Every category where a model named Bright Data for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Proxy and web data providers	Data platform	7%	5 of 92	25%	52	criticized challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Bright Data yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Bright Data across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	1	2	1	0	4
GPT-5.4 mini	3	1	0	0	4
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	2	1	2	6
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	0	1	3
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	1	2	5
Mistral Small	0	0	2	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	2	1	1	1	5
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	2	0	2
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	1	0	2	3
Kimi K2	1	0	0	3	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	1	0	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	1	1	4
GPT-6 Luna	0	3	0	0	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1	1	0	3

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct30 labels9

Paraphrase37 labels11

Comparative38 labels24not counted in share

Budget-constrained23 labels8

Scale-constrained9 labelsNone

Negative20 labels7not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative157 labels in all, every segment counted; 28 of the 59 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“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 · Proxy and web data · 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 · Proxy and web data · 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 · Proxy and web data · comparative prompt · first choice

“Bright Data is the undisputed market giant. It offers a massive pool of millions of IPs across nearly every country.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Proxy and web data · comparative prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Avoid Enterprise-Only Providers (Bright Data, Oxylabs) unless you have enterprise-level budgets” Kimi K2 · Proxy and web data · 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 · Proxy and web data · negative prompt · soft negative

“Premium enterprise providers like Bright Data and Oxylabs are generally better for large budgets, not limited ones.” Perplexity Sonar · Proxy and web data · budget prompt · soft negative

“Largest network (72M+ IPs), full features | $8.40+ (paygo $15/GB) | Complex setup, stricter KYC” Grok 4.1 Fast · Proxy and web data · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Bright Data, over the 157 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Bright Data was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Oxylabs138 of 15717Compare →

Decodo71 of 15732Compare →

SOAX51 of 1572Compare →

NetNut50 of 1570Not among the top eight

Smartproxy46 of 15712Compare →

IPRoyal46 of 1572Compare →

Webshare40 of 1577Compare →

Zyte API26 of 1572Not among the top eight

DataImpulse24 of 1570Compare →

ScraperAPI19 of 1573Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Bright Data. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 144 of the 157 answers that named Bright Data and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

brightdata.comYour site107

proxyway.com75

decodo.com65

aimultiple.com56

thunderbit.com51

dataimpulse.com46

oxylabs.io46

techradar.com42

me.pcmag.com41

proxidize.com40

462 of the 569 domain citations in answers naming Bright Data came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

me.pcmag.com/en/proxy/22143/the-best-proxies-for-202440

thunderbit.com/blog/best-enterprise-proxy-services40

decodo.com/blog/best-proxy-providers35

brightdata.com/blog/proxy-101/best-enterprise-proxy-providers31

brightdata.com/blog/proxy-101/best-proxy-providers31

brightdata.com/blog/comparison/bright-data-vs-oxylabs27

cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/best-proxy-servers26

proxyway.com/best/proxy-service-providers22

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

brightdata.com ranks first on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Bright Data takes 7% of first choices and Decodo takes 41%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “proxy network”

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not in the top ten

Position for “best proxy network”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 9,900 a month (“bright data”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 299 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 80,608 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 10,849 · 615 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 7,305
Paid Google search: 6 searches its ads show for, about 35 clicks and $883 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

95+ ads · 70 text, 21 image, 4 video · 95 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2023, as Bright Data Ltd, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 72 in the year, 23 before. 25 more by other advertisers linking to it.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 5 of 92 in proxy and web data

Segment leader

41%

Decodo

First choices: 28 across its categories
Named in: 157 answers
Its own site cited: in 144 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on brightdata.com

10,183

subdomains included

Content

2,752

counted in the table below

Documentation

728

Product · Integration

5,223 · 75

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Categories named
Blog	2,285	undated	ETL, Proxy and web data
Comparison	145	undated
Glossary or explainer	114	undated	CDN
Case study	108	undated
Report or ebook	66	undated
Webinar or virtual event	20	undated
Conference or event	10	undated
News or press	3	undated
Podcast or video	1	undated

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Every page brightdata.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.

Names read as Bright Data

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Bright Data; a claim can dispute any of them.

Bright Data (formerly Luminati) 2

Follow Bright Data

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Bright Data is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: All in One Platform for Proxies and Web Scraping
brightdata.com
For: humans & AI agents
brightdata.com
Price stated: Unlocker API FREE TIER Starts from$1/1k req; Crawl API Starts from$1/1k req; SERP API FREE TIER Starts from$1/1k req; Browser API Starts from$5/GB; Scraper APIs FREE TIER Starts from~$1~ $0.75/1k rec; Scraper Studio FREE TIER Starts from$1/1k req; Datasets Starts from$250/100K rec; Data Firehose Starts from$0.2/1k HTML; Retail Insights Starts from$2000/mo; Managed Data Acquisition Starts from$1500/mo; Residential 50% OFF Starts from~$5~ $2.5/GB; Datacenter Starts from$0.9/IP; ISP Starts from$1.3/IP brightdata.com
Starting price: Starts from$0.2/1k HTML brightdata.com
Free plan or trial: Start free trial; FREE TIER brightdata.com
Certifications: ISO certifiedSOC 2 complianceGDPR readyISO 27001
Hosting: 200+ countries
Customers named: RayluYutoriScaleStackVibeslistRTRVRFundableSensoParallax Vision
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations

What Bright Data's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: brightdata.com, brightdata.com/pricing, brightdata.com/customer-stories/security/abine, brightdata.com/use-cases/adtech, brightdata.com/customer-stories. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Bright Data's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Bright Data, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Bright Data by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Bright Data is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Bright Data, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.