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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Bright Data vs ScrapingBee

Web Unlocker vs ScrapingBee for scraping & browser. Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Web Unlocker compared with ScrapingBee per decision axis
AxisWeb UnlockerScrapingBeeEdge
Price$1.5 per 1000 requests$0.099 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).ScrapingBeeCheapest base rate in the field ($0.099/1000 base requests on Startup) and offers AI extraction; simple API with good docs. JS rendering is on by default and costs 5 credits (premium proxy 10, premium+JS 25, stealth proxy 75), so real cost is far higher — hence not comparable; success rate is heavily disputed between benchmarks (84.47% at Proxyway 2025 vs 48% at Scrapeway August 2026), so left null.
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