Bright DataWeb Scraper API / Pay as you go
$0.00/ month est.
pay-as-you-go / unit rate
- Success-only billing
- Free tier
Bright Data vs ScraperAPI
Head-to-head public list prices for Bright Data and ScraperAPI, ranked at the same monthly volume and the same billing unit family.
When Bright Data fits
Lean Bright Data when their unit model matches your workload (Often result/record-like on the pages we scrape — confirm the metric on the vendor page.) and you prefer their published plan shape.
Bright Data pricing →When ScraperAPI fits
Lean ScraperAPI when you need billed in requests or credits (request-like family).
ScraperAPI pricing →- Only compare within one unit family — results and requests are not 1:1 without your success-rate conversion.
- Bright Data sells many products; we only normalize the public scraper pricing surface we scrape.
- List prices on the public pricing page; enterprise and negotiated rates are not shown.
At 100k · 1M · 5M
Best public-list estimate per vendor at fixed volumes (current unit family). Click a volume to load the full side-by-side ranking.
| Volume | Bright Data | ScraperAPI | Lower est. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Scraper API / Pay as you go · $100/mo | Hobby · $49.0/mo | ScraperAPI | |
| Web Scraper API / Pay as you go · $1000/mo | Startup · $149/mo | ScraperAPI | |
| Web Scraper API / Pay as you go · $5000/mo | Scaling · $475/mo | ScraperAPI |
Billing unit
Monthly volume
Our read for this volume
Bright Data · Web Scraper API / Pay as you go ≈ $0.00 / month
Included volume on the public list plan covers what you asked for.
- pay-as-you-go / unit rate
- Effective rate ≈ $1.00 per 1k records.
- Watch: Success-only billing · Free tier.
Some outbound “pricing” links are affiliate links. We may earn a commission if you sign up — estimates still use the same public list prices either way. How we estimate
Side-by-side options
Sorted for 0 units/month in Requests or credits.
Estimates use public list prices within one unit family only (e.g. results vs results). Requests/credits are not ranked against successful-results plans. Overage uses published $/1k when available. JS render and geo multipliers are not applied unless present on the plan.