Bright Data Reviews

1. Sam Mitchell

   · Owner at KittenProperties · over 2 years ago
   Mixed feelings

   We used their DC proxies and Residential proxies. Resi proxies were having quite low success rate. We had to use resi solution from other proxy providers. Unblocker didn't work well either also it was way too expensive.

   🏁 Competitors: Decodo, NetNut.io

   👍 Pros:    Cheap dc proxies

   👎 Cons:    Quite expensive|Residential proxies are worse than competitiors

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Bright Data mentions (45)

• Precursor

  Happy to offer a counter of some great products for anti-bot defeat: https://brightdata.com/ https://www.zenrows.com/ https://www.capsolver.com/ https://scrapfly.io/ hundreds of millions of residential ips, human browser fingerprints, custom browser binaries, auto solve of turnstyle, recaptcha v3, kasada, datadome, AWS WAF, etc if they come up. - Source: Hacker News / 28 days ago

• Best Web Scraping Tools in 2026: A Hands-On Comparison of the Top 10

  The best web scraping tools 2026 leaderboard hasn't changed; the gap has narrowed. Bright Data remains the safest bet for any team that wants to spend time on the data, not on the scraping. The 660-scraper library, 400M-IP network, pay-per-success pricing and unlimited concurrency are still uncontested at the high end. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• The Economics of Web Scraping: How Consultancies Price Data Extraction and Manage Scope Creep

  Infrastructure Pass-Through (OpEx) Data extraction at scale is infrastructure-heavy. Bypassing modern Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) requires high-quality residential proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, and substantial browser-automation compute resources. Services like Bright Data charge significantly by the gigabyte for premium residential IPs. These variable infrastructure costs must be passed directly to the client,... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• LinkedIn Scraping Is Dead: 5 Legal, ToS-Safe Alternatives That Actually Work in 2026

  Bright Data has successfully defended web scraping in U.S. Courts and offers LinkedIn datasets pre-collected and ready to download. LinkedIn profile data on their dataset marketplace runs around $250 per 100,000 records. The freshness caveat is real: bulk datasets are snapshots, not real-time. If you need current job titles on a rolling basis, you're better with an enrichment API than a one-time dataset pull.... - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Building a Live AI Market Research Terminal: How Bright Data and Convex Replace Polling With Real-Time Everything

  Bright Data built an open-source demo that solves this. It's called the Signal Terminal, a financial research tool built around that problem. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

Argent mentions (30)

• which wallet do you use any why?

  Https://argent.xyz has been leading Account Abstraction for years and will support zkSync and Starknet natively, try it out today to see what the L2 future looks like. Source: over 3 years ago

• What’s the risk in staking your ETH on Coinbase?

  Why would you not consider moving all of that ETH to a smart contract like Argent which is easily recoverable and super secure but also lets you stake via Lido? Source: over 3 years ago

• What's Your Dark Horse Crypto Project? (2022 Edition)

  • ⁠DeFi on Arbitrum which had its highest active accounts and just migrated to Nitro. Treasure for NFTs. Nova and moons. • ⁠Optimism experimenting with governance and public goods funding. Synthetix, Velodrome and Lyra for DeFi. Quixotic for NFTs. • ⁠zkSync launching super simple UX for newbies with http://argent.xyz using account abstraction and social recovery. EVM in 53 days. • ⁠Starknet and on-chain gaming... Source: almost 4 years ago

• What’s the smartest way to use this bear market?

  ZkSync launching super simple UX for newbies with http://argent.xyz using account abstraction and social recovery. EVM in 53 days. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Question for the OGS: is the bear market a good time for innovation?

  • zkSync launching super simple UX for newbies with http://argent.xyz using account abstraction and social recovery. Source: about 4 years ago