Bright Data vs Browserbase
Bright Data and Browserbase are both in the Proxy & data infrastructure category. Bright Data fits best for: Companies scraping heavily protected sites at scale that need the strongest proxy and unblocking infrastructure. Browserbase fits best for: Teams building AI agents that need to log in, click and navigate real browsers reliably in the cloud.
| Bright Data | Browserbase | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Proxy & data infrastructure | Proxy & data infrastructure |
| Starting price | Pay as you go | $20/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) | 1 browser hour, 3 concurrent browsers |
| Pricing model | per GB (proxies) and per 1K successful requests (Unlocker/SERP/Scraper APIs) | browser hours plus proxy GB |
| 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. | Teams building AI agents that need to log in, click and navigate real browsers reliably in the cloud. |
| Visit Bright Data | Visit Browserbase |
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 Browserbase
- Serverless headless Chrome sessions at scale
- Stagehand open-source SDK for natural-language actions and extraction
- Session replay and debugging
- Stealth, proxies and persistent auth contexts
Watch out for
- Infrastructure, not a turnkey scraper: you write the automation
- Billing by browser hours can add up for slow pages
- Proxy bandwidth billed separately
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