WebScraping.AI: Simple API for handling proxies and CAPTCHAs during extraction, but less suited for massive custom proxy rotations. Bright Data records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing. WebScraping.AI records 14,943 monthly visits with -11.7% growth and Freemium, Paid pricing.
Web data infrastructure for scraping, proxies, and AI-ready datasets
One API call to extract clean, structured data from any website
| Dimension / Metric | | |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | webscraping.ai |
| Pricing Model | Free Trial, Paid | Freemium, Paid |
| Monthly Visits | 802.75K (802,752) | 14.94K (14,943) |
| MoM Traffic Delta | -50.4K (-5.9%) | -1.98K (-11.7%) |
| Primary Market & Share | 🇺🇸 United States (29.5%) | 🇺🇸 United States (22.9%) |
| Direct Visits / mo | 383.71K | 6.04K |
| 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.
One API call to extract clean, structured data from any website
Runs a full headless Chrome browser so dynamic, JavaScript-heavy pages and single-page apps render correctly before extraction.
Automatically rotates datacenter and residential proxies with retry logic, and supports geotargeting across 13 countries or your own proxy.
Stealth infrastructure handles anti-bot challenges such as Cloudflare, and challenge pages are not billed.
Use natural-language instructions to pull specific fields into structured JSON, answer questions about a page, or summarize content.
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-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
Free / Open-sourceWeb data API that turns any site into clean, AI-ready content
SpecialistProvides live web search and agentic cloud browser automation, but less focused on raw proxy network management.
Web search API and crawler built for AI agents
Search foundation built from embeddings, rerankers, and reader APIs
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.
SpecialistProxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
SpecialistProxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
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
Web scraping API with built-in proxies, browsers, and anti-bot handling
Web scraping API with built-in proxies, browsers, and anti-bot handling
One scraping API that turns any website into agent-ready JSON
Web scraping, search, and enrichment APIs for AI agents
Web scraping, search, and enrichment APIs for AI agents
