Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. Link Shield records 497 monthly visits with +4,041.7% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
AI-assisted URL threat detection API for developers
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | linkshieldapi.com |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 802.75K (802,752) | 497 (497) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -50.4K (-5.9%) | +485 (+4,041.7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) | 🇮🇩 Indonesia (100%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 383.71K | 198 |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4 |
| 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.
AI-assisted URL threat detection API for developers
Every scan returns a numeric score plus explanatory reasons, so you can act on a link with confidence rather than trusting an opaque verdict.
Short links and redirect chains are unwrapped and followed, revealing hidden final destinations before they reach your users.
Links are classified across phishing, malware, scam, adult, dating, gambling, crypto and spam, supporting nuanced content policies.
Send batches of URLs in a single request and receive per-link risk scores, which suits high-volume pipelines and link shorteners.
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.
Detect AI-generated text and images with benchmark-tested accuracy
Detect AI-generated text and images with benchmark-tested accuracy
AI detector that highlights evidence, not just a score
AI detector that highlights evidence, not just a score
Multi-modal AI detection API that flags synthetic images, text, audio, video and deepfakes
Multi-modal AI detection API that flags synthetic images, text, audio, video and deepfakes
Search foundation built from embeddings, rerankers, and reader APIs
One universal API for 500+ AI models and 1,000+ agentic tools
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.
