Bright Data alternatives
If you are leaving for cost, buy a network and keep your own collectors. If you are leaving for fit, be honest about which platform pieces you actually used.
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Alternatives
Smartproxy sits in the most competitive part of this market — self-serve, mid-market, published pricing — so alternatives are plentiful and switching costs are low. That cuts both ways: it is easy to move, and it is easy to move for reasons that will not survive contact with the new provider.
The differences that actually persist are commercial terms, targeting depth and session semantics. Pool-size claims are not comparable between vendors and should not drive the decision.
Last reviewed 15 Jan 2026.
At a glance
Switch for bandwidth terms, targeting depth or session control. Do not switch on a pool-size claim you cannot verify.
Every provider in this segment publishes a large pool figure and none publishes a methodology, so the numbers are not comparable and should be ignored. What is verifiable in an afternoon: whether unused bandwidth expires, whether ASN targeting is available on the product you want, how long a sticky session can be held, and what the success rate looks like on your own targets. Decide on those four.
How the claims on this page are written
Why people shop around
A self-serve provider for small and mid-sized teams, spanning residential, ISP, mobile and datacenter proxies plus lighter scraping APIs and end-user tooling.
Plan-based bandwidth allowances suit steady volume better than bursty volume
Targeting depth varies across the product range rather than being uniform
Teams growing into ASN-level targeting or long sticky sessions outgrow the entry products
Buyers wanting cryptocurrency payment as a first-class path
The shortlist
Including three we compete with. A round-up that lists only its author is not a round-up.
Eight proxy products with uniform targeting semantics, country, city and ASN on every metered pool, non-expiring prepaid bandwidth, and card or cryptocurrency payment.
Granular geographic and carrier targeting with a strong mobile pool, configured through a dashboard.
Value-oriented with a very low entry point and a broad range including niche products.
The full platform: managed collection, browser infrastructure, datasets and an enterprise compliance surface.
Side by side
Positioning rather than price claims, for the reasons set out at the top of this page.
| Dimension | FleetProxy | Smartproxy |
|---|---|---|
| Unused bandwidth | Never expires | Plan-based allowances |
| ASN targeting | Uniform across every bandwidth-billed product | Available, with coverage varying by product |
| Payment | Card and cryptocurrency, both first-class | Card-led |
| Scraping APIs | Not sold | Available |
| End-user tooling | None; the network is the product | Browser and desktop tooling available |
| Sticky sessions | 30 minutes residential, 60 minutes mobile and datacenter | Supported, limits vary by product |
Rotating residential proxies
A fresh residential IP on every request, or one held for 30 minutes
The honest part
Migrating for the wrong reason costs more than staying. These are the cases where we would tell you not to move.
You use their scraping APIs or end-user tooling
We sell neither, so a move would mean giving up capability rather than swapping suppliers.
Volume is steady and the plan already fits
Non-expiring bandwidth is worth nothing to a workload that consumes its allowance every month anyway.
Non-engineers operate the proxies
Tooling for people who do not deploy code is a real advantage when that is who is using it.
Questions
Recommendation
In this segment the switching cost is a day and the switching benefit is measurable, so measure it. Run both trials on the same targets in the same window, and let the commercial terms break a tie the success rates do not.
If you are leaving for cost, buy a network and keep your own collectors. If you are leaving for fit, be honest about which platform pieces you actually used.
Want the network without the sales cycle? Buy self-serve egress. Want the managed products? Your alternatives are narrower than you think.
Stay in the value tier while the job is small. Move when targeting depth, session control or supply documentation becomes a requirement.
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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