GProxy vs Bright Data: Honest 2026 Comparison

Briefly

Bright Data is the largest proxy network on the market with 400M+ residential IPs and 195-country coverage, but starts at $4/GB. GProxy serves a smaller pool (~9K active proxies, 150+ countries) at $0.49–0.85/GB residential and from $0.03 per IPv6 proxy. We are the budget pick; Bright Data is the enterprise pick.

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Short comparison

Query Parameters:	GProxy	Bright Data
Founded	2019	2014 (as Luminati Networks)
Residential network size	10M+ residential IPs (Evomi reseller pool)	400M+ monthly residential IPs (claimed)
Country coverage	150+ countries	195 countries
Residential entry price	$0.85/GB (pay-as-you-go)	$4/GB (pay-as-you-go)
Datacenter shared (per IP/month)	$0.50/IP	$1.40/IP (10 IPs tier)
ISP static (per IP/month, shared)	$1.50/IP (min 20 IPs)	$1.80/IP (10 IPs tier)
IPv6 proxies	$0.03 per proxy / 3 days; $0.22 per proxy / 30 days	Not offered as a standard product
Minimum commitment	None — pay-per-day / pay-per-IP	None on pay-as-you-go; $499+/month for volume discounts
Protocols	HTTP, SOCKS4, SOCKS5	HTTP/S, SOCKS5
Customer base	Self-serve; SMB and individual buyers	20,000+ customers, 14 of top 20 LLM labs (per 2025 disclosure)
Free trial	Free proxies available for testing	Free trial, no credit card required

Competitor data — from public pages at the time of publication. Prices may change.

Prices by proxy types

IPv6 proxies

GProxy $0.03 per proxy / 3 days; $0.22 per proxy / 30 days

Bright Data Not offered

Bright Data does not sell standard IPv6 proxies. GProxy unique offering.

Datacenter proxies

GProxy Shared $0.20/IP/week or $0.50/IP/month · Private $0.60/wk or $1.70/mo

Bright Data $1.40/IP/month (10 IPs) · $0.90/IP at 1000+ · PAYG $0.60/GB

GProxy datacenter is ~3x cheaper per IP at small scale.

ISP static residential

GProxy $1.50/IP shared · $3.75/IP dedicated · $6.50/IP virgin

Bright Data $1.80/IP (10 IPs) · scales down to $1.30/IP at 1000 IPs

GProxy shared is cheaper at small volume; Bright Data is cheaper at 1000+ IPs.

Residential proxies (pay-as-you-go)

GProxy $0.49–$0.85 / GB

Bright Data $4.00 / GB ($2.50/GB at 798GB+ tier — $1,999/mo commitment)

GProxy entry tier is ~5x cheaper. Bright Data wins on network scale.

Rotating IPv6 (backconnect ports)

GProxy 50 ports: $2.50/day · $10/wk · $30/mo · 500 ports: $72/wk · $220/mo

Bright Data Not offered as standalone product

Specialised offering. Bright Data rotates within residential pool only.

Unlimited bandwidth pools

GProxy Day $3 · Week $9.90 · Month $25

Bright Data Datacenter PAYG $0.60/GB (no flat unlimited plan)

GProxy unlimited tier has no equivalent on Bright Data.

How we compare GProxy and Bright Data

Bright Data and GProxy are not the same kind of product. Bright Data is an enterprise-grade web data platform sized for Fortune 500 customers and LLM labs; GProxy is a self-serve proxy service aimed at developers, marketers, and small teams. Comparing them on a single axis (price, or network size, or features) is misleading. Below we put real, current numbers side by side and let you pick.

Network and geographic coverage

Bright Data discloses a pool of 400M+ monthly residential IPs across 195 countries, plus 1.3M+ ISP and 1.3M+ datacenter IPs. GProxy currently exposes 10M+ residential IPs, 2,385 datacenter, and 67 mobile proxies covering 150+ countries (live inventory at the moment of this comparison). If your job needs deep coverage of small or rare regions, Bright Data has more reach. If your job is "US/EU residential at scale-for-one-person", GProxy is sized for that.

Residential pricing

Bright Data's residential pay-as-you-go is $4/GB. Their volume tiers drop to $2.50/GB but require $1,999/month commitments. GProxy residential starts at $0.85/GB on pay-as-you-go and drops to $0.49/GB on volume. A typical 100 GB scrape job costs $400 on Bright Data PAYG vs $49-85 on GProxy. For 1 TB, Bright Data is $2,500-$4,000 PAYG; GProxy is ~$500-$850. The trade-off is network size: Bright Data's residential pool is two orders of magnitude larger and includes ZIP/ASN-level targeting at no extra cost.

ISP, datacenter, IPv6

For ISP static residential, both providers offer shared and dedicated tiers. Bright Data starts at $1.80/IP/month (10 IPs) and scales to $1.30/IP at 1,000 IPs. GProxy ISP starts at $1.50/IP/month shared (20 IP minimum), with $3.75/IP dedicated and a $6.50/IP "virgin" tier with 0 fraud score. For datacenter, GProxy is dramatically cheaper at small scale: $0.50/IP/month shared vs Bright Data's $1.40/IP, and $1.70/IP/month private vs $2.20/IP. Bright Data closes the gap at 1,000+ IPs. For IPv6 proxies, Bright Data does not offer a standard product — GProxy sells them from $0.03 per proxy for 3 days up to $0.22 per proxy for 30 days, plus rotating IPv6 backconnect tiers from $2.50/day for 50 ports.

Commitments and billing

Both have pay-as-you-go entry tiers and free trials. The difference is granularity: GProxy bills many products by the day or week ($3 unlimited for a day, $0.20 for an IPv4 datacenter IP for a week). Bright Data's volume tiers are monthly minimums of $499 / $999 / $1,999. If you need a proxy for three days, GProxy is structured for that; if you need a proxy for two years of constant scraping, Bright Data's economics improve.

What the comparison does not cover

Compliance, formal SLAs, account-manager access, and patent-portfolio defenses are areas where Bright Data invests heavily and where we do not currently match them. Bright Data has fought and won public legal cases (Meta, X — both dismissed in 2024) clarifying the legality of public-web data access. If you are at a regulated enterprise and require formal compliance review, Bright Data is the safer buy. If you are a developer who wants to run a scraper tonight, GProxy is faster to start.

Pros and cons

GProxy — pros

✓Residential entry price 5x lower than Bright Data ($0.85/GB vs $4.00/GB)
✓IPv6 proxies from $0.03 per proxy — not offered by Bright Data
✓Pay-per-day and pay-per-week durations on most products
✓No monthly commitment — ideal for short campaigns and one-off scrapes
✓Three SOCKS variants supported (SOCKS5, SOCKS4, HTTP)
✓Unlimited-bandwidth datacenter pool from $3/day — no equivalent at Bright Data

GProxy — minus points

–Smaller residential network: 10M+ IPs vs Bright Data's 400M claim
–Country coverage 150+ vs 195
–Younger brand (founded 2019) — less independent vetting
–No published Fortune-500 customer references

Bright Data — pros

✓400M+ residential IPs — largest pool in the industry
✓Coverage in 195 countries with city/ZIP/ASN-level targeting
✓Free geo-targeting included on all plans
✓Enterprise SLAs and dedicated account managers
✓Track record: legal battles with Meta and X dismissed in 2024
✓Used by 14 of the top 20 LLM training labs (per 2025 disclosure)

Bright Data — minus points

–Residential entry $4/GB — 5x more expensive than GProxy
–Volume discounts require $499+/month commitments
–No standard IPv6 proxy offering
–No daily/weekly billing on most products (mostly monthly minimums)
–100 GB/IP fair-use cap on datacenter shared

Who needs what

Take GProxy if

You need short-term campaigns, sneaker bots, social media automation, or a side project where $3-25 budget makes sense. You want IPv6 proxies, daily billing, or a flat unlimited tier. You value pay-per-day flexibility over the largest possible IP pool.

Take Bright Data if

You run enterprise-scale scraping (millions of requests/day), need 190+ countries with sub-city geo-targeting, train large language models, or have $500-2000/month proxy budget. You need SLAs, dedicated support, and compliance documentation.

FAQ

Is GProxy a Bright Data alternative? +

GProxy is positioned as a budget alternative for SMB and individual buyers. It is not a direct equivalent to Bright Data on network size, but it competes on price (~5x cheaper for residential pay-as-you-go) and offers products Bright Data doesn't, like standard IPv6 proxies and pay-per-day unlimited tiers.

Why is GProxy so much cheaper than Bright Data? +

Two reasons: smaller network (lower operating cost) and a self-serve business model with no enterprise sales overhead. Bright Data's price includes patent-portfolio defenses, compliance teams, and 24/7 dedicated support — value that matters for enterprises and less for individual developers.

Can I use GProxy for the same use cases as Bright Data? +

For SMB-scale jobs (under ~100M requests/month) — yes. For LLM training data collection or enterprise web data at petabyte scale, Bright Data's pool size and infrastructure are still in a different league. We are honest about that.

Does GProxy offer IPv6 proxies that Bright Data doesn't? +

Yes. Bright Data does not sell standalone IPv6 proxies. GProxy offers IPv6 from $0.03 per proxy / 3 days, plus rotating IPv6 backconnect tiers from $2.50/day.

What about country coverage? +

Bright Data lists 195 countries; GProxy currently has live inventory in 150+ countries. If your target country is on Bright Data's list but not GProxy's, that's a hard limitation — check our country page before committing.

How current is this comparison? +

Bright Data prices and feature claims are from their public product pages (brightdata.com/proxy-types/*) as of 2026-05-16. GProxy prices are pulled from our own production database at the same date. Prices change — we update this page when they do.

Total

Bright Data wins on scale; GProxy wins on price and product flexibility. If you have a 7-figure scraping budget and need 195-country coverage, go Bright Data. If you have a 4-5 figure budget, need daily billing, or want IPv6 proxies — GProxy is the cheaper, simpler buy.

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