Bright Data · Rate Limits

Bright Data Rate Limits

Rate-limit posture for the Bright Data API surface. Bright Data primarily controls usage via per-zone concurrency caps and monthly result/bandwidth quotas tied to the customer's plan. Hard per-second request limits are documented per product; see https://docs.brightdata.com for the authoritative limits.

Bright Data Rate Limits is the machine-readable rate-limit profile for Bright Data on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Rate Limits shape.

It captures 8 rate-limit definitions, across the payg, growth, business, premium, and web-scraper-scale tiers, measuring concurrent_requests, results, records, gigabytes, and concurrent_sessions.

Limit state is signalled in the limit, remaining, reset, and retryAfter response headers, and an exhausted limit returns HTTP 429.

This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.

The profile also includes response codes documented for throttled, quotaExceeded, and serviceUnavailable.

Tagged areas include Rate Limiting, Quotas, and Bright Data.

8 Limits Exhausted: HTTP 429 Quota: 429 limitremainingresetretryAfter
Method: generated, dated 2026-05-25.
Written by API Evangelist on 2026-05-25 and not verified against a page the provider published. Treat every limit as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
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Rate LimitingQuotasBright Data

Limits

Pay As You Go — Default Concurrency zone
concurrent_requests · instantaneous
100
Bright Data advertises "unlimited concurrent requests" on PAYG and self-serve tiers. The effective ceiling is governed by your zone configuration and account-level fairness; contact support to raise concurrency for sustained spikes.
Growth — Monthly Result Quota zone
results · month
380000
Business — Monthly Result Quota zone
results · month
900000
Premium — Monthly Result Quota zone
results · month
2000000
Web Scraper API — Scale account
records · month
384000
Residential Proxies — Growth Bandwidth Cap zone
gigabytes · month
141
Scraping Browser — Concurrent Sessions account
concurrent_sessions · instantaneous
50
Per-account session concurrency is configurable; defaults to a small value for new accounts and scales upward on request.
Hosted MCP Server — Free Tier api-key
requests · month
5000

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