4 Best Bright Data Alternatives

For GTM teams evaluating web data tools, these 4 Bright Data alternatives address different buying goals: Apify offers usage-based platform services, ZenRows combines scraping products on a shared balance, Diffbot describes automated product extraction, and Coresignal offers business data APIs. Start with the data your team needs and the people available to work with it.

Which team fits which

Begin with a specific task rather than a broad request for more data. Write down the fields you need, the sites or business categories involved, and the destination for the finished records. Then use these five criteria to build a practical evaluation brief.

• Team capacity: Identify who will build the connection, inspect records, resolve errors, and maintain the workflow. For a small team, estimate the hours available each week before agreeing to a technical evaluation.
• Data and channel fit: Specify the information needed for account research, market analysis, or an outreach channel. Use an ICP definition framework to describe the businesses you want to understand before choosing fields.
• Billing and contract terms: Ask which unit creates a charge, what a recurring commitment includes, and how additional usage is calculated. Request a written estimate for one representative month and one month with higher demand.
• Reporting and quality checks: Choose a sample size and define acceptable completeness, freshness, and duplication before testing. Record the same checks for every tool so your team can compare useful output against its own requirements.
• Record handover: Decide who receives the data and how it reaches the next workflow. If records support prospecting, document qualification rules, required fields, and responsibility for the next action. Connect this decision to your B2B lead generation plan.

Keep the evaluation brief short enough for a buyer and a technical colleague to review together. A useful brief includes a sample input, expected output, monthly volume, budget boundary, and a named person responsible for acceptance. For outreach use cases, the ICP targeting guide provides related reading while you define the audience.

Inside Bright Data

What it offers

Proxy networks, web scraping tools, refreshed datasets, retail and e-commerce intelligence, and managed data services.

Public pricing details

Unlocker API has a free tier and starts from $1 per 1,000 requests. Browser API starts from $5 per GB. Datasets start from $250 per 100,000 records. Retail Insights starts from $2,000 per month. Managed Data Acquisition starts from $1,500 per month.

Bright Data is the reference tool for this comparison. Its offering spans proxy networks, AI-powered web scraping tools, dynamically refreshed datasets, retail and e-commerce intelligence, and fully managed data services. That range makes it relevant to a team evaluating several forms of web data access within the same buying project.

Its proxy description includes more than 400 million monthly IPs and targeting by country, city, ZIP Code, carrier, and ASN. Teams with location-specific collection requirements can include those targeting dimensions in their evaluation. Write down the exact geography required, then test representative targets against the output your project needs.

Compare costs using the unit attached to each product. Bright Data lists request-based pricing for Unlocker API, bandwidth-based pricing for Browser API, record-based dataset pricing, and monthly starting prices for Retail Insights and Managed Data Acquisition. Build separate estimates for the products your project would actually use.

Inside Apify

What it offers

Platform services include Actors, proxies, data transfer, and storage.

Public pricing details

Usage-based charges apply to platform services. A free plan provides most platform features with limits.

Apify's pricing description covers Actors, proxies, data transfer, and storage as usage-charged services. It suits an evaluation in which the technical team wants to examine those platform components and their consumption together. For the buying exercise, ask your evaluator to document the services involved in a representative task before projecting a monthly budget.

Apify also offers a free plan with access to most platform features, subject to limits. That gives teams a free-plan option to consider during an initial evaluation. Define a small test with clear acceptance criteria, then check the applicable limits before running it. Keep a record of the output you need and the effort required to prepare it for the next step.

Inside ZenRows

What it offers

Fetch, Scraping Browser, and Residential Proxies share one balance, without separate product dashboards.

Public pricing details

All features are included in a single plan. Pricing is not published on the pages we reviewed.

ZenRows brings Fetch, Scraping Browser, and Residential Proxies onto a single shared balance, with no product-level zones or separate dashboards to manage. This makes it relevant to teams whose buying brief calls for those three products under shared balance management.

ZenRows describes a single plan containing all features in its discussion of developers and small to mid-market teams. Its practical fit here is a team comparing that plan structure and shared balance arrangement. Ask for the current price, included usage, and applicable limits before building the final estimate. During evaluation, list the tasks you expect to perform and check each one against the plan you are considering.

Inside Diffbot

What it offers

Product API automatically identifies and extracts product data from shopping pages.

Public pricing details

Pricing is not published on the pages we reviewed.

Diffbot's July 2013 Product API announcement describes automatic identification and extraction of product data from shopping pages. The same announcement describes retrieving an entire e-commerce catalog without requiring a published retailer API or retailer action. These capabilities make it relevant to a buyer evaluating product-page extraction and catalog retrieval.

The source for those descriptions is a historical product announcement from July 2013. Confirm current availability, supported targets, output requirements, and commercial terms during procurement. Choose a representative collection of shopping pages and define the fields required for acceptance. Include different page layouts in your test so the resulting review reflects the work your team intends to perform.

Inside Coresignal

What it offers

B2B Data APIs provide business data for long-term product and platform needs.

Public pricing details

The pricing page displays $1,000 per month and $0.007 per credit. It also offers a free start.

Coresignal describes B2B Data APIs that provide fresh business data for long-term product and platform needs. Its self-service platform is designed for data access and API subscription management. It suits a buyer whose brief centers on business data APIs and self-service subscription administration.

The pricing page displays $1,000 per month alongside $0.007 per credit, and it includes a free-start option. Use those published details as inputs when requesting an estimate for your intended workload. Ask how the actions in your evaluation translate into credits, and document the answer before comparing projected costs. Keep the required business fields and acceptable update timing in the same evaluation brief.

How we compared

This comparison is based on each company's own public pages as of November 2026.

We compared product descriptions, stated billing structures, and the scope of the available pricing details. The buying criteria focus on the work a GTM team needs to complete: obtaining relevant records, assigning technical responsibility, estimating usage, and preparing data for its next destination. Use the same sample task across your shortlist and keep product capability checks separate from your budget calculations.

Frequently asked questions

How we researched this

Sources:

• apify.com/pricing
• www.zenrows.com/blog/best-bright-data-alternative-for-self-service-scraping
• www.diffbot.com/company/press/2013-07-31-diffbot-releases-product-extraction-api
• coresignal.com/solutions/web-data-apis
• brightdata.com/about
• brightdata.com/pricing
• coresignal.com/pricing
• brightdata.com/products/scraping-browser/puppeteer
• coresignal.com/solutions/company-data-api