Bright Data: Offers enterprise-grade proxy networks and raw web data infrastructure, but lacks Apify's plug-and-play actor marketplace. Apify records 4,147,762 monthly visits with +3.9% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing. Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.
Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | apify.com | brightdata.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Contact for Pricing | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 4.15M (4,147,762) | 802.75K (802,752) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +156.83K (+3.9%) | -50.4K (-5.9%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (22.2%) | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 1.82M | 383.71K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform
Over one hundred thousand ready-to-run scrapers and automation tools covering social media, maps, e-commerce, real estate, and general web crawling.
Connect Apify Actors directly to AI assistants and agents so they can search the store, run scrapers, and pull structured results as tool calls.
Managed proxy rotation and unblocking are built into the platform, so scrapers keep working when target sites add defenses.
An open-source crawling library plus Python and JavaScript SDKs for building custom Actors with Playwright, Puppeteer, Selenium, or Cheerio.
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
Unlocker, SERP, Browser, and Crawl APIs fetch and parse public pages, handle anti-bot measures and CAPTCHAs, and return results in JSON, HTML, or Markdown.
Residential, ISP, and datacenter proxy pools with country, city, and ASN targeting, plus proxy management APIs for rotation and session control.
Structured endpoints for well-known domains such as LinkedIn, Amazon, and social platforms, delivering fresh records on demand or on a schedule.
Purchase or filter pre-collected datasets across business, e-commerce, social, and real-estate categories with billions of records available.
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source workflow automation built for AI agents and technical teams
Free / Open-sourceInstantly converts entire websites into clean LLM-ready markdown, but lacks raw residential proxy IP management tools.
Free / Open-sourceInstantly converts entire websites into clean LLM-ready markdown, but lacks raw residential proxy IP management tools.
SpecialistBuild GTM systems that turn data into revenue
SpecialistProvides live web search and agentic cloud browser automation, but less focused on raw proxy network management.
SpecialistOptimized specifically for neural web search and AI agent crawling, but lacks traditional raw proxy network controls.
SpecialistAutomates complex business workflows with AI agents, but is less specialized for raw large-scale web scraping actors.
SpecialistAutomates complex business workflows with AI agents, but is less specialized for raw large-scale web scraping actors.
SpecialistExcellent URL-to-Markdown conversion and neural search APIs, but provides less extensive proxy IP infrastructure management.
SpecialistExcellent URL-to-Markdown conversion and neural search APIs, but provides less extensive proxy IP infrastructure management.
SpecialistFocuses heavily on pre-built social media automation and lead generation workflows rather than general web scraping.
SpecialistFocuses heavily on pre-built social media automation and lead generation workflows rather than general web scraping.
SpecialistScalable headless browser cloud infrastructure for automation, but lacks built-in residential proxy pools and pre-packaged scrapers.
SpecialistScalable headless browser cloud infrastructure for automation, but lacks built-in residential proxy pools and pre-packaged scrapers.
Uses visual point-and-click scraping workflows instead of Apify's developer-centric actor ecosystem and cloud execution.
Uses visual point-and-click scraping workflows instead of Apify's developer-centric actor ecosystem and cloud execution.
Provides robust global proxy networks and scraping APIs, but has a smaller ecosystem of pre-built automation actors.
Provides robust global proxy networks and scraping APIs, but has a smaller ecosystem of pre-built automation actors.
SpecialistEnables autonomous cloud scraping pipelines via AI agents, but lacks Apify's mature community actor marketplace.
SpecialistEnables autonomous cloud scraping pipelines via AI agents, but lacks Apify's mature community actor marketplace.
