Data Solutions & Practices
Data is the fundamental resource that powers business operations and drives strategic decisions. We cover modern data practices and the tools, platforms, and approaches organizations use to manage, transform, and get value from their data.
Explore Data Solutions & Practices
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkNov 2
5 Best Google Maps Scraper APIs: Tested & Ranked
To find the best Google Maps scraper, we benchmarked five web scraping providers, Apify, SerpApi, Oxylabs, Zyte and Nimble, by requesting the same 1,000 businesses from each. The businesses span 10 categories across 10 US cities, for 5,000 requests in total. Since all providers exceeded 90% success, we compared completion time: Only SerpApi and Apify…
- Scraping ToolsBenchmarkNov 2
We Tested the Best SERP Scraper APIs
We benchmarked 5 SERP providers using 7,000 live requests across Google, Bing, and Yandex. See which providers came out ahead on success rate and speed: Read the full methodology. We also run live requests every 15 min, with caching disabled, a 60s timeout, and 250+ queries across Google, Bing, and Yandex in the United States.…
- Proxy TypesBenchmarkOct 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…
- Proxy ComparisonsBenchmarkOct 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…
- Proxy TypesFeature ComparisonOct 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…
- Geo ProxiesBenchmarkOct 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…
- Anti-BlockingBenchmarkOct 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…
- Anti-BlockingBenchmarkOct 27
Top 5 Website Unblockers Benchmarked & Compared
We benchmarked 4 leading web data providers across the top 10,000 domains, running a total of 260,000 requests. Each provider was tested at multiple concurrency levels to measure how they behave under increasing load. We also ran a separate markdown extraction test on 10,000 URLs, with Exa added, to measure how often each provider returns…