
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.
SERP API (Bright Data) records 802,752 monthly visits with -5.9% month-over-month growth and Paid, Contact for Pricing pricing. Thor Data records 181,966 monthly visits with -3.5% growth and Free Trial, Paid pricing.

Proxies and web data APIs for scraping and AI pipelines
| Dimension / Metric | ![]() | ![]() |
|---|---|---|
| Official Domain | brightdata.com | thordata.com |
| Pricing Model | Paid, Contact for Pricing | 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 |

Real-time search engine scraping API with structured JSON, HTML, or Markdown output
Pull on-demand search results from Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Yandex, with support for many localized domains and languages.
Receive responses as structured JSON, raw HTML, or Markdown, so pipelines can consume results without custom parsing when you want the fast path.
Proxy rotation, CAPTCHA solving, and unblocking are handled by the API, so you do not have to build or maintain that infrastructure.
Target results from a specific country or language at no extra cost, useful for local SEO and international market research.

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.

Comprehensive web data infrastructure powerhouse offering extensive proxy networks and advanced scraping APIs.
Comprehensive web data infrastructure powerhouse offering extensive proxy networks and advanced scraping APIs.

SpecialistSearch infrastructure providing URL-to-Markdown document readers, neural embeddings, and web search endpoints.
SpecialistSearch infrastructure providing URL-to-Markdown document readers, neural embeddings, and web search endpoints.

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.
Free / Open-sourceWeb scraping API that extracts structured JSON using natural language prompts instead of CSS selectors.
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.

One scraping API that turns any website into agent-ready JSON

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.

Real-time multi-engine search results API for AI agents, SEO and data teams
Real-time multi-engine search results API for AI agents, SEO and data teams