Bright Data Alternative: Pay-As-You-Go Proxies from US$1.50/GB

Cut the commitment, keep the protocols

Switching to a Bright Data alternative does not mean rewriting anything. Proxy302 dynamic residential proxies run both HTTP and SOCKS5, rotate the exit IP per request, and can hold a sticky session when a workflow needs one IP for a while. You pay per gigabyte, top up when you need traffic, and stop buying when you don't.

The Budget residential line costs US$1.50/GB at any amount, US$1.35/GB in a 100 GB package and US$1.124/GB at 500 GB. The smallest purchase is 1 GB for US$1.50, and purchased traffic does not expire. If your targets need a higher-grade line, Premium residential is US$5.00/GB under the same pay-per-GB terms.

• residential pricing

• Sources:
• Proxy302 pricing page
• Proxy302 rotating residential product page

Test the switch for US$1.50

1. Step 1

   Top up and buy 1 GB on the Budget residential line (US$1.50/GB, 1 GB minimum).

2. Step 2

   Point one request at the gateway proxy.proxy302.com, port 2222 for HTTP or 3333 for SOCKS5, with your username and password from My assets.

3. Step 3

   Run it against your own targets and compare. We deliberately publish no success-rate or performance numbers we haven't measured — test on the workload you actually run, not on ours.

4. Step 4

   If the results hold up at 1 GB, scale the same configuration to 100 GB, where the Budget line costs US$1.35/GB. Nothing about the setup changes between the two.

Side by side: only numbers both sides publish

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Our column reflects our pricing page and product pages (checked 2026-10-28). Their column reflects brightdata.com pricing pages as they appeared on 2026-10-28: every self-serve plan carried a 50%-off badge with the coupon code RESIGB50, and the page promoted a first-deposit dollar-for-dollar match up to US$500. Where a Bright Data price is shown as a promotional price, it is the price the page itself displayed; per-GB rates and monthly totals are each the page's own displayed figures, listed side by side — not derived from one another. Promotions change — re-check their page before deciding.

• Sources:
• Proxy302 pricing page
• Proxy302 rotating residential product page
• Bright Data residential proxies pricing page
• Bright Data residential proxies product page
• Bright Data ISP proxies pricing page

Honest notes on this table

We don't rank providers — the rows are what a buyer should verify, not a verdict. Network-size figures are deliberately omitted: any vendor's self-reported pool number is marketing until you've measured it against your own targets, so this page leaves that comparison out entirely.

One footnote on our side: if your targets block the Budget line, we also sell a Premium residential line at US$5.00/GB (US$4.50/GB at 100 GB) under the same pay-per-GB terms — no equivalent two-tier split appears in their listed residential plans.

• Sources:
• Proxy302 pricing page
• Bright Data residential proxies pricing page

What changes in your code (and what doesn't)

1. Step 1

   HTTP — swap the endpoint to the gateway on port 2222: curl -x http://USERNAME:[email protected]:2222 https://api.ipify.org

2. Step 2

   SOCKS5 — port 3333; socks5h:// makes DNS resolve on the proxy side: curl -x socks5h://USERNAME:[email protected]:3333 https://api.ipify.org

3. Step 3

   If a request fails authentication, re-check the username and password from My assets, and that you are on port 2222 for HTTP or 3333 for SOCKS5. api.ipify.org is a generic echo endpoint for the example — use any IP-echo service you trust to confirm the exit IP.

What carries over — and what to re-check

HTTP and SOCKS5 both run on dynamic residential, so anything that speaks a standard proxy protocol keeps working. Rotation and sticky sessions stay available, and geo-targeting works at country, state and city level, configured the same way for both protocols.

Two things to re-check. Static ISP IPs pick one protocol at generation: when you generate a static ISP proxy you choose HTTP or SOCKS5 for that IP — it isn't both at once, so plan per IP. And anything written against Bright Data-specific SDKs and APIs won't port as a config change — see the next section before you commit.

• static ISP page

• Sources:
• Proxy302 rotating residential product page
• Proxy302 static residential (ISP) product page

When switching makes sense — and when it doesn't

Switching fits when you buy residential traffic in bursts and resent paying for months you don't use: prepaid GB that never expires matches seasonal and project-based work. It fits small or sporadic volumes — a 1 GB / US$1.50 entry beats a US$499/month minimum for testing and side projects. And it fits stacks built on plain HTTP/SOCKS5: request libraries, curl, browser automation, in-house scrapers.

Stay with Bright Data, or run them alongside, when you depend on their wider catalog. Their pricing hub (checked 2026-10-28) lists Web Scraper API, Scraping Browser, SERP API, Web Unlocker and ready-made Datasets alongside the proxy networks — we sell proxy connectivity, not scraper APIs or prebuilt datasets, so those workloads would need rebuilding elsewhere. Their FAQ also lists Mobile as one of their four IP networks with pay-as-you-go available; our lineup is dynamic residential, static ISP and datacenter, with no mobile line.

• Sources:
• Bright Data pricing hub (product catalog)
• Bright Data residential proxies pricing page

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