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      "slug": "bright-data",
      "name": "Bright Data",
      "vendor": "Bright Data",
      "vendorUrl": "https://brightdata.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "web-scrapers",
      "summary": "Web Unlocker, SERP API, a hosted Browser API and residential proxies, with an official MCP server wrapping them.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bright-data.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/brightdata/brightdata-mcp",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.brightdata.com/request",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@brightdata/mcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Bearer key for the API. Keys take a role (Admin, Finance, Ops, Limit or User) and an optional expiry. Proxy-style access uses Basic auth on port 44445. The hosted MCP takes the key as `?token=` in the URL by default, or OAuth 2.1 (PKCE S256, scope `mcp`) with an `Authorization: Bearer` header. MCP agent keys are listed separately in account settings and can be revoked.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "5,000 free requests a month including MCP, no card. Web Unlocker and SERP $1.50 per 1,000 successful requests, $1.30 on Scale ($499 a month). Browser API $8 a GB (https://brightdata.com/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$1.50 / 1k req",
      "where": "hosted",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 69,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 2600,
        "npmWeekly": null,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-26"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://docs.brightdata.com",
      "llmsTxt": "https://docs.brightdata.com/llms.txt",
      "registryName": "io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.scrape",
        "web.search",
        "browser.hosted",
        "web.crawl"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "proxies"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-09-15",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 60.1,
        "grade": "C",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 254,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 8,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 82,
          "maintenance": 84,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 35,
          "schema": 74,
          "security": 57,
          "transparency": 62
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Pay only for successful requests, $1.50 per 1,000 on Web Unlocker and SERP. No public status page or incident history.",
        "strengths": [
          "Pay only for successful requests, $1.50 per 1,000 on Web Unlocker and SERP",
          "5,000 free requests a month with no card",
          "Five tools by default out of 69, with groups for e-commerce, social, browser and more",
          "Role-based API keys with expiry, and OAuth 2.1 with PKCE on the hosted MCP",
          "ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II and a private bug bounty"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "No public status page or incident history",
          "The default hosted MCP URL carries the key as `?token=`",
          "No prompt-injection guidance for scraped content",
          "No retention periods, DPA or subprocessor list in the privacy policy",
          "MCP registry entry lags npm by two minor versions"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "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"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 4,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "C",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
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            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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          "maintenance": 84,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 35,
          "schema": 74,
          "security": 57,
          "transparency": 43
        },
        "provenanceScore": 80
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl https://api.brightdata.com/request -H \"Authorization: Bearer $BRIGHTDATA_TOKEN\" \\\n  -H \"content-type: application/json\" -d '{\"zone\":\"web_unlocker1\",\"url\":\"https://example.com\",\"format\":\"raw\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http brightdata \"https://mcp.brightdata.com/mcp?token=$BRIGHTDATA_TOKEN\""
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/bright-data"
      },
      "area": "web-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Web Unlocker",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1.5,
          "note": "successful requests only"
        },
        {
          "item": "Web Unlocker on Scale",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1.3,
          "note": "$499 a month plan"
        },
        {
          "item": "SERP API",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1.5
        },
        {
          "item": "Browser API",
          "unit": "gb",
          "usd": 8
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "Bright Data Ltd.",
        "domain": "brightdata.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2002-05-26",
        "domainNote": "brightdata.com was registered in 2002, long before the rename from Luminati.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://brightdata.com/license",
        "privacy": "https://brightdata.com/privacy",
        "statusPage": "",
        "changelog": "https://docs.brightdata.com/release-notes",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-26",
        "score": 80
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "bright-data",
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          "target": "https://api.brightdata.com/request",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-05T03:17:23.41712033Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 262,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
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          "p95ms24h": 325,
          "samples24h": 273,
          "samples30d": 2094,
          "days": [
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              "date": "2026-09-27",
              "probes": 132,
              "ok": 132
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-09-28",
              "probes": 285,
              "ok": 284
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-09-29",
              "probes": 286,
              "ok": 286
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-09-30",
              "probes": 286,
              "ok": 286
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-01",
              "probes": 276,
              "ok": 276
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
              "probes": 38,
              "ok": 38
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          ]
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        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "brightdata/brightdata-mcp",
            "version": "v2.11.3",
            "released": "2026-09-17",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:52.537939152Z"
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          {
            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp",
            "version": "2.11.3",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T23:42:40.113054682Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@brightdata/mcp",
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            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:51.722708264Z"
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          "url": "https://brightdata.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:39.602326592Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://docs.brightdata.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:17:22.245226037Z"
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        "domain": {
          "domain": "brightdata.com",
          "registered": "2002-05-26",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/brightdata.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:09:15.943445463Z"
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          {
            "url": "https://brightdata.com/license",
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:36.984639492Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "78531847b1c1"
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          {
            "url": "https://brightdata.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
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            "fingerprint": "ab42850cc3aa"
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          {
            "url": "https://brightdata.com/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:41.298663499Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "54b985a0a80a"
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        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-05T03:17:23.41712033Z"
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      "slug": "scrapingdog",
      "name": "Scrapingdog",
      "vendor": "Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://www.scrapingdog.com",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "web-scrapers",
      "summary": "Web scraping API billed by credits.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingdog.json",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "scrapingdog-mcp"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "scrapingdog-sdk"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "scrapingdog"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "api-key",
      "authNotes": "The key goes in the api_key query parameter on every request. The docs show no header option. The MCP server reads SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY from the environment.",
      "pricing": "freemium",
      "pricingNotes": "Free plan of 100 credits with 1 concurrent request, no card (the docs say 200 requests a month). Lite $40 a month (200,000 credits, 5 concurrent), Standard $90 (1M, 50), Pro $200 (3M, 100), Premium $350 (6M, 150), then plans up to $30,000 a month. Annual billing gives 2 months free. A plain request costs 1 credit, JS rendering 5, premium proxy or geotargeting 10, both 25, Google SERP 5 to 10, LinkedIn profiles 10 to 100. Failed requests aren't charged (https://www.scrapingdog.com/pricing/).",
      "priceSummary": "$40 / mo",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "no",
        "evidence": "No x402 mention on the site, docs or pricing (checked 2026-09-30).",
        "endpoints": []
      },
      "toolCount": 35,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 0,
        "npmWeekly": 41,
        "pypiWeekly": 12,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/",
      "llmsTxt": "https://www.scrapingdog.com/llms.txt",
      "registryName": "io.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.scrape",
        "web.extract",
        "web.search",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "scraping.js-render",
        "scraping.anti-bot",
        "scraping.screenshot",
        "scraping.serp"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "freemium",
        "no-card",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "proxies",
        "closed-source",
        "python",
        "typescript"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-07-31",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 39.3,
        "grade": "E",
        "agentReady": false,
        "rank": 425,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 13,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 44,
          "maintenance": 45,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 43,
          "security": 5,
          "transparency": 57
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": -2,
        "negativeNotes": [
          "2026-08-01: the vendor-linked MCP server's web_scrape tool describes dynamic as `(API default: false)`, while https://www.scrapingdog.com/documentation/javascript-rendering/ says rendering is on by default at 5 credits. The MCP omits unset parameters, so a model that trusts the description pays 5 times the plain rate (https://github.com/Darshan972/Scrapingdog-mcp, src/endpoints.ts) (-2)."
        ],
        "verdict": "A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite. API key only travels in the URL query string.",
        "strengths": [
          "A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite",
          "Parsed JSON endpoints for Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, YouTube and more under one key",
          "Terms let you store and redistribute returned data during the subscription, and the privacy policy says API calls aren't stored or logged",
          "Failed requests aren't charged, and a public SLA page compensates downtime in credits",
          "Concurrency per plan is published, from 1 up to 2,200"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "API key only travels in the URL query string",
          "Rendering defaults on at 5 credits, and the MCP's web_scrape description says the default is off",
          "MCP server published 2026-08-01 from a personal account, with 35 tools, no CI, no tags and no release since",
          "No changelog, security.txt or prompt-injection guidance",
          "The free allowance differs between pricing (100 credits) and docs (200 a month)"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Add dynamic=false unless the page needs JavaScript. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1, whatever the MCP description says",
          "Keep request URLs out of logs, since they carry api_key",
          "Set client timeouts above 60 seconds and retry on 429 or timeout. Failures aren't billed",
          "Prefer the parsed endpoints (Google, Amazon) over scraping the raw page when one exists"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 2,
        "avgRating": 3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "E",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
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        ],
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          "maintenance": 45,
          "payments": 40,
          "reliability": 62,
          "schema": 43,
          "security": 5,
          "transparency": 37
        },
        "provenanceScore": 76
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl \"https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape?api_key=$SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY\u0026url=https://example.com\u0026dynamic=false\"",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add scrapingdog -e SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY=$SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY -- npx -y scrapingdog-mcp",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "scrapingdog": {
              "args": [
                "-y",
                "scrapingdog-mcp"
              ],
              "command": "npx",
              "env": {
                "SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY": "${SCRAPINGDOG_API_KEY}"
              }
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/scrapingdog"
      },
      "area": "web-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Lite plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 40,
          "note": "200,000 credits, 5 concurrent"
        },
        {
          "item": "Standard plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 90,
          "note": "1,000,000 credits, 50 concurrent"
        },
        {
          "item": "Pro plan",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 200,
          "note": "3,000,000 credits, 100 concurrent"
        },
        {
          "item": "Plain request on Lite",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.2,
          "note": "1 credit each, dynamic=false"
        },
        {
          "item": "JS-rendered request on Lite",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "5 credits each, the default"
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "OpenData Labs Private Limited",
        "domain": "scrapingdog.com",
        "domainRegistered": "2020-04-04",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://www.scrapingdog.com/terms/",
        "privacy": "https://www.scrapingdog.com/privacy/",
        "statusPage": "https://stats.uptimerobot.com/SAQkQwbOYj",
        "changelog": "",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "Legal entity from the site footer. The terms are governed by the laws of Rajasthan, India.",
          "The status page is a hosted UptimeRobot page linked from the footer."
        ],
        "score": 76
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "scrapingdog",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape",
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          "lastAt": "2026-10-05T03:17:32.665425776Z",
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              "date": "2026-10-01",
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              "ok": 276
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-02",
              "probes": 248,
              "ok": 248
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-03",
              "probes": 271,
              "ok": 271
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-04",
              "probes": 272,
              "ok": 272
            },
            {
              "date": "2026-10-05",
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          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://stats.uptimerobot.com/SAQkQwbOYj",
          "indicator": "unknown",
          "summary": "no machine-readable status found",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T21:40:28.56453658Z"
        },
        "versions": [
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            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "io.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp",
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            "registry": "npm",
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          {
            "registry": "npm",
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          {
            "registry": "pypi",
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            "released": "2026-07-31",
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        ],
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        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://scrapingdog.com/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:59.790191822Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://www.scrapingdog.com/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:13.496086906Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "scrapingdog.com",
          "registered": "2020-04-04",
          "source": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/domain/scrapingdog.com",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T13:06:10.743416145Z"
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            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:52:13.443088296Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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          {
            "url": "https://www.scrapingdog.com/privacy/",
            "kind": "privacy",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/scrapingdog.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/scrapingdog.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Bright Data for schema \u0026 documentation (+31), agent ergonomics (+38), security \u0026 auth (+52), maintenance \u0026 community (+39), transparency \u0026 trust (+5).\n\nPick Scrapingdog for reliability (+27).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Bright Data | Scrapingdog | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 62 | Scrapingdog +27 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 43 | Bright Data +31 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 44 | Bright Data +38 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 5 | Bright Data +52 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 40 | even |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 45 | Bright Data +39 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 57 | Bright Data +5 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | -2 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.1 · C** | **39.3 · E** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Bright Data | Scrapingdog |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Bright Data | Scrapingdog (OpenData Labs) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.brightdata.com/request` | `https://api.scrapingdog.com/scrape` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | API key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Freemium |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | none |\n| Tools exposed | 69 | 35 |\n| Context cost (tools/list) | n/a | n/a |\n| p95 latency | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Availability (30d) | not measured yet | not measured yet |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp` | `io.github.Darshan972/scrapingdog-mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-07-31 |\n| Popularity | 2.6k stars | 0 stars, 41 npm/wk, 12 PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | 3/5 (2) |\n\n## Verdicts\n\n**Bright Data.** Pay only for successful requests, $1.50 per 1,000 on Web Unlocker and SERP. No public status page or incident history.\n\n**Scrapingdog.** A plain request is 1 credit, about $0.20 per 1,000 on Lite. API key only travels in the URL query string.\n\n## Before you call either\n\n### Bright Data\n\n1. Connect with OAuth or keep the `?token=` URL out of logs and shared configs\n2. Add `groups=` or `tools=` to the MCP URL only for the extractors you need. The full set is 69 tools\n3. Retry `reject_block` errors, since each attempt uses a different peer. Certificate and DNS errors fail the same way twice\n4. Back off on a 429 `sr_rate_limit`. Bright Data throttles a target whose success rate drops\n5. Use the batch tools for up to 10 searches or scrapes in one call\n\n### Scrapingdog\n\n1. Add dynamic=false unless the page needs JavaScript. It cuts the cost from 5 credits to 1, whatever the MCP description says\n2. Keep request URLs out of logs, since they carry api_key\n3. Set client timeouts above 60 seconds and retry on 429 or timeout. Failures aren't billed\n4. Prefer the parsed endpoints (Google, Amazon) over scraping the raw page when one exists\n\n## Other comparisons with Bright Data or Scrapingdog\n\n- [Bright Data vs Jina Reader](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jina-reader.md)\n- [Bright Data vs Olostep](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-olostep.md)\n- [Bright Data vs Scrape.do](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrape-do.md)\n- [Bright Data vs ScrapeGraphAI](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapegraphai.md)\n- [Bright Data vs Scrapeless](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapeless.md)\n- [Bright Data vs Scrapfly](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapfly.md)\n- [Bright Data vs ScrapingAnt](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingant.md)\n- [Bright Data vs ScrapingBee](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingbee.md)\n- [Bright Data vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Bright Data vs ZenRows](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zenrows.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Olostep vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [ScrapeGraphAI vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Scrapeless vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Scrapfly vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [ScrapingAnt vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [ScrapingBee vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Scrapingdog vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Scrapingdog vs ZenRows](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-zenrows.md)\n- [Bright Data vs Firecrawl MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-firecrawl-mcp.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Apify MCP Server vs Bright Data](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-bright-data.md)\n",
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