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Bright Data vs IPRoyal

Daniel Fitzpatrick
By Daniel Fitzpatrick Proxy infrastructure tester. Updated 2026-06-21

Both can do the job. The gap is price, pool size, and how hard your targets push back. Here is how they line up on the numbers I track, then a straight call on which one to start with.

Starting residential rates and pool size, measured per provider.
Bright DataIPRoyal
Starting pricefrom $4.00/GBfrom $7.35/GB
Pricing modelper-GBper-GB
Pool size400M+32M+
Free trial7-day trial for businessesNo free trial
Best forweb-scraping, ad-verification, enterprisepay-as-you-go, no-expiry
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The call

Bright Data is the cheaper way in, from $4.00/GB against from $7.35/GB for IPRoyal.

Bright Data runs the larger pool (400M+ vs 32M+), which shows up when a target blocks IPs aggressively.

For hard targets at volume, Bright Data is the safer pick.

This call is from list price and pool size, not a head-to-head test of these two. See the full reviews for the success rates I have measured.

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