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Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API pricing

How Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API use different billing units, what remains unpublished, and who they suit.

Assumption-dependentPrice recorded on 2026-07-26Older price from 2026-07-26; excluded from rankings2 vendor sourcesSee the calculation
Available volumes

Every available option was priced in advance from published vendor rules. Changing a control only switches between those checked options; nothing is sent anywhere and no account is needed.

Your job

Workload100,000 pages per month
JavaScript renderingrequired
Bills failed fetchesno
per 1,000 pages kept$1.43

What Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API counts

1pages: 0.0015 usd per request
2request.js_render: no multiplier published, treated as included?
35,000 request free from the recurring tier
=You consume100,000 request

What you pay

$142.50Assumption-dependentThe arithmetic uses a disclosed conservative assumption and is excluded from cheapest claims.Web Unlocker Pay as you go, metered usage for this month
  1. Successes you want

    100,000 pages

    Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.

  2. × 1

    Attempts you are billed for

    100,000 requests

    Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API does not bill failed fetches, so failures cost nothing here.

  3. × 1

    What the meter counts

    100,000 requests

    One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.

  4. =

    Metered cash this month

    $142.50 /mo

    Web Unlocker Pay as you go. Cheapest of every eligible purchase option, not the first plan that fits.

Bars share one linear scale across the 3 counted stages, so a multiplier shows as length. Units differ by stage and are labelled. Cash is not on that scale.

100,000 pages divided by 95% success 100,000 request Web Unlocker Pay as you go $142.50/mo = $1.43 per 1,000 pages kept

The arithmetic, line by line
  1. pages: 0.0015 usd per requestsource
  2. request.js_render: no multiplier published, treated as included
  3. 5,000 request free from the recurring tiersource
  4. consumes 100,000 request per month
  5. cheapest way to buy that: Web Unlocker Pay as you go, pay as you go at $0.0015 per unit = $142.50 per monthsource

Cheaper for this job

Same 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month at a 95% success rate, ranked by what you would actually be billed. Unknown totals never enter the numeric order.

Every Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API plan

Published plans, with the offer this workload actually selects marked
PlanMonthlyIf billed yearlyPrepaid packIncludedSimultaneous sessions
Web Unlocker Pay as you go your jobNot publishedn/an/an/an/a
Web Unlocker Scale$499.00n/an/a383,000 requestn/a
Web Scraper API Pay as you goNot publishedn/an/an/an/a
Web Scraper API Scale$499.00n/an/a384,000 recordn/a

What consumes a unit

This is where a bill actually grows. One operation is not one billed unit, and the multiplier is published here rather than on the pricing page.

Every published way Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API charges
OperationCostsPerSource
request.basic0.0015 usdrequestsource

What Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API does not publish

What these Bright Data products are

This page covers two related Bright Data services. Web Unlocker returns page content while handling proxy rotation, browser rendering, retries, and blocking countermeasures. Web Scraper API provides structured records for supported websites and data targets. ScraperAPI, ScrapingBee, and ZenRows are the nearest named comparisons for the unlocker-style request workflow. The important Bright Data distinction is that Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API are separate products with separate units: one delivers successful requests, while the other delivers records. Sources: Bright Data Web Unlocker pricing, Bright Data Web Scraper API pricing, ScraperAPI pricing, ScrapingBee pricing, and ZenRows pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.

How billing works

For Web Unlocker, one unit is one successful request. JavaScript rendering, CAPTCHA handling, residential routing, proxy rotation, and internal retries are included rather than added as separate public multipliers. For Web Scraper API, one unit is one delivered record, so a job that returns many records consumes more units than a single-record job. The most common buying mistake is to combine the two products’ allowances or to compare their unit rates directly. A request and a delivered record describe different outputs and should be modeled separately. Sources: Web Unlocker pricing, Web Unlocker feature documentation, and Web Scraper API pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.

What Bright Data does not publish here

Who these products suit

Web Unlocker suits teams that want page retrieval with blocking countermeasures folded into a successful-request unit. Web Scraper API suits teams that want structured records from supported targets without maintaining parsers. They are less suitable as one interchangeable pool for a mixed workload, because their meters and outputs differ. A buyer who needs unsupported custom schemas, a fixed definition of every rejected record, or one consolidated unit should settle those details before committing. Sources: Web Unlocker pricing, Web Unlocker features, and Web Scraper API pricing, retrieved 2026-07-26.

Answer

Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API's dated 2026-07-26 price snapshot gives $142.50 for 100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages on its Web Unlocker Pay as you go offer. This older figure is excluded from rankings; check the vendor before buying.

Recorded 2026-07-26 from the vendor's own pricing page.We could not confirm this price in the latest check, so it remains visible for context but cannot lead a price ranking. Check the vendor's pricing page before buying.