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

Bounce Reviews

Bright Data mentions (44)

• 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 / about 2 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 / 2 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 / 2 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 / 4 months ago

• Python vs Go vs Java vs Ruby: Picking the Right Language for Production Web Scraping

  Enterprise proxy providers like Bright Data and Oxylabs offer large shared mobile pools that work well for high-volume data collection. For scraping workflows that need dedicated IPs with longer session stability and programmatic proxy management, smaller specialized providers like VoidMob offer dedicated mobile proxies on carrier infrastructure with MCP server access for agent-level control over rotation and... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

Bounce mentions (47)

• Where to put my stuff during job interviews? (No car)

  There's a service called bounce that will allow you to store luggage for a small fee usually at a newsagents. Source: over 2 years ago

• Luggage storage at/near Seoul Station?

  I will be visting Seoul but visting Busan for 6 days during the middle of my trip. I need to leave 2 large rolling luggages at or near Seoul station b/c Im taking KTX. I heard storage spaces lockers can be limited (and expensive) at the station. I found that some people use radicalstorage.com or usebounce.com but these locations are outside the station. Anyone have experience with any of these options or have... Source: almost 3 years ago

• Brief Visit Baggage Check-Downtown Seattle

  You can also use Bounce to book a location to store your luggage for $7.50 including tax - these are stores that will take luggage. (You can take a look at the comments for each location to figure out what store it is. I've used this in other cities and some can be sketchier than others.). Source: almost 3 years ago

• Are car break ins that bad to the point of not visiting sf?

  Check out https://usebounce.com and https://luggagehero.com for short term luggage storage. Source: almost 3 years ago

• Miami for 17hrs

  There are several places at Miami Beach where you could store a bag. Go to https://usebounce.com/ , plug in "Miami Beach", and see what works for you. They also have an app, so you don't have to decide where you want to drop your bag in advance, you can pick a location near where you want to start your run. Source: almost 3 years ago