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 / 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 / 5 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

Serverpod mentions (7)

• What's New in Flutter 3.47

  Try out serverpod. Not affiliated with them- it's just a super nice integrated Dart backend: https://serverpod.dev/. - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

• What is Flutter? A Complete Introduction for Developers

  ServerPod lets you build your backend in Dart. Most Flutter apps talk to a backend written in Node.js, Python, or Go. ServerPod lets you write full-stack applications in a single language. It includes an ORM, API generation, authentication, and real-time communication. If you're building a Flutter app and need a backend, ServerPod means your entire team can work in Dart with shared types and business logic between... - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Why Nim?

  Yes, it's not very popular but there's lots of good alternatives now for, for example, CLI and Server backends. Some very good frameworks/service to look at for backend development: * Serverpod - https://serverpod.dev/ * DartFrog - https://dart-frog.dev/ * DartStream - https://dartstream-prod.frb.io/ * Appwrite - https://appwrite.io/docs/quick-starts/dart It's just a really good language to work on, try the... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• AI-Guided AWS Deployment for Your Dart Backend Applications

  Dart's potential for backend development has gained a lot of attention. While Dart's official shelf library has been the traditional solution for backend development, there has been other solutions to enable full-stack Dart applications. Projects like Serverpod and Dart Frog are expanding the ecosystem, making it easier than ever to build complete applications using Dart on both frontend and backend. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Start Your Journey with Serverpod: Contribute and Earn Recognition

  Serverpod is the ultimate backend framework built by and for the Flutter community, written entirely in Dart. It’s a powerful platform that streamlines backend development for modern Flutter applications, offering seamless integration with Flutter, robust database support, and effortless API creation. With Serverpod, building scalable, real-time applications becomes a breeze. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago