--- description: Review of Bright Data Software: system overview, features, price and cost information. Get free demos and compare to similar programs on Software Advice New Zealand. image: https://gdm-localsites-assets-gfprod.imgix.net/images/software_advice/og_logo-55146305bbe7b450bea05c18e9be9c9a.png title: Bright Data | Reviews, Pricing & Demos - SoftwareAdvice NZ --- Breadcrumb: [Home](/) > [Web Scraping](/directory/4845/web-scraping/software) > [Bright Data](/software/356005/luminati) # Bright Data Canonical: https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/356005/luminati Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/356005/luminati?page=2) > Bright Data Platform is a cloud-based data collection platform that enables businesses and researchers to collect and analyze structured and unstructured data from millions of websites. The Bright Data platform gives businesses unprecedented access to data on the web and allows them to tap into this massive source of information in real-time, with complete confidence and security. Their platform provides a variety of ways to collect data: - Proxy networks (geo-targeting at country, city, and ISP level) - Proxy browsers (for websites with strong protection against bots) - Social media data collection (using our social media tools to collect posts from the social media website of your choice) - Search Engine collection (uses a web crawler to collect accurate data from ALL major search engines) Bright Data is used by businesses to evaluate competitors, check client ad placements, verify SEO and monitor various other commercially sensitive data sources. It also serves more widely to draw out any data found online, such as social media profiles, sources of legal information, and illicit or harmful web content. Such data may be used for further purposes, such as sources for machine learning algorithms. Bright Data's service works by using pre-defined or custom-developed data collectors via an anonymizing web proxy. It also makes use of machine learning techniques to bypass ad blockers and adapt to site changes. The platform automatically harvests live data in real-time and at any scale. Reports can be generated according to user-defined schedules and are downloadable in JSON, CSV, and XLSX formats. Bright Data also provides pre-collected datasets for summarizing market activity in e-commerce and identifying trends, among other purposes. > > Verdict: Rated **4.7/5** by 68 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**. ----- ## Quick Stats & Ratings | Metric | Rating | Detail | | **Overall** | **4.7/5** | 68 Reviews | | Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Customer Support | 4.7/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Value for Money | 4.3/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Features | 4.6/5 | Based on overall reviews | | Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) | ## About the vendor - **Company**: Bright Data - **Founded**: 2014 ## Commercial Context - **Starting Price**: US$4.00 - **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial) - **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+ - **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop) - **Supported Languages**: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, English, European Portuguese, French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Traditional Chinese - **Available Countries**: Andorra, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Barbados, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Colombia, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia and 47 more ## Features - AI/Machine Learning - API - Activity Dashboard - Alerts/Notifications - Auto Extraction - Batch Processing - Customisable Templates - Customizable Fields - Data Aggregation and Publishing - Data Capture and Transfer - Data Connectors - Data Extraction - Data Import/Export - Data Verification - Document Extraction - Email Address Extraction - Geotargeting - HTML Parsing - Image Extraction - Job Scheduling ## Integrations (2 total) - Amazon S3 - Google Cloud ## Support Options - Email/Help Desk - FAQs/Forum - Knowledge Base - Phone Support - 24/7 (Live rep) - Chat ## Category - [Web Scraping](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4845/web-scraping/software) ## Related Categories - [Web Scraping](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4845/web-scraping/software) - [Data Extraction Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4555/data-extraction/software) - [Electronic Data Capture Software](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/4632/electronic-data-capture/software) - [Data Mining Tools](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/directory/402/data-mining/software) ## Alternatives 1. 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It’s great that they've lowered the barrier for using their service. The price is also at a good level, which I appreciate. > > **Cons**: As long as the scraping error volumes are low and the price is affordable, it's totally fine to live with. > > I use Bright Data for complex web scraping, which helps us prepare for conferences by tracking and comparing competitor data. It enables effective automation, accessing data on a large scale, and supports different geographical data needs, enhancing growth strategy and saving time. I appreciate its low error rate, trend awareness, and its ease of use for non-technical users. The pricing, functionality, and error management are satisfactory, and I’m pleased compared to other solutions. I rate it a 10 out of 10 for recommendation. ----- ### "Brightdata - excellent premium proxy provider" — 4.0/5 > **Colin** | *30 November 2024* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 8.0/10 > > **Pros**: I really like the flexibility of the proxy credentials allowing me to specific configuration options as part of the username, makes it easy to configure and reconfigure such as country or session id. > > **Cons**: They're the premium end of the proxy market so not always the cheapest. > > Very positive, good account management and the uptime and configuration of the service is very good. They have plenty of different but related services on offer too such as the Web unblocker. ----- ### "Poor Reliability and High Error Rates. DO NOT USE." — 1.0/5 > **Emiliano** | *25 September 2025* | Information Technology & Services | Recommendation rating: 1.0/10 > > **Pros**: Nothing. Initially their web unlocker and proxy products worked great for our use case.... But over the course of a year their products have degraded rapidly, and now face high data fetching failure rates. > > **Cons**: I found the documentation lacking in clear example use cases, which made setting up difficult. Despite using Bright Data to collect e-commerce data, I feel it fails in making the process easier. The scraping browser API, while promising in theory, does not perform well in practice. Over time, the product's performance has degraded significantly, leading to a high error rate. I am also frustrated by being charged for results that I did not receive back. > > Bright data's web unlocker and proxy products claimed to unlock hard to scrape websites... in reality this was not the case as it had a very high failure rate and I was charged for unsuccessful queries. ----- ### "Luminati : Only good choice for business level scraping solution." — 5.0/5 > **Martin** | *23 December 2020* | Internet | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: Luminati is stable service with in average 94.6% succes rate. They had solution to almost any problem or issue we had and also customer support is one of best i have ever seen. They do not care if you are spending 20$ or 2000$ ( we started there :-) ) and You are recieving equal level of support. Also they have that cool stuff called LPM which is app You can use to debug requests and overally provide more controll about Your traffic > > **Cons**: They are so good that multiple websites ( amazon , ebay etc... ) are writing antiscraping protection exlusively against them so 2-3 times a year service is down for few days. But they are always working hard to get it back online. > > Based on multiple factors we picked You as provider for relatively small ammount of traffic , as time went and our application was increasing in traffic we were met with requirement to move to higher tier proxy. Situation we were in was critical , we had no option to afford higher tier service and lower tier service wasnt functional for our request rate. In that moment of desperation I reached to Your support and I explained that we need higher tier service for lower price to maintain our own pricing for client and ensure stability. That moment was dire because it was basically do or die situation but to my relief Your agent was able to give us favourable pricing which gave us option to expand our operation multiple times within last 2 years. We moved from traffic for around 2GB to estimated 2TB which we will run though unblocker from January , our traffic is constantly rising 5%-10% monthly and our clients are satisfied and sometimes suprised with data speed and quality. From that point I had option to talk with multiple people from Luminati namingly \[SENSITIVE CONTENT HIDDEN\]. All of them always provided support and guidance for us for all our requirements and new features which were implemented relatively fast. Within all these years we are working together Luminati became founding stone and symbol of stability and good interbusiness relations. I would like to thank You for You service , for sleepless nights spent by breaching antiscraping protection for Amazon and for Your ----- ### "Supporting Startups" — 5.0/5 > **Verified Reviewer** | *12 November 2020* | Computer Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10 > > **Pros**: The system has been clear and easy to use. The team have been very accommodating and helpful given that we are an early stage start-up on a strict budget. > > **Cons**: Dislike nothing about the software so far. > > Very good - we had some minor (and expected) issues re timezones but Luminati soon fixed the challenge. As an early stage start up with little money and tight deadlines we have been very pleased with the team. ----- Page: 1 / 4\ Next: [Next page](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/356005/luminati?page=2) ## Links - [View on SoftwareAdvice](https://www.softwareadvice.co.nz/software/356005/luminati) ## This page is available in the following languages | Locale | URL | | de | | | en | | | en-AU | | | en-GB | | | en-IE | | | en-NZ | | | fr | | ----- ## Structured Data