Bright Data pricing in 2026

1,000 pages: $1.50 on Web Unlocker, $0.80 on SpecStream

Web Unlocker charges $1.50 per 1,000 requests pay as you go. Scale is $499 a month for 383K requests, which is $1.30 per 1,000 when every request is used. On SpecStream $499 reads 623,750 pages, and a page with no text is not charged.

1,000 searches: $1.50 on the SERP API, $1 on SpecStream

The SERP API charges $1.50 per 1,000 requests, or $499 a month for 380K. On SpecStream $499 buys 499,000 fast searches of up to 10 results, or 99,800 default searches that come back with the answer and the page it was read on.

A proxy bills by the GB, a page read by the page

Residential proxies cost $8 per GB pay as you go and $5 per GB on the $1,999 plan, so what a page costs depends on its size and on every retry your code sends. SpecStream charges $0.0008 for each page read with text, whatever its size, and the retries are on our side.

Monthly plans bill a minimum

Each Bright Data plan bills a minimum commitment at the start of every month, and the 5,000 free credits reset on the first of each month without rolling over. SpecStream has no minimum: a top-up starts at $10, credit you buy never expires, and a top-up of $1,000 or more adds 20% more credit.

The call, before and after

# Before: Web Unlocker
curl https://api.brightdata.com/request \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $BRIGHTDATA_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"zone": "your_zone_name", "url": "https://example.com", "format": "raw"}'

# After: SpecStream Extract API
curl https://api.specstream.ai/v1/extract \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPECSTREAM_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"urls": ["https://example.com"], "format": "markdown"}'

The reply is the page's main text as Markdown, with status ok, blocked, not_found, empty or failed for each URL. Send up to 20 URLs in one call. More on the Extract API page.

Scored on the official benchmarks

The SpecStream Search API scores 97.9 F-score on all 1,000 SimpleQA Verified questions and 64.0 item F1 on all 200 WideSearch tasks, and the Extract API scores 0.908 F1 on WCXB. Every score and its method is on the benchmarks page.

Apify

Plans at $0, $19, $199 and $999 a month, each paid back as usage that expires at the end of the cycle. Residential proxy is $8 per GB and Unblocker $1.5 per 1,000 requests on Starter. SpecStream reads a page for $0.0008 with no plan.

Firecrawl

Hobby at $19 a month for 5,000 credits, and 1 credit is 1 page on a basic scrape. SpecStream answers Firecrawl's scrape call at https://api.specstream.ai/firecrawl for $0.80 per 1,000 pages.

ZenRows

Build at $19 a month for 45,000 credits, and a page rendered with JavaScript costs 5 credits. SpecStream answers ZenRows' call at https://api.specstream.ai/zenrows/v1/ for $0.80 per 1,000 pages.