For Bright Data, video is one feature.
For TornadoAPI, it's the whole product.
Stop building scrapers on top of proxies
Bright Data gives you residential IPs. We give you a working YouTube extraction engine. You ship faster, with fewer breakage cycles.
No more residential proxy bills
Most teams paying $1,000-3,000/mo on Bright Data residential save money switching to our flat-fee tiers - with SLA in the contract.
Built specifically for YouTube + Spotify
50 Gbps capacity, video-tuned IP pool, anti-bot patterns library updated weekly. Tuned for video at scale, not generic scraping.
Direct cloud delivery, no egress
Files stream straight to your bucket (S3 / GCS / R2 / Azure / OSS). No staging server, no Bright Data → S3 hop, no egress surprises.
White-glove migration from Bright Data
$2,500 value, included on Growth+. We rebuild your existing scrape jobs as TornadoAPI calls in days.
Money-back guarantees, scarcity-bounded slots
30-day money-back if SLA missed. 60-day on Scale. 100% on Enterprise if not in production within 90 days.
TornadoAPI vs Bright Data on YouTube + Spotify video
| Feature | TornadoAPI | Bright Data |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A working video extraction API | Proxies - you build the scraper |
| YouTube anti-bot | Patterns library, fixes in hours | Your problem to solve |
| Spotify video podcasts | Native, batch + webhook | Not supported out of the box |
| Direct cloud delivery | S3 / GCS / R2 / Azure / OSS, zero egress | Build it yourself |
| SLA | Contractual 99.5-99.9% | Network uptime only, not workflow success |
| Founder Slack | Every paid tier | Enterprise plans only |
“We evaluated several solutions for downloading YouTube content, and most struggled to keep up with ongoing changes. Tornado API has been the most reliable by far.”
- Founder, social media publishing platform
Trusted at production scale
What our customers say
“Tornado is the best product in the market that we have seen to be able to download YouTube videos, which is a critical process to our product. Not just that, the team is phenomenal and is able to help solve/streamline any issues we have in a speedy time. Tornado is a hidden gem and highly recommend them.”
Ibrahim Mohmed
CEO, Taja AI
“We evaluated several solutions for downloading YouTube content, and most struggled to keep up with ongoing changes. Tornado API has been the most reliable by far. The team is incredibly responsive and quick to adapt when things shift, which makes a huge difference for us. It truly feels like a partnership, not just a tool.”
Founder, social media publishing platform
“Tornado is literally the only good api that does this. I tried every competitor - Oxylabs, Decodo... it's a side project for them. A feature. For Tornado, it's the whole product. It's well thought out, the api is well designed, and any issues are fixed within a day. With the other guys, it took weeks (if not months). Couldn't be happier as a customer.”
Podcast platform founder
Already paying Apify, Bright Data, or Oxylabs for video?
The real cost of running on a general proxy provider isn't just their invoice. Once you factor in the rest, TornadoAPI almost always comes out cheaper all-in:
- 1Their monthly invoice for the proxy/scrape service
- 210-15 hrs/week of eng time on maintenance, debugging anti-bot, fighting YouTube changes
- 3Downtime cost when their service breaks (10-30% scrape failures common)
TornadoAPI replaces all of that with a contractual SLA, infrastructure dedicated to video, and founder Slack 24/7.
Want a side-by-side comparison on your specific volume? We'll show you the math.
Ready to ship to production?
30-min walkthrough with the founder. Side-by-side benchmark on your specific use case. No hard sell.