# Bright Data, free tier, POST /unblocker/req: Web scraping API

> Bright Data Web Unlocker API (98% success rate) handles proxy rotation, anti-bot challenges and CAPTCHA solving in 1 call. Returns clean HTML or JSON.

Bright Data's web scraping API on its Free Tier plan. It costs $0.00 per 1,000 pages. It returns 1 of the 7 key fields we check: HTML.
The cheapest of the 473 plans we rank by price is [Scrapestack, $199.99 monthly, Business, GET /scrape, Scrape](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapestack/199-99-monthly-business-get-scrape-scrape/llms.txt), at $0.067 per 1,000 pages.
[ScraperAPI](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scraperapi/475-monthly-scaling-get-sync-api/llms.txt), [Scrapestack](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapestack/79-99-monthly-professional-get-scrape-scrape/llms.txt) and [HasData](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/hasdata/249-monthly-growth-3m-post-scrape-web-web-scraping-api/llms.txt) are the best web scraping API providers in our benchmark.

- This page: https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-unblocker-req
- [Best web scraping API in 2026](https://datacircle.dev/best-web-scraping-api.txt)
- Get it: https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker
- Request: `POST https://api.brightdata.com/unblocker/req`
- API key: with the plan, on https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker
- Its API docs: https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/unlocker/request
- Sold by: Bright Data (https://brightdata.com)
- Checked: 2026-10-29

## In the answer

- Completeness: 14%
- HTML: ✓

## Price

- $ per 1,000 pages: $0.00
- Per: call
- Billing: free

## Charges

- Also pays for: from the same budget: SERP API · Web Scraper API · Scraper Studio · Browser API

## Not found

- $ per 1,000: $0.00

## In their words

- Their pitch: Bright Data Web Unlocker API (98% success rate) handles proxy rotation, anti-bot challenges and CAPTCHA solving in 1 call. Returns clean HTML or JSON.

## Data

- Freshness: live
- Keep data: no limit
- Use data: The Client shall not use the Services in violation of applicable law or regulations or any third party rights (including intellectual property rights) and not use the Service in any manner or for any purpose other than as stated in the intended use case provided to Bright Data, if applicable. [...] the Client will only use the Service in accordance with the Acceptable Use Policy, as may be amended from time to time. [...] When using the Data Services, the Client shall not distribute, transmit, reproduce, publish, license, transfer, or sell any Data in order to offer a similar or competitive product. [...] Client’s use of the data collector service is subject to all applicable laws, including without limitation data protection and privacy laws. To the extent applicable to processing of personal data, Client is solely responsible for determining the lawful grounds, providing notices, respecting data subject rights and all other related obligations. [...] Bright Data’s platform, technology, and network (collectively, “Services”) are meant for legitimate and legal purposes only and are subject to the Bright Data Master Service Agreement. [...] Any use of the Bright Data Services for illegal, fraudulent, or abusive activities is strictly prohibited. [...] Forbidden activities include, but are not limited to: Collection of nonpublic information (i.e data behind login), DDoS attacks, Spam: mass posting any mail/message boards/IRC/comments messages and images, Ad fraud or click fraud, Impersonation or spoofing for fraudulent purposes, Creating fake accounts or content, Use of automatic ticket purchasing (ticket-bots), Raffles, lottery, or gambling, Fake engagement (likes, comments, shares, etc.), Gaming or trading of in games items/currency, Reselling of proxies without Bright Data’s prior written approval (see our partners programs), Use of streaming related domains (videos, music or images streaming), Trading crypto/virtual currency or NFT, Any Search Engine Optimization (SEO) manipulation (i.e: fake clicks in search engines results), Posting on classified, used, and resell sites (such as Craig’s list), Completion of surveys in return for a benefit or anything of value, Any form of activity that is in violation of applicable law or regulations or any third party rights

## Plan

- Pay: $0
- You get: 5,000 requests a month
- Enough for: 5,000 calls a month
- Expires: end of the month

## Rate limit

- Per second: 16.67
- Concurrent: n/a

## Speed

- Answer: by polling or webhook

## The call

- You send: zone, url. Optional: customer, method, headers, body, country, webhook_url, webhook_method, webhook_data, debug
- Method: POST
- Path: /unblocker/req

## About the plan

- Plan: Free Tier
- Who can get it: new accounts of anyone 18 or over, not on a subscription or custom pay-as-you-go pricing, and not sanctioned or in Russia, Belarus, Syria or Lebanon

## The 3 fields the plan's answer can hold

page HTML, status code, response headers

## Bright Data's plans (4)

- [Bright Data, free tier, POST /unblocker/req](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-unblocker-req/llms.txt): $0.00 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Bright Data, top-up, Pay as you go, POST /unblocker/req](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bright-data/top-up-pay-as-you-go-post-unblocker-req/llms.txt): $1.50 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Bright Data, $499 monthly, Scale, POST /unblocker/req](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bright-data/499-monthly-scale-post-unblocker-req/llms.txt): $1.303 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [Bright Data, contact us, Enterprise, POST /unblocker/req](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bright-data/contact-us-enterprise-post-unblocker-req/llms.txt): 14% complete, live

## Bright Data's calls for this API (2)

- `POST /request`: [Bright Data, free tier, POST /request](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-request/llms.txt)
- `POST /unblocker/req`: [Bright Data, free tier, POST /unblocker/req](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-unblocker-req/llms.txt)

## Bright Data's APIs (11)

- [Bright Data: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, POST /datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l1vijqt9jfj7olije](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-datasets-v3-scrape-dataset-id-gd-l1vijqt9jfj7olije/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, POST /datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l7j0bx501ockwldaqf](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-datasets-v3-scrape-dataset-id-gd-l7j0bx501ockwldaqf/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, POST /datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l7qekxkv2i7ve6hx1s](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-datasets-v3-scrape-dataset-id-gd-l7qekxkv2i7ve6hx1s/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, POST /datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l1vilaxi10wutoage7](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-datasets-v3-scrape-dataset-id-gd-l1vilaxi10wutoage7/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, POST /datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_m4ijiqfp2n9oe3oluj](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-datasets-v3-scrape-dataset-id-gd-m4ijiqfp2n9oe3oluj/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, POST /datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_l1vilsfd1xpsndbtpr](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-datasets-v3-scrape-dataset-id-gd-l1vilsfd1xpsndbtpr/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: company enrichment API pricing, 4 plans, POST /datasets/v3/scrape?dataset_id=gd_m0ci4a4ivx3j5l6nx](https://datacircle.dev/company-enrichment-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-datasets-v3-scrape-dataset-id-gd-m0ci4a4ivx3j5l6nx/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: LinkedIn company post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-post-apis/bright-data/free/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: LinkedIn company data API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-company-profile-apis/bright-data/free/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: LinkedIn person article API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-article-apis/bright-data/free/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: LinkedIn profile post API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-person-post-apis/bright-data/free/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: LinkedIn profile API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-profile-apis/bright-data/free/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: LinkedIn job details API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-details-apis/bright-data/free/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: LinkedIn job search API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-job-search-apis/bright-data/free/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: LinkedIn post details API pricing, 4 plans](https://datacircle.dev/linkedin-post-details-apis/bright-data/free/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, POST /request, SERP API](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-request-serp-api/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, POST /serp/req, SERP API, asynchronous request](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-serp-req-serp-api-asynchronous-request/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, POST /request, SERP API, Bing](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-request-serp-api-bing/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: SERP API pricing, 4 plans, POST /serp/req, SERP API, Bing, asynchronous request](https://datacircle.dev/serp-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-serp-req-serp-api-bing-asynchronous-request/llms.txt)
- [Bright Data: web scraping API pricing, 4 plans, POST /unblocker/req](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/bright-data/free-tier-post-unblocker-req/llms.txt)

## Bright Data: web scraping API alternatives

- [Oxylabs, $500 monthly, Flexible, POST /v1/scrape, Scrape, JavaScript rendering](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/oxylabs/500-monthly-flexible-post-v1-scrape-scrape-javascript-rendering/llms.txt): $1.30 per 1,000, 14% complete, live
- [ScrapingBee, $3,599 monthly, Enterprise 69, GET /api/v1/, HTML API, premium proxy](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/scrapingbee/3599-monthly-enterprise-69-get-api-v1-html-api-premium-proxy/llms.txt): $1.304 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [CrawlForge, $3,990 yearly, Business, POST /tools/extract_content](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/crawlforge/3990-yearly-business-post-tools-extract-content/llms.txt): $1.33 per 1,000, 57% complete, live
- [ZenRows, $399 monthly, Growth G3, GET /v1/, Fetch a page, premium proxies](https://datacircle.dev/web-scraping-apis/zenrows/399-monthly-growth-g3-get-v1-fetch-a-page-premium-proxies/llms.txt): $1.33 per 1,000, 43% complete, live

## Sources

From each provider's own pricing page and docs, and from what providers tell us. We read this row from these pages on 2026-10-29.

- https://brightdata.com/acceptable-use-policy
- https://brightdata.com/legal-governance
- https://brightdata.com/license
- https://brightdata.com/llms.txt
- https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-scraper
- https://brightdata.com/pricing/web-unlocker
- https://docs.brightdata.com/api-reference/rest-api/unlocker/request
- https://docs.brightdata.com/general/account/billing-and-pricing/free-tier
- https://docs.brightdata.com/general/policy/acceptable-use-policy
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/linkedin/introduction
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/scrapers/scrapers-library/faqs
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/web-unlocker/configuration
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/web-unlocker/introduction
- https://docs.brightdata.com/products/web-unlocker/send-your-first-request