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A practical breakdown of Thordata's proxy and scraper pricing, hidden costs, and whether data teams get real value compared to Bright Data, Oxylabs, and Smartproxy.
I spent two weeks running scraping pipelines through Thordata's residential, ISP, and unlimited proxy plans. Here's the honest take from a data engineer's perspective: what works, what breaks, and where it slots into your stack.
Thordata combines 100M+ ethically sourced IPs, a Web Scraper API with built-in JS rendering, and dataset marketplaces — making it the most complete proxy stack for teams scraping at serious volume.
Thordata's pricing looks simple until you start running real traffic. Here's how per-GB proxy billing actually works, what a 10M-request month really costs, and where the hidden fees hide.
Bright Data owns the scale crown, but Thordata is quietly eating its lunch on price and support for e-commerce scraping. Here is how they actually compare when you're hammering Amazon, Walmart, and Shopify for price and stock data.