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Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API pricing
100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month cost $142.50, pay as you go, on Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API.
Checked Oct 12, 2026 on Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API's own pricing page
- Web Unlocker Pay as you go
- Web Unlocker Scale
- Web Unlocker Scale $999
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The Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API plans from 10K to 1M
| Plan | Covers | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Included | Concurrent |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web Unlocker Pay as you go fits your volume | 10K to 250K pages | not published | not offered | pay per use | not published |
| Web Unlocker Scale | 500K pages | $499.00 | not offered | 383,000 requests | not published |
| Web Unlocker Scale $999 | 1M pages | $999.00 | not offered | 908,000 requests | not published |
All 6 Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API plans, with what each charges past its allowance, are further down.
Your job
What Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API bills you for
What you pay
Every Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API plan
| Plan | Billed monthly | Billed yearly, per month | Included | Past the allowance | Concurrent requests |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Web Unlocker Pay as you go fits your volume | not published | not offered | pay per use | $1.50 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Web Unlocker Scale | $499.00 | not offered | 383,000 requests | $1.30 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Web Unlocker Scale $999 | $999.00 | not offered | 908,000 requests | $1.10 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Web Unlocker Scale $1,999 | $1,999.00 | not offered | 2,000,000 requests | $1.00 per 1,000 requests | not published |
| Web Scraper API Pay as you go | not published | not offered | pay per use | $1.50 per 1,000 records | not published |
| Web Scraper API Scale | $499.00 | not offered | 384,000 records | $1.30 per 1,000 records | not published |
Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API is also sold as one of the AI extraction APIs (100,000 AI extraction operations a month: no public price).
About this price and its sources
How Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API use different billing units, what remains unpublished, and who they suit.
Cite this price
100,000 JavaScript-rendered pages a month cost $142.50, pay as you go, on Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API. Price read from https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker on Oct 12, 2026. Scraping API Prices, https://scrapingapiprices.com/bright-data-pricing
How the bill builds up
- Base rate$0.0015per request
- × JavaScript renderingNot publishedSee the stated assumption in the calculation
- × Premium proxyNot requiredNot part of this workload
- ÷ Success rate1Failed requests are not billed
- = Billed units per page you keep1 requestFrom this bill’s calculation
- = per 1,000 pages kept$1.43Web Unlocker Pay as you go, billed monthly
Credits and multipliers
JavaScript rendering
Billed failures
Success rate
Concurrency
Free tier
Renews monthly The bill at your volume
100,000 pages per month · $142.50
Read the chart as a table
| Volume | Bill | Offer |
|---|---|---|
| 10,000 | $7.50 | Web Unlocker Pay as you go |
| 25,000 | $30.00 | Web Unlocker Pay as you go |
| 50,000 | $67.50 | Web Unlocker Pay as you go |
| 100,000 | $142.50 | Web Unlocker Pay as you go |
| 250,000 | $367.50 | Web Unlocker Pay as you go |
| 500,000 | $651.10 | Web Unlocker Scale |
| 1,000,000 | $1,100.20 | Web Unlocker Scale $999 |
Follow each billed unit
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Successes you want
100,000 pages
Your stated workload. Every vendor on this site is priced against this same number.
- × 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.
- × 1
What the meter counts
100,000 requests
One attempt is one billed unit for this workload.
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Metered cash this month
$142.50 /mo
Web Unlocker Pay as you go: the cheapest way to buy this volume, not just the first plan big enough.
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 requests → Web Unlocker Pay as you go $142.50/mo = $1.43 per 1,000 pages kept
The arithmetic, line by line
- pages: $0.0015 per request source
- JavaScript rendering: no multiplier published, treated as included
- 5,000 requests free from the recurring tier source
- consumes 100,000 requests per month
- cheapest way to buy that: Web Unlocker Pay as you go, pay as you go at $0.0015 per unit = $142.50 per month source
What makes it cost more
One page is not always one billed unit. These are Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API's published charges for each kind of work; failed requests are not billed.
| Work | Costs | Per | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| A standard page | $0.0015 | request | source |
Limits and terms
What Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API publishes beyond the price: the limits a job runs into and the terms that change what a plan is worth. Each line links the page it comes from and the day it was read.
Speed, concurrency and sessions
- The pricing page advertises unlimited concurrency for Web Unlocker. source, read Jul 26, 2026
Credits, renewal and billing
- Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API have separate free allowances and different billing units. source, read Jul 26, 2026
- Turning on any Custom Web Unlocker API feature (manual headers, manual cookies, or manual expect elements) switches the zone to billing 100% of requests, including failed ones. source, read Sep 2, 2026
Cheaper for this job
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What Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API does not publish
- No annual self-serve price was published.
- Bright Data doesn't define what counts as a successful Web Scraper API record.
- Plan-level concurrency was not numerically published.
- The affiliate page no longer publishes a cookie duration, a minimum payout, or a payout frequency.
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, checked Jul 26, 2026.
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, checked Jul 26, 2026.
What Bright Data does not publish here
- An annual self-serve rate for either product on the reviewed pricing pages. Sources reviewed: Web Unlocker pricing and Web Scraper API pricing, checked Jul 26, 2026.
- A complete Web Scraper API rule for rejected, duplicate, empty, or partially populated records on the pricing page (Web Scraper API pricing, Jul 26, 2026).
- Numeric plan-level concurrency limits, although the pages advertise unlimited concurrency. Sources reviewed: Web Unlocker pricing and Web Scraper API pricing, checked Jul 26, 2026.
- One shared allowance or exchange rule between Web Unlocker requests and Web Scraper API records. Sources reviewed: Web Unlocker pricing and Web Scraper API pricing, checked Jul 26, 2026.
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, checked Jul 26, 2026.
Bright Data Web Unlocker and Web Scraper API head to head
Both bills for the same job, and the volume where the cheaper one changes.