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SOAX vs Bright Data

A sourced, side-by-side comparison for proxy services. SOAX 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.

SOAX has the lower entry price — SOAX starts at $90/mo, Bright Data at $499/mo. Free tier: SOAX No, Bright Data No. HIPAA: SOAX No, Bright Data No.

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

Side by side

SOAX

$90/mo entry
Entry price$90/mo (Starter)
Free tierNo
HIPAA (BAA)No
SOC 2No
GDPRYes
Best formulti-account management

Bright Data

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

Sources — SOAX: soax.com (verified 2026-09-03) STALE · 2026-06-15 · Bright Data: brightdata.com (verified 2026-09-03)

Key features

SOAX: 191M+ IPs including 155M residential and 33M mobile across 195 countries; SOC 2 and ISO 27001 certifications in progress (explicitly stated as not yet held); UDP and QUIC protocol support in addition to HTTP(S) and SOCKS5; Strong anti-detect browser integration ecosystem (15 partners)

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

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