Bright Data and Infatica both offer full residential targeting depth — country, city, ZIP, ASN, and ISP targeting are documented on both networks. That shared capability makes the surface comparison misleading. The real divergence is not in what you can target, but in how the network is controlled and what operational guarantees sit behind it.

Bright Data backs its network with a contractual SLA, an open-source Proxy Manager with HAR-level traffic visibility, automatic failover, and a pool provider-reported at 150M+ residential IPs. Infatica makes rotation itself the configurable layer: timed rotation at 5-to-60-minute intervals, dashboard-native control over rotation period and geolocation settings, and GeoDNS routing to the nearest gateway — at a pool provider-reported at 40M+ proxies.

The choice turns on whether a team needs the infrastructure guarantees Bright Data provides, or the rotation control granularity Infatica exposes.

Bright Data suits teams that require contractual uptime and response commitments, HAR-level traffic debugging, dedicated residential IP assignment, or a pool measured in the hundreds of millions of IPs. The limitations are familiar: KYC gates full residential access, compliance documentation is self-produced without ISO certification for the proxy network, and the product's depth assumes enterprise-level organizational readiness.

Infatica suits teams that need full targeting depth — city, ZIP, ASN, ISP — combined with dashboard-configurable rotation modes and timed rotation at intervals from 5 to 60 minutes. KYC is required only on first purchase via Veriff, not as a gate before network access begins. PAYG billing is available without subscription commitment. The limitations are real: the residential pool is significantly smaller than Bright Data's, no SLA is documented, dedicated residential IPs are not offered, and GDPR compliance is not explicitly stated.

Bright Data's philosophy is that proxy infrastructure value is measured in operational guarantees. The published SLA commits to 99.99% uptime and a 15-minute engineer response on covered plans. The open-source Proxy Manager exposes HAR-level traffic for debugging and supports waterfall automation between proxy products. Automatic failover replaces unavailable peers without code changes. Dedicated residential IPs provide exclusive peer assignment. The product is built for teams that treat proxy infrastructure as a dependency requiring the same reliability standards as any other critical service.

Infatica's philosophy is that rotation control is the primary operational variable teams need to own. Timed rotation at intervals from 5 to 60 minutes lets teams tune session persistence to their target's detection patterns without code changes — rotation period is configurable in the dashboard alongside geolocation settings and authentication method. GeoDNS routes each request to the nearest gateway. Targeting depth covers country, city, ZIP, ASN, and ISP on residential proxies, and carrier and ASN on mobile proxies. The product is built for teams that iterate on rotation strategy as part of their scraping workflow.

You gain infrastructure guarantees and pool scale with Bright Data. You give up rotation control granularity. With Infatica, the trade runs in reverse — you gain rotation control granularity, and infrastructure guarantees become unavailable.

Bright Data's residential pool is provider-reported at 150M+ unique IPs across 195 countries. Residential and mobile proxies support country, state, city, ZIP, ASN, and carrier targeting. Datacenter and ISP proxies support country and city only. The mobile pool covers 7M IPs across 3G/4G/5G. Dedicated residential IPs with exclusive peer assignment are available. Session TTL is fixed at 7 minutes and not configurable. Four proxy types are offered: residential rotating and dedicated, datacenter shared and dedicated, mobile, and ISP static.

Infatica's proxy pool is provider-reported at 40M+ across 195+ countries. Residential proxies support country, region, city, ISP, ZIP, and ASN targeting — all documented in API tool documentation. Mobile proxies support country, city, carrier, and ASN targeting. Three rotation modes are available: per-request, timed (5 to 60 minute intervals), and sticky via session ID parameter. Maximum sticky session duration is not published. Five proxy types are offered: dynamic residential, mobile, ISP static, dedicated datacenter, and shared datacenter. Dedicated non-ISP rotating residential with exclusive peer assignment is not listed as a separate product.

Bright Data authenticates via username and password in the proxy URL. Targeting parameters are passed as flags in the proxy username per request. Sticky sessions are activated by appending a -session parameter; session TTL is fixed at 7 minutes. The REST API covers zone management and configuration. The open-source Proxy Manager handles multi-zone orchestration with HAR logging and automatic failover. IP whitelist is not the primary authentication method. KYC is required before full residential access.

Infatica authenticates via username and password in the proxy string, with IP whitelist authentication also supported — whitelisted IPs take priority over credential-based auth. Rotation period, geolocation targeting, and authentication method are all configurable in the dashboard — not exclusively code-level. Targeting parameters are also available via proxy username string. Ports 10000–10999 correspond to unique IP addresses for direct access. Sub-user or team account management is not documented. KYC via Veriff with ID and selfie is required on first purchase only.

Bright Data bills residential and mobile proxies per GB, with PAYG and subscription tiers available. Free trial credits are provided for new accounts. No money-back guarantee is documented. KYC must be completed before billing can begin on the full residential network.

Infatica bills residential proxies per GB on PAYG and subscription tiers, with an annual discount available. Mobile proxies are billed per GB separately. ISP static proxies are billed per IP per month with unlimited traffic. Dedicated datacenter proxies are billed per IP per month. A paid 7-day trial is available for residential and mobile — not a free trial. PAYG requires no subscription commitment. Custom plans for high-volume needs require contact.

Contractual SLA, HAR instrumentation, dedicated residential IPs, or a pool measured in the hundreds of millions are requirements. Bright Data fits.

Timed rotation at custom intervals, dashboard-native control over rotation and geo settings, full targeting depth without enterprise KYC friction, and PAYG flexibility are the priorities. Infatica fits.

You gain contractual infrastructure guarantees and a large pool with Bright Data. You give up dashboard-native rotation control. With Infatica, the trade runs in reverse — you gain configurable rotation granularity and dashboard control, and the SLA, HAR instrumentation, and dedicated residential IPs become unavailable.

Neither fits teams that require both enterprise-grade SLA guarantees and fully configurable rotation control in the same product.

Ask whether your team's proxy operations require infrastructure guarantees — a published SLA, traffic-level debugging, and automatic failover — or whether pool depth at the hundreds-of-millions scale is a hard requirement. If yes, Bright Data's operational layer addresses those directly, and KYC onboarding is the cost of access.

Ask whether your scraping workflow involves iterating on rotation strategy — adjusting session persistence intervals based on target detection behavior — and whether dashboard control over that configuration matters operationally. If yes, Infatica's timed rotation and dashboard-native control are a fit, and the smaller pool and absence of a contractual SLA are the constraints to accept.

If your requirement is operational guarantees and pool scale — Bright Data. If your requirement is rotation granularity and dashboard control — Infatica.