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, conforming to the API Commons Rate Limits specification.

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.

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

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

8 Limits Throttle: 429 Quota: 429
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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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