AskNews records 11,607 monthly visits with +97.3% month-over-month growth and Freemium, Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing. Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.
Licensed news infrastructure and a real-time News API built for AI
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | asknews.app | brightdata.com |
| Pricing Model | Freemium, Paid, Contact for Pricing | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 11.61K (11,607) | 802.75K (802,752) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | +5.73K (+97.3%) | -50.4K (-5.9%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (63.1%) | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 4.67K | 383.71K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
Licensed news infrastructure and a real-time News API built for AI
Query breaking news in under 100 ms or search archived coverage across years and decades through one consistent API.
A multi-step, self-learning agent that iterates, branches and verifies across paywalled news, the open web, X, Wikipedia and more for deep research questions.
Schedule monitoring of topics, companies and events, receive recurring reports, and follow how narratives evolve with analytics and change logs.
Each data point arrives with entities, geo-coordinates, sentiment, bias scores and key points, linked into a graph of relationships over time.
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.
Robust actor-based cloud scraping platform with a massive marketplace, but less raw enterprise proxy infrastructure control.
Robust actor-based cloud scraping platform with a massive marketplace, but less raw enterprise proxy infrastructure control.
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.
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.
SpecialistThe real-time web access layer for AI agents and deep research
SpecialistSearch and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data
SpecialistSearch and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data
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.
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.
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.
SpecialistOne API key for 70+ AI models, 1,000+ data APIs and web tools
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source scraping library using natural language prompts, but requires self-hosting and manual proxy configuration.
Free / Open-sourceOpen-source scraping library using natural language prompts, but requires self-hosting and manual proxy configuration.
Affordable web scraping and proxy API with reliable CAPTCHA handling, but fewer advanced enterprise data pipelines.
Affordable web scraping and proxy API with reliable CAPTCHA handling, but fewer advanced enterprise data pipelines.
