// scorecard · 60/100
verified 1mo agoAgent-readiness20/35
Agent registration (api_key)6/9
Public API5/5
OpenAPI spec0/9
MCP server9/9
llms.txt0/3
Reliability & performance12/15
Actively maintained8/8
Production-ready4/4
Updated recently—
Pricing6/13
Itemized public pricing6/6
Free tier / trial0/4
Free-tier generosity—
Docs & DX8/12
Docs quality6/8
Public API2/2
Quickstart / examples—
Security & compliance10/12
SOC 26/6
ISO 270012/2
GDPR0/2
Security / trust page2/2
Openness4/10
Open source0/6
Open / un-gated API4/4
Company maturity0/3
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Years operating—
// rankings · cost per standard workload
#16 in Scraping$150/ 100k pages
Web Unlocker (standard scrape/unblock API) $1.50 per 1,000 successful requests, PAYG. 100k = $150/mo. Billed on success only.
// overview
Bright Data is an enterprise web data platform for collecting, unlocking, scraping, and operationalizing public web data for AI, BI, ecommerce, GTM, and competitive-intelligence workflows.
Best for: Data, RevOps, growth, AI, and engineering teams that need reliable large-scale public web data extraction, enrichment, monitoring, or agentic web access rather than an out-of-the-box CRM-only GTM database.
// pricing
Free tier
Includes: Unlocker API · SERP API · Scraper APIs
Unlocker APIStarts from $1/1k req
- FREE TIER
SERP APIStarts from $1/1k req
- FREE TIER
Residential ProxiesStarts from $2.5/GB
- 50% OFF
// security & compliance
✓ SOC 2✓ ISO 27001✗ GDPR✗ HIPAA
// features
- Web Unlocker API with CAPTCHA solving, automatic retries, IP rotation, browser fingerprinting, custom headers, and data integrity validation
- SERP API for Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, Yandex and other search engines with localized desktop/mobile results in JSON or HTML
- Web Scraper APIs for structured extraction from hundreds of sites, including LinkedIn, Amazon, ecommerce, social media, real estate and more
- Browser API/Scraping Browser with managed Chromium, Puppeteer/Playwright/Selenium compatibility, JS rendering, human-like browsing behavior and scalable concurrency
- Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxy networks with geotargeting and Proxy Manager
- Scraper Studio for AI-powered/self-healing hosted scraper generation and managed endpoints
- Dataset marketplace and Data Firehose for pre-collected or streaming web data
- MCP server, CLI and AI-agent tooling for live web search, scraping and browser automation
- Spend limits, job management APIs, batch/scheduled collection, webhook/API delivery, JSON/CSV parsing
- Enterprise options including SSO, audit logs, account manager, priority support and premium SLA
pros
- Very broad platform covering proxies, unlocking, SERP, scraping, datasets, browsers and AI-agent access
- Large global proxy footprint and strong anti-blocking features reduce engineering burden for large-scale data collection
- Free monthly credits plus pay-as-you-go options make testing possible before committing
- Good fit for GTM enrichment, competitive pricing, search visibility, ecommerce intelligence and market monitoring use cases
cons
- Pricing is complex across products and can become expensive versus simpler scraping APIs or GTM databases
- Some high-value proxy use cases require KYC/payment verification and compliance review
- Not a turnkey CRM/contact database; teams must define sources, schemas, workflows and downstream enrichment logic
- Usage restrictions apply, including limits around prohibited or account-management use cases