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  "data": {
    "a": {
      "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"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 60.1
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 82,
          "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",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.brightdata.com/request",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T22:50:29.649504323Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 404,
          "lastMs": 253,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 99.95,
          "p50ms24h": 259,
          "p95ms24h": 343,
          "samples24h": 272,
          "samples30d": 2043,
          "days": [
            {
              "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": 259,
              "ok": 259
            }
          ]
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "brightdata/brightdata-mcp",
            "version": "v2.11.3",
            "released": "2026-09-17",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:52.537939152Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp",
            "version": "2.11.3",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-03T23:29:28.630222764Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@brightdata/mcp",
            "version": "2.11.3",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:22:51.722708264Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 2661,
        "npmWeekly": 8991,
        "securityTxt": {
          "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"
        },
        "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"
        },
        "pages": [
          {
            "url": "https://docs.brightdata.com/release-notes",
            "kind": "changelog",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:43:20.269297541Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "11e5a86f089a"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://brightdata.com/license",
            "kind": "deprecations",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:36.984639492Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "78531847b1c1"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://brightdata.com/pricing",
            "kind": "pricing",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:39.453718378Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "ab42850cc3aa"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://brightdata.com/privacy",
            "kind": "privacy",
            "status": 200,
            "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:41:41.298663499Z",
            "changedAt": "0001-01-01T00:00:00Z",
            "fingerprint": "54b985a0a80a"
          }
        ],
        "updatedAt": "2026-10-04T22:50:29.649504323Z"
      }
    },
    "b": {
      "slug": "spider-cloud",
      "name": "Spider",
      "vendor": "Spider (BAGELMEN LLC)",
      "vendorUrl": "https://spider.cloud",
      "kind": "http-api",
      "category": "web-scrapers",
      "summary": "Hosted crawl, scrape, search, links and screenshot API built on the open-source Rust spider crate, plus a cloud browser and proxy pool.",
      "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud",
      "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.md",
      "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.min.md",
      "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/spider-cloud.json",
      "repo": "https://github.com/spider-rs/spider",
      "license": "MIT",
      "transports": [
        "http",
        "streamable-http",
        "stdio"
      ],
      "remoteUrl": "https://api.spider.cloud",
      "packages": [
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "@spider-cloud/spider-client"
        },
        {
          "registry": "pypi",
          "name": "spider_client"
        },
        {
          "registry": "npm",
          "name": "spider-cloud-mcp"
        }
      ],
      "auth": "mixed",
      "authNotes": "Bearer key in the Authorization header. POST /scrape also works with no key at 4 requests a minute. Every core route accepts x402 in place of a key. The hosted MCP server takes a Bearer key or runs OAuth on first connect and mints a scoped key.",
      "pricing": "usage",
      "pricingNotes": "Pay as you go at $1 per 10,000 credits, metered as $1 per GB of fetched content plus $0.0001 per CPU minute. No subscription and the balance doesn't expire. Top-ups of $500 or more get a 5 per cent bonus, $2,000 or more 12 per cent. Unlimited plans bill by concurrency from $40 a month for 2 to $350 for 25. Zero data retention bills at 2.5 times credits. AI Studio routes need a plan from $6 a month (https://spider.cloud/pricing).",
      "priceSummary": "$0.0005 / call",
      "where": "both",
      "x402": {
        "level": "yes",
        "evidence": "x402 v2 on all core routes, exact scheme, USDC on Base (eip155:8453), priced 1 to 1 with credits. Estimates are /scrape $0.0005, /crawl $0.005, /search $0.002, /links $0.0002 (https://spider.cloud/docs/integrations/x402). Our unpaid POST to /crawl on 2026-09-30 returned 402 with a PAYMENT-REQUIRED header and an x402Version 2 body.",
        "endpoints": [
          {
            "url": "https://api.spider.cloud/scrape",
            "priceUsd": 0.0005,
            "network": "eip155:8453"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://api.spider.cloud/crawl",
            "priceUsd": 0.005,
            "network": "eip155:8453"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://api.spider.cloud/search",
            "priceUsd": 0.002,
            "network": "eip155:8453"
          },
          {
            "url": "https://api.spider.cloud/links",
            "priceUsd": 0.0002,
            "network": "eip155:8453"
          }
        ]
      },
      "toolCount": 22,
      "popularity": {
        "githubStars": 2748,
        "npmWeekly": 2745,
        "pypiWeekly": null,
        "asOf": "2026-09-30"
      },
      "docsUrl": "https://spider.cloud/docs/overview",
      "llmsTxt": "https://spider.cloud/llms.txt",
      "openapi": "https://spider.cloud/openapi.yaml",
      "registryName": "cloud.spider/mcp",
      "capabilities": [
        "web.scrape",
        "web.extract",
        "web.crawl",
        "web.search",
        "web.fetch",
        "browser.hosted",
        "scraping.proxies",
        "scraping.js-render",
        "scraping.anti-bot",
        "scraping.screenshot"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "hosted",
        "mcp",
        "llms-txt",
        "proxies",
        "open-source",
        "python",
        "typescript",
        "openapi",
        "x402",
        "no-key"
      ],
      "lastRelease": "2026-07-19",
      "graded": true,
      "anchor": {
        "graded": true,
        "score": 74.3,
        "grade": "BB",
        "agentReady": true,
        "rank": 49,
        "ranked": true,
        "rankOf": 452,
        "categoryRank": 4,
        "methodology": "0.3",
        "run": "2026-10-01",
        "scores": {
          "ergonomics": 70,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 96,
          "reliability": 80,
          "schema": 87,
          "security": 42,
          "transparency": 69
        },
        "pending": [
          "performance",
          "tasks"
        ],
        "assessment": {
          "confidence": "medium",
          "date": "2026-10-01"
        },
        "negative": 0,
        "verdict": "Keyless /scrape and working x402 v2 on every core route, so an agent needs no account. Operated by BAGELMEN LLC with no address, retention periods or DPA in the privacy policy.",
        "strengths": [
          "Keyless /scrape and working x402 v2 on every core route, so an agent needs no account",
          "Metered by bytes and CPU, so small pages cost a fraction of a cent",
          "Published rate limits with RateLimit and Retry-After headers",
          "OpenAPI spec, llms.txt and clients in Python, JavaScript, Rust and Go",
          "The Rust crawler, clients and MCP are MIT and can be self-hosted"
        ],
        "weaknesses": [
          "Operated by BAGELMEN LLC with no address, retention periods or DPA in the privacy policy",
          "No security.txt, disclosure policy, certification or prompt-injection guidance found",
          "Invalid parameter values fall back silently instead of returning 400",
          "Errored attempts are billed for the bytes and compute they used, despite the pricing page's failed requests cost $0",
          "The /unblocker route was deprecated on 1 October 2026 with no entry in the product changelog"
        ],
        "agentNotes": [
          "Every content route returns a JSON array, even /scrape. The status field is the page's, not the API call's",
          "Leave request on smart and set return_format to markdown for LLM input",
          "Set limit on /crawl. Unset, it caps only at your credit balance",
          "Use /scrape with `stealth: true` instead of /unblocker, which is deprecated",
          "Honour Retry-After on 429. Keyless use allows 4 requests a minute"
        ],
        "metrics": {
          "kind": "remote",
          "measured": false
        },
        "reviewCount": 8,
        "avgRating": 3.3,
        "history": [
          {
            "basis": "public evidence",
            "confidence": "medium",
            "grade": "BB",
            "methodology": "0.3",
            "pending": [
              "performance",
              "tasks"
            ],
            "run": "2026-10-01",
            "runLabel": "October 2026 research run",
            "score": 74.3
          }
        ],
        "editorialScores": {
          "ergonomics": 70,
          "maintenance": 85,
          "payments": 96,
          "reliability": 80,
          "schema": 87,
          "security": 42,
          "transparency": 55
        },
        "provenanceScore": 82
      },
      "connect": {
        "http": "curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY\" \\\n  -H \"Content-Type: application/json\" -d '{\"url\":\"https://example.com\",\"return_format\":\"markdown\"}'",
        "claudeCode": "claude mcp add spider --transport http https://mcp.spider.cloud/mcp -H \"Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY\"",
        "config": {
          "mcpServers": {
            "spider": {
              "headers": {
                "Authorization": "Bearer ${SPIDER_API_KEY}"
              },
              "url": "https://mcp.spider.cloud/mcp"
            }
          }
        }
      },
      "letme": {
        "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape",
        "tool": "https://letme.dev/spider-cloud"
      },
      "area": "web-data",
      "unitPrices": [
        {
          "item": "Credits",
          "unit": "credit",
          "usd": 0.0001,
          "note": "$1 per 10,000"
        },
        {
          "item": "Bandwidth",
          "unit": "gb",
          "usd": 1,
          "note": "pre-transformation content"
        },
        {
          "item": "Compute",
          "unit": "vcpu-hour",
          "usd": 0.006,
          "note": "billed at $0.0001 per CPU minute"
        },
        {
          "item": "Scrape via x402",
          "unit": "1k-requests",
          "usd": 0.5,
          "note": "published estimate of 5 credits a scrape. Small pages cost far less"
        },
        {
          "item": "Unlimited, 25 concurrent",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 350
        },
        {
          "item": "Unlimited, 2 concurrent",
          "unit": "month",
          "usd": 40
        }
      ],
      "provenance": {
        "legalEntity": "BAGELMEN LLC",
        "domain": "spider.cloud",
        "domainRegistered": "2024-04-22",
        "domainNote": "spider.cloud dates from 2024, but the spider crate it runs on has been on GitHub since January 2018.",
        "endpointOnVendorDomain": true,
        "terms": "https://spider.cloud/eula",
        "privacy": "https://spider.cloud/privacy",
        "statusPage": "https://spidercloud.statuspage.io",
        "changelog": "https://spider.cloud/changelog",
        "securityTxt": "none",
        "checked": "2026-09-30",
        "notes": [
          "The EULA and privacy policy both name BAGELMEN LLC as operator"
        ],
        "score": 82
      },
      "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.json",
      "live": {
        "slug": "spider-cloud",
        "probe": {
          "target": "https://api.spider.cloud",
          "method": "get",
          "lastAt": "2026-10-04T22:50:40.9866034Z",
          "lastOk": true,
          "lastStatus": 402,
          "lastMs": 272,
          "authRequired": false,
          "uptime24h": 100,
          "uptime30d": 100,
          "p50ms24h": 281,
          "p95ms24h": 334,
          "samples24h": 272,
          "samples30d": 1089,
          "days": [
            {
              "date": "2026-09-30",
              "probes": 35,
              "ok": 35
            },
            {
              "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": 259,
              "ok": 259
            }
          ]
        },
        "vendorStatus": {
          "page": "https://spidercloud.statuspage.io",
          "indicator": "none",
          "summary": "All Systems Operational",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T22:45:51.604535131Z"
        },
        "versions": [
          {
            "registry": "github",
            "name": "spider-rs/spider",
            "version": "v2.52.2",
            "released": "2026-03-31",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:40:36.301855322Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "mcp-registry",
            "name": "cloud.spider/mcp",
            "version": "1.0.0",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-03T23:29:28.630222764Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "@spider-cloud/spider-client",
            "version": "0.2.5",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:40:34.036285392Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "npm",
            "name": "spider-cloud-mcp",
            "version": "1.2.2",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:40:35.044954859Z"
          },
          {
            "registry": "pypi",
            "name": "spider_client",
            "version": "0.1.93",
            "released": "2026-07-18",
            "seenAt": "2026-10-04T16:40:34.847438784Z"
          }
        ],
        "githubStars": 2752,
        "npmWeekly": 3058,
        "pypiWeekly": 99968,
        "securityTxt": {
          "url": "https://spider.cloud/.well-known/security.txt",
          "state": "none",
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:15:53.250173193Z"
        },
        "llmsTxt": {
          "url": "https://spider.cloud/llms.txt",
          "ok": true,
          "status": 200,
          "checkedAt": "2026-10-04T15:18:15.952457392Z"
        },
        "domain": {
          "domain": "spider.cloud",
          "registered": "2024-04-22",
          "source": "https://rdap.registry.cloud/rdap/domain/spider.cloud",
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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/spider-cloud.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/spider-cloud.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\nPick Bright Data for agent ergonomics (+12), security \u0026 auth (+15).\n\nPick Spider for reliability (+45), schema \u0026 documentation (+13), payments \u0026 pricing (+56), transparency \u0026 trust (+7).\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Bright Data | Spider | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 80 | Spider +45 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 87 | Spider +13 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 70 | Bright Data +12 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 42 | Bright Data +15 |\n| Payments \u0026 pricing | 10% (12.5 this run) | 40 | 96 | Spider +56 |\n| Task success | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Maintenance \u0026 community | 7% (8.8 this run) | 84 | 85 | Spider +1 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 62 | 69 | Spider +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **60.1 · C** | **74.3 · BB** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Bright Data | Spider |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Bright Data | Spider (BAGELMEN LLC) |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.brightdata.com/request` | `https://api.spider.cloud` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP, stdio |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | yes, from $0.0005/call |\n| Licence | none | MIT |\n| Tools exposed | 69 | 22 |\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` | `cloud.spider/mcp` |\n| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-07-19 |\n| Popularity | 2.6k stars | 2.7k stars, 2.7k npm/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | 3.3/5 (8) |\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**Spider.** Keyless /scrape and working x402 v2 on every core route, so an agent needs no account. Operated by BAGELMEN LLC with no address, retention periods or DPA in the privacy policy.\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### Spider\n\n1. Every content route returns a JSON array, even /scrape. The status field is the page's, not the API call's\n2. Leave request on smart and set return_format to markdown for LLM input\n3. Set limit on /crawl. Unset, it caps only at your credit balance\n4. Use /scrape with `stealth: true` instead of /unblocker, which is deprecated\n5. Honour Retry-After on 429. Keyless use allows 4 requests a minute\n\n## Other comparisons with Bright Data or Spider\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 Scrapingdog](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingdog.md)\n- [Bright Data vs ZenRows](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zenrows.md)\n- [Jina Reader vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/jina-reader-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Olostep vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/olostep-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Scrape.do vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrape-do-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [ScrapeGraphAI vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapegraphai-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Scrapeless vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapeless-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Scrapfly vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapfly-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [ScrapingAnt vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingant-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [ScrapingBee vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingbee-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Scrapingdog vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/scrapingdog-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Spider vs ZenRows](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/spider-cloud-vs-zenrows.md)\n- [Bright Data vs Firecrawl MCP](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-firecrawl-mcp.md)\n- [Firecrawl MCP vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/firecrawl-mcp-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n- [Apify MCP Server vs Bright Data](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-bright-data.md)\n- [Apify MCP Server vs Spider](https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/apify-mcp-vs-spider-cloud.md)\n",
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