Bright Data

The same comparison from the API:

curl -X POST https://scrapeselect.com/api/v1/compare \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"products":["bright-data/web-unlocker"],"workload":{"successful_pages_per_month":500000,"javascript_ratio":0.2,"anti_bot_level":"medium","target_country":"US","country_required":true,"peak_concurrency":40,"monthly_billing_only":true,"expected_success_rate":null,"average_page_size_kb":null,"average_browser_seconds":null}}'

{
  "products": [
    {
      "estimate": {
        "provider": "bright-data",
        "provider_name": "Bright Data",
        "product": "web-unlocker",
        "product_name": "Web Unlocker API",
        "category": "web_unlocker",
        "billing_model": "per_successful_request",
        "architecture": "managed_api",
        "feasible": true,
        "low": {
          "plan_key": "scale-499",
          "plan_name": "Scale $499",
          "monthly_cost_usd": 651.1,
          "cost_per_1k_pages_usd": 1.3022
        },
        "expected": {
          "plan_key": "scale-499",
          "plan_name": "Scale $499",
          "monthly_cost_usd": 651.1,
          "cost_per_1k_pages_usd": 1.3022
        },
        "high": {
          "plan_key": "scale-499",
          "plan_name": "Scale $499",
          "monthly_cost_usd": 651.1,
          "cost_per_1k_pages_usd": 1.3022
        },
        "rejected_plans": {
          "enterprise": "price not public"
        },
        "sources": [
          {
            "key": "unlocker-pricing",
            "url": "https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker",
            "title": "Web Unlocker pricing",
            "observed_at": "2026-09-26T06:10:04.146951Z",
            "excerpts": [
              "Free Tier | 5K requests per month | No credit card required",
              "Pay as you go | $1.5 /1K requests | Pay only for success | Set monthly spend limits | Unlimited concurrency",
              "Scale | $499 /month | Slide to adjust plan | 383K requests included | $1.3/1K additional requests | Cancel anytime",
              "data-tiers: {\"price\":999,\"records\":\"908K\",\"rate\":1.1} {\"price\":1999,\"records\":\"2M\",\"rate\":1}"
            ],
            "fact_type": "official_claim",
            "freshness": "fresh"
          }
        ]
      },
      "features": [
        {
          "key": "javascript-rendering",
          "label": "JavaScript rendering",
          "value": true,
          "notes": null,
          "source": "unlocker-features"
        },
        {
          "key": "premium-proxy",
          "label": "Premium proxy",
          "value": true,
          "notes": "Proxy selection is automatic.",
          "source": "unlocker-pricing"
        },
        {
          "key": "country-targeting",
          "label": "Country targeting",
          "value": true,
          "notes": null,
          "source": "unlocker-features"
        },
        {
          "key": "city-targeting",
          "label": "City targeting",
          "value": false,
          "notes": "City/ZIP only documented for Amazon.",
          "source": "unlocker-features"
        },
        {
          "key": "cookie-persistence",
          "label": "Cookie persistence",
          "value": false,
          "notes": "Cookies may not be used for login or authentication; custom cookies need approval and make every request billable.",
          "source": "unlocker-features"
        },
        {
          "key": "unlimited-concurrency",
          "label": "Unlimited concurrency",
          "value": true,
          "notes": null,
          "source": "unlocker-pricing"
        }
      ],
      "limits": [],
      "notes": [
        "JS rendering and proxy selection are included in the per-request price; no surcharge is published.",
        "Enabling custom headers, cookies or 'expect' makes 100% of requests billable, including failures.",
        "Premium-domain pricing was deprecated on 20 May 2026 but may still apply to older accounts.",
        "The Scale plan is a slider with three price points; its rate is both the effective and the overage price.",
        "Temporary promos (deposit match up to $500) are not included."
      ],
      "url": "/products/bright-data/web-unlocker"
    }
  ],
  "assumptions": [
    {
      "key": "success_rate",
      "label": "Success rate",
      "value": "97% / 93% / 88%",
      "origin": "default",
      "note": "Low / expected / high scenario for medium anti-bot targets. Only changes cost where failed attempts are billed."
    },
    {
      "key": "protected_share",
      "label": "Pages needing premium proxies",
      "value": "20% / 30% / 45%",
      "origin": "editorial",
      "note": "Share of pages behind anti-bot protection for medium targets."
    },
    {
      "key": "difficulty_tier",
      "label": "Website difficulty tier",
      "value": "2 / 3 / 4",
      "origin": "editorial",
      "note": "Only used by providers that price by site tier (e.g. Zyte); their own estimator gives the real tier."
    },
    {
      "key": "page_size_kb",
      "label": "Average page size",
      "value": "300 KB",
      "origin": "default",
      "note": "Drives cost for traffic-billed products and proxy traffic."
    },
    {
      "key": "browser_traffic_multiplier",
      "label": "Browser page traffic",
      "value": "4x the HTML size",
      "origin": "editorial",
      "note": "Rendered pages also load scripts, styles and images."
    },
    {
      "key": "browser_seconds",
      "label": "Browser time per rendered page",
      "value": "10 s",
      "origin": "default",
      "note": null
    },
    {
      "key": "compute_units",
      "label": "Compute per 1,000 pages",
      "value": "0.8 CU (HTTP), 6 CU (browser)",
      "origin": "public_observation",
      "note": "From Apify's Website Content Crawler README (0.8 CU HTTP, 2-20 CU browser)."
    },
    {
      "key": "geotargeting",
      "label": "Country targeting",
      "value": "US (required)",
      "origin": "user",
      "note": "Some providers only allow country targeting with premium proxies."
    }
  ],
  "engine_version": "0.1.0",
  "meta": {
    "data_checked_at": "2026-09-26T06:10:04.146951Z",
    "freshness": "fresh",
    "schema_version": "1.0"
  }
}