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

Textverified 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 / 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

Textverified mentions (9)

• Bypass SMS/Phone Verification Free (No signup)

  Paid, but very good service: https://textverified.com. Source: over 3 years ago

• What are some websites every person should know?

  Ah, yeah I forgot about that part! When you are creating the account, you can click on the flag icon next to the phone number and change it to a different country (including the US if you want to). I don't think there should be a problem with just using your personal cell phone number to verify, but if you want an extra layer of separation you can also try using a SMS verification service like sms-activate.org or... Source: over 3 years ago

• how to get a fake phone number

  It depends. Suppose you need a one-time burner number to receive a one-time SMS (you can't re-verify yourself using that number again). In that case, you can use reasonably cheap paid text-verification services such as "textverified.com (US only)" or "smspva.com (Multi-countries including Egyptian numbers are available)". Source: over 3 years ago

• Phone number requirement

  Also this doesnt solve the smurfing and cheating problem... There are plenty of services that work as a post paid phone like textverified.com and a few other sites and apps. They did not think this through at all. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Non-VoIP phone numbers for SMS verification

  Textverified.com , would you mind giving me the link to where the raffle is being held? Source: over 4 years ago