Thordata Review (2026)The 50% Sale Is 38% on Residential

Everything is a meter — per GB, per IP, per 1K responses — so the bill scales with usage.

Visit Thordata → Affiliate link — the rest of this page is the honest version, including who should skip it.

Watch the 2-minute review

Same honest take, in video form — from our YouTube channel.

Pricing (2026)

✓ Pricing re-verified 2 Aug 2026

(2026) Usage-metered, with free trials on the APIs. At research time a ~50%-off sale ran: residential proxies from $0.65/GB (list $1.05), mobile $2.20/GB, static ISP and datacenter proxies from $0.75/IP (list $1.50); SERP API from $0.70 per 1K responses, Web Scraper API $0.50/1K, Web Unlocker $1.00/1K, Scraping Browser $2.50/GB. Plans change — always verify the live price on their site.

What the pricing page doesn’t say

The catch

And the headline rates were SALE prices at research time, roughly half of list, so budget on list price, not the promo. And the category-wide caveat we’d give any residential-proxy vendor: those ‘100M+ real residential IPs’ come from consumer devices, so check sourcing ethics and your target sites’ terms before building on it.

What Thordata does

Proxy infrastructure and scraping stack — residential, mobile, ISP and datacenter proxies plus SERP/web-scraper APIs, priced per GB, IP or 1K requests.

What buyers report about Thordata

Recurring themes from the buyer-review sites listed at the foot of this page, read in August 2026. We have not run Thordata ourselves, so this is other buyers' experience rather than ours. We summarise it here because the complaints are usually the part a vendor page leaves out.

The 50% sale is 38% on the product you want

Everything here is a meter — per GB, per IP, per 1,000 responses — and the rates we captured were sale rates. Residential proxies ran from $0.65 a GB against a $1.05 list, mobile $2.20 a GB, and static ISP and datacenter proxies from $0.75 an IP against a $1.50 list. On the API side, SERP API is $0.70 per 1,000 responses, Web Scraper API $0.50, Web Unlocker $1.00 and Scraping Browser $2.50 a GB.

The promotion was billed as roughly 50% off, and on the IP products it is exactly that — $0.75 from $1.50. On residential, which is the product most people are actually here for, $0.65 from $1.05 is 38%. Worth knowing which discount you are being shown. More importantly, list prices are published for only two of the eight lines above: for mobile, the SERP API, the Web Scraper API, the Web Unlocker and the Scraping Browser, we have no idea what the post-sale rate will be.

Budget on list where you can see it and ask for list where you cannot, because a promotional rate you build a pipeline around is a price rise waiting to happen. Two unit comparisons worth carrying into the decision. The Web Unlocker at $1.00 per 1,000 is twice the Web Scraper API at $0.50, and that difference is the anti-bot premium. It is only worth paying on the targets that need it, so route by site rather than sending everything through the expensive path.

And the Scraping Browser at $2.50 a GB is 3.8 times the residential proxy rate, which understates the gap: a full browser session transfers far more per page than a raw fetch, so you pay a higher rate on more gigabytes. Use it where JavaScript rendering is genuinely required and nowhere else. Free trials run on the APIs, and the sensible way to use them is to measure your own bandwidth per page on your own targets.

That figure, multiplied by list price, is your real monthly cost. It is the only number that makes any of these rates comparable to a competitor's. One caveat we would give any residential-proxy vendor, not just this one: those hundred-million-plus residential IPs come from consumer devices. Check how they were sourced and check your target sites' terms before you build anything on top of it.

How to actually use Thordata

Measure your bandwidth per page before you compare any rate. Use the free API trials on your own targets and record how many megabytes a typical page costs you — that number multiplied by the per-GB rate is your actual bill, and without it no proxy vendor's pricing can be compared to another's. Budget on list prices, not the ones you see. The rates we captured were promotional: residential at $0.65 a GB against a $1.05 list, static IPs at $0.75 against $1.50.

And for five of the eight product lines no list price is published at all, so ask what the standard rate is for anything you plan to depend on. Route by target rather than by habit. The Web Unlocker costs twice the plain Web Scraper API, and the Scraping Browser costs nearly four times the residential proxy rate per gigabyte while also using more gigabytes per page. Send only the sites that genuinely need anti-bot handling or JavaScript rendering down the expensive paths.

Before any of that, check the sourcing. Residential IPs come from consumer devices, so ask how the network was built and read your target sites' terms — that question belongs at the start of this project, not after it is in production.

Thordata vs Bright Data, side by side

Both columns come from the same place: each vendor’s own published pricing, read on the date shown in the sources at the foot of this page. We do not average them into a score.

Both names above are affiliate links: we may earn a commission if you sign up, at no extra cost to you. Neither changes what this table says: both columns come straight from the vendors’ own pricing pages.

The natural comparison is Bright Data — Bright Data is the enterprise incumbent with strict compliance vetting; Thordata undercuts hard on per-unit price — decide whether compliance depth or unit cost matters more for your pipeline.

More on Thordata

Everything we publish about Thordata links back here — the review stays the honest hub:

The ex-banker filter — the same yardstick on every review (how we review): My ex-banker filter is simple: does Thordata remove a real cost — time, errors, missed revenue — bigger than what it charges? If the job above is genuinely yours, it's worth a look. We never publish fake or “exclusive” prices, so always confirm the current plan on their site.

Visit Thordata →

Frequently asked questions

What should I weigh before buying Developer Tools software?

Read the documentation before you commit, because it is the most honest preview of the product. Look for a quickstart you can actually finish, error responses that are documented rather than guessed at, published rate limits and a clear statement of what happens when you hit them, and a changelog showing the API is still maintained. Vague limits usually mean you will discover them in production.

Is this a hands-on review of Thordata?

This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test — where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is genuinely good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.

Others in this category

The developer tools tools closest to Thordata that we have also reviewed. They overlap rather than match:

UptimeRobotall 2 reviews →

This is our researched assessment — not a paid placement. The “Visit” links on this page are affiliate links: we may earn a commission if you sign up, at no extra cost to you, and it never changes our take. How we review →

Spotted an error? Tell us — we verify and fix fast, whether or not it flatters the product.