
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.
Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. PROXY.CC records 17,415 monthly visits with -40.2% growth and Free pricing.

Global residential and datacenter proxy network with 90M+ IPs
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | proxy.cc |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Free |
| Monthly Visits | 802.75K (802,752) | 17.42K (17,415) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -50.4K (-5.9%) | -11.69K (-40.2%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) | 🇧🇷 Brazil (26%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 383.71K | 9.65K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.2 |
| 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.

Global residential and datacenter proxy network with 90M+ IPs
A large residential and datacenter network with country, state, city and ASN-level targeting options.
Rotating residential, static residential, unlimited residential, static datacenter and long-acting ISP proxies to match different workload types.
User/pass or IP whitelist authentication, sub-user creation, ISP and protocol filtering, plus rotation by time or request with auto-replace.
Documented API parameters with code samples for Python, Node.js, PHP, Go, Java, C#, Shell and Ruby.

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.
Free / Open-sourceBrowser agents and stealth cloud browsers for real web tasks
Free / Open-sourceBrowser agents and stealth cloud browsers for real web tasks

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.

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.

SpecialistProxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
SpecialistProxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines

Non-expiring residential proxies for global scraping at scale
Non-expiring residential proxies for global scraping at scale
Global residential, mobile and ISP proxies built for large-scale data collection
Global residential, mobile and ISP proxies built for large-scale data collection
SpecialistResidential, mobile and IPv6 proxy network for large-scale data collection
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.