Bright Data vs ScrapeGraphAI
Bright Data is a Proxy & data infrastructure, while ScrapeGraphAI is an AI extraction API. Bright Data fits best for: Companies scraping heavily protected sites at scale that need the strongest proxy and unblocking infrastructure. ScrapeGraphAI fits best for: Developers who want prompt-based structured extraction with the option to self-host the open-source library.
| Bright Data | ScrapeGraphAI | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Proxy & data infrastructure | AI extraction API |
| 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) | 500 one-time credits, 10 req/min |
| 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. | Developers who want prompt-based structured extraction with the option to self-host the open-source library. |
| Visit Bright Data | Visit ScrapeGraphAI |
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 ScrapeGraphAI
- Describe what you want in natural language, get JSON
- Open-source Python library (MIT) with graph-based pipelines
- Hosted API v2 with extract, crawl and search
- Official MCP server (mcp.scrapegraphai.com)
Watch out for
- Free credits are one-time, not monthly
- Extraction costs 5 credits per call
- Smaller company than Firecrawl/Apify; anti-bot depth less proven
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