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.
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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 Scrapfly if scraper teams who will burn the Free 1,000 credits at $0 while they open a first Monitoring list, then Discovery at $30/month (200,000 credits) when the quota caps, or Pro at $100 when
Best for
Bright Data A zone you start at a public $
Scrapfly A scrape you inspect at a public $
Free plan
Bright Data No free plan
Scrapfly $0 · 1,000 API credits on signup. No card. 5 concurrency. Quota cap (no extras)
Lowest paid
Bright Data Data Firehose $0.2
Scrapfly Custom $1/mo
Next step up
Bright Data Datacenter proxies from $0.9
Scrapfly Discovery $30/mo
Runs where
Bright Data Hosted
Scrapfly Hosted
Watch out
Bright Data Free tier is Unlocker / SERP / Scraper APIs, not a $0 Datacenter zone
Scrapfly Free and Discovery hard-cap at quota
Last checked
Bright Data 2026-10-23 · brightdata.com/pricing
Scrapfly 2026-10-23 · scrapfly.io/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Scrapfly if
scraper teams who will burn the Free 1,000 credits at $0 while they open a first Monitoring list, then Discovery at $30/month (200,000 credits) when the quota caps, or Pro at $100 when they need pay-as-you-go overflow.
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