers who it fits and Bright Data vs Oxylabs puts the ladders next to its closest rival. If the residential rates look steep, our Apify versus Bright Data comparison covers the cheaper managed scraping route, and our automation team builds the pipeline either way.

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