Overview
Bright Data's recorded product line here is residential proxies, sold across two plans: an Entry plan of 141 GB and a pay-as-you-go option, both billed per gigabyte. The directory holds 12 countries on record for this provider, while Bright Data itself states a much larger figure of 195 countries in its own materials — a gap addressed below. The offer is built around a large IP pool, granular targeting and a dashboard for managing sessions, with sign-up gated by a stated KYC process.
What the record shows
Bright Data states a pool of 400M+ IPs and describes its network as residential, mobile, ISP and datacentre — though the only product type on record in this profile is residential. Protocol support is documented as HTTP, HTTPS and SOCKS5, with rotating and sticky session options, and targeting down to country, city, ZIP and ASN level. Authentication is stated as username/password or IP allowlist, concurrency is described as unlimited, and the provider documents API access, sub-user accounts and a web dashboard with granular controls. On sourcing, Bright Data states that IPs come from consenting peers who opt in via an app SDK, are compensated, and can opt out at any time; it also documents GDPR and CCPA compliance and describes the network as ethically sourced. A strict KYC process is stated as a requirement to use the service. Support is documented as 24/7 with engineers, 15-minute priority responses and real-time Slack access. Bright Data also states a 99.99% network uptime SLA, roughly 0.7 second response time and a 99.95% success rate — these are the provider's own figures; this directory has not run controlled tests and cannot confirm them. A free start is stated, with no credit card required, though the terms of that trial are not detailed. Payment is documented as supported via AWS Marketplace; no other payment method is on record. What's blank: there is no independently verified country list matching the stated 195, no detail on refund or cancellation terms for monthly plans, no specifics on sub-user limits or pricing, and no published data on data centre or mobile proxy pricing despite those network types being mentioned in the specification.
Pricing
The recorded entry price is USD 3.5 per GB on the Entry plan (141 GB), rising to USD 4 per GB on the pay-as-you-go plan with no minimum commitment. Both are billed by data volume rather than by IP, session or time, so cost scales with how much traffic a buyer actually pulls through the network rather than how many proxies or sessions they open. Monthly plans are stated to start at $499/month, which sets a floor for committed usage separate from the per-GB PAYG rate. On price position, this directory places Bright Data as cheaper than only 15% of the 21 providers here that also bill per GB — in other words, most per-GB competitors in this set undercut it on headline rate.
Who it suits
The combination of city- and ASN-level targeting, sticky and rotating sessions, and sub-user accounts points toward buyers running structured scraping, ad verification or geo-testing work at a business level, particularly those already comfortable with AWS Marketplace billing. The stated KYC requirement and $499/month plan floor make this a poor fit for casual, anonymous or very low-budget use — pay-as-you-go softens that somewhat, but at the higher $4/GB rate. Anyone whose priority is the lowest per-GB price should note the price position above before committing, and anyone needing mobile or datacentre IPs specifically should be aware only residential is on record here.
Where to look closer
Buyers should ask Bright Data directly for the full list of 195 countries it states coverage in, since only 12 are independently on record in this directory. It's also worth asking what the strict KYC process actually involves and how long it takes, what the free start's terms are given they are not detailed, whether payment methods beyond AWS Marketplace exist, and what “unlimited concurrency” means in practice under any fair-use limits. Finally, the uptime, response-time and success-rate figures are provider-stated and have not been independently tested by this directory, so buyers wanting performance assurance should ask for recent, verifiable data or run their own trial before committing to a monthly plan.
This assessment is editorial analysis of the sourced facts recorded on this page. Specifications, pricing and coverage are provider-stated and dated in the panels above. No controlled performance test has been run against this provider.
