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Gulbahar Karatas

Gulbahar Karatas

Industry Analyst
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Gülbahar is an AIMultiple industry analyst focused on web data collection, applications of web data and application security.

Professional experience

She previously worked as a marketer in U.S. Commercial Service.

Research interests

She is a frequent user of the products that she researches. For example, she is part of AIMultiple's web data benchmark team that has been annually measuring the performance of top web data infrastructure providers.

Education

Gülbahar has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management in 9 Eylul University.

Latest Articles from Gulbahar

Data
Feature Comparison
Nov 4

Top 10 Antidetect Browsers Evaluated

We evaluated the best free and paid antidetect browsers in 4 dimensions for performance and usability: ** Access and manage your browser profiles and settings through a mobile app. AdsPower Browser’s emphasis on automation makes it highly effective for specific use cases. It is ideal for users focused on desktop-based tasks and those managing automation…

Data
Benchmark
Oct 29

7 Best Mobile Proxies: Tested & Ranked

We tested the top mobile proxies using 18,000 requests, measuring success rates, speeds, rotation capabilities, sticky sessions, and targeting options (i.e. country, state, carrier, and GPS). Compare leading mobile proxy providers on real mobile endpoints. The chart shows the success rate (the share of requests that returned a valid mobile page, 2xx/3xx, a correct mobile…

Data
Benchmark
Oct 29

Best Cheap Residential Proxies

As AIMultiple’s CTO, I lead data collection from thousands of websites. To identify reliable residential proxy providers, we benchmark across 10 vendors and process 2,880 requests per day, or 86,400 over a 30-day period. While we analyze the main providers (both rotating residential proxies and static residential proxies) in detail further down, the table below…

Data
Benchmark
Oct 29

Top Proxy Sites & Providers: Benchmark Results

We test the best proxy providers on major search, e-commerce, and social platforms. Every 20 minutes, we send a new batch of requests from servers in Europe, the US, Singapore, and Brazil. The results below compare providers on success rate and response time, followed by prices and details for each provider. We expanded our benchmark…

Data
Feature Comparison
Oct 29

We Tested the Best SOCKS5 Proxies

SOCKS5 providers differ in which proxy types carry it, which ports they allow, and whether UDP works. The full methodology is below. Cost efficiency changes with usage; the cheapest proxy provider at 10 GB is not the cheapest at 1 TB. Find your monthly volume on the x-axis before comparing: Bright Data SOCKS5 proxy connections…

Data
Benchmark
Oct 28

Best US Proxies: Benchmark of American Residential IPs

We test the top US residential proxy providers against Amazon, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and other sites that actively block bots. Based on our benchmark, here is which provider to choose for your specific objective: The results below update automatically after each test run; see our methodology for how we test. Bright Data runs one of…

Data
Benchmark
Oct 27

Best CAPTCHA Solving Services

We compared 10 CAPTCHA-solving services based on which CAPTCHA types each one supports, whether it solves CAPTCHAs via AI or human workers, and how it prices. We also stress-tested the four integrated unblockers (Bright Data, Decodo, Oxylabs, Zyte) against the real-world target, Cloudflare’s Under Attack mode. To see how the integrated unblockers hold up against…

Data
Benchmark
Oct 27

Best Amazon Proxies: Benchmarks & Pricing

We tested proxy performance by connecting different services to scraper APIs and making more than 150,000 requests on major Amazon domains. Our benchmark compares the success rate and median latency for residential, datacenter, ISP, and unblocker proxies to give a data-based comparison. *Starting monthly subscription price for residential proxies. Bright Data provides residential, ISP, datacenter,…

Data
Benchmark
Oct 27

TikTok Proxy Benchmark: Best TikTok Proxies Tested

On public TikTok pages, the best datacenter proxies in our test match or beat residential and mobile proxies. The common advice that TikTok requires residential or mobile IPs does not hold for scraping public pages. We send requests to real TikTok pages every day through residential, datacenter, mobile and web unblockers, and check whether each…

Data
Benchmark
Oct 27

Proxies for Scraping: Residential vs. Datacenter vs. Unblocker Benchmark

Proxy vendors advertise 95–99% success rates. On sites that actively block bots, we see 55–75%. We have sent requests through residential, datacenter, and unblockers every ~5 minutes, from servers in different countries. Proxy type matters more than the vendor. For example, on the same targets, unblockers return ~10–25 more real pages per 100 than datacenter…