
Robust actor-based cloud scraping platform with a massive marketplace, but less raw enterprise proxy infrastructure control.
Robust actor-based cloud scraping platform with a massive marketplace, but less raw enterprise proxy infrastructure control.
Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. IP2UP records 0 monthly visits with -100% growth and Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing.
Global residential proxy network for scraping, SEO and ad verification
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | ip2up.com |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Paid, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 802.75K (802,752) | 0 (0) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -50.4K (-5.9%) | -5.92K (-100%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) | 🌐 Global (—) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 383.71K | 0 |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |

Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
Unlocker, SERP, Browser, and Crawl APIs fetch and parse public pages, handle anti-bot measures and CAPTCHAs, and return results in JSON, HTML, or Markdown.
Residential, ISP, and datacenter proxy pools with country, city, and ASN targeting, plus proxy management APIs for rotation and session control.
Structured endpoints for well-known domains such as LinkedIn, Amazon, and social platforms, delivering fresh records on demand or on a schedule.
Purchase or filter pre-collected datasets across business, e-commerce, social, and real-estate categories with billions of records available.
Global residential proxy network for scraping, SEO and ad verification
Rotating dynamic residential billed per GB, static ISP proxies billed per day for stable identities, and unlimited-traffic plans billed per hour for sustained workloads.
Select exit nodes by country, state, city or ASN so requests appear to originate from the exact market you are researching or verifying.
Tune IP rotation behavior and session stickiness per task, so long-running jobs keep a consistent identity while broad crawls rotate freely.
Both protocols are supported across the product line, with ready code samples in Python, Node.js, PHP, Go, Java, C++ and cURL.

Robust actor-based cloud scraping platform with a massive marketplace, but less raw enterprise proxy infrastructure control.
Robust actor-based cloud scraping platform with a massive marketplace, but less raw enterprise proxy infrastructure control.
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