Best Proxy Services · head-to-head
Bright Data vs Decodo
A sourced, side-by-side comparison for proxy services. Decodo has the lower entry price. Every figure links to the vendor's own page and the date we captured it.
At a glance
- Price: Bright Data $499/mo vs Decodo $6/mo — Decodo is cheaper to start.
- Free tier: Bright Data No; Decodo No.
- HIPAA: Bright Data No; Decodo No.
Side by side
| Bright Data | Decodo | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price | $499/mo (Growth — 141 GB) | $6/mo (Datacenter — 10 GB) |
| Free tier | No | No |
| HIPAA (BAA) | No | No |
| SOC 2 | Yes | No |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| Best for | enterprise web scraping | AI/ML data pipelines |
Sources — Bright Data: brightdata.com (verified 2026-06-15). Decodo: decodo.com (verified 2026-06-15).
Key features
Bright Data: ISO 27001:2022 / 27017 / 27018 certified; SOC 2 report (on request) and downloadable SOC 3 report published on trust center; 400M+ monthly residential IPs across 195 countries; Granular geo-targeting down to ZIP/ASN at no extra cost; Full product suite: proxies, Web Scraper API, Scraping Browser, SERP API, Datasets
Decodo: 125M+ ethically-sourced IPs, 195+ countries, sub-0.2s response time; AI Parser converts HTML to structured JSON without coding; Official n8n node and MCP server for no-code and AI-agent workflows; LLM-compatible structured data outputs (JSON, Markdown)