Singapore Mobile Proxy vs Bright Data: which actually gives you a real Singapore IP in 2026

If you searched for this comparison, you already suspect the answer. Bright Data is the biggest proxy network in the world, with a polished dashboard and an enterprise sales motion that has won most of the Fortune 500 use cases. Singapore Mobile Proxy is a 100+ modem hardware operation in Singapore that only sells Singapore mobile IPs. Both companies will quote you a price for a “Singapore mobile proxy”, but only one of them is putting a SIM in a phone on a Singtel, StarHub or M1 tower inside the country. This guide walks through what each provider actually delivers, with real pricing as of May 2026, so you can pick based on what fits your work instead of brand recognition.

TL;DR

• Pick Bright Data if you need 195 countries of coverage, 150M+ IPs, residential at scale, and you already have a procurement team comfortable with $500+ minimums.
• Pick Singapore Mobile Proxy if Singapore is the country you actually need, you want a real Singtel or StarHub mobile ASN on the proxy, you want a dedicated port not a shared pool, and you want pricing that starts at $40/mo not $500.
• Bright Data’s Singapore mobile pool exists, but real-device verification on Carousell, Shopee SG and TikTok SG shows it sometimes resolves to datacenter ASNs or to Indonesian and Malaysian peers depending on routing day.
• SMP has a 24h free trial. Bright Data has a $5 credit which usually evaporates inside one scraping run.

Who are these two providers

Bright Data (formerly Luminati) was founded in 2014 in Tel Aviv and is the largest proxy network operator by IP count. The product line covers residential, ISP, mobile, datacenter, and a separate scraping browser. Pricing is tiered by gigabyte, with a roughly $500 minimum on the pay-as-you-go residential tier and lower per-gigabyte rates as you scale up. Support is good. Documentation is excellent. The compliance posture is genuinely strong, which matters if you are working at a Fortune 500.

Singapore Mobile Proxy (singaporemobileproxy.com) is a Singapore-based operation that we run ourselves from physical modem farms in Singapore. We hold roughly 100 4G dongles with SIMs from Singtel, StarHub, M1 and Vivifi, each one bound to a dedicated port. Customers buy one port, one phone number, one IP that rotates on demand or on a schedule. We do not resell anyone else’s network and we do not have any peering rights anywhere outside Singapore. The whole product is one country done well.

Where the marketing collapses: actual Singapore IP delivery

Both companies will sell you a “Singapore mobile proxy”. The difference shows up under the hood. Here is what each one actually does.

Bright Data’s Singapore mobile pool is part of their global mobile network. When you target country=sg you get assigned an IP that resolves to a Singapore ASN most of the time. Most of the time matters: on multi-hour scraping runs we have measured 8 to 14 percent of requests routing through ASN entries that look Singaporean on a naive geoIP check but resolve to either a datacenter range or to a peering ASN that sits in Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur. For an aggregate scraping run this is usually fine. For Shopee SG account warming or for Carousell listing automation it is not fine, because those platforms run their own ASN allowlists and a non-Singtel/StarHub/M1 ASN gets the account flagged within hours.

SMP’s IPs resolve to Singtel (AS3758), StarHub (AS4657), M1 (AS17547), and a few Vivifi MVNO ranges that ride on Starhub and M1 underlay. There is no aggregation layer in between. If you ask for a Starhub port, you get a Starhub IP from a real Starhub SIM in a real 4G dongle sitting on a real tower in Singapore. The geoIP signature, the ASN, the carrier name, the device fingerprint on the User-Agent if you proxy through a real phone, all line up.

If you are doing aggregate market intelligence work and you want every Asia-Pacific country, Bright Data is the right tool and SMP is irrelevant. If your target is Singapore specifically and the apps you are working with are SEA marketplaces or local Singapore platforms, the ASN delivery question is the entire question.

Pricing comparison

Pricing as of May 2026, in USD.

Per-gigabyte, Bright Data wins at scale. For a 50TB/mo workload aimed at the whole world, no one is cheaper at that volume. Per-port for a single dedicated Singapore mobile line that you can warm an account on for a year, SMP is roughly 10x cheaper because the operating model is different.

When Bright Data is the right call

• You need 50+ countries inside one provider.
• You are running market-scale scraping (millions of pages/day) and per-gigabyte cost is the whole budget.
• You have compliance officers who require SOC 2, ISO 27001, and a procurement-ready vendor.
• You need browser farms with full geolocation flexibility, not just IP rotation.
• Singapore is one of 30 country targets in your project and quality is “good enough on average”.

When Singapore Mobile Proxy is the right call

• You are running Singapore-specific operations: Carousell, Shopee SG, Lazada SG, TikTok SG, Grab merchant accounts, ad verification on .sg domains, local SEO rank tracking, OTT geo-unblocking for Mediacorp.
• You need the ASN to match a real Singapore consumer ISP, not “Singapore on average”.
• You want one IP that sticks to one workflow for weeks at a time, not a rotating pool.
• Your budget is in the $40 to $400/mo range, not $500/mo minimum.
• You want to talk to the operator running the modem, not to a sales rep.

Trial workflow

The fastest way to settle this is to test both on the workload you care about.

For SMP, sign up at singaporemobileproxy.com and the 24h trial drops you onto a real dedicated Singapore port within 30 seconds. There is no credit card required for the trial. You will get an IP, a username, a password, and a rotation link. Point your scraper or your phone at it.

For Bright Data, you can get the $5 trial credit on signup but you will need to set up a payment method first. The credit covers roughly 1GB of mobile residential traffic at retail rates, which is enough to verify the dashboard works but not enough to test your real workflow.

What we have heard from customers who switched

Some patterns we hear repeatedly from customers who moved off Bright Data for Singapore-specific work:

• “Account bans on Shopee SG dropped from weekly to never once the ASN matched.”
• “My ad verification reports stopped showing US fallbacks because the IP was finally locked to Singapore.”
• “I was burning $300/mo on Bright Data for one Singapore use case and now I pay $40.”

None of this means Bright Data is bad. They are the largest proxy provider in the world for very good reasons. It means that “biggest” and “best fit for one country” are different problems.

FAQ

Does Bright Data have a real Singapore mobile network?
They have access to a Singapore mobile pool, sourced through their broader peering relationships. Most of the time it routes through Singapore ASNs. Not always. On the runs we have measured, 8 to 14 percent of requests land outside what you’d expect from a pure Singtel, StarHub or M1 path.

Why is SMP cheaper for a single port?
Because we are not paying enterprise gateway costs, we are not paying for 195-country coverage we do not have, and we own the hardware. Per port, the unit economics are very different.

Can I use both at the same time?
Yes. We have customers who run Bright Data for everything outside SEA and SMP for their Singapore-specific funnel. Both providers work fine in the same proxy manager. Use Bright Data where its breadth helps, use SMP where the ASN matters.

Does SMP support API rotation?
Yes. Each port comes with an API key and a one-shot rotation URL. You hit the URL, the port gets a new IP within about 8 seconds.

Is the trial really free?
Yes. 24 hours, real dedicated port, no credit card. We are confident in our hardware and we would rather you test before you buy.

Related reading

• Singapore Mobile Proxy vs Smartproxy (Decodo)
• Singapore Mobile Proxy vs IPRoyal
• cloudf.one vs GeeLark
• Mobile vs residential proxies: the real trade-offs
• Why accounts get banned even when using proxies

Bottom line

If your project needs 195 countries, sign with Bright Data. If your project needs Singapore, sign up for the SMP trial and stop paying for breadth you will never use. The IPs are real, the carriers are real, the trial is real, and the price is roughly a tenth of what Bright Data charges for the same Singapore work.

Start the 24-hour Singapore Mobile Proxy trial here.