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
SOAX is chosen for targeting granularity and for its mobile pool, so an alternative has to clear the same bar. That narrows the field considerably: plenty of providers sell residential bandwidth, far fewer offer carrier-level mobile selection that works.
The second thing to check is the configuration model. Moving from a dashboard-configured network to one where targeting is encoded in the request changes where your rotation policy lives, and that is a workflow change as much as a vendor change.
Last reviewed 15 Jan 2026.
At a glance
Match on targeting granularity and mobile quality first. Then decide whether you want the rotation policy in a dashboard or in your code.
An alternative that cannot pin a carrier is not an alternative for a mobile workload, whatever its residential pool looks like. Once the shortlist clears that bar, the meaningful difference is configuration: dashboard-led setups are easier for operations teams to change and harder to reproduce from a git history, while username-encoded targeting ships with the collector and can be diffed, reviewed and rolled back.
How the claims on this page are written
Why people shop around
A network-focused provider emphasising granular geographic and carrier targeting with flexible rotation, and a well-regarded mobile pool. Configuration is largely dashboard-led.
Rotation policy configured outside version control is hard to reproduce and review
Plan structures suit steady volume better than bursty volume
Teams standardising on one targeting syntax across every pool
Buyers who want 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.
Country, city and ASN targeting encoded in the proxy username on every metered product, dedicated LTE ports alongside a bandwidth-billed rotating mobile pool, and prepaid bandwidth that never expires.
The broadest platform available, with deep targeting across every network type plus managed collection products.
Enterprise-oriented with large pools across all network types and mature managed scraping products.
Self-serve mid-market provider with a broad range and low commercial friction.
Side by side
Positioning rather than price claims, for the reasons set out at the top of this page.
| Dimension | FleetProxy | SOAX |
|---|---|---|
| Targeting axes | Country, city, ASN | Country, region, city, carrier |
| Where policy lives | The proxy username, in your codebase | The dashboard, per port or plan |
| Mobile products | Dedicated LTE ports and a rotating mobile pool | A headline strength |
| Unused bandwidth | Never expires | Plan-based |
| Sticky session ceiling | 30 minutes residential, 60 minutes mobile | Configurable lifetimes |
| Payment | Card and cryptocurrency | Card-led |
Mobile LTE proxies
A dedicated 4G/5G modem port behind carrier-grade NAT
The honest part
Migrating for the wrong reason costs more than staying. These are the cases where we would tell you not to move.
Region-level targeting is how your workload segments
A dedicated region tier maps onto that more cleanly than combining country with ASN does.
Operations staff change targeting without deploying
A dashboard is the right tool when the person making the change does not ship code.
Mobile is the entire workload and it already performs
Mobile pool quality varies more by country than by vendor. A pool that works on your countries is not worth risking on a theoretical improvement.
Questions
Recommendation
Clear the targeting bar first — anything that cannot pin a carrier is not a candidate for a mobile workload. Then choose the configuration model your team will actually keep in sync.
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.
Switch for bandwidth terms, targeting depth or session control. Do not switch on a pool-size claim you cannot verify.
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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