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 / 5 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

WunderGraph mentions (58)

• GraphQL vs REST: 18 Claims Fact-Checked with Primary Sources (2026)

  I run WunderGraph . We build GraphQL Federation infrastructure. I have a horse in this race, and you should know that upfront. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Cap'n Web: a new RPC system for browsers and web servers

  I'm with WunderGraph, a vendor providing enterprise tooling for GraphQL. First, I absolutely love Capn Proto and the ideas of chaining calls on objects. It's amazing to see what's possible with CapNweb. However, one of the examples compares it to GraphQL, which I think falls a bit short of how enterprises use the Query language in real life. First, like others mentioned, you'll have N+1 problems for nested lists.... - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• What Happens When AI Becomes the Client?

  At WunderGraph, we’ve been building toward that future with Cosmo, our GraphQL federation platform. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• An Introduction to Cosmo Router — Blazingly Fast Open-Source Federation V1/V2 Gateway

  Today, we’ll look at WunderGraph Cosmo ’s high-performance, open-source, Federation V1/V2 compatible Router. We’ll cover what it does, why it’s so important to the Cosmo stack, how you can host it yourself, and even customize and extend it with Go code of your own. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• GraphQL Federation Field-level Metrics 101

  To demonstrate field usage metrics in Federation, I’ll be using WunderGraph Cosmo — a fully open source, fully self-hostable platform for Federation V1/V2 that is a drop in replacement for Apollo GraphOS. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago