Pick Bright Data if
scraping teams who will start on a printed public tile (Unlocker Free tier from $1/1k, or Datacenter from $0.9/IP) while they open a first zone, then Residential at $2.5/GB when they need peer IPs.
Read the Bright Data pageBright Data vs Oxylabs
Our take
Pick Bright Data if scraping teams who will start on a printed public tile (Unlocker Free tier from $1/1k, or Datacenter from $0.9/IP) while they open a first zone, then Residential at $2.5/GB when they need peer IPs. Pick Oxylabs if scraping / proxy teams who will start with the $5 welcome credits, then Starter at $30/month when they need a first paid pool, or Basic at $100 when residential GB and scrape results
Best for
Bright Data A zone you start at a public $
Oxylabs A product list you start at a public $
Free plan
Bright Data No free plan
Oxylabs No free plan
Lowest paid
Bright Data Data Firehose $0.2
Oxylabs Enterprise $2/mo
Next step up
Bright Data Datacenter proxies from $0.9
Oxylabs Welcome credits $5
Runs where
Bright Data Hosted
Oxylabs Hosted
Watch out
Bright Data Free tier is Unlocker / SERP / Scraper APIs, not a $0 Datacenter zone
Oxylabs $5 welcome credits are not a forever Free plan
Last checked
Bright Data 2026-10-23 · brightdata.com/pricing
Oxylabs 2026-10-23 · oxylabs.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Oxylabs if
scraping / proxy teams who will start with the $5 welcome credits, then Starter at $30/month when they need a first paid pool, or Basic at $100 when residential GB and scrape results grow.
Read the Oxylabs page