Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. Surfer records 249,599 monthly visits with -29.3% growth and Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing.
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
AI visibility platform to get your brand cited in AI search
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | surferseo.com |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Paid, Contact for Pricing |
| Monthly Visits | 802.75K (802,752) | 249.6K (249,599) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -50.4K (-5.9%) | -103.59K (-29.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (30.2%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 383.71K | 145.79K |
| 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 visibility platform to get your brand cited in AI search
Run the prompts your buyers ask across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, and AI Overviews, and see a visibility score, mention rate, and average position by brand, topic, and model.
See every domain and URL the AI answers cite, how often they appear, and whether they mention your brand, so you can target the sources that actually shape answers.
Draft and optimize articles in a guided editor built to earn citations in AI answers and rankings in Google, with content audit and topical map support.
Find the questions your audience asks AI and Google, and spot weak pages and content gaps worth fixing or rebuilding.
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.
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.
Provides robust AI search analytics and sentiment tracking in generative assistants, but offers less granular page-level optimization.
Provides robust AI search analytics and sentiment tracking in generative assistants, but offers less granular page-level optimization.
SpecialistAI Search Visibility Platform for GEO & AEO
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.
SpecialistAI SEO agents that rank on Google and get cited by AI chatbots
SpecialistAI SEO agents that rank on Google and get cited by AI chatbots
Stronger dedicated focus on tracking brand mentions across conversational search engines, but lacks Surfer's broader content optimization workflows.
Stronger dedicated focus on tracking brand mentions across conversational search engines, but lacks Surfer's broader content optimization workflows.
Specializes in AEO brand visibility tracking across major AI engines, though with fewer traditional SEO writing assistant features.
Specializes in AEO brand visibility tracking across major AI engines, though with fewer traditional SEO writing assistant features.
