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Bright Data vs Decodo

A sourced, side-by-side comparison for proxy services. Decodo has the lower entry price. Every figure links to the public page it was captured from — the vendor's own wherever the vendor publishes the number, otherwise the named public source — with the date we captured it.

Decodo has the lower entry price — Bright Data starts at $499/mo, Decodo at $6/mo. Free tier: Bright Data No, Decodo No. HIPAA: Bright Data No, Decodo No.

As of 2026-09-03 · figures link to their source below

Side by side

Bright Data

$499/mo entry
Entry price$499/mo (Growth — 141 GB)
Free tierNo
HIPAA (BAA)No
SOC 2Yes
GDPRYes
Best forenterprise web scraping

Decodo

$6/mo entry
Entry price$6/mo (Datacenter — 10 GB)
Free tierNo
HIPAA (BAA)No
SOC 2No
GDPRYes
Best forAI/ML data pipelines

Sources — Bright Data: brightdata.com (verified 2026-09-03) · Decodo: decodo.com (verified 2026-09-03)

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)

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