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

DeepAI 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 1 month 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

DeepAI mentions (29)

• What is the Most Effective AI Tool for App Development Today?

  Cogniflow takes no-code further into AI model creation. Kevin Baragona, Founder of Deep AI, shares, "Cogniflow is a no-code platform that allows users to create custom AI models from data or text and then deploy them via API." This enables rapid MVPs for tasks like sentiment analysis, integrating seamlessly into existing systems. - Source: dev.to / 12 months ago

• Critical Mistakes to Avoid When Dealing with Software Bugs

  Not recording when bugs occur misses patterns tied to events like deployments or billing cycles. “One rare but powerful insight I would share is that bugs often manifest around specific times such as deployment windows, daylight saving changes, or billing cycles,” says Kevin Baragona, Founder of Deep AI. IBM’s developer experience report notes developers spend nearly half their time debugging, and Datadog’s... - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• 12 Practices and Tools to Ensure API Security

  Sometimes API security requires you to go on the offensive, and proactively implement methods to detect attackers. Kevin Baragona, Founder of Deep AI proposes a rather interesting solution:. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Human AI – Humanizing AI Produced Content

  Another important use of Human AI tools is human detection in images and videos. This technology is particularly useful in areas such as security and surveillance, where it is essential to identify the presence of people in real time. Tools such as DeepAI offer a variety of AI generators, including those for human detection, which can be used to improve security and monitor sensitive areas. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Any Llama 2 models available that allow free discussion of non-establishment narratives?

  If you try to engage ChatGPT or deepai.org's free chat with a non-establishment narrative, it will often refuse to engage, refuse to consider anything you say, and just claim it's "misinformation" and that you have "no evidence," despite you having enumerated the specific evidence you have (video with a solid chain of custody, eyewitness testimony, etc.). Source: almost 3 years ago