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 (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 / 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 / 3 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

Freephonenum mentions (8)

• free use phone numbers

  Https://freephonenum.com/ is one example, googling "single use phone numbers" (no quotes) yield others, but be careful: lots of "verify your phone number" sites are now disallowing these numbers for verification. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Unlimited SMS code verification?

  Sites like https://freephonenum.com/ will give you a free number, but some websites now block numbers like that, including google voice numbers. Not sure if anyone's blocking numbers from paid providers such as twilio. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Do you need a new phone number every time you create a new twitter account?

  I think I’ve used https://freephonenum.com but I don’t remember, you can try it out if you don’t mind the risk. Or you could get another phone, maybe a prepaid one for a month or something like that. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Help understanding SMS Protocols (SMPP, SMCS’s and related services)

  I have been trying to do research into how these free SMS receiving & sending websites & apps actually have the virtual mobile numbers that they list & you can select for use & actually receive messages to from normal telco registered numbers. I am really interested in understanding how they access the service numbers. How they register them, so they work on the international sms network. I’m referring to... Source: almost 4 years ago

• unban method (works one time)

  This method only works for people who have just been banned for the first time but what I did was go on the site https://freephonenum.com and add one of those numbers when wizz asks you to sign up. If you don’t get a code just keep trying the other numbers they offer until you see the code pop up. This actually worked for me the first time I got banned. doesn’t work again after that. Source: about 4 years ago