HProxy vs BrightData.com: Residential Prices, Access Rules and the Terms (2026)

Compared against Bright Data

Since July 7, 2026, Bright Data opens new residential access only to registered companies, after a person reviews a KYC form. If you have no registered company, its residential network is closed to you. For buyers who can get in, HProxy costs less per GB than every Bright Data rate, list or promotional. Bright Data still wins on ZIP code targeting, its scraping platform and AWS billing. We read Bright Data's prices, docs and contract on October 22, 2026. We sell residential proxies, so weigh our view with that in mind.

Bright Data vs HProxy at a glance

Bright Data, the company once called Luminati, sells residential traffic pay as you go or on monthly plans with a minimum commitment. Its targeting covers country, state, city, ZIP code and ASN. New residential accounts need a registered company.

Bright Data's figures come from its residential pricing page, its docs and its Master Service Agreement, read through our server on October 22, 2026. HProxy's figures are taken from our catalog, the product sheet in our dashboard and our refund policy.

Who can buy Bright Data residential proxies

Bright Data's access policy is plain. Residential proxies "are available only to verified companies that pass a human-reviewed KYC". There is "no automatic, instant or self-serve path". The rule covers residential zones created after July 7, 2026, and older zones keep working.

To apply, you:

1. Sign up for a registered company and add a user with a company email domain. Gmail, Outlook and iCloud accounts are not eligible.
2. Add funds to the balance. KYC is not open in its trial modes.
3. Submit a form on your business and use case, with a company registration document.
4. Wait for a person to review it. Bright Data says you hear back within 48 hours.

Access then covers the use case it approved, and requests outside it are blocked. Without approval, Bright Data points you to its ISP and datacenter proxies or its Web Unlocker API.

HProxy runs no such review. Signing up and buying take no documents, and our identity checks page names the few cases where we ask.

What a GB of residential traffic costs

Bright Data lists residential at $8 per GB pay as you go. Plans of $499, $999 and $1,999 a month lower the list rate to $7, $6 and $5. The code RESIGB50 halves the rate for three months: $4 per GB pay as you go, and 141, 332 or 798 GB on the plans. Above 1 TB, Bright Data quotes a custom price.

How to read it for your job:

• No registered company. Bright Data's residential network is closed to you. Lite and Premium are open from one GB.
• Country-level work. Lite at $0.50/GB and $0.44/GB costs less than any Bright Data rate.
• State, city or network targeting. Premium at $1.49/GB for one GB costs less than Bright Data's code rate of $4 and its best plan rate of $5.
• ZIP code targeting. Only Bright Data offers it.

Price 50 GB both ways. Bright Data's pay as you go asks $400 at its list rate and $200 with the code, against $25 for 50 GB of Lite.

The code lasts three months

The banner on Bright Data's pricing page reads: "Use code RESIGB50 at checkout to get 50% OFF Residential Proxies for 3 months!" After those months, pay as you go returns to $8 per GB.

Plans add a second rule. Bright Data bills each plan's commitment on the 1st of the month, and the commitment "will not roll over to the next month", even when usage fell below it. Our GB have no scheduled expiry date, so a quiet month leaves the balance where it was.

Sessions, UDP and the certificate

• Sessions. A Bright Data session keeps its proxy while requests come at least every 5 minutes. After 5 idle minutes, the next request gets a new proxy. HProxy Premium holds an exit for a chosen time between 3 minutes and 24 hours. Rotating vs static residential proxies covers when that length matters.
• UDP. Bright Data's SOCKS5 docs do not mention UDP. HProxy Premium does carry UDP over SOCKS5, per proxy line.
• The certificate. Bright Data's residential FAQ says its residential users "probably need to use our SSL certificate to enable end-to-end secure connections".

Refunds and payment

• Refunds. Bright Data's Master Service Agreement says its subscription fees "are non-cancelable and non-refundable". With HProxy, the refund policy sends unused balance back within 14 days, to the card or crypto it came from. Spent traffic is not refunded.
• Payment. Bright Data takes PayPal, Payoneer, Alipay, Google Pay, wire transfers and credit cards, and bills through AWS Marketplace. Its list does not include crypto. HProxy does take crypto, along with card, Alipay, Pix and QRIS, from $3 in crypto and $10 otherwise, as payment options lists.
• The deposit match. Bright Data matches a new account's first deposit, dollar for dollar, up to $500.

Where Bright Data is the better pick

• A registered company with a vetted use case, which its process is built for. How to vet a proxy provider covers what to check on your side.
• ZIP code targeting, which our pools do not offer.
• A full platform. A Web Unlocker API, scraping tools and datasets sit on one account. Our guide to proxies for web scraping explains when plain proxies are enough.
• AWS Marketplace billing, PayPal and wire transfers.
• A deposit match of up to $500 on the first deposit.

Where HProxy is the better pick

• No company needed. Sign up and buy from one GB, with no documents at sign-up.
• Residential price per GB below every Bright Data rate, with or without its code.
• GB with no scheduled expiry date, and no commitment to fill each month.
• Sessions up to 24 hours and UDP over SOCKS5 on Premium.
• A refund. 14 days on unused balance, crypto included.
• All four proxy types from one balance: residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile. See our common questions for how the balance works.

Who should pick which

Pick Bright Data if you buy for a registered company that can pass its KYC review, need ZIP code targeting or its scraping platform, or want to pay through AWS.

Pick HProxy if you have no registered company, or want residential traffic at a lower price per GB without a plan or a review. Lite is for country-level work. Premium is for a state, a city, a network, a device, long sessions or UDP. Our Oxylabs comparison weighs the other enterprise name the same way.

Try it before you decide

No company and no review are needed to try our free proxy checker or the live free proxy list on your tool's settings. Residential starts at $0.50 per GB for one GB, and the full pricing page lists each step down. Our Bright Data company page covers its history from Luminati and who owns it. Our Bright Data alternatives page prices five other networks. The cheapest residential proxies in 2026 puts Bright Data beside the rest of the market.

Limits of this comparison

• No proxy tests. We routed nothing through Bright Data or through our own network for this page. It cannot speak to speed, success rates or blocks.
• No account. We did not open a Bright Data account, so the KYC steps are as its docs state them.
• Pool sizes. Bright Data's pool figure is its own claim. We make none about ours.
• Rounded rates. With the code, Bright Data's page shows the plan rates rounded to whole dollars. We report its list rates and the GB each plan includes.
• Our balance. HProxy's GB come with no scheduled expiry date. The pool behind a purchase is covered for 30 days under our terms.
• One day. Prices and terms change without notice. Check again after December 22, 2026.

Sources

• Bright Data, residential pricing page, read through our server on October 22, 2026.
• Bright Data docs: residential network access policy (modified September 1, 2026), residential FAQ, proxy and IP rotation control, and SOCKS5 proxies, read October 22, 2026.
• Bright Data, Master Service Agreement, read October 22, 2026.
• HProxy, research for our Bright Data company page: filed accounts, registers and court records, September and October 2026.
• HProxy's price catalog and dashboard product sheet, both as of October 22, 2026.
• HProxy's refund policy, identity checks page, terms and checkout minimums, all as of October 22, 2026.
• Google Keyword Planner, read October 22, 2026: "bright data" 49,500 searches a month worldwide, "brightdata" 22,200, "luminati" 14,800.