Bright Data: Massive enterprise-grade proxy network and web data platform, but significantly more expensive than Swiftproxy. Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. Swiftproxy records 157,789 monthly visits with -2.3% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
Non-expiring residential proxies for global scraping at scale
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | swiftproxy.net |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 802.75K (802,752) | 157.79K (157,789) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -50.4K (-5.9%) | -3.68K (-2.3%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (20.5%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 383.71K | 39.47K |
| User Rating | 4.6 | 4.3 |
| 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.
Non-expiring residential proxies for global scraping at scale
Route requests through residential, datacenter and mobile IPs across a global pool to reach geo-restricted content and avoid blocks.
Residential traffic does not expire, letting you buy bandwidth once and consume it at your own pace instead of losing unused gigabytes.
Run many simultaneous sessions without tight connection caps, which suits high-throughput scraping and automation workloads.
Support for country and city-level targeting plus rotation and sticky sessions to control how often requests switch IP addresses.
SpecialistComprehensive cloud platform hosting ready-to-run web scrapers and actors rather than raw proxy infrastructure.
SpecialistComprehensive cloud platform hosting ready-to-run web scrapers and actors rather than raw proxy infrastructure.
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.
Provides robust residential and mobile proxy coverage alongside ready-to-use web scraping and browser APIs.
Provides robust residential and mobile proxy coverage alongside ready-to-use web scraping and browser APIs.
Reliable global residential and mobile proxy network well-suited for high-volume data collection and automation.
Reliable global residential and mobile proxy network well-suited for high-volume data collection and automation.
Offers rotating residential and static ISP proxies with strong geo-targeting capabilities for scraping workflows.
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.
SpecialistWeb scraping API with built-in proxies, browsers, and anti-bot handling
SpecialistWeb scraping API with built-in proxies, browsers, and anti-bot handling
