Bright Data is the heavyweight — an enormous proxy network and a wide catalog of products (Web Unlocker, Scraping Browser, SERP API, datasets). It's powerful, but it's priced largely per-GB of bandwidth across à-la-carte SKUs, which gets complex and hard to forecast fast. UnblockingAPI is one product, one flat fee: unlimited requests and bandwidth, rendering and geo included — you scale by concurrency.
| UnblockingAPI | Bright Data | |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Flat monthly, by concurrency | Largely per-GB bandwidth |
| Bandwidth | Unlimited, included | Metered, a primary cost driver |
| Product surface | One API + structured endpoints | Many à-la-carte products/SKUs |
| Cost predictability | Same bill every month | Varies with GB + SKU mix |
| Rendering & geo | Included on every plan | Across separate products |
| Proxy pool size | Residential, 195+ countries | Very large (tens of millions of IPs) |
| Time to first call | Minutes, self-serve | More setup across products |
Rendered pages are heavy — per-GB pricing punishes exactly the JS-heavy sites you need most. Here, bandwidth is unlimited and included.
No stitching together Web Unlocker + Scraping Browser + proxies + SERP SKUs. One endpoint does the unblocking; structured endpoints return JSON.
Per-GB across multiple SKUs is hard to forecast. A flat monthly fee is the same whether you pull 10GB or 10TB.
Bright Data's scale is real: one of the largest proxy networks in the world, deep product breadth, compliance tooling and enterprise muscle. If you need raw proxy access at massive scale, specialised SKUs, or off-the-shelf datasets, they're hard to beat. If what you actually want is "send a URL, get the unblocked page" at a flat, predictable price without metering bandwidth or assembling SKUs — that's the gap we fill.
No. Bandwidth and requests are unlimited on every plan — you scale by concurrency. Heavy, rendered pages don't cost you extra the way per-GB pricing makes them.
No. One /unblock endpoint handles proxies, rendering and anti-bot together; structured endpoints (Google SERP, Idealista) return parsed JSON. There's nothing to wire together.
No — Bright Data operates one of the largest networks anywhere. We focus on doing one job well: returning the unblocked page from residential IPs across 195+ countries, at a flat price. For most scraping workloads that's exactly enough.
Unlimited bandwidth and requests, one flat fee, one endpoint. Try it in minutes.