Bright Data is a powerful but complex data/proxy suite. Crawley Cloud is a focused no-code scraping platform with proxies built in and pricing you can predict.
Bright Data is first a proxy and data-infrastructure company — residential and datacenter proxies, a scraping browser, datasets — with scraping tools layered on top. It is the heavyweight option for large-scale, compliance-reviewed data collection. Crawley Cloud is a focused no-code scraping platform that happens to include proxies, aimed at teams who want their own scrapers running without assembling infrastructure.
The honest framing: these two are rarely competing for the same buyer. If you are not sure which you need, you almost certainly need the simpler one.
| Crawley Cloud | Bright Data | |
|---|---|---|
| No-code scraper builder | Yes | Varies |
| Proxies included | Yes | Yes (separate product) |
| Simple, predictable pricing | Yes | Complex |
| REST API + CLI | Yes | Yes |
| Free tier | Yes, no credit card | Trial |
Scale and infrastructure. If you need millions of requests through residential IPs in specific geographies, ready-made datasets, or a proxy layer for your own crawlers, Bright Data's network is the product, and it is built for enterprise procurement and compliance review.
Everything below that scale. Crawley gives you a visual scraper builder, schedules, an API and CLI, deliveries and data-quality alerts in one place, with rotating proxies and JavaScript rendering already included. There is no KYC process, no minimum commitment, and no separate proxy bill to reconcile with a scraping bill.
Cross-run de-duplication, field triggers and drop-percentage alerts mean the dataset stays usable over months without someone watching the runs.
Bright Data prices proxies per GB or per request with plan minimums, and its scraper products per record or per compute; costs depend heavily on which network you use. Check their pricing page for current rates.
Crawley Cloud: Free (no credit card) · Starter $9/mo · Pro $29/mo · Scale $79/mo · Business $199/mo — flat monthly plans sized by concurrency units and retention, every feature in every plan. Proxies are inside the plan.
If you use Bright Data mostly as proxies for scrapers you built elsewhere, the move is to rebuild those scrapers in Crawley and drop the proxy contract: rendering and rotation come with the platform. If you rely on their datasets or residential network at volume, keep them — Crawley is not a replacement for that.
No for typical sites — rotating proxies and JavaScript rendering are included in every plan.
No. The free tier needs no credit card, and paid plans are month to month.
That is Bright Data's territory. Crawley is built for teams running their own scrapers at small-business to mid-market scale.
Bright Data when infrastructure at scale is the product you are buying. Crawley Cloud when you want scrapers that run, with proxies already handled.
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