Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. Merlin AI records 1,382,634 monthly visits with +13.1% growth and Freemium pricing.
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
One AI assistant that plugs ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini into every tab
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | getmerlin.in |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Freemium |
| Monthly Visits | 802.75K (802,752) | 1.38M (1,382,634) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -50.4K (-5.9%) | +159.85K (+13.1%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (15%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 383.71K | 695.32K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| Supported Platforms | Website | Browser Extension |
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.
One AI assistant that plugs ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini into every tab
Switch between GPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral and Llama class models from a single interface instead of juggling separate subscriptions.
Summarize articles, YouTube videos, PDFs and documents in place, then ask follow-up questions grounded in that content.
Draft and reply to emails in Gmail, compose posts and comments for X and LinkedIn, and repurpose web pages or videos into blogs and articles.
Generate images from prompts using more than 20 image models and multiple aspect ratios for web and social output.
SpecialistProvides superior core reasoning and advanced coding agents, but lacks Merlin's seamless one-click browser tab integration and sidebar shortcuts.
SpecialistProvides superior core reasoning and advanced coding agents, but lacks Merlin's seamless one-click browser tab integration and sidebar shortcuts.
SpecialistOffers massive context windows and Google Workspace integration, but functions as a standalone web app rather than an inline sidebar.
SpecialistOffers massive context windows and Google Workspace integration, but functions as a standalone web app rather than an inline sidebar.
SpecialistExcels at nuanced document analysis and writing, but operates as a dedicated web workspace rather than a browser extension.
SpecialistExcels at nuanced document analysis and writing, but operates as a dedicated web workspace rather than a browser extension.
SpecialistDelivers superior citation-backed web research and real-time search, but lacks Merlin's multi-purpose browser writing tools and sidebar utilities.
SpecialistDelivers superior citation-backed web research and real-time search, but lacks Merlin's multi-purpose browser writing tools and sidebar utilities.
Aggregates diverse frontier models into one conversational interface, but operates primarily as a web/app client rather than a native extension.
Aggregates diverse frontier models into one conversational interface, but operates primarily as a web/app client rather than a native extension.
Provides comparable all-in-one browser assistance and multi-model chat, but includes more robust built-in painting and drawing suites.
Provides comparable all-in-one browser assistance and multi-model chat, but includes more robust built-in painting and drawing suites.
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.
Offers a similar browser sidebar experience with multi-model support, but features cleaner tab integration and smoother reading tools.
Offers a similar browser sidebar experience with multi-model support, but features cleaner tab integration and smoother reading tools.
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.
SpecialistIntegrates AI directly into an independent browser environment, whereas Merlin runs as an extension across existing browsers.
SpecialistIntegrates AI directly into an independent browser environment, whereas Merlin runs as an extension across existing browsers.
