How we make this list: we compare pricing pages, product documentation and public user reviews. Ratings come from G2, Capterra or Trustpilot, with the date we checked them.
Key takeaways
- Oxylabs is the enterprise peer, from $6 per GB at entry and $2.50 at a terabyte, with the reliability record large teams buy.
- Decodo, formerly Smartproxy, is the value pick: $3.75 per GB at entry, $2 per GB at a terabyte, and a 99.9 percent success rate in October 2026 independent tests.
- IPRoyal suits irregular projects: pay as you go from about $7 per GB and traffic that never expires.
- Webshare is the free start, with 10 datacenter proxies and 1 GB monthly on a permanent free plan.
Quick comparison
| Tool | Best for | Starting price | Free plan |
|---|
 Oxylabs | Enterprise scale and reliability | $6 per GB | Free trial |
 Decodo | Best value residential proxies | $3.75 per GB | Free trial |
 IPRoyal | Small projects, non expiring traffic | $7.35 per GB | No |
 SOAX | Residential and mobile at one rate | $5 per GB | Yes |
 Apify | Scraping platform and ready made Actors | See website | Yes |
 Webshare | Budget proxies with a free tier | $3.50 per GB | Yes |
 Rayobyte | High volume at low per GB cost | $3.50 per GB | Free trial |
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The best Bright Data alternatives in 2026
#1Oxylabs
Best for: Enterprise scale and reliability4.5/5 on
G2 (420 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
Visit oxylabs.io
Starting price$6 per GB
Free planFree trial
Oxylabs is the lateral move for teams that need Bright Data class infrastructure without Bright Data. Its pool, targeting and APIs cover the same jobs, and independent testing in October 2026 put its success rate at the top of the field beside Decodo. Enterprises that left over account management or contract terms land here and change little else.
The cost profile is enterprise too. At low volumes Oxylabs is among the dearest ways to move a gigabyte, and its per successful request cost in benchmarks ran several times the budget providers'. You are paying for the pool's quality and the company behind it, which is a rational purchase at scale and an indulgence below it.
What we like- The closest peer to Bright Data in scale and seriousness, with a claimed pool above 175 million IPs, 99.9 percent success rates in independent October 2026 benchmark testing, entry residential at $6 per GB falling to $2.50 per GB at a terabyte a month, scraping APIs and dedicated account management on enterprise tiers
Watch out for- Pricing assumes commitment: the $100 a month Basic bundle is the realistic small start, success costs more per successful request than the budget field in independent tests, sales led at the top end, like the vendor it replaces
#2Decodo
Best for: Best value residential proxies4.6/5 on
G2 (763 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
Visit decodo.com
Starting price$3.75 per GB
Free planFree trial
Decodo is the value benchmark of this market. Its curve, under $4 a gigabyte to start and $2 at volume, undercuts both enterprise names at every level a mid size scraping operation actually buys, and its test results give up nothing on success rate. Developer led teams standardise on it for exactly that combination.
Its limits are altitude limits. Rare country and city combinations run thinner than in a 400 million IP pool, and the very largest buyers negotiate enterprise arrangements Decodo is still growing into. For the broad middle of scraping work, price per successful request, it is the tool to beat.
What we like- Formerly Smartproxy, with a claimed 115 million plus IP pool and developer friendly onboarding, entry residential at $3.75 per GB falling to $2 per GB at a terabyte, among the best value curves here, 99.9 percent success in October 2026 independent tests, with strong sticky sessions, scraping APIs beside the proxies for teams that want requests handled higher up the stack
Watch out for- The pool is a third of Bright Data's claimed size, which shows on exotic geographies, pay as you go runs $4 per GB, above the plan rates in the headline, enterprise ceremony is lighter, which cuts both ways for compliance heavy buyers
#3IPRoyal
Best for: Small projects, non expiring traffic4.7/5 on
G2 (1,071 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
Visit iproyal.com
Starting price$7.35 per GB
Free planNo
IPRoyal sells patience. A researcher who scrapes hard for two weeks, then not at all for a month, loses nothing: the balance waits. Subscription based rivals bill through the quiet months, which is why IPRoyal owns the irregular project niche despite a headline rate that looks steep beside Decodo.
Do the volume maths before loyalty sets in. At a steady 100 GB a month, IPRoyal's tested rate near $5.25 per GB costs roughly double Decodo's plan price for the same traffic. Non expiring traffic is worth a premium at 5 GB a month and worth very little at 500.
What we like- Traffic never expires, the single friendliest term in this market for irregular projects, pay as you go from about $7 per GB with a 1 GB minimum and no subscription, volume rates fall to $1.75 per GB at 10 TB on subscription, long sticky sessions, reported up to 7 days, for logged in workflows
Watch out for- Entry per GB pricing is the highest here, so steady volume belongs elsewhere, no free trial on residential proxies, the claimed pool, around 64 million IPs, is the smallest of the full service names here
#4SOAX
Best for: Residential and mobile at one rate4.8/5 on
G2 (66 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
Visit soax.com
Starting price$5 per GB
Free planYes
SOAX is the flexible middle: one account where residential and mobile traffic share a rate card and a dashboard, which suits teams whose targets mix ordinary websites with app grade defences. Its sandbox lets engineers verify the integration before finance sees an invoice.
The step from sandbox to paid plan is the decision. Reports put paid plans starting near $200 a month, so SOAX competes with committed Decodo and Oxylabs spend rather than casual budgets. Teams already spending at that level get targeting depth for their money; teams below it should start at Webshare or IPRoyal.
What we like- Residential and mobile proxies under one platform and one balance, with a free Sandbox plan for testing, entry around $5 per GB with volume rates reported below $1 per GB at the top tiers, granular targeting by country, region, city and carrier, a claimed pool above 155 million IPs
Watch out for- Paid plans have been reported starting near $200 a month, a steep step from the sandbox, sticky sessions are shorter than IPRoyal's or Decodo's, at around an hour in comparisons, a smaller name in enterprise evaluations
#5Apify
Best for: Scraping platform and ready made Actors4.7/5 on
G2 (669 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
Visit apify.com
Starting priceSee website
Free planYes
Apify answers a different question from the proxy vendors: not "how do I get requests through" but "who has already built this scraper". For common targets, marketplaces, search results, social platforms, an existing Actor plus Apify's proxies delivers data in an afternoon that a custom stack delivers in a month.
Its economics invert at scale. Platform credits price in the machinery, so a team moving terabytes should buy raw proxies from Decodo or Oxylabs and keep Apify for the awkward one off jobs. Used that way, as the workshop rather than the factory, it earns its place in most data teams' accounts.
What we like- A scraping platform rather than a proxy vendor: thousands of ready made Actors in its store scrape common sites without code, built in proxy rotation, with residential use priced inside platform credits at roughly $8 per GB in comparisons, a free tier and low paid plans make experiments cheap, scheduling, storage and APIs turn one off scrapes into data pipelines
Watch out for- You rent convenience at platform prices: heavy raw proxy volume costs more here than at Decodo or Oxylabs, quality of third party Actors varies, and popular ones change as sites change, less control than running your own scraping stack end to end
#6Webshare
Best for: Budget proxies with a free tier4.0/5 on
G2 (5 reviews, checked Oct 2026)
Visit webshare.io
Starting price$3.50 per GB
Free planYes
Webshare is the on ramp. Its free tier lets a developer wire proxies into a scraper, watch real traffic flow and learn the failure modes before any budget exists, and its paid curve stays honest at small volumes where enterprise minimums bite. Side projects and early stage pipelines start here for good reason.
Growth is where the comparison reopens. At hundreds of gigabytes the enterprise pools' success rates and Decodo's volume pricing pull ahead, and Webshare's own figures invite the upgrade conversation. Treat it as the right first provider rather than the permanent one, and it will never disappoint you.
What we like- A permanent free plan with 10 datacenter proxies and 1 GB of traffic monthly, enough to build and test against, residential entry at $3.50 per GB falling to $1.40 per GB at 3 TB on yearly billing, a self service dashboard developers praise for its simplicity, among the cheapest 10 GB a month costs in October 2026 comparisons, at $27.50
Watch out for- Datacenter free proxies are easily detected, so the free tier tests plumbing, not stealth, the residential pool and targeting trail the enterprise pair, support and account management are self service in character
Starting price$3.50 per GB
Free planFree trial
Rayobyte is the volume buyer's quiet option. Owning its network lets it price sustained traffic aggressively, and October 2026 benchmark arithmetic put its cost per successful request with the cheapest tested. Scraping operations whose bill is dominated by bandwidth should benchmark it against Decodo before renewing anything.
The trade is everything around the pipe: fewer datasets, fewer managed APIs, less ceremony for enterprise procurement. If your team writes its own scrapers and measures providers in cost per successful request, that trade is not a trade at all. It is the product.
What we like- An owned network rather than a resold one, with 50 million plus devices monthly by its figures, pay as you go residential at $3.50 per GB, falling to $0.50 per GB at high volume and lower still on its Scale tier, in independent testing it posted the lowest cost per successful request group beside the budget leaders, a free trial precedes commitment
Watch out for- Less enterprise polish and fewer ready made scraping products than Bright Data or Oxylabs, the deepest discounts demand terabyte scale commitments, a smaller review and compliance footprint for procurement teams to inspect
How we chose
We required alternatives to cover Bright Data's main jobs, residential, mobile and datacenter proxies plus scraping infrastructure, at published or independently benchmarked prices. Bright Data itself is never an entry, by the rules of an alternatives list. Rates are residential per GB figures from vendor pricing pages and October 2026 benchmark comparisons, quoted at entry and volume because the gap between them is the story of this market. We did not claim hands-on testing; where success rates appear, they are credited to the independent tests that measured them.
Price per successful request is the only honest metric
Per GB headlines mislead twice. First, the rate you pay depends on the tier your volume reaches, and the spread inside one provider, $6 down to $2.50 at Oxylabs, is wider than the spread between providers. Second, a failed request still consumes bandwidth at most providers, so a cheap pool with a 90 percent success rate can cost more per usable page than a dearer pool at 99.9 percent.
Benchmark on your own targets before committing. Every serious provider here offers a trial, a sandbox or a small pay as you go entry. Run the same thousand requests against your three hardest sites through each finalist, count successful responses, and divide the invoice by that count. The winner of that test is your provider, whatever any comparison, this one included, predicted.
Finally, keep the compliance file as tidy as the code. Document what you collect, why you are entitled to collect it, and how the pool's IPs are sourced; enterprise providers publish their sourcing and consent practices because enterprise customers ask. If a provider's price seems to skip those costs, it is worth asking where the IPs come from before your name joins their customer list.
Frequently asked questions
Why do teams leave Bright Data?
Mostly economics and friction at smaller scale: an $8 per GB list price, business verification before first use, and enterprise account structures that outweigh a small team's needs. Its closure of mobile proxies to new customers in April 2026 pushed mobile heavy teams to look as well.
What is the cheapest Bright Data alternative?
Webshare at small volumes, free to start and $27.50 for 10 GB of residential traffic in October 2026 comparisons, and Decodo as volume grows, reaching $2 per GB at a terabyte. Rayobyte's high volume rates undercut both at terabyte scale.
Which alternative matches Bright Data for enterprise work?
Oxylabs. It pairs a 175 million plus claimed pool with top tier independent success rates and enterprise account management. The saving against Bright Data is real but modest; the fit, not the discount, is the reason to move.
Is web scraping legal?
It depends on what you collect, how, and where you operate. Public data collection is widely practised and also widely contested; site terms, privacy law and computer misuse law all bear on it. Take advice for your use case, honour robots directives and rate limits, and never collect personal data you have no basis to hold.
What happened to Bright Data's mobile proxies?
Bright Data closed its mobile proxy product to new customers in April 2026, redirecting the product pages. Existing arrangements aside, new mobile buyers start with Decodo, SOAX or IPRoyal from this list.
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