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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
$0/mo
Web Unlocker API Pay as you go
$1.5/1K requests
SERP API Pay as you go
$1.5/1K requests
Web Scraper API Pay as you go
$1.5/1K records
Scale APIs
$499/mo
Browser API Pay as you go
$8/GB
Residential Proxies Pay as you go
$4/GB promo; $8/GB list
Datacenter Proxies
from $0.90/IP
ISP Proxies
from $1.30/IP
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