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": "2026-11-12T06:10:04.859273Z",
            "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 domains, a quarterly-updated list of hard sites, cost more when 'Premium Domains' is enabled on the zone. The docs had marked this deprecated on 20 May 2026 and describe it again since October 2026; the premium rate isn't published, so estimates use the standard rate.",
        "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": "2026-11-12T06:10:04.859273Z",
    "freshness": "fresh",
    "schema_version": "1.0"
  }
}