# Bright Data — Web Unlocker API
Category: web_unlocker. Billing: per_successful_request; only successful requests are billed.
Pricing verified: 2026-09-26 (fresh)
Free trial: 5,000 free requests per month, shared with SERP API and Web Scraper API; no credit card.

## Plans
- Pay as you go: pay as you go [unlocker-pricing]
- Scale $499: $499/month; includes 383000 successful_request; extra successful_request $1.3 per 1000 [unlocker-pricing]
- Scale $999: $999/month; includes 908000 successful_request; extra successful_request $1.1 per 1000 [unlocker-pricing]
- Scale $1,999: $1999/month; includes 2000000 successful_request; extra successful_request $1 per 1000 [unlocker-pricing]
- Enterprise: contact sales [unlocker-pricing]

## Rates by plan
- Pay as you go / any request: 1.5 usd per 1000 requests [unlocker-pricing]

## Capabilities
- JavaScript rendering: True
- Premium proxy: True (Proxy selection is automatic.)
- Country targeting: True
- City targeting: False (City/ZIP only documented for Amazon.)
- Cookie persistence: False (Cookies may not be used for login or authentication; custom cookies need approval and make every request billable.)
- Unlimited concurrency: True

## Things to know
- 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.

## Sources
- [unlocker-features] Web Unlocker features: https://docs.brightdata.com/products/web-unlocker/features.md (checked 2026-09-26)
- [unlocker-pricing] Web Unlocker pricing: https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker (checked 2026-09-26)

Prices change; the provider's checkout is authoritative. Estimates are not invoices. Commissions never affect rankings.