Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. SocQ records 6,329 monthly visits with +142.6% growth and Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing.
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
One API for public social data across 27 platforms
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | socq.ai |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Paid, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 802.75K (802,752) | 6.33K (6,329) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -50.4K (-5.9%) | +3.72K (+142.6%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (36.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 383.71K | 2.24K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.5 |
| 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.
One API for public social data across 27 platforms
Normalized REST paths and consistent JSON shapes for profiles, posts, comments, search, ads and metrics across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Reddit and many more.
A hosted MCP endpoint connects Codex, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code directly, an npx agent skill teaches the research workflow, and an npm CLI pipes JSON results into scripts and CI.
Request submission, task polling and automatic pagination are built in, so long-running data jobs return predictable, composable results inside your own product.
Trace API calls, inspect key-level activity and monitor quota and billing behaviour from one dashboard before problems reach production.
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.
Free / Open-sourceThe social media API and MCP server for AI agents
Free / Open-sourceThe social media API and MCP server for AI agents
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.
Free / Open-sourceProxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
Free / Open-sourceProxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
Free / Open-sourceOne API key for 70+ AI models, 1,000+ data APIs and web tools
Free / Open-sourceTurn any website into structured JSON with a prompt instead of selectors
Free / Open-sourceTurn any website into structured JSON with a prompt instead of selectors
Affordable web scraping and proxy API with reliable CAPTCHA handling, but fewer advanced enterprise data pipelines.
Affordable web scraping and proxy API with reliable CAPTCHA handling, but fewer advanced enterprise data pipelines.
