Bright Data vs SmartProxy

Run thousands of ready-made web scrapers and AI agents from one cloud platform

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.

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.

Agentic, no-code web scraping that turns any URL into clean structured data

SpecialistProxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines

No-code AI web scraping that builds, runs, and repairs its own bots

Free / Open-sourceOpen-source scraping library using natural language prompts, but requires self-hosting and manual proxy configuration.

Affordable web scraping and proxy API with reliable CAPTCHA handling, but fewer advanced enterprise data pipelines.

Scrape Google Maps business leads and export them to CSV, Excel, or JSON