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Decodo vs Bright Data86 against 60

Two proxy companies selling a scraping API in different units. Decodo prices per 1,000 requests in four modes on every plan, $0.50 standard and $0.75 with JavaScript on the $19 plan, $0.14 standard on the $99 plan, with a 14-day money-back line; Bright Data prices per 1,000 records, $1.50 pay as you go and $1.30 beyond the 384,000 included in its plan, a record being one extracted item from one of 800+ site scrapers. Decodo when you fetch pages, Bright Data when you want rows from a named site.

Six criteria, side by side
DecodoBright Data
Price4 of 5 / 2 of 5
Capability5 of 5 / 5 of 5
Stated performance4 of 5 / 3 of 5
Integration4 of 5 / 4 of 5
Transparency5 of 5 / 3 of 5
Terms5 of 5 / 4 of 5
DecodoExcellentper request
ScoreRead 2026-09-18
86Excellentof 100
Priceweight 254 of 5
Capabilityweight 205 of 5
Stated performanceweight 154 of 5
Integrationweight 154 of 5
Transparencyweight 155 of 5
Termsweight 105 of 5
Bright DataFairper request
ScoreRead 2026-09-18
60Fairof 100
Priceweight 252 of 5
Capabilityweight 205 of 5
Stated performanceweight 153 of 5
Integrationweight 154 of 5
Transparencyweight 153 of 5
Termsweight 104 of 5
Shared rows, as published
DecodoBright Data
1,000 requests, entry plan
$0.50
$1.50
Free tier
$0
$0

Each band runs from the lowest to the highest published price of that row, drawn on the vendor’s own scale up to its dearest shared row: Decodo in per 1,000 requests on standard proxies, the $19 plan, 10 requests a second, Bright Data in per 1,000 records, pay as you go. Currencies as published, nothing converted. Read dates in the sources below.

Decodo fact sheet
Plans
Free $0, $19, $49, $99 a month plus VAT, and a custom enterprise column [1]
Per 1,000, standard
$0.50 (free and $19), $0.30 ($49), $0.14 ($99, 707,000 requests included) [1]
Per 1,000, with JavaScript
$0.75, $0.65, $0.60 on standard proxies; $1.50, $1.25, $1.20 on premium [1]
Rate limit
10, 10, 25 and 50 requests a second by plan [1]
Proxy pools
Standard in 8 countries, premium in 193 [1]
Claims
99.99% success rate, 200 requests per second, 125M+ IPs [1]
Output
HTML, JSON, CSV, XHR, PNG, LLM-ready markdown; 100+ templates; MCP server [1]
Terms
14-day money-back option, 24/7 tech support, prices plus VAT billed monthly [1]
Bright Data fact sheet
Unit
A record: one extracted item, shown as a row, e.g. one LinkedIn profile [3]
Pay as you go
$1.50 per 1,000 records, pay only for success, monthly spend limits [3]
Plans
$499 for 384,000 records ($1.30 per 1,000 additional), $999 for 908,000 ($1.10), $1,999 for 1,999,000 ($1.00), Enterprise custom [3]
Free tier
5,000 records a month, no card [3]
Included everywhere
Automated proxy management, full browser rendering, CAPTCHA solving, unlimited concurrency [3]
Billing rule
No charges for failed deliveries; cancel anytime [3]
Promotion
25% off the Scraper API for 3 months with code APIS25, on the page on the read date [3]
Integration
SDKs, Python, Node.js, CLI, webhooks, async, MCP server, per the documentation [4]

Read the full reviews

Sources
  1. [1]
    Decodo Web Scraping API product page with the price table Decodo, read 2026-09-18.

    All prices shown are per 1K req. $0: $0.50 $0.75 $1.00 $1.50 10 req/s. $19: $0.50 $0.75 $1.00 $1.50 10 req/s. $49: $0.30 $0.65 $0.90 $1.25 25 req/s. $99: $0.14 707K req. $0.60 165K req. $0.85 116K req. $1.20 82K req. 50 req/s. 99.99% success rate. 14-day money-back.

  2. [2]
    Decodo help centre, scraping APIs Decodo, read 2026-09-18.

    MCP, cURL, webhook, Python, Node.js, n8n, LangChain, asynchronous named on the scraping APIs section.

  3. [3]
    Bright Data Web Scraper API pricing Bright Data, read 2026-09-18.

    Only pay for what's successfully delivered. No hidden fees, no charges for failed deliveries. Get 25% off on Scraper API for 3 months. Use code APIS25 at checkout. FREE TIER 5K records per month No credit card required. PAY AS YOU GO $ 1.5 /1K record Pay only for success Unlimited concurrency. SCALE 384,000 records included $ 1.3 /1K additional records Cancel anytime. Slider data: price 499 records 384,000 rate 1.3; price 999 records 908,000 rate 1.1; price 1999 records 1,999,000 rate 1. A record is one extracted item, shown as a row in the table - e.g., one LinkedIn profile.

  4. [4]
    Bright Data Web Scraper API documentation overview Bright Data, read 2026-09-18.

    SDK, CLI, Python, webhook, Node.js, MCP, cURL, async named on the overview page.

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