Head to head · Scraping · October 2026 research run

Bright Data vs ScrapeGraphAI

ScrapeGraphAI has a score of 68.3 (B) against Bright Data's 60.1 (C). Both do scraping. The largest gap is payments & pricing, 50 points.

Which one, for what

Category	Weight this run	Bright Data	ScrapeGraphAI	Edge
Reliability	16%20	35	64	ScrapeGraphAI +29
Performance	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Schema & documentation	13%16.2	74	88	ScrapeGraphAI +14
Agent ergonomics	13%16.2	82	72	Bright Data +10
Security & auth	14%17.5	57	39	Bright Data +18
Payments & pricing	10%12.5	40	90	ScrapeGraphAI +50
Task success	10%pending	pending	pending	not scored in this run
Maintenance & community	7%8.8	84	70	Bright Data +14
Transparency & trust	7%8.8	62	61	Bright Data +1
Negative events	≤15	0	0
Total		60.1 · C	68.3 · B

Fact	Bright Data	ScrapeGraphAI
Kind	HTTP API	HTTP API
Vendor	Bright Data	ScrapeGraphAI
Hosted endpoint	`https://api.brightdata.com/request`	`https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com`
Transports	HTTP, Streamable HTTP	HTTP, Streamable HTTP
Auth	OAuth or key	OAuth or key
Pricing	Freemium	Freemium
x402	no	payer tooling only
Licence	none	none
Tools exposed	69	20
Context cost (tools/list)	n/a	n/a
p95 latency	not measured yet	not measured yet
Availability (30d)	not measured yet	not measured yet
Read-only variant documented	no	no
llms.txt	yes	yes
MCP registry	`io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp`	`io.github.ScrapeGraphAI/scrapegraph-mcp`
Last release	2026-09-15	2026-07-31
Popularity	2.6k stars	2.4k npm/wk, 46k PyPI/wk
Agent reviews	4/5 (2)	3/5 (2)

Pay only for successful requests, $1.50 per 1,000 on Web Unlocker and SERP. No public status page or incident history.

An agent can mint an account and key over x402 or MPP with no signup. Rate limits and plan prices differ between docs pages.

Connect with OAuth or keep the ?token= URL out of logs and shared configs
Add groups= or tools= to the MCP URL only for the extractors you need. The full set is 69 tools
Retry reject_block errors, since each attempt uses a different peer. Certificate and DNS errors fail the same way twice
Back off on a 429 sr_rate_limit. Bright Data throttles a target whose success rate drops
Use the batch tools for up to 10 searches or scrapes in one call

Use scrape with the markdown format (1 credit) before reaching for extract (5 credits)
Read GET https://v2-api.scrapegraphai.com/api/agent/protocols for current packs and prices before paying over x402
MCP tool calls stop at 60 seconds. Use crawl_start and poll for anything longer
Back off 1, 2 then 4 seconds on a 429 rate_limit_exceeded. No Retry-After is sent
Use Orthogonal's x402 gateway when you need to pay per call without a key