Rule 01
You pay per delivered record
Bright Data bills records it delivers. Its docs add one catch: records that fail because the input was wrong (a dead URL, a bad parameter) are still billed, so clean your input list first.
Bright Data Price and Bright Data Pricing in 2026: Every Plan, the Per-1K and Per-GB Rates, and Worked Bills
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Bright Data prices each product separately. The scraper APIs (Web Scraper API, Web Unlocker, SERP API, Crawl API) cost $1.50 per 1,000 records or requests pay as you go, or $499 a month for about 380,000 with $1.30 per 1,000 after that. Residential proxies list at $8 per GB, currently half that on a 3-month promo. Every account gets 5,000 free credits a month, shared across the APIs.
figures taken from brightdata.com/pricing and docs.brightdata.com
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The rate card
Bright Data pricing for every product
All prices are USD and billed monthly; none of the product pages has an annual toggle. The Scale column
shows the entry commitment. Most products also have $999 and $1,999 steps with a lower overage rate.
| Product | Free | Pay as you go | Scale plans (included, then overage) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Scraper API | Shared 5,000 credits | $1.50 per 1,000 records | $499 for 384,000 records, then $1.30 per 1,000 |
| Web Unlocker API | Shared 5,000 credits | $1.50 per 1,000 requests | $499 for 383,000 ($1.30 over), $999 for 908,000 ($1.10), $1,999 for 2M ($1.00) |
| SERP API | Shared 5,000 credits | $1.50 per 1,000 | $499 for 380,000 ($1.30), $999 for 900,000 ($1.10), $1,999 for 2M ($1.00) |
| Crawl API | n/a | $1.50 per 1,000 requests | $499 for 380,000 ($1.30), $999 for 900,000 ($1.10), $1,999 for 2M ($1.00) |
| Scraper Studio (build your own) | Shared 5,000 credits | $1.50 per 1,000 page loads | $499 for 383,000 ($1.30), $999 for 908,000 ($1.10), $1,999 for 2M ($1.00) |
| Browser API | Shared credits, about 1 GB | $8 per GB | $499 for 71 GB ($7), $999 for 166 GB ($6), $1,999 for 399 GB ($5) |
| Residential proxies | $2 trial credit | $8 per GB list ($4 on promo) | $499, $999, $1,999 plans at $7, $6, $5 per GB list; half that on promo |
| ISP proxies | $2 trial credit | $8 per GB, or per IP | Shared IPs $1.80 to $1.30 each, dedicated $3.50 to $2.50 each, per month |
| Datacenter proxies | $2 trial credit | $0.60 per GB, or per IP | Shared IPs $1.40 to $0.90 each, dedicated $2.20 to $1.30 each, per month |
| Datasets | Free sample file | $2.50 per 1,000 records, 100,000 minimum ($250) | Down to $0.50 per 1,000 at 20M; refresh plans billed per year |
| Managed Services | n/a | n/a | From $1,000 a month minimum, $500 setup per scraper, $4 per 1,000 requests |
Mobile proxies no longer have a public price: the old mobile pricing URL now redirects to the general proxy page. Bright Data's own menu and its llms.txt quote Managed Services "from $1,500" while the pricing page says $1,000, so ask for a written quote. Enterprise pricing on every product is custom.
Records
Bright Data Web Scraper API pricing by volume
This is the product most business buyers mean when they search Bright Data price: prebuilt scrapers for
popular sites that return structured records. Bright Data's own calculator gives these totals.
| Records per month | Bright Data total | Rate per 1,000 | WebRobot plan for the same volume |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $15 | $1.50 | Launch, $79 ($63 yearly) |
| 100,000 | $150 | $1.50 | Scale, $249 ($199 yearly) |
| 500,000 | $650 | $1.30 | Autopilot, $699 ($559 yearly) |
| 1,000,000 | $1,100 | $1.10 | Autopilot, $699 ($559 yearly) |
| 5,000,000 | Custom | n/a | Enterprise, custom |
Rule 02
The $0.75 is a promo
The menu says scraper APIs start from $0.75 per 1,000. That is 25% off the top volume rate with a 3-month promo code. Budget on $1.50 to $1.10, not on the banner.
Rule 03
The free tier is one pool
5,000 credits a month (about $7.50 of usage) cover all the APIs together, stop hard when used, do not roll over, and do not apply once you are on a Scale commitment.
Read the table honestly: at 10,000 and 100,000 records Bright Data's invoice is lower than ours. What the $1.50 buys is a record delivered to your code. Scheduling, storage, change detection, Slack alerts and the spreadsheet your pricing team opens are yours to build, and sites outside the prebuilt library mean writing a scraper in Scraper Studio or calling Web Unlocker and parsing HTML yourself. For how other developer APIs meter the same job, see ScrapingBee pricing and Zyte pricing.
Proxies
Bright Data residential proxy price: list versus promo
The number on the page right now is a promo. Code RESIGB50 takes 50% off residential proxies for three
months, and the included gigabytes only add up at the promo rate.
| Tier | Monthly fee | List per GB | Promo per GB | Included GB shown |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay as you go | None | $8.00 | $4.00 | n/a |
| Plan 1 | $499 | $7.00 | $3.50 | 141 GB |
| Plan 2 | $999 | $6.00 | $3.00 | 332 GB |
| Plan 3 | $1,999 | $5.00 | $2.50 | 798 GB |
| Over 1 TB | Custom | Quote from sales | ||
At list price, $499 buys about 71 GB, not 141. The page does not say what the plan becomes in month four, so get that in writing before you commit. Residential access also requires Bright Data's identity check (KYC), which can include a video call. Bandwidth is the unpredictable line on any proxy bill: a JavaScript-heavy product page can weigh 2 to 5 MB, so a million page loads can run into terabytes. Teams on usage billing often set up budget alerts on usage-billed tools so a crawl that loops over the weekend does not surprise finance on the 1st.
Fine print
How Bright Data billing works
These rules decide the real bill more than the rate card does.
Prepaid wallet
You top up a balance. Pay-as-you-go usage draws it down; auto-recharge is optional. Unverified "limited trial" accounts can top up at most $100 per transaction.
Commitments reset monthly
A Scale plan is charged on the 1st, prorated in the first month. Unused volume does not roll over, so a quiet month costs the same as a busy one.
Deposit match
The first deposit is matched dollar for dollar up to $500. Bonus credit lasts 90 days and needs at least $5 of usage a month to stay alive.
Zones
Each proxy or API configuration is a zone. The first 50 are free, then $5 a month each. Agencies that give every client its own zone hit this sooner than they expect.
Refunds
Subscription fees are generally non-refundable, promotional funds never are, and an unjustified chargeback carries a $150 handling fee.
Payment
Card, PayPal, Payoneer, Alipay, Google Pay, wire transfer, and AWS Marketplace, which some US companies use to draw down an existing AWS commitment.
Worked bills
What Bright Data costs for three common jobs
List prices, no promo codes, the free credits counted once.
Job 01
1,500 SKUs tracked daily
45,000 records a month from prebuilt Amazon and Walmart scrapers. Pay as you go: 40,000 billable after the free pool, about $60. WebRobot would be Scale at $249. Bright Data wins the invoice; the question is who builds the daily trigger, the price history and the alert. The Amazon scraper page shows the no-code version of this job.
Job 02
600,000 unlocked requests
Your own scraper calls Web Unlocker 600,000 times a month. The $499 plan covers 383,000, and the other 217,000 cost $1.30 per 1,000, so $781 a month, plus the parser and the engineer who fixes it when a site changes. The $999 plan would be dearer until you pass about 770,000.
Job 03
A million records a month
Bright Data's calculator puts 1,000,000 Web Scraper API records at $1,100. WebRobot Autopilot is $699 a month ($559 yearly) for the same million, with real-time monitors and 15 seats. At this volume the flat plan is the cheaper invoice as well as the simpler one.
The pattern: Bright Data is the cheaper raw input for a team with developers, and the more expensive system once you count the people who turn records into a feed someone uses. The side-by-side on features, setup and who each fits is on the Bright Data alternative page, and the web scraping API page shows how our API returns the same rows. If you are comparing marketplaces of prebuilt scrapers, Apify pricing works the same jobs.
Fit
Is Bright Data worth it for your team?
| Your situation | Better buy |
|---|---|
| Data engineers, high volume, hard targets, need proxies anyway | Bright Data |
| Want a one-time bulk file from a site it already sells as a dataset | Bright Data Datasets ($250 for 100,000 records) |
| Pricing, sales or ops team with no developer, needs a sheet every morning | WebRobot Launch or Scale |
| Needs change alerts in Slack and logins handled, on a fixed monthly invoice | WebRobot Scale ($249) |
| Around a million records a month, flat budget | WebRobot Autopilot ($699) |
Our plans and what each includes are on pricing. If the job is watching competitor prices, start with competitor price monitoring.
FAQ
Bright Data pricing questions, answered
It depends on the product. The Web Scraper API, Web Unlocker, SERP API and Crawl API cost $1.50 per 1,000 records or requests pay as you go, or $499 a month for about 380,000 with $1.30 per 1,000 after. Residential proxies list at $8 per GB pay as you go, and datasets start at $250 for 100,000 records.
Yes, in two forms. Every account gets a shared pool of 5,000 free credits a month, no card needed, usable across Web Unlocker, SERP API, Web Scraper API, Scraper Studio and Browser API. Proxy products get a one-time $2 trial credit, plus $5 more when you add a payment method. First deposits are matched up to $500.
Per record, no: $1.50 per 1,000 on the Web Scraper API is among the lowest published rates, falling to $1.10 per 1,000 at a million records. It gets expensive through everything around the record: proxy bandwidth at up to $8 per GB, the developer who builds and fixes the pipeline, and commitments that do not roll over.
You fund a prepaid wallet. Pay-as-you-go usage draws it down; a Scale plan commitment is charged on the 1st of each month and prorated in the first month. Unused commitment does not roll over, auto-recharge is optional, the first 50 zones are free and each extra zone costs $5 a month.
Yes, for residential proxies. Bright Data runs an identity check before you can use the residential network, and it may include a short video call. Web Unlocker and the scraper APIs work without it, which is why teams that only need structured records often start there.
Generally no. Bright Data's billing FAQ says subscription fees are non-refundable, with exceptions possible if you ask support, and promotional bonus funds are never refundable. Test inside the free credits and a small pay-as-you-go deposit before you commit to a monthly plan.
One flat invoice instead of records, gigabytes and zones
Describe the data once. The robot delivers named columns to your sheet or API on schedule, from $79 a month for 10,000 records.