The web's data, unlocked
Bright Data describes itself as the world's #1 web data platform, combining a large proxy network (400M+ IPs), scraper/unlocking APIs (Web Unlocker, SERP API, Browser API, Crawl API), and ready-made datasets so businesses and AI agents can reliably collect public web data at scale.
Published by the vendor themselves — not community forks.
Official Bright Data MCP server exposing search, scrape, and structured web-data extraction tools (search_engine, scrape_as_markdown, web_data_* dataset tools, extract, and more), linked from Bright Data's own MCP docs.
| Plan | Price | Included | Notable |
|---|---|---|---|
| Web Unlocker — Free | $0/mo | 5,000 requests/month | No credit card required, Expert support |
| Web Unlocker — Pay as you go | $1.5/1K requests | No included quota; consumption-based | Pay only for success, Monthly spend limits, Unlimited concurrency |
| Web Unlocker — Scale | $499/mo | 383,000 requests included, then $1.3/1K additional | Unlimited concurrency, Cancellable anytime, Expert support |
| Web Unlocker — Enterprise | Custom | Custom quota | Volume discounts, Dedicated account manager, Premium SLA |
Checked 2026-07-31 against their pricing page. Vendors change pricing without notice.
Bright Data is web-data infrastructure covering the full stack from raw proxies to fully unblocked scraping APIs to pre-built datasets.
Companies that need public web data at scale and can't rely on target sites having APIs: AI/ML teams training or grounding models on web data, eCommerce and market-research teams tracking competitor pricing, ad-tech and brand-protection teams, and developers building agents that need live search/scrape access via MCP.
Pricing is consumption-based and fragmented across products (Web Unlocker, SERP API, proxies, datasets each have separate pricing pages), so a team wanting one predictable monthly bill for mixed usage has to piece it together themselves; the Scale plan example ($499/mo for 383K Web Unlocker requests) can get expensive fast at high volume before Enterprise custom pricing kicks in. The MCP server's free tier is a single shared 5,000-requests/month pool across the whole account, not per-project, so teams running multiple agents or projects off one Bright Data account will exhaust it quickly and need to fund the account for real usage.
Infrastructure for fetching web pages at scale — proxies, headless browsers, and crawl-to-markdown services that agents can call directly.
Category: Scraping and browser infrastructure. Membership is decided by 3 stated tests, not by category tags — see them and the full comparison.
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Yes.
Via a Bearer token in the Authorization header (Authorization: Bearer <token>); API keys are auto-generated on account creation and can be scoped by permission level (Admin, Finance, Ops, Limit, User) with optional expiration.
Yes for the Web Unlocker product specifically: 5,000 requests/month with no credit card required. The MCP server draws 5,000 free requests/month from the same account-level pool.
Per-product, consumption-based pricing rather than one unified plan - e.g. Web Unlocker has a Free tier (5K requests/mo), Pay-as-you-go ($1.5/1K requests), Scale ($499/mo for 383K requests, then $1.3/1K), and custom Enterprise. Other products (SERP API, datasets, proxies) have their own separate pricing pages.
They vary by product. The SERP API is capped at 100 requests/second for funded accounts (a global limit effective January 2026) and 1,000 requests/minute for unfunded accounts; other zones use fair-use allowances instead of a hard cap.
Residential, datacenter, ISP, and mobile proxies across a claimed 400M+ IP network, sold both directly and as the infrastructure behind the Web Unlocker, SERP API, and Scraping Browser products.
This page tells you whether Bright Data fits. Cheetah builds and runs the system it goes into — enrichment, sequencing, CRM and the joins between them.
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