Bright Data Pricing: Residential $/GB, Plans & KYC

2. Official proxy rates

Residential (50% offer displayed with coupon RESIGB50):

The page also advertises matching a first deposit dollar-for-dollar, up to $500. Check whether that match still appears when you buy; we describe what the page showed on November 6, 2026, not a permanent entitlement.

Pricing-hub navigation the same day: Unlocker API free tier, from $1 / 1,000 requests; SERP API free tier, from $1 / 1,000 requests; Browser API from $5/GB; Crawl API from $1 / 1,000 requests; scraper APIs shown from $1 marked down to $0.75 / 1,000 records. Those are starting figures, not full grids.

3. Real cost by scenario

Residential examples use both the published list rate and the named offer. Measure your own GB — we cannot convert “10,000 pages” into bandwidth without response sizes.

Scenario A — 8 GB residential in a month

PAYG list: 8 × $8 = $64. PAYG offer: 8 × $4.00 = $32. The $499 / 141 GB row is far too large. Stay on PAYG.

Scenario B — 40 GB residential

PAYG list: 40 × $8 = $320. PAYG offer: 40 × $4.00 = $160. Still below $499, so PAYG wins against the first committed row even before you ask whether you would use the leftover 101 GB (141 − 40). Commit only if 40 GB is a floor that is about to rise, not a ceiling.

Scenario C — 141 GB residential

Exactly the $499 included amount. At the offer rate that row is $3.50/GB. The same 141 GB on PAYG would be 141 × $8 = $1,128 list, or 141 × $4.00 = $564 offer — more than $499. At 141 GB, the committed row wins against PAYG on both the list and the displayed offer math.

Scenario D — 200 GB residential

The $499 row includes 141 GB. The official FAQ says that once you have used 100% of the account balance the account suspends unless you add funds (and it emails you at 85%). We do not have a public overage sticker that says “GB 142–200 bill at $X on the $499 row,” so we will not invent one. Compare instead the next published row: $999 for 332 GB ($3.00 offer / $6 list). 200 GB fits that inclusion. Whether adding funds on $499 is cheaper depends on a rate we did not see published; treat $999 as the first documented row that holds 200 GB.

Scenario E — 100 datacenter IPs versus 20 GB residential

100 datacenter IPs: $100/month at $1.00/IP. 20 GB residential: $160 list or $80 on the $4.00 offer. These are not substitutes — different IP types, different jobs — but they show why a “Bright Data costs hundreds” headline is meaningless until you name the network.

Scenario F — Joining on the 25th

Official FAQ example (their numbers): you start a plan with a $500 minimum monthly commitment on June 25 and pay $500. On July 1 the system sees 6 active days in June (20% of the month), so June’s commitment share is $100 unless usage was higher. They invoice $100 against the $500 balance (leaving $400) and then charge $100 to bring July’s balance back to the $500 minimum. Mid-month joins are prorated; do not budget a full second commitment on day one of the next month without reading that example.

4. Billing rules that change the invoice

• Bandwidth includes request and response headers and bodies. Trial traffic is not billed.
• No rollover of the monthly commitment if the account stays active all month, even if you used less.
• Inactive part of a month: the FAQ says remaining funds are kept, and on the 1st you are charged up to the minimum commitment.
• Suspend at 100% of balance; email at 85%. Auto-recharge is optional (a preset amount when balance hits 25% of that amount, or a monthly charge on the 1st). PAYG without a commitment is not automatically recharged.
• Daily caps can be set per zone in bytes or dollars; the FAQ says the check runs about every 15 minutes, so a zone can slightly overshoot.
• KYC before Residential or Mobile; not required for Web Unlocker, per the same FAQ.

5. Billing pitfalls

• Publishing $4/GB internally as “the price” without noting RESIGB50 and the $8 list rate.
• Buying $499 for a 10 GB month.
• Assuming leftover commitment rolls over.
• Forgetting that headers count toward GB.
• Inventing an overage rate on a committed row — we did not see one published, only suspend-and-add-funds language.
• Skipping the mid-month proration example and double-counting July.

6. Which row to pick

Measure a week of real GB (headers included) before you commit $499 or more. If the category already feels wrong, stop: you may want a scrape API or an LLM context API, not a cheaper GB row.

7. FAQ

How much do Bright Data residential proxies cost?

PAYG $8/GB list, $4.00/GB with coupon RESIGB50, no commitment. Committed rows $499 / 141 GB, $999 / 332 GB, $1,999 / 798 GB, checked November 6, 2026 on the official proxy-network page.

Does unused commitment roll over?

Not if the account stays active all month.

Is there a free trial?

The page invites a free trial and states that trial traffic is listed but not billed. We did not run one, so we will not invent a GB allowance.

How is a mid-month signup billed?

The official FAQ’s $500-on-June-25 example prorates June to $100 (6 of 30 days) and tops the balance back to $500 on July 1. Read that example on their page if your start date is not the 1st.

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8. Sources

• Bright Data official proxy-network pricing page and on-page FAQ (checked November 6, 2026)
• Bright Data official pricing hub navigation (checked November 6, 2026)