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

Citizen Reviews

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 / about 2 months 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 / 4 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 / 6 months ago

Citizen mentions (38)

• Fifty Things you can do with a Software Defined Radio

  A few months ago when there was a lot of emergency services activity in my area and I didn't know why, I was reminded that no-one in my region is contributing a feed to Broadcastify. I went down the tunnel of using SDR to recieve those transmissions, and share them online. Then I went a bit further. What if you could transcribe the broadcasts into something like a text feed? What if you could add location... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• NERV Disaster Prevention

  Citizen does this (https://citizen.com) I used it for a bit, and it had decent UX, but it seems designed to raise your anxiety until you pay for a snake oil subscription. YMMV. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• /r/Phoenix daily chat - Tuesday, Jun 27

  I hear sirens! The Phoenix Fire Board is a real-time list of car accidents (Code '962'), fires, and hazardous situations. You can also check out the Citizen App that people use to report things happening around them. Source: about 3 years ago

• Police heading north

  Https://citizen.com I’m guessing this is what they’re talking about. Source: over 3 years ago

• Subreddit for scanner events?

  They don't. Citizen App probably what you want, but it's only useful in big cities. Source: over 3 years ago