Side by side
Bright Data vs ProxyEmpire
The short answer
On residential, ProxyEmpire is the cheaper of the two at $1.50/GB against Bright Data's $2.50/GB, a gap of about 40%.
Sign-up
ID required
Just an email
Pay with
Card, PayPal, wire
Card, crypto
Free trial
7 days, business accounts
None
IPs (their number)
150 million
9 million
Countries
195
170
Won't work for
Ticketing
Nothing we know of
Warnings
None
None
Bright Data against ProxyEmpire, product by product
Residentialcompared above
$2.50/GBon 798 GB Included, $1,999/mo, read 12 Augfrom $499/mo on 141 GB Included, 4 plans
$1.50/GBon Enterprise (1000 GB), $1,500/mo, read 12 Augfrom $3.5/mo on Pay As You Go (1 GB), 8 plans
Fixed ISP
$5.00/GBon 399 GB Included (Pay/GB), $1,999/mo, read 12 Augfrom $499/mo on 71 GB Included (Pay/GB), 12 plans
Does not sell this
Datacenter
$0.42/GBon 5 TB Included (Pay/GB), $1,999/mo, read 12 Augfrom $499/mo on 1 TB Included (Pay/GB), 12 plans
$0.35/GBon Company (5000 GB), $1,750/mo, read 12 Augfrom $25/mo on Testing (40 GB), 6 plans
Mobile
Does not sell this
$2.00/GBon Mobile 1000 GB (1000 GB), $2,000/mo, read 12 Augfrom $4.5/mo on Pay As You Go (1 GB), 8 plans
Choose Bright Data if
you read an ID check as a signal rather than a hurdle, which Bright Data asks for and ProxyEmpire does not, and the country list is wider, 195 against 170.
Choose ProxyEmpire if
the rate is lower, $1.50/GB against $2.50, and sign-up is just an email where Bright Data wants identity documents first.
Questions
Does Bright Data or ProxyEmpire ask for ID?
Bright Data needs id required to open an account and ProxyEmpire needs just an email.
Which is cheaper, Bright Data or ProxyEmpire?
ProxyEmpire, at $1.50 per GB against Bright Data's $2.50 per GB, both residential rates read from the providers' own pages and dated above.
Which has more addresses, Bright Data or ProxyEmpire?
Bright Data, on their own numbers: 150 million, 195 countries against ProxyEmpire's 9 million, 170 countries.
Neither of these?
We don't pick a winner, the numbers are the same ones on each provider's page, checked yesterday.