Bright Data vs Froxy: the residential price flips between 50 GB and 100 GB

Froxy has the lower public residential checkout from 1 GB through 50 GB. Bright Data has the lower checkout at 100, 250, and 500 GB. The sampled winner changes between 50 GB and 100 GB, a range that can sit inside an ordinary production traffic forecast. The data does not expose an exact break-even point inside that bracket. Pair analysis dated 2026-07-26

The crossing in dollars

At 50 GB, Froxy’s covering plan contains 75 GB and costs $315. Bright Data’s smallest comparable monthly plan contains 141 GB and costs $499. A 50 GB buyer therefore spends less with Froxy on the captured public plans. At 100 GB, Froxy moves to its 150 GB plan at $550, while Bright Data still charges $499 for the 141 GB plan. A 100 GB buyer therefore spends less with Bright Data. Froxy residential tiers, retrieved 2026-07-25 Bright Data residential pricing, retrieved 2026-07-25

The low-volume result is not close because Bright Data requires a large entry bundle. The 50-to-100 GB crossing is more instructive: Froxy’s next bundle opens before the buyer needs all of it, while Bright Data’s original checkout still covers the request. Bright Data remains cheaper at the shared 250 GB and 500 GB points, at $996 and $1,995 respectively. It has no public quote at the sampled 1,000 GB point, so no comparison is made there. Bright Data source

This is a checkout comparison

The engine chooses the cheapest published plan that covers the requested amount and charges the full checkout. It does not divide a provider’s largest advertised tier into a fictional smaller purchase. Quote-only plans are excluded. That method captures the real effect of overbuying a bundle, but it does not compare network success, latency, pool overlap, or support. Dataset method dated 2026-07-26

The result can also move if either vendor changes its tier boundaries. A buyer forecasting 70 or 80 GB should check the live configuration rather than assume that the sampled 50 GB winner survives until 99 GB.

Constraints point in different directions

At 50 GB, cheaper Froxy publishes a 30-day plan, rollover on the provider’s page while the plan is continuously renewed, unlimited concurrent sessions, rotating and sticky modes, and 1,000 ports. Its recorded targeting covers country, city, and ISP. It does not publish state, ZIP, or ASN targeting, all of which the dearer Bright Data row does. Froxy pricing, retrieved 2026-07-25

At 100 GB and above, cheaper Bright Data publishes country, state, city, ZIP, and ASN targeting. It uses a 30-day billing period and explicitly does not roll unused traffic into the next month. It does not publish a concurrency maximum, port count, or ISP targeting in the captured row. Dearer Froxy publishes unlimited sessions, 1,000 ports, ISP targeting, and conditional rollover. A workload that values unused-traffic carryover can rationally reject the lower Bright Data checkout. Bright Data residential pricing, retrieved 2026-07-25

Bright Data’s larger-tier source has a separate arithmetic mismatch. The pair engine uses $996 at 332 GB and $1,995 at 798 GB, while captured vendor text displays $999 and $1,999. The table follows the pair analysis, but a buyer near either tier should verify the live total. Bright Data source

Decision rule

Put Froxy on the price shortlist through 50 GB. Re-run the checkout when expected traffic approaches 100 GB, where Bright Data becomes cheaper in the sampled data and stays lower through 500 GB. Then choose only after checking rollover, targeting depth, concurrency, ports, and the live tier total.