Proxy and web data providers · RankedBright Data
Bright Data is a proxy and web data provider that offers custom datasets collected at scale · brightdata.com ↗
Leads at enterprise. Ranked 6 of 139 for mid-market buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
Decodo is first at 49%.
Decodo is first at 57%. 1 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
Ranked first. Next is Oxylabs at 36%.
Why models recommend it
“For enterprise or mission‑critical projects, consider a single vendor that spans all three layers (Bright Data, Oxylabs) to simplify integration and compliance.”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Comparative question · first choice
“Bright Data (formerly Luminati) | Massive network, advanced features, extensive proxy types | 72M+ IPs | Large enterprises, complex data needs”Kimi K2 · Comparative question · first choice
“Broad enterprise needs | Offers proxy networks as well as unblocking, browser, scraper API, SERP, and ready-made dataset products.”GPT-6 Luna · Comparative question · first choice
“Industry-leading proxy ecosystem... Choose Bright Data or Oxylabs if: You are an enterprise scraping millions of pages daily”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Comparative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid for mid-market: Pure enterprise (Bright Data, NetNut) if budget is a concern”Grok 4.20 · Direct question · warning
“Avoid premium providers like Oxylabs and Bright Data unless you have a larger budget”Kimi K2 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“Avoid for Budgets: Premium providers like Bright Data or Oxylabs”Grok 4.20 · Budget-constrained question · warning
“They're premium (often $8–$15/GB) and better for high-stakes, very large-scale B2B ops—but they can feel oversized and expensive for mid-sized needs.”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Bright Data, over the 166 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 159 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 101 | 43 | Compare → | |
| 81 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 62 | 6 | View → | |
| 52 | 0 | View → | |
| 46 | 8 | Compare → | |
| 44 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 31 | 2 | View → | |
| 23 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 22 | 2 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Bright Data →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Bright Data's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- humans & AI agents
- Price stated
- Unlocker API FREE TIER Starts from$1/1k req; Crawl API Starts from$1/1k req; SERP API FREE TIER Starts from$1/1k req; Browser API Starts from$5/GB; Scraper APIs FREE TIER Starts from~$1~ $0.75/1k rec; Scraper Studio FREE TIER Starts from$1/1k req; Datasets Starts from$250/100K rec; Data Firehose Starts from$0.2/1k HTML; Retail Insights Starts from$2000/mo; Managed Data Acquisition Starts from$1500/mo; Residential 50% OFF Starts from~$5~ $2.5/GB; Datacenter Starts from$0.9/IP; ISP Starts from$1.3/IP
- Starting price
- Starts from$0.2/1k HTML
- Free plan or trial
- Start free trial; FREE TIER
- Certifications
- SOC 2, ISO 27001
- Hosting
- 200+ countries
- Customers named
- Raylu, Yutori, ScaleStack, Vibeslist, RTRVR, Fundable, Senso, Parallax Vision
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 144 of the 166 answers that named Bright Data and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
383 of the 455 domain citations in answers naming Bright Data came from a third party's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 2,285 | undated | ETL, Proxy and web data | ||
| Comparison | 145 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 114 | undated | CDN | ||
| Case study | 108 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 66 | undated | |||
| Webinar or virtual event | 20 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 10 | undated | |||
| News or press | 3 | undated | |||
| Podcast or video | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page brightdata.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.