Bright Data Alternative: ProxyGen's Pay-As-You-Go Proxies in 2026
Looking for a Bright Data alternative? ProxyGen offers residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter proxies in 195+ countries with pay-as-you-go pricing from $1.19/GB, crypto payments, instant setup, and no monthly commitment.
Bright Data is the largest proxy network and the default pick for big enterprises. ProxyGen is the pay-as-you-go alternative: residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter IPs across 195+ countries, with no minimum spend, no annual contract, and bandwidth that never expires. If you need enterprise-scale tooling and formal compliance, Bright Data fits. If you want to start in minutes and pay only for what you use, ProxyGen is built for you.
Pricing model: pay-as-you-go vs commitment
The biggest difference is how you pay. ProxyGen is strictly pay-as-you-go from $1.19/GB. You top up, you spend, and unused bandwidth never expires. There are no subscriptions, no monthly minimums, and no annual contracts. Bright Data offers flexible plans too, but its best rates and enterprise features are built around larger monthly commitments and volume tiers, which suit high-spend teams more than individuals or smaller projects.
Best fit: ProxyGen for predictable, low-commitment spend. Bright Data for enterprises that can commit to volume.
IP pool and coverage
Bright Data runs one of the largest IP pools in the industry, and that scale is a real strength for very large, distributed crawls. ProxyGen covers 195+ countries across residential, mobile, static ISP and datacenter proxies, with every country unlocked from your first dollar and both country and city targeting. For the vast majority of scraping, ad verification and account workloads, that coverage is more than enough, and you are not paying enterprise overhead for pool size you will never touch.
Best fit: Bright Data on raw pool size. ProxyGen on value for the coverage you actually use.
Payments and onboarding
ProxyGen accepts crypto through Cryptomus alongside card, and setup is instant. Create an account, top up, and your proxy credentials are live in minutes with no sales call. Bright Data's enterprise onboarding involves more verification, and for many use cases a compliance review before the higher-trust pools open. That review makes sense at enterprise scale, but it is friction when you simply want to start today.
Best fit: ProxyGen for speed and crypto. Bright Data for teams that need formal compliance.
Features and tooling
Bright Data ships a broad platform: a scraping browser, ready-made datasets, a large API surface, and managed tools aimed at big data teams. ProxyGen focuses on doing the core proxy job exceptionally well: clean residential and mobile IPs, sticky or rotating sessions, DNS resolved through the exit IP so geolocation stays consistent, and a simple dashboard plus a developer API. If you want an all-in-one data platform, Bright Data has more surface area. If you want fast, reliable proxies without the platform tax, ProxyGen is leaner.
Which should you choose?
- Choose Bright Data if you are an enterprise that needs the largest possible pool, a managed data platform, and can commit to volume.
- Choose ProxyGen if you want residential and mobile proxies with transparent pay-as-you-go pricing, crypto payments, instant setup, and no contracts, keeping both per-GB cost and commitment low.
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