Under the torrent of the era of big data, overseas HTTP agents have been widely used in cross-border business in all walks of life, and the quality of HTTP agents on the Internet is uneven, and many people are not clear about how to judge whether the agent is good or bad, so I will pick out two representative overseas HTTP agents Smartproxy and Bright Data to compare to see what problems need to be considered when choosing an agent.
First, their respective characteristics
As a high-quality overseas HTTP agent in China, Smartproxy has exclusive high-performance servers, integrates real and high-quality family residential IP, and supports a variety of agent authentication modes and business scenarios such as static and dynamic customization of exclusive IP. At the same time, it has lines throughout 190+ countries and regions around the world, with more than 50 million active IP updates every day, the availability rate is as high as 99%, and the IP address can be accurate to the city, support HTTP, HTTPS, SOCKS5 proxy protocol, and the IP purity is high, and long-term use does not have to worry about being blocked.
Smartproxy's advanced signature recognition algorithms enable a high level of security, helping customers block attacks from a variety of high-traffic platforms. In addition, Smartproxy also pays attention to user identification, which can accurately identify malicious visitors, use multi-factor authentication, verification code, access control and other means to protect customers' accounts from abuse, and can also adjust the degree of relaxation of system policies.
Bright Data is a foreign global commercial agent network service provider, with a large number of proxy servers, providing residential agents, data center agents and mobile agents, with a wide range of geographical locations. It has 99.8% IP availability, more than 72 million scalable IPs worldwide, and real-time monitoring of network status. It has cooperated with Oxford University, Duke University and other major universities around the world.
The advanced open source proxy manager used by Bright Data can manage all agents and speed up development, as well as reduce traffic bandwidth. The platform is flexible, can be scaled indefinitely, and requires fewer resources. Can be integrated with many third-party tools.
Overall, the development of the two agents is relatively mature, Bright Data's proxy model will be more complete, but Smartproxy's IP purity and stability are also excellent.
2. Price
Here to take the dynamic residential agency as an example, Smartproxy is priced at 7.5 to 15 yuan / GB, the larger the package, the more realistic.
And bright data prices will be relatively high, dynamic residential agents $12.75/GB, yes, it's dollars! It costs $500 a month on a package, which is not something that a small business can afford.
So the price of this smartproxy is completely winning, after all, domestic agents will not be too bad.
3. Customer support
Smartproxy is a domestic agent, there is no jet lag problem, customer service is basically online all day, and can also be contacted by penguin or VX, so this piece is not to worry about not being contacted.
Bright Data's customer support is the responsibility of a one-on-one account manager after you purchase the package, and due to jet lag issues, message responses are not so timely.
4. Summary
Now, presumably you have a general direction on how to distinguish between overseas HTTP agents. On the whole, smartproxy and Bright Data's functions and practicality are very good, and even Bright Data will be more complete, but the price gap between the price and customer services is too large, and smartproxy will be a better choice, especially for small and medium-sized enterprises and individuals.