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light estimateLast updated 2026-08-20

Bright Data vs Zyte

Web Unlocker vs Zyte API for scraping & browser. Success: 98.44% vs 93.14% — edge Bright Data Computed from public benchmarks with dated sources; updated 2026-08-20.

Head to head
Web Unlocker compared with Zyte API per decision axis
AxisWeb UnlockerZyte APIEdge
Price$1.5 per 1000 requests$1 per 1000 requests*—
Success98.44%93.14%Bright Data
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).ZyteTop score (93.14%) in Proxyway's independent 2025 benchmark across 15 heavily protected sites; pays only for successful responses and offers AI-driven automatic extraction to structured data. Price is strongly tier-dependent: HTTP $0.13-$1.27/1000, browser rendering $1.01-$16.08/1000, plus separate extraction fees — so it is not directly comparable (the value is a light estimate for an average target). As of August 2026 Zyte no longer publishes tier pricing publicly (login-gated cost estimator), so these June 2026 figures can no longer be re-verified from the page.
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