Side by side
Bright Data vs Shifter
The short answer
On residential, Shifter is the cheaper of the two at $0.75/GB against Bright Data's $2.50/GB, a gap of about 70%.
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
31 million
Countries
195
130
Won't work for
Ticketing
Nothing we know of
Warnings
None
None
Bright Data against Shifter, 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
$0.75/GBon Popular (200 GB), $149/mo, read 12 Augfrom $50/mo on Starter (50 GB), 4 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
—priced per IP addressfrom $42/mo on Starter (25 IPs), 4 plans
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
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Choose Bright Data if
you read an ID check as a signal rather than a hurdle, which Bright Data asks for and Shifter does not, and the country list is wider, 195 against 130.
Choose Shifter if
the rate is lower, $0.75/GB against $2.50, and sign-up is just an email where Bright Data wants identity documents first.
Questions
Does Bright Data or Shifter ask for ID?
Bright Data needs id required to open an account and Shifter needs just an email.
Which is cheaper, Bright Data or Shifter?
Shifter, at $0.75 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 Shifter?
Bright Data, on their own numbers: 150 million, 195 countries against Shifter's 31 million.
Neither of these?
We don't pick a winner, the numbers are the same ones on each provider's page, checked yesterday.