Bright Data
Web data infrastructure for humans and AI agents: proxies, scraper APIs, SERP, browsers and datasets in one platform.
About Bright Data
Bright Data is a web data platform that gives teams and AI agents reliable access to public websites. Instead of stitching together proxies, headless browsers and anti-bot workarounds yourself, you call one of its APIs: Unlocker API for blocked pages and CAPTCHAs, SERP API for multi-engine search results, Crawl API for turning whole sites into AI-friendly data, Browser API for remote stealth browsers compatible with Puppeteer and Playwright, and Scraper APIs for structured data from 1,200+ sites.
The company started in 2014 as Luminati Networks and was renamed Bright Data in 2021. Its proxy network, which it says spans 400M+ residential IPs across 195 countries alongside datacenter and ISP proxies, remains the foundation. On top of that it now sells ready-made Datasets (pre-collected data from 900+ domains), a Data Firehose for real-time delivery, Scraper Studio for AI-built scrapers, and an MCP server that plugs web access into AI agents. For enterprises that do not want to run pipelines at all, there are managed data acquisition and retail intelligence services.\n\nBright Data is aimed at data, growth and AI engineering teams that need web data at scale: price monitoring, SERP tracking, lead enrichment, RAG and model-training data, and agent browsing. Compared with developer-first scraping APIs such as Firecrawl or Apify, it is broader and more infrastructure-heavy, with pricing that varies per product, so budgeting needs care. Customer-story metrics on its site are vendor-published and should be read as marketing claims.
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What is Bright Data?
Bright Data is a web data platform that provides proxy networks, unblocking and scraping APIs, SERP and browser APIs, and ready-made datasets so teams and AI agents can collect public web data at scale.
How much does Bright Data cost?
Pricing is per product. Its pricing page lists Unlocker, Crawl and SERP APIs from $1 per 1,000 requests, Browser API from $5 per GB, Scraper APIs from $0.75 per 1,000 records, datasets from $250 per 100K records, residential proxies from $2.50 per GB (shown as 50% off) and datacenter proxies from $0.90 per IP.
Does Bright Data have a free tier?
Yes for several products. The pricing page marks Unlocker API, SERP API, Scraper APIs and Scraper Studio with a free tier, the site offers a free trial with no credit card required to get started, and the Bright Data MCP server is listed as free.
Who is Bright Data best for?
Data engineering, growth and AI teams that need reliable, large-scale access to public websites for price monitoring, search tracking, lead enrichment, RAG and model-training data, or agent web browsing.
What was Bright Data called before?
The company began in 2014 as Luminati Networks and was renamed Bright Data in March 2021, according to Wikipedia.
What are the alternatives to Bright Data?
Common alternatives include Firecrawl and Apify for developer-friendly scraping, and SerpApi, Serper, Tavily, Exa and Brave Search API when you mainly need search results for AI agents.
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