Gulbahar Karatas
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
We Benchmarked the Best UK Proxies
We benchmarked the top UK proxy services against high-security British domains, including social media and e-commerce sites, to identify the best UK-based residential proxies. Tested at 15-minute intervals, here are our top picks based on success rates and speed: *Ranges show the minimum and maximum of the daily average success rates and response times measured…
Best Search Engine Proxies: Benchmark
Search engines are among the toughest targets our team scrapes at AIMultiple. Google, Bing, and Yandex flag and throttle automated queries within a handful of requests from the same address, so a proxy that sails through an ordinary website can still stall on a results page. We benchmarked top providers through residential IPs to all…
Top Google Proxies: Benchmark
Google proxies have become essential infrastructure for extracting data from Google at scale. Whether you are tracking rankings across hundreds of locations, verifying ads, or feeding SERP data into an SEO platform. To find out which providers hold up under real load, we sent 5,000 requests to Google search results through residential IPs. See the…
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…
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…
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…
Proxy Cost Calculator: Discounts & Prices
Residential proxies typically range from $1 to $15 per GB, while shared datacenter proxies can start below $0.05 per IP. We evaluated providers with volumes from 10GB to 10TB. Below is the average proxy pricing by type: Lines higher up represent cheaper prices (more data per $1). Among Bright Data, Oxylabs, and Decodo, Decodo has…
Proxy Free Trial: How to Test Premium Proxies
Large proxy providers with residential pools require company verification for free trials. Providers with instant trials usually offer datacenter IPs. These are inexpensive for them. Many offers are labeled as free trials but are not. Some providers use the term for money-back guarantees, paid starter packages, or permanent free tiers. The next section lists what…
Top IPRoyal Alternatives
IPRoyal is one of the budget-friendly proxy providers for small to midsize businesses. Despite its appeal to budget-conscious consumers, every product has room for improvement, including IPRoyal. Some users have cited certain limitations in their services, fueling the search for alternative proxy service providers capable of addressing these concerns and offering a more comprehensive solution.…
The Best Twitter Proxies
We evaluated the top proxy service providers using 30 million requests in our enterprise proxy benchmark. We also used proxies for X.com (formerly Twitter) to assess their performance across various use cases and scales. The minimum cost of a residential proxy plan. When looking for a provider, focus on those offering verified proxy pools. This…
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