Bright Data vs Browse AI
Bright Data is a Proxy & data infrastructure, while Browse AI is a No-code. Bright Data fits best for: Companies scraping heavily protected sites at scale that need the strongest proxy and unblocking infrastructure. Browse AI fits best for: Non-technical users who want to monitor or extract data from a handful of sites without writing code.
| Bright Data | Browse AI | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Proxy & data infrastructure | No-code |
| Starting price | Pay as you go | $19/mo |
| Free tier | Web Unlocker / MCP: 5,000 free requests per month (per official MCP docs and pricing page as indexed by search); first deposit matched up to $500 in promo credits (docs) | 50 credits/month, 2 websites, 3 users, unlimited robots |
| Pricing model | per GB (proxies) and per 1K successful requests (Unlocker/SERP/Scraper APIs) | credits |
| AI extraction | ||
| Structured JSON | ||
| JS rendering | ||
| Proxies / anti-bot | ||
| API | ||
| No-code UI | ||
| Open source | ||
| MCP server | ||
| Best for | Companies scraping heavily protected sites at scale that need the strongest proxy and unblocking infrastructure. | Non-technical users who want to monitor or extract data from a handful of sites without writing code. |
| Visit Bright Data | Visit Browse AI |
Why choose Bright Data
- Residential, ISP, datacenter and mobile proxy networks
- Web Unlocker with automatic CAPTCHA/anti-bot handling
- Browser API (hosted headless browsers)
- SERP API and site-specific Web Scraper APIs
Watch out for
- Pricing is complex and spread across many products
- Overkill and expensive for small projects
- Promotional vs list prices make cost comparison tricky
Why choose Browse AI
- Point-and-click robot training, no code
- Scheduled monitoring with change alerts
- Prebuilt robots for popular sites
- Google Sheets, Airtable, Zapier and Make integrations
Watch out for
- Credits run out fast on the free and Personal plans
- Large price gap between annual and monthly billing
- Not designed for LLM/schema extraction or high-volume crawling
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