Thor Data: Provides robust global proxy networks and scraping APIs, but has a smaller ecosystem of pre-built automation actors. Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. Thor Data records 181,966 monthly visits with -3.5% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
Proxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | thordata.com |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Free Trial, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 802.75K (802,752) | 181.97K (181,966) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -50.4K (-5.9%) | -6.55K (-3.5%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) | 🇵🇱 Poland (8.8%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 383.71K | 70.44K |
| 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.
Proxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
Access 100M+ rotating real-user IPs across 190+ countries at from $0.65/GB, with rotation and sticky sessions.
Use real 4G/5G mobile IPs for mobile-specific and hard-to-access targets with carrier-level diversity.
Pull accurate, real-time results from Google, Bing, and more, starting from $0.70 per 1,000 responses.
Deploy 120+ prebuilt scrapers, a stealth Scraping Browser, and web unblocking to collect data at scale.
Extensive cloud platform hosting pre-built scrapers, crawlers, and automation actors for data extraction.
Extensive cloud platform hosting pre-built scrapers, crawlers, and automation actors for data extraction.
Free / Open-sourceDeveloper-first scraping API that crawls and converts websites into clean LLM-ready markdown or JSON.
Free / Open-sourceDeveloper-first scraping API that crawls and converts websites into clean LLM-ready markdown or JSON.
Developer API platform providing live web search, content fetching, cloud browsers, and agentic web automation.
SpecialistWeb search and crawling API engineered specifically for AI agents and LLM application integration.
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SpecialistManaged cloud headless browser platform supplying HTTP and WebSocket APIs for web automation.
SpecialistManaged cloud headless browser platform supplying HTTP and WebSocket APIs for web automation.
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Free / Open-sourceWeb scraping API that extracts structured JSON using natural language prompts instead of CSS selectors.
Hosted web scraping API delivering reliable proxies, browser rendering, and dedicated data extraction endpoints.
Hosted web scraping API delivering reliable proxies, browser rendering, and dedicated data extraction endpoints.
Unified web data API offering robust web scraping, search, and data enrichment capabilities.
Unified web data API offering robust web scraping, search, and data enrichment capabilities.
Simple API for handling proxies and CAPTCHAs during extraction, but less suited for massive custom proxy rotations.
Simple API for handling proxies and CAPTCHAs during extraction, but less suited for massive custom proxy rotations.
SpecialistDeveloper toolkit enabling AI agents to extract web data and interact with websites using natural language.
Global residential proxy network and web scraping infrastructure service for large-scale data collection.
Global residential proxy network and web scraping infrastructure service for large-scale data collection.
