FleetProxy vs Bright Data
Choose FleetProxy when your team owns the scraping stack and needs egress. Choose Bright Data when you want the collection problem outsourced.
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Head to head
Smartproxy is the closest comparison on this list, because it is aimed at the same buyer: a small-to-mid engineering team that wants to sign up, pay by card, and be making requests inside ten minutes. Both companies sell residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter egress with self-serve pricing and no mandatory sales call.
That overlap is real and worth stating plainly rather than manufacturing differences. Most teams would get their job done on either. The differences that do exist are narrow but consequential if you happen to land on them.
Last reviewed 15 Jan 2026.
At a glance
Two providers built for the same buyer. Choose on bandwidth expiry, ASN targeting and how you want to pay — not on pool-size claims.
Where we differ deliberately: prepaid bandwidth here does not expire, ASN targeting is available on every bandwidth-billed product rather than on selected ones, and both card and cryptocurrency payment are first-class. Where they may suit you better: a longer track record in the self-serve segment, a wider set of ready-made integrations, and a browser-extension and desktop tooling story we do not have. On raw egress quality neither of us can prove a claim to you — which is exactly why both offer a trial.
How the claims on this page are written
Smartproxy
A self-serve provider aimed at small and mid-sized teams, with a broad product range across residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter, plus scraping APIs and end-user tooling. Pricing is published with volume tiers.
Side by side
Eight dimensions that actually change the decision. Rows describe positioning rather than quoting figures we cannot keep current.
| Dimension | FleetProxy | Smartproxy |
|---|---|---|
| Buyer | Engineering and growth teams, self-serve | Engineering and growth teams, self-serve |
| Bandwidth expiry | Prepaid gigabytes never expire | Plan-based allowances; check the term on the plan you pick |
| ASN targeting | On every bandwidth-billed product, set in the username | Available, with coverage varying by product |
| Payment | Card and cryptocurrency, both first-class | Card-led, with other methods depending on region |
| Product range | Eight proxy products, no scraping APIs | Proxies plus scraping APIs and end-user tooling |
| Free trial | 50MB of residential bandwidth, no card | Trial availability varies by product |
| Sticky sessions | Up to 30 minutes residential, 60 minutes mobile and datacenter | Supported, with limits varying by product |
| Support | Direct technical support, no spend tiering | Support with tiering by plan |
Rotating residential proxies
A fresh residential IP on every request, or one held for 30 minutes
The honest part
A comparison that concludes we win on every axis is an advertisement. These are the conditions we would use ourselves.
Your collection is seasonal or bursty
Non-expiring bandwidth is the single largest cost difference for a workload that runs hard for six weeks and then sleeps.
You need ASN targeting as a default, not as an upgrade
Pinning a specific carrier or ISP is the difference between plausible traffic and obviously-automated traffic on several classes of target.
You pay in cryptocurrency
It is a supported first-class payment path here, not a workaround, and coupons apply identically.
You want proxies and scraping APIs from one vendor
Their range extends further up the stack than ours does, and consolidating suppliers has real value.
Non-engineers on your team need to use the proxies directly
Browser and desktop tooling matters when the user is a researcher rather than a service account, and we do not ship it.
You value a longer public track record
Time in market is a legitimate risk consideration for infrastructure, and pretending otherwise would be self-serving.
Questions
Recommendation
This is the comparison where the honest answer is that both will probably work. Take both trials, measure your own targets, and let bandwidth expiry and targeting depth break the tie — those are the differences you will still be living with in six months.
Choose FleetProxy when your team owns the scraping stack and needs egress. Choose Bright Data when you want the collection problem outsourced.
Oxylabs if you want managed scraping products with an account team behind them. FleetProxy if you want the network, priced per gigabyte, with no sales cycle.
IPRoyal for the smallest budgets and one-off jobs. FleetProxy when the workload is recurring and targeting depth starts to matter.
Every claim on this page is checkable in an afternoon. Claim 50MB of free residential bandwidth, run your own hostname list through it, and compare block rate and cost per successful request against whatever you use now.
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