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unlob vs Bright Data

Bright Data is proxy and unblocking infrastructure at industrial scale. unlob is a search index. Different layers of the stack.

Verified 5 August 2026·Figures from vendors' own pages

Price

ProviderOwn index?$ / 1,000 queriesSource
unlob — Build

$29 per month for 50,000 requests.

Yes

Our own crawl and index

$0.58This page
unlob — Scale

$199 per month for 500,000 requests.

Yes

Our own crawl and index

$0.40This page
Rates are the cheapest directly comparable web search call — roughly ten results, no extraction and no summarisation — because that is the only way a table across credit systems, token pricing and per-request pricing means anything. Where a vendor does not publish a flat per-1,000 rate they are omitted from this table and covered in full on the landscape page. Figures read from each vendor’s own pricing page on 5 August 2026.

When Bright Data is the better choice

A comparison page that cannot name a scenario where the competitor wins is an advertisement. Here are the real ones.

Choose Bright Data

  • Collecting from specific sites at volume, particularly where blocking is a problem.
  • Browser automation as managed infrastructure.
  • Datasets and structured feeds from named sources.
  • Residential proxy infrastructure, which we do not offer at all.

Choose unlob

  • Discovery — finding which pages matter across the whole web.
  • A flat per-query price rather than per-request-and-per-GB across several products.
  • Trust signals and graph traversal.

The substantive differences

Bright Dataunlob
LayerCollection infrastructure.Retrieval over an index we already built.
PricingPer request and per GB across multiple products.A flat monthly quota of requests.

Sources

Every figure on this page was read from the vendor's own pricing page or funding announcement on the date shown.

Frequently asked questions

Can unlob scrape a specific website for me?

No. We crawl the open web to build an index and honour robots.txt; we are not a scraping service and will not fetch a site on demand on your behalf. For targeted collection, a collection vendor is the right tool.

Check the claims yourself

The free tier is 10,000 requests a month with no card. That is enough to test coverage, latency and result quality against your own queries — which is a better comparison than this page.

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