Exa: Optimized specifically for neural web search and AI agent crawling, but lacks traditional raw proxy network controls. Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. Exa records 1,062,574 monthly visits with +16.8% growth and Freemium, Contact for Pricing pricing.
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
Web search API and crawler built for AI agents
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | exa.ai |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Freemium, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 802.75K (802,752) | 1.06M (1,062,574) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -50.4K (-5.9%) | +152.79K (+16.8%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (45.6%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 383.71K | 602.54K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Website |
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.
Web search API and crawler built for AI agents
Run natural-language or keyword queries against a large independent web index with filters for domain, date and category.
Return cleaned page text and AI-extracted highlights so agents receive the most relevant excerpts instead of entire pages.
Choose fast, balanced or deep search modes so an assistant can answer instantly or run longer grounded research.
Extract structured outputs such as company details, people and other entities for list building and data pipelines.
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-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
Free / Open-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
SpecialistOne API key for agent-grade web search, fetch, browsing and automation
The real-time web access layer for AI agents and deep research
Search and inference APIs that give AI models real-time web data
SpecialistAI search and retrieval platform for modern apps and commerce
SpecialistSearch foundation built from embeddings, rerankers, and reader APIs
SpecialistSearch foundation built from embeddings, rerankers, and reader APIs
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.
SpecialistReal-time B2B people and company data for AI agents
Free / Open-sourceTurn any website into structured JSON with a prompt instead of selectors
Free / Open-sourceTurn any website into structured JSON with a prompt instead of selectors
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.
