Octoparse vs Bright Data
Bright Data sells web data infrastructure in a dozen products, each billed by its own unit. Octoparse is one web data platform: 690+ ready-made scrapers, cloud runs and scheduling, on a monthly plan.
- 690+ ready-made scrapers, maintained by Octoparse
- One monthly plan instead of per-GB and per-record bills
- The same scraper returns the same fields every run
- AI or point-and-click builder, no code
- per GB of proxy traffic
- per 1,000 requests
- per 1,000 records
- per 1,000 page loads
- per IP
- Templates
- Cloud runs and scheduling
- IP rotation
- Export and API
Octoparse vs Bright Data at a glance
Based on each vendor's public pricing pages and documentation as of October 29, 2026.
Why teams switch from Bright Data
One platform, not a stack of products
On Bright Data you first choose between Proxies, Unlocker, Browser API, Scraper API, Scraper Studio and Datasets, then wire them together. In Octoparse, running, scheduling, IP rotation and export live in the same product.
690+ ready-made scrapers
The Template Gallery covers Amazon, Google Maps, Indeed, YouTube and hundreds of other sites. Enter a keyword or URL, run it in the cloud, and get rows back without building anything.
AI covers the long tail
Bright Data maintains Scraper APIs for 120+ popular sites. Most data needs sit outside any list like that. Describe the data you want in plain English and Octoparse AI Assistant builds a reusable scraper for you: run it in your own browser with Browser Use, for sites you're signed in to, or on Octoparse Cloud on a schedule with Cloud Agent. Once built, it runs on fixed rules, with no AI cost per run.
Cheaper once volume grows
Bright Data's pay-as-you-go price is hard to beat for a few thousand records. Past that, per-record billing keeps climbing while an Octoparse plan stays the same. The table below shows where the lines cross.
One API for every scraper you run
Bright Data's Scraper APIs cover the sites Bright Data maintains, billed per 1,000 records. The Octoparse API runs anything you have in Octoparse and returns structured rows, and it comes with your plan.
Ready-made templates
Call any of the 690+ templates through the API with your own keywords or URLs, and get the rows back as JSON.
Custom tasks from Desktop
Build a task by pointing and clicking in Octoparse Desktop, then start, schedule and export it over the API.
Scrapers built by the AI Assistant
Describe a site in plain English, let the AI Assistant build the scraper, and call it from your code like any other task.
API and MCP access is included in every plan, and the Free plan includes 2,000 rows a month. Scraping 1 million records a month costs about $1,300 on Bright Data's Scraper API; on Octoparse, it's covered by the Standard plan at $83 a month. See pricing
Bright Data pricing vs Octoparse
Monthly cost, billed monthly, for scraping a site both tools already have a ready-made scraper for, such as Amazon product pages. Bright Data is priced on Scraper API records; Octoparse on template rows.
Bright Data: $1.50 per 1,000 records pay as you go, and the Scale plan at $499 a month with 384,000 records and $1.30 per 1,000 after that, from its Web Scraper API pricing page, excluding promo codes. Octoparse: pricing page. Protected sites on Octoparse add residential proxies ($3 per GB) and CAPTCHA solving ($1 to $1.50 per 1,000), only when you need them.
What users say about Octoparse
"It handles screen scraping, sites with Javascript, Ajax, scrolling, items within Iframe, etc., and 'get' requests API scraping."
"Makes web scraping and data extraction approachable without needing to write code."
On G2's side-by-side comparison, reviewers rate Octoparse 9.6 for ease of setup against 8.8 for Bright Data (October 2026).
Who should pick which?
Choose Octoparse if:
- Your team has no engineers, or you don't want to spend their time on scrapers.
- A ready-made template already covers the site you need.
- You scrape tens of thousands of records a month or more and want a fixed bill.
- You want results in Excel, Google Sheets or a database, not in an API response you have to handle.
Choose Bright Data if:
- You have an engineering team and need large pools of residential or mobile proxies.
- You want to buy ready-made historical datasets.
How to move from Bright Data to Octoparse
- 1
Find the same site in the Template Gallery
Search the Template Gallery for the site your Bright Data scraper covers, enter your keywords or URLs, and preview the fields.
- 2
No template? Let the AI Assistant build one
Describe the data you want in plain English and the AI Assistant builds a reusable scraper for you.
- 3
Schedule it on Octoparse Cloud
Set the run frequency and export target, or call the task from the API or MCP server in place of your Bright Data endpoint.
Already pay for Bright Data proxies? You can add your own proxies in Octoparse's task settings and keep using them, without writing scraper code.
Frequently Asked Questions
Bright Data bills by the GB, the request and the record. We bill by the month.
This comparison is based on our understanding of information publicly available as of October 29, 2026. Readers should conduct their own research. Product names and brands are used for identification only and remain the property of their respective owners.
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