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Best Proxy Services · head-to-head

SOAX vs Bright Data

A sourced, side-by-side comparison for proxy services. SOAX has the lower entry price. Every figure links to the vendor's own page and 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 2026-06-15 · figures link to their source below

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 2026-06-15) · Bright Data: brightdata.com (verified 2026-06-15)

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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