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Bright Data datasets in 2026

Prices per record, and rows from 5¢.

Bright Data sells 1,000+ datasets with 21B+ records at up to $0.0025 a record, and every order costs at least $250. Its pre-built scrapers cost $1.5 per 1,000 records. The minimum holds on small datasets too: Transparent Labs lists 556 records.

SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. Describe the records you need in plain words and get one row per match from the live web, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a row, with no minimum order.

New accounts get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is 200 rows.

Bright Data datasets and scrapers, and the same job on SpecStream

SpecStreamBright Data
What you sendThe records you want in plain words, with the conditions every row must meetA dataset picked from the marketplace and narrowed with filters, or a URL sent to a pre-built scraper, which returns structured JSON or CSV
What is on offerAny record the live web holds, found and read during your run. Plus 100,666 ready lists of public records from 46 official sources1,000+ datasets with 21B+ records, and thousands of pre-built scrapers for LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, Amazon, Google Maps and more
Price of a recordA delivered row: 5¢, 15¢ or $1 by how much the row needs, plus 5¢ for an email and 15¢ for a phone. A ready list: 5¢ a row for the first 2,000 rows and 1¢ afterDatasets: up to $0.0025 a record, and per-record prices vary by volume tier. Pre-built scrapers: $1.5 per 1,000 records pay as you go
The smallest order$10 of credit on sign-up, no card. A ready list costs at least $5Every dataset order costs at least $250, which buys 100K records. Scrapers start with 5K free records a month
A small dataset556 rows at 5¢ cost $27.80, and only delivered rows are billedTransparent Labs lists 556+ records, and the $250 minimum still applies: about 45¢ a record
A monthly planNone needed. A top-up from $10, or a plan at $19, $99 or $499 a month that turns its whole price into creditScraper API Scale: $499 a month with 384,000 records included, then $1.3 per 1,000 more
Keeping it up to dateA saved request reruns hourly to yearly inside spending limits. Each row comes back labeled changed, unchanged or no longer matching. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢. A ready list with a feed sends the rows its source adds each weekA subscription refreshes one time, biannually, quarterly, monthly, weekly or daily and is delivered on each refresh. Refresh plans take 25% off biannual, 50% off quarterly and 80% off monthly, which brings $0.0025 to $0.0005 a record. Or buy only New Records or Updated Records
Filtering by APIConditions are written in the request. A run that finds nothing is not chargedThe Dataset API filters 900+ Marketplace datasets at $2.5 per 1,000 records returned, and a filter that returns 0 records is free
What failed work costsNothing. A row left out, a retry and a run that finds nothing are not chargedScraper API: no charges for failed deliveries
Where the data goesGoogle Sheets, Excel, Airtable, Notion, monday.com, HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Attio, Slack, Teams, Zapier, Make, n8n and signed webhooksJSON, NDJSON, JSON Lines, CSV or Parquet files, sent to Snowflake, Amazon S3, Google Cloud, Azure or SFTP

What each Bright Data dataset holds and costs

Other Bright Data dataset alternatives

How SpecStream scores

The same numbers as the benchmarks page, from the official tasks and scorers.

How to switch from a Bright Data dataset

Write the records you want in plain words, in place of the dataset filters you would set. Sign up and you get $10 of credit, no card. At 5¢ a row, that is 200 rows.

Or send the request from code. This call spends nothing: the 402 reply shows how SpecStream read the request, the columns and the most it can cost.

curl -i https://api.specstream.ai/v1/agent/lists \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"request": "Every protein powder on the Transparent Labs store, with the price, the sale price, the flavors, the star rating and the review count", "count": 25}'

Approve that maximum by card through Stripe's Link agent wallet, or in USDC, and you pay for the rows found. On an account, your agent uses the MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp and your team uses the workspace, from the same balance. To keep the rows up to date, save the request and choose how often it reruns.

Comparing every Bright Data product? See Bright Data pricing and Bright Data alternatives.

Frequently asked questions

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How much does a Bright Data dataset cost?
Up to $0.0025 a record, with a $250 minimum order that buys 100K records, and per-record prices vary by volume tier. Refresh plans take 25% off bi-annual, 50% off quarterly and 80% off monthly. SpecStream bills 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row with no minimum order.
How many datasets does Bright Data sell?
1,000+ datasets with 21B+ records. The marketplace opens with LinkedIn people profiles (676.2M records), Amazon products (758.5M), LinkedIn company information (30.4M), Instagram profiles (661.1M) and Crunchbase companies (5.3M).
Can Bright Data deliver only new records on a schedule?
Yes. A dataset subscription refreshes one time, biannually, quarterly, monthly, weekly or daily, and smart data updates let you buy only New Records or Updated Records. The monthly plan takes 80% off, which brings $0.0025 to $0.0005 a record, and every Marketplace purchase has a $250 minimum order.
What does a scheduled refresh cost on SpecStream?
A saved request reruns hourly to yearly. A changed or new row costs half its rate, an unchanged row 1¢, and a row a page contradicts is not charged. A monthly rerun of 556 rows where 30 changed costs $6.01.
What does the Bright Data Scraper API cost?
$1.5 per 1,000 records pay as you go, or Scale at $499 a month with 384,000 records included and $1.3 per 1,000 more. The free tier gives 5K records a month. A scraper returns a record for each URL you send.
Can I buy a small Bright Data dataset?
Every order costs at least $250, also for a dataset like Transparent Labs with 556+ records. On SpecStream 556 rows at 5¢ cost $27.80, and $10 of free credit covers 200 rows.
What is the best alternative to Bright Data datasets?
SpecStream, at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. You describe the records in plain words with every condition, approve the most the run can cost, and get rows read from the live web with the source URL on every value. A saved request reruns on your schedule, and only delivered rows are billed.
Does SpecStream have an API?
Yes, three products on one key: the Search API from $1 per 1,000 searches, the Extract API at $0.80 per 1,000 pages, and Deep Search at 5¢, 15¢ or $1 a delivered row. There are Python and TypeScript SDKs, a CLI, A2A, and an MCP server at https://api.specstream.ai/mcp.

Sources

SpecStream wrote this page. Each rival figure comes from that company's own page.

  1. SpecStream pricingspecstream.ai/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  2. SpecStream for agentsspecstream.ai/agents.md, read Nov 12, 2026
  3. SpecStream data listsspecstream.ai/data/lists, read Nov 12, 2026
  4. SpecStream benchmarksspecstream.ai/benchmarks, read Nov 12, 2026
  5. Bright Data datasets marketplacebrightdata.com/products/datasets, read Nov 12, 2026
  6. Bright Data Transparent Labs datasetbrightdata.com/products/datasets/transparent-labs, read Nov 12, 2026
  7. Bright Data marketplace pricing docsdocs.brightdata.com/datasets/marketplace/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  8. Bright Data Web Scraper API pricingbrightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper, read Nov 12, 2026
  9. Bright Data Scraper API docsdocs.brightdata.com/scraping-automation/web-data-apis/web-scraper-api/overview, read Nov 12, 2026
  10. Oxylabs pricingoxylabs.io/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  11. Apify pricingapify.com/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  12. Firecrawl pricingfirecrawl.dev/pricing, read Nov 12, 2026
  13. Bright Data marketplace data delivery docsdocs.brightdata.com/products/marketplace/data-delivery-and-export, read Nov 12, 2026
  14. Bright Data marketplace purchase options docsdocs.brightdata.com/products/marketplace/purchase-options, read Nov 12, 2026
  15. Bright Data Dataset API docsdocs.brightdata.com/api-reference/marketplace-dataset-api/overview, read Nov 12, 2026