Decodo vs Bright Data
Nine of fourteen models named Decodo first on the direct prompt; one named Bright Data. Both were named by all fourteen models and Decodo carries 45 labels and Bright Data 52, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Named in one category this edition.
Named in one category this edition.
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the proxy and web data providers page.
By framing
DecodoFirst choices, of fourteen modelsBright Data
Across every category in the October 2026 Edition, Decodo and Bright Data were named in the same answer seventy-one times, of the 107 answers naming Decodo and the 157 naming Bright Data. In those answers Bright Data took the first choice twenty-six times and Decodo thirty-two.
Every model, every framing
| Model | Direct | Paraphrase | Comparative | Budget-constrained | Scale-constrained | Negative |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-5.4 mini | | | | | ||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | | | | | | |
| Perplexity Sonar | | | | | ||
| Grok 4.1 Fast | | | | | | |
| Mistral Small | | | | |||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | | | | | | |
| Llama 4 Maverick | | | | |||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | | | | | ||
| Kimi K2 | | | | | | |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | | | | | | |
| MiniMax M2.5 | | | | |||
| GPT-6 Luna | | | | | ||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | | | | |
Decodo Bright Data first choice named as an alternative argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Decodo on the left and Bright Data on the right.The direct prompt
Decodo first, Bright Data an alternative
9 of 14 modelsBright Data was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Bright Data first, Decodo an alternative
1 of 14 modelsDecodo was named in the answer but not as the choice, or not at all.Neither was the first choice, one was named
2 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Neither was named
2 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
Decodo40%#1 of 9Bright Data8%#4 of 9Decodo41%#1 of 11Bright Data7%#5 of 11Bright Data42%#2 of 7Decodo2%#3 of 7What the models said about Decodo
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Three of four in this category shown.
“Go with Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) if you want the best balance of price, performance, and ease of use with ISO-certified compliance.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Decodo (formerly Smartproxy) - offers 115M+ IPs across 195+ countries, with a balance of enterprise capability and accessibility.” Llama 4 Maverick · direct prompt · first choice
“Oxylabs or Decodo tend to offer the best balance of reliability, support, and scalability without enterprise-level complexity” Claude Haiku 4.5 · direct prompt · first choice
What the models said about Bright Data
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Six of eight in this category shown.
“Avoid Enterprise-Only Providers (Bright Data, Oxylabs) unless you have enterprise-level budgets” Kimi K2 · direct prompt · hard negative
“Pricing Shocks: There are multiple reported instances where automated scraping agents consumed entire bandwidth quotas in one afternoon” Qwen 3.7 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“Premium enterprise providers like Bright Data and Oxylabs are generally better for large budgets, not limited ones.” Perplexity Sonar · budget prompt · soft negative
“Bright Data: Largest network (~72-400M+ residential IPs, 195+ countries). Enterprise-focused with advanced tools like Web Scraper API, SERP API, datasets, and unblockers.” Grok 4.1 Fast · comparative prompt · first choice
“the best default choice is usually a datacenter proxy network ... Bright Data's current pricing page, for example, shows datacenter plans starting at $0.90/IP” GPT-5.4 mini · budget prompt · first choice
“Bright Data, IPRoyal, and FloppyData are most often considered the best providers in 2025 thanks to their extensive pool of IP addresses” Claude Haiku 4.5 · comparative prompt · first choice
Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.