Bright Data

Bright Data is one of the largest proxy and web data infrastructure platforms in the world, with over 150 million IP addresses across 195 countries serving 20,000+ organizations including a majority of the top global LLM labs. Its platform covers residential, datacenter, ISP, and mobile proxies plus 120+ pre-built scrapers, a Web Unlocker API that auto-selects proxy type, fingerprint, and retry strategy per URL, a dataset marketplace, and Scraper Studio with an AI agent for no-code pipeline building.

For AI teams it offers a Search & Extract API for real-time data retrieval tailored to AI systems, a native MCP server for direct integration with Claude, Gemini, and LangGraph-based agents, and an Agent Browser for autonomous multi-step web interactions. Independent benchmarks reported a 98.87% average scraping success rate, the highest among tested providers.

Limitations: premium pricing (residential proxies $2.50-$8.00/GB) makes it 2-4x more expensive than competitors; steep learning curve and complex multi-product billing; benchmark figures come from third-party testing, not Bright Data itself.

Sign up at brightdata.com; configure proxies, Web Unlocker, or scrapers from the dashboard with API credentials.