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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 vendor's own page and 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 2026-06-15 · 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 2026-06-15) · 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)

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