Bright Data Review: the 400M+ pool, priced and dated
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Bright Data is the biggest published residential pool on this site — 400M+ monthly IPs across 195 countries, with free geo targeting — and you pay for it: $4.00/GB pay-as-you-go is a 50% promo off an $8.00/GB list, as of 2026-09-19. Our score: 8.2/10. Best for teams whose job needs rare locations or enterprise tooling; overkill if you scrape three common countries.
Bottom line upfront
8.2/10 — the biggest published pool (400M+ residential IPs, 195 countries) and the deepest first-party documentation of any provider here, but the entry price carries a 50% promo off a $8.00/GB list (coupon RESIGB50, no commitment). For enterprise coverage and free geo targeting it is the pick; for a simple two-country scrape it is expensive. Every figure below was read from Bright Data’s own residential-pricing page on and logged in the dataset.
Scored by Runein. Scores are ours and stated as such. Pool, prices and specs are Bright Data's, read from its residential-pricing page on 2026-09-19; vendor claims (response time, success rate) are labelled as such.
Bright Data publishes the largest residential pool on this site — 400M+ monthly IPs across 195 countries — and its residential pricing section is the only first-party source we could price it from. The entry rate is $4.00/GB pay-as-you-go, which is a 50% promo off an $8.00/GB list. Our score: 8.2/10. It is the pick when coverage and tooling matter more than the per-GB rate.
What Bright Data is
Bright Data sells proxies and scraping tooling to companies that collect data at scale. It runs four proxy products — residential, datacenter, ISP and mobile — plus web unlocker and scraping-API products. What sets it apart in our dataset is what its own page publishes: a 400M+ monthly residential pool, 195 countries, and geo-location targeting listed as free. No other provider in the dataset publishes a pool that large.
How we priced it
Everything on this page was read from Bright Data’s own residential-proxies page on 2026-09-19 and logged with its source URL. The company’s main /pricing page is a product index without numbers, so the residential section is the authoritative pricing source. We did not convert currencies, average quotes, or fill a single missing cell with an estimate.
Pricing (as of 2026-09-19)
| Plan | Rate (as of 2026-09-19) | Condition |
|---|---|---|
| Residential — Pay As You Go | $4.00/GB | Promo 50% OFF list $8.00/GB, coupon RESIGB50; no commitment |
| Residential — 141 GB / month | $3.50/GB | Billed $499/month; 50% OFF list $7.00/GB, coupon RESIGB50 |
| Residential — 332 GB / month | $3.00/GB | Billed $999/month; 50% OFF list $6.00/GB, coupon RESIGB50 |
| Residential — 798 GB / month | $2.50/GB | Billed $1,999/month; 50% OFF list $5.00/GB, coupon RESIGB50 |
| Datacenter | from $0.90/IP | “Starts from” on the residential-pricing page |
| ISP | from $1.30/IP | “Starts from” on the residential-pricing page |
Source: Bright Data residential-proxies page, read . Promo rates are 50% off the printed list; the coupon applies to residential.
What we tested on real machines
We run a small, reproducible suite on the network — real requests through real sessions — and record what we observe: rotation behaviour, sticky-session duration, and how targeting choices behave. We do not run a 10,000-request benchmark. Bright Data’s ~0.7 s response time and 99.95% success rate are its own published claims, dated, not our measurement — the distinction is on How we test.
What the pricing page does not tell you
- The promo is the product right now. Every residential rate you can buy today is 50% off a list price of $5–8/GB. The coupon (RESIGB50) and the no-commitment term are printed on the page — good — but budget for the list rate in renewal math.
- Pool and success claims are vendor claims. 400M+ IPs and 99.95% success are published by Bright Data, not verified by us at scale. We label them as vendor claims with the date.
- No single pricing page. The numbers live in a product section, which makes third-party “the price is $X” claims easy to get wrong. The rows above are the primary source, dated.
The bottom line
Bright Data is the coverage pick. If the job is “scrape or verify across rare locations at enterprise scale,” no provider in our dataset publishes a pool close to its 400M+. If the job is “a few common countries,” the 50% promo hides a $8/GB list rate that Decodo, Webshare or IPRoyal undercut without promo games. Score: 8.2/10. The alternatives are compared on Bright Data alternatives, and the full ranked field is on best residential proxies of September 2026.
Who wrote this
Written by the Runein operator — the same person who pays for and runs these tools. Corrections and vendor price changes go to [email protected] and are re-read, re-dated and logged.
Pros
- Largest published pool on this site: 400M+ monthly residential IPs across 195 countries (vendor page, 2026-09-19)
- Geo-location targeting listed as free on the residential pricing section
- Free trial, no credit card; first-deposit match up to $500 (published)
- Full product line: residential, datacenter, ISP, mobile — DC from $0.90/IP, ISP from $1.30/IP
Cons
- $4.00/GB entry is a 50% promo off the $8.00/GB list — budget for the list rate when it ends
- Pricing lives on the product page, not a single /pricing page with all numbers in one place
- Response time (~0.7 s) and success rate (99.95%) are vendor claims; we do not benchmark at their scale
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FAQ
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Sources
- Bright Data — residential proxies pricing (read 2026-09-19)
- Bright Data — official site