Honest comparison · May 2026
Bright Data's industrial-grade infra
Bright Data's industrial-grade infra
or Livescraper's calm app.
Bright Data sells proxy infrastructure + raw scraping APIs to engineering teams. Livescraper hides all of that behind a no-code app. Same data, vastly different UX and price.
Bright Data
$500+ / month minimum
Web Scraper IDE · $500 minimum spend
- Industry-leading proxy network (72M+ IPs)
- Browser-as-a-service for hard targets
- Compliance-heavy enterprise pedigree
- Best for high-volume custom scraping
- $500/month minimum spend
- Proxy + scraper sold separately (complex pricing)
- Need engineering skills to operate
- No pre-built no-code scrapers
- Complex compliance + IP-rotation setup
- Customer support is enterprise-tier
Livescraper
$0 minimum
500 free rows / month · pay only when over
- No minimum · no contract · 500 free rows monthly
- We handle proxies + retries + parsing — invisibly
- No engineering skills required
- Six pre-built scrapers, ready to run
- Predictable per-row pricing (no CUs / proxy fees)
- Self-serve onboarding · no sales call
- Same data, calmer UX