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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Bright Data vs Apify

Web Unlocker vs Apify (Web Scraping platform) for scraping & browser. Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Web Unlocker compared with Apify (Web Scraping platform) per decision axis
AxisWeb UnlockerApify (Web Scraping platform)Edge
Price$1.5 per 1000 requests$0.5 per 1000 requests*—
Success98.44%——
LLM-ready—✓—
browser—✓—

* token-/credit-priced — the headline understates real per-unit cost, so no price edge is awarded.

Strengths & caveats
Bright DataHighest independently-measured success rate (98.44% in Scrape.do's benchmark of 11 providers) on heavily protected sites, with pay-per-success billing and the largest proxy network. Returns raw HTML, not LLM-ready markdown/JSON; the effective per-request price varies by plan and target (ScrapeCreators cites $0.75-$2.50/1000) and the success rate comes from a benchmark published by a competitor (Scrape.do).ApifyBroadest platform: 61,000+ ready-made Actors, full browser automation (Playwright/Puppeteer) and LLM-ready crawlers (Website Content Crawler -> markdown); free tier with $5 credits/month. Price is Compute-Unit-/Actor-dependent and therefore unpredictable (~$0.20/1000 via HTTP up to $0.50-$5.00/1000 with a browser, plus separate proxy and data-transfer fees) — not comparable as a fixed per-request price; no independent aggregate success rate, as results vary per Actor.
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