Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. Mercor records 14,164,192 monthly visits with +34% growth and Contact for Pricing pricing.
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
AI-powered talent marketplace connecting experts with frontier AI work
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | mercor.com |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 802.75K (802,752) | 14.16M (14,164,192) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -50.4K (-5.9%) | +3.59M (+34%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (30.7%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 383.71K | 7.52M |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.4 |
| 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-powered talent marketplace connecting experts with frontier AI work
Machine-learning models screen and match candidates to remote roles in hours rather than weeks, based on skills, experience and availability.
AI-driven interviews and assessments validate professional expertise before experts are surfaced to hiring partners.
Experts work on flexible, remote projects with rates reported to average around $90 per hour and fast, recurring payouts.
Mercor collaborates with enterprises to design benchmarks such as legal, accounting and software-engineering evaluations for AI agents.
SpecialistOffers robust general HR and recruiting tools with native AI agents, but lacks Mercor's specialized expert network.
SpecialistOffers robust general HR and recruiting tools with native AI agents, but lacks Mercor's specialized expert network.
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.
SpecialistSupplies enterprise AI training data and expert model evaluations, operating on the infrastructure side of AI labs.
SpecialistSupplies enterprise AI training data and expert model evaluations, operating on the infrastructure side of AI labs.
Sources software professionals through Arc's vetted remote-talent marketplace using AI candidate matching.
Sources software professionals through Arc's vetted remote-talent marketplace using AI candidate matching.
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.
SpecialistAutomates technical screening, video interviews, and candidate scheduling at enterprise scale.
SpecialistAutomates technical screening, video interviews, and candidate scheduling at enterprise scale.
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.
SpecialistCombines human expert technical interviewers with AI screening for rigorous engineering candidate evaluation.
SpecialistCombines human expert technical interviewers with AI screening for rigorous engineering candidate evaluation.
