SocialAPIs vs Bright Data
Pricing verified June 2026. All claims linked to a source at the bottom of the page.
Bright Data sells proxy infrastructure, Web Scraper APIs, an IDE, and pre-built datasets across dozens of verticals — SERP, real estate, e-commerce, social. Social is one vertical of many. We're focused on social.
Bright Data's social rate is in the same range as ours. The gap shows up in shape, not in raw cost.
“Bright Data's social rate is roughly the same as ours. The gap is in shape — they sell proxy infrastructure with social as one of many verticals; we sell a social API where everything has one schema, one auth header, and an MCP server.”
| SocialAPIs | Bright Data | |
|---|---|---|
| Focus | Purpose-built social | Proxy + scraping infra (social is one vertical) |
| Headline rate | ~$1.49–$1.63 / 1,000 req on standard plans; custom rate at higher volume | $1.30–$1.50 / 1,000 records |
| Higher-volume pricing | Custom plan, negotiable rate that goes below Bright Data's $1.30 floor | Enterprise tier, talk to sales |
| Free tier | 200 requests / month | 5,000 records / month |
| Endpoint shape | Consistent schema across endpoints | Per-platform verbose names |
| MCP / AI agents | Native MCP server | — |
On standard plans we're close — Bright Data Pay-as-you-go is $1.50/1K records; we're ~$1.49–$1.63/1K requests on Pro ($179/mo, 120K). At higher usage that flips. We do custom plans that drop below Bright Data's $1.30/1K floor, sized to your actual monthly volume. Same email me directly, no procurement cycle.
On the standard tiers, no — their Pay-as-you-go ($1.50/1K records) and Scale plan ($1.30/1K) are in the same range as our ~$1.49–$1.63/1K on Pro. At higher monthly volume we do custom plans that go below Bright Data's $1.30 floor — email me with your expected monthly call count and I'll quote it.
If you're past 120K calls a month and looking at Scale-level usage, I'll quote a flat per-1K rate sized to your actual volume. The bigger the volume, the lower the rate — and at six-figure-monthly volumes we go well under Bright Data's $1.30 record price. No multi-month commitment required, no procurement cycle. Email [email protected] with your numbers.
When social isn't your primary use case. If you need SERP results, real-estate listings, or e-commerce data alongside social, Bright Data's vertical coverage is much deeper than ours. We're focused on social.
Useful for one-time analysis — $250 for 100K records of static Facebook data, for example. That's a snapshot, not a live API. We default to live calls per request.
No. We have standard plan caps and continuous overage / auto-top-up. We don't hard-stop your requests because procurement hasn't signed off on an increase.
All competitor pricing was checked against the live pages in June 2026. Pricing changes often — re-verify before making a buy decision based on these numbers.
200 free calls / month. No credit card. The same engineering behind 7.2M+ monthly calls — one curl away.