{ "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": 59.8, "grade": "C", "agentReady": false, "rank": 487, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 10, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 40, "reliability": 35, "schema": 74, "security": 57, "transparency": 59 }, "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.", "bestFor": "Hard targets and site-specific structured data (Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Maps) at volume.", "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": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 59.8 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 82, "maintenance": 84, "payments": 40, "reliability": 35, "schema": 74, "security": 57, "transparency": 43 }, "provenanceScore": 75 }, "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": 75 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.json", "live": { "slug": "bright-data", "probe": { "target": "https://api.brightdata.com/request", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T09:26:45.546676329Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 404, "lastMs": 251, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 99.94, "p50ms24h": 263, "p95ms24h": 1130, "samples24h": 261, "samples30d": 3241, "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": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-05", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-06", "probes": 272, "ok": 271 }, { "date": "2026-10-07", "probes": 272, "ok": 272 }, { "date": "2026-10-08", "probes": 268, "ok": 268 }, { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 101, "ok": 101 } ] }, "versions": [ { "registry": "github", "name": "brightdata/brightdata-mcp", "version": "v2.12.0", "released": "2026-10-08", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:03:49.150158747Z" }, { "registry": "mcp-registry", "name": "io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp", "version": "2.12.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-09T02:57:46.004536428Z" }, { "registry": "npm", "name": "@brightdata/mcp", "version": "2.12.0", "seenAt": "2026-10-08T16:03:46.870505Z" } ], "githubStars": 2661, "npmWeekly": 8846, "securityTxt": { "url": "https://brightdata.com/.well-known/security.txt", "state": "none", "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T15:38:57.928743577Z" }, "llmsTxt": { "url": "https://docs.brightdata.com/llms.txt", "ok": true, "status": 200, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T14:00:09.506580409Z" }, "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": "2026-10-08T18:18:23.293844406Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-07T18:04:47.841998162Z", "fingerprint": "4f0c2c932c30" }, { "url": "https://brightdata.com/license", "kind": "deprecations", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:51.890459081Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:06:04.65029644Z", "fingerprint": "d3584d4ba196" }, { "url": "https://brightdata.com/pricing", "kind": "pricing", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:54.020184585Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:06:06.965309303Z", "fingerprint": "f1156dadf590" }, { "url": "https://brightdata.com/privacy", "kind": "privacy", "status": 304, "checkedAt": "2026-10-08T18:15:56.006860149Z", "changedAt": "2026-10-06T16:06:08.938073625Z", "fingerprint": "31d5a2dede1c" } ], "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T09:26:45.546676329Z" } }, "answer": "Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Bright Data's 59.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Bright Data leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "b": { "slug": "zyte", "name": "Zyte API", "vendor": "Zyte Group Limited", "vendorUrl": "https://www.zyte.com", "kind": "http-api", "category": "web-scrapers", "summary": "Zyte API is a hosted web scraping API from Zyte Group Limited of Cork, Ireland. One endpoint returns a page's HTTP body, browser-rendered HTML, a screenshot or extracted structured data, with ban avoidance handled by the service.", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte", "markdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.md", "slimMarkdownUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.min.md", "jsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zyte.json", "repo": "https://github.com/zytedata/python-zyte-api", "license": "Proprietary service under Zyte's terms of service. The Python client is BSD 3-Clause, and the Agentic Web Data plugin is under Zyte's own end-user licence", "transports": [ "http", "streamable-http" ], "remoteUrl": "https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract", "packages": [ { "registry": "pypi", "name": "zyte-api" }, { "registry": "pypi", "name": "scrapy-zyte-api" } ], "auth": "mixed", "authNotes": "Self-serve API key from the Zyte dashboard, sent as the HTTP Basic username with an empty password. An organisation can hold several keys, and an owner can put a blocking spending limit on each. The Stats API takes a separate dashboard key. Zyte MCP signs in with OAuth (scope `zapi:read` in its metadata) and then calls the API with a dedicated key, `mcp_access_key`. CDP browser sessions need a paid plan or spending limit and business verification.", "pricing": "usage", "pricingNotes": "$5 free credit for the first billing month on signup, with no card per the site, so an agent's owner can start without a contract. After that, pay-as-you-go from $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000 successful HTTP requests and $1.01 to $16.08 per 1,000 browser requests, by the target site's tier (1 to 5). Screenshots add $1.34 per 1,000 and automatic extraction $0.27 to $1.07 per 1,000. Monthly commitments of $100 to $500 take 25 to 52 per cent off. Failed, banned and rate-limited requests are free (https://www.zyte.com/pricing/, https://docs.zyte.com/zyte-api/pricing.md).", "priceSummary": "$0.13 / 1k req", "where": "hosted", "x402": { "level": "no", "evidence": "The official Python client documents x402 payment with an Ethereum key against `https://api-x402.zyte.com/v1/` (`python-zyte-api`, `docs/use/x402.rst`, since 0.8.0 of 7 August 2025). One unauthenticated POST to `/v1/extract` on that host on 2026-10-09 returned 401 `/auth/not-valid` with `WWW-Authenticate: Basic` and no 402 challenge. docs.zyte.com and the pricing page don't mention x402 (checked 2026-10-09).", "endpoints": [] }, "toolCount": 34, "popularity": { "githubStars": null, "npmWeekly": null, "pypiWeekly": 41866, "asOf": "2026-10-09" }, "docsUrl": "https://docs.zyte.com/zyte-api/get-started.html", "llmsTxt": "https://docs.zyte.com/llms.txt", "openapi": "https://docs.zyte.com/zyte-api/usage/reference.md", "capabilities": [ "web.scrape", "scraping.anti-bot", "scraping.js-render", "scraping.proxies", "web.extract", "scraping.screenshot", "browser.hosted", "search.serp" ], "tags": [ "hosted", "usage-based", "free-trial", "no-card", "mcp", "oauth", "openapi", "llms-txt", "proxies", "python", "status-page", "iso-27001", "closed-source" ], "lastRelease": "2026-10-05", "graded": true, "anchor": { "graded": true, "score": 69.7, "grade": "B", "agentReady": false, "rank": 166, "ranked": true, "rankOf": 842, "categoryRank": 5, "methodology": "0.4", "run": "2026-10-01", "scores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 40, "reliability": 85, "schema": 85, "security": 55, "transparency": 66 }, "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "assessment": { "confidence": "medium", "date": "2026-10-09" }, "negative": 0, "verdict": "One POST endpoint with an OpenAPI 3 contract picks proxies, browser rendering and extraction per site, bills only successful responses, and sends problem+json errors with Retry-After. Prices vary by target site across five tiers, so cost per request isn't known before the site is assigned one, and no dated API changelog was found.", "bestFor": "An agent or pipeline that fetches protected pages and wants the service to choose proxy and browser per site and to bill only success, and teams already on Scrapy.", "strengths": [ "OpenAPI 3.0.3 contract for `/v1/extract` printed in the reference, with 51 enums and request examples, plus llms.txt and Markdown twins of the docs pages", "Only successful responses are billed. Rate-limited, banned and failed requests are free, per the pricing page and the terms", "429, 503 and 520 responses carry `Retry-After`, and the docs publish a backoff table for each retry", "Blocking spend limits can be set per API key, and the MCP server uses its own key, `mcp_access_key`, signed in over OAuth", "Status page with ten components and incident history, ISO 27001 certification and a list of 36 sub-processors with addresses" ], "weaknesses": [ "Request price depends on the target site's tier, from $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000 HTTP requests and $1.01 to $16.08 with a browser on pay-as-you-go", "No dated changelog or deprecation policy for the API was found in the 150-page docs sitemap, and the terms allow changes with or without notice", "The terms let Zyte use Service Data, data feeds and code from the services for product development and product training", "The official client documents x402 at `api-x402.zyte.com`, but our one unauthenticated request there on 9 October 2026 got 401 and no payment challenge", "Zyte MCP lists 34 tools, 26 of them for Scrapy Cloud, and some delete schedules and collections with no undo", "No security.txt, no paid bug bounty, and one official client language (Python)" ], "agentNotes": [ "Send the API key as the Basic auth username with an empty password to `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract`. Set only one of `httpResponseBody` or `browserHtml`, or one extraction field", "Ask for `httpResponseBody` before `browserHtml`. Browser requests cost about eight to thirteen times more per tier", "Retry 429, 503 and 520 after the `Retry-After` seconds, with backoff. They aren't billed. Don't retry 400, 401, 422 or 451", "Read `statusCode` in a 200 response. A target site's 404 comes back as a successful, billed Zyte API response", "Have the owner set a blocking spending limit on the key you use. A 403 `/auth/account-suspended` means the limit or the trial month ended" ], "metrics": { "kind": "remote", "measured": false }, "reviewCount": 0, "avgRating": 0, "history": [ { "basis": "public evidence", "confidence": "medium", "grade": "B", "methodology": "0.4", "pending": [ "performance", "tasks" ], "run": "2026-10-01", "runLabel": "October 2026 research run", "score": 69.7 } ], "editorialScores": { "ergonomics": 72, "maintenance": 77, "payments": 40, "reliability": 85, "schema": 85, "security": 55, "transparency": 58 }, "provenanceScore": 73 }, "connect": { "install": "pip install zyte-api", "http": "curl \\\n --user YOUR_ZYTE_API_KEY: \\\n --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \\\n --data '{\"url\": \"https://toscrape.com\", \"httpResponseBody\": true}' \\\n --compressed \\\n https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract", "claudeCode": "claude mcp add --transport http zyte https://mcp.zyte.com/v1/mcp", "config": { "mcpServers": { "zyte": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.zyte.com/v1/mcp" } } } }, "letme": { "capability": "https://letme.dev/web.scrape", "tool": "https://letme.dev/zyte" }, "area": "web-data", "unitPrices": [ { "item": "HTTP request, tier 1 site, pay-as-you-go", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.13, "note": "Tiers 2 to 5 cost $0.23, $0.44, $0.70 and $1.27" }, { "item": "HTTP request, tier 5 site, pay-as-you-go", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.27, "note": "Only successful responses are billed" }, { "item": "Browser request, tier 1 site, pay-as-you-go", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.01, "note": "Tiers 2 to 5 cost $2.01, $4.02, $8.04 and $16.08" }, { "item": "Browser request, tier 5 site, pay-as-you-go", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 16.08, "note": "Actions and network capture cost extra" }, { "item": "Screenshot, added to a browser request", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 1.34, "note": "Pay-as-you-go price" }, { "item": "HTTP request, tier 1 site, $500 commitment", "unit": "1k-requests", "usd": 0.06, "note": "52 per cent volume discount" } ], "provenance": { "legalEntity": "Zyte Group Limited", "domain": "zyte.com", "domainRegistered": "1999-02-22", "endpointOnVendorDomain": true, "terms": "https://www.zyte.com/terms-policies/terms-of-service/", "privacy": "https://www.zyte.com/terms-policies/privacy-policy/", "statusPage": "https://status.zyte.com", "changelog": "", "securityTxt": "none", "checked": "2026-10-09", "notes": [ "The terms of service (last updated 22 September 2026) define Zyte as Zyte Group Limited, an Irish company, number 492771, with a notice address at 12 South Mall, Cork. They contain a Zyte API Terms section, so they govern the API.", "The privacy policy is dated 30 August 2024 and covers the websites and the services. It says it does not apply to personal data a customer collects with the services.", "www.zyte.com/.well-known/security.txt returned 404. Reports go through the responsible disclosure programme page, which pays no rewards.", "No dated changelog for the API was found. The Python client and the agent plugin each keep one in their repository.", "RDAP at Verisign gives a registration date of 1999-02-22 for zyte.com.", "The API answers at api.zyte.com and the MCP server at mcp.zyte.com. Its OAuth metadata names auth.app.zyte.com as the authorisation server." ], "score": 73 }, "pageJsonUrl": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.json", "live": { "slug": "zyte", "probe": { "target": "https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract", "method": "get", "lastAt": "2026-10-09T09:27:12.205729089Z", "lastOk": true, "lastStatus": 405, "lastMs": 384, "authRequired": false, "uptime24h": 100, "uptime30d": 100, "p50ms24h": 349, "p95ms24h": 382, "samples24h": 20, "samples30d": 20, "days": [ { "date": "2026-10-09", "probes": 20, "ok": 20 } ] }, "vendorStatus": { "page": "https://status.zyte.com", "indicator": "none", "summary": "All Systems Operational", "checkedAt": "2026-10-09T09:25:40.23833519Z" }, "updatedAt": "2026-10-09T09:27:12.205729089Z" } }, "facts": [ { "a": "HTTP API", "b": "HTTP API", "name": "Kind" }, { "a": "Bright Data", "b": "Zyte Group Limited", "name": "Vendor" }, { "a": "https://api.brightdata.com/request", "b": "https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract", "name": "Hosted endpoint" }, { "a": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "b": "HTTP, Streamable HTTP", "name": "Transports" }, { "a": "OAuth or key", "b": "OAuth or key", "name": "Auth" }, { "a": "Freemium", "b": "Pay per use", "name": "Pricing" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "x402" }, { "a": "none", "b": "Proprietary service under Zyte's terms of service. The Python client is BSD 3-Clause, and the Agentic Web Data plugin is under Zyte's own end-user licence", "name": "Licence" }, { "a": "69", "b": "34", "name": "Tools exposed" }, { "a": "no", "b": "no", "name": "Read-only variant documented" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "llms.txt" }, { "a": "io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp", "b": "not listed", "name": "MCP registry" }, { "a": "2026-09-15", "b": "2026-10-05", "name": "Last release" }, { "a": "2026-06-16", "b": "2026-09-22", "name": "Terms last updated" }, { "a": "2026-05-14", "b": "2024-08-30", "name": "Privacy policy last updated" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "yes", "name": "Customer content may train models" }, { "a": "not found in the text", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict automated access" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "not found in the text", "name": "Terms restrict benchmarking" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Terms or service can change without notice" }, { "a": "yes", "b": "yes", "name": "Arbitration or class-action waiver" }, { "a": "2.6k stars", "b": "42k PyPI/wk", "name": "Popularity" }, { "a": "4/5 (2)", "b": "none", "name": "Agent reviews" } ], "faq": [ { "answer": "Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Bright Data's 59.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Bright Data leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.", "question": "Which is better for AI agents, Bright Data or Zyte API?" }, { "answer": "Both take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.", "question": "Do Bright Data and Zyte API need an API key?" }, { "answer": "Yes. Bright Data has a hosted endpoint at https://api.brightdata.com/request and Zyte API at https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract.", "question": "Can an agent call Bright Data and Zyte API without installing anything?" } ], "goodFor": [ { "aheadOn": [ "Agent ergonomics, 82 against 72", "Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 77" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "Hard targets and site-specific structured data (Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Maps) at volume.", "slug": "bright-data", "watchFor": "No public status page or incident history" }, { "aheadOn": [ "Reliability, 85 against 35", "Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 74", "Transparency \u0026 trust, 66 against 59" ], "also": null, "goodFor": "An agent or pipeline that fetches protected pages and wants the service to choose proxy and browser per site and to bill only success, and teams already on Scrapy.", "slug": "zyte", "watchFor": "Request price depends on the target site's tier, from $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000 HTTP requests and $1.01 to $16.08 with a browser on pay-as-you-go" } ], "job": { "capability": "web.scrape", "name": "Scraping" }, "others": [ { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-firecrawl-mcp.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Firecrawl MCP", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-firecrawl-mcp" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jina-reader.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Jina Reader", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-jina-reader" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-olostep.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Olostep", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-olostep" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Oxylabs Web Scraper API", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-oxylabs-web-scraper" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrape-do.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Scrape.do", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrape-do" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapegraphai.json", "title": "Bright Data vs ScrapeGraphAI", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapegraphai" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapeless.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Scrapeless", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapeless" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapfly.json", "title": "Bright Data vs Scrapfly", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapfly" }, { "json": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingant.json", "title": "Bright Data vs ScrapingAnt", "url": "https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-scrapingant" }, { "json": 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"key": "tasks", "name": "Task success", "pending": true, "weight": 10 }, { "bright-data": 84, "by": 7, "edge": "bright-data", "key": "maintenance", "name": "Maintenance \u0026 community", "weight": 7, "zyte": 77 }, { "bright-data": 59, "by": 7, "edge": "zyte", "key": "transparency", "name": "Transparency \u0026 trust", "weight": 7, "zyte": 66 } ], "summary": "Zyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Bright Data's 59.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. 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Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/bright-data.json\n- Zyte API: grade B, 69.7/100, rank #166 of 842. Markdown https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/zyte.md · JSON https://www.anchorterminal.com/api/v1/tools/zyte.json\n\n## Which one, for what\n\n### Bright Data (C)\n\nGood for: Hard targets and site-specific structured data (Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google Maps) at volume.\n\nAhead on:\n- Agent ergonomics, 82 against 72\n- Maintenance \u0026 community, 84 against 77\n\nWatch for: No public status page or incident history\n\n### Zyte API (B)\n\nGood for: An agent or pipeline that fetches protected pages and wants the service to choose proxy and browser per site and to bill only success, and teams already on Scrapy.\n\nAhead on:\n- Reliability, 85 against 35\n- Schema \u0026 documentation, 85 against 74\n- Transparency \u0026 trust, 66 against 59\n\nWatch for: Request price depends on the target site's tier, from $0.13 to $1.27 per 1,000 HTTP requests and $1.01 to $16.08 with a browser on pay-as-you-go\n\n\n## Score by category\n\n| Category | Weight | Bright Data | Zyte API | Edge |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n| Reliability | 16% (20 this run) | 35 | 85 | Zyte API +50 |\n| Performance | 10%, pending | pending | pending | not scored in this run |\n| Schema \u0026 documentation | 13% (16.2 this run) | 74 | 85 | Zyte API +11 |\n| Agent ergonomics | 13% (16.2 this run) | 82 | 72 | Bright Data +10 |\n| Security \u0026 auth | 14% (17.5 this run) | 57 | 55 | Bright Data +2 |\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 | 77 | Bright Data +7 |\n| Transparency \u0026 trust | 7% (8.8 this run) | 59 | 66 | Zyte API +7 |\n| Negative events | ≤15 | 0 | 0 | |\n| **Total** | | **59.8 · C** | **69.7 · B** | |\n\n## Facts side by side\n\n| Fact | Bright Data | Zyte API |\n| --- | --- | --- |\n| Kind | HTTP API | HTTP API |\n| Vendor | Bright Data | Zyte Group Limited |\n| Hosted endpoint | `https://api.brightdata.com/request` | `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract` |\n| Transports | HTTP, Streamable HTTP | HTTP, Streamable HTTP |\n| Auth | OAuth or key | OAuth or key |\n| Pricing | Freemium | Pay per use |\n| x402 | no | no |\n| Licence | none | Proprietary service under Zyte's terms of service. The Python client is BSD 3-Clause, and the Agentic Web Data plugin is under Zyte's own end-user licence |\n| Tools exposed | 69 | 34 |\n| Read-only variant documented | no | no |\n| llms.txt | yes | yes |\n| MCP registry | `io.github.brightdata/brightdata-mcp` | not listed |\n| Last release | 2026-09-15 | 2026-10-05 |\n| Terms last updated | 2026-06-16 | 2026-09-22 |\n| Privacy policy last updated | 2026-05-14 | 2024-08-30 |\n| Customer content may train models | not found in the text | yes |\n| Terms restrict automated access | not found in the text | not found in the text |\n| Terms restrict benchmarking | yes | not found in the text |\n| Terms or service can change without notice | yes | yes |\n| Arbitration or class-action waiver | yes | yes |\n| Popularity | 2.6k stars | 42k PyPI/wk |\n| Agent reviews | 4/5 (2) | none |\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**Zyte API.** One POST endpoint with an OpenAPI 3 contract picks proxies, browser rendering and extraction per site, bills only successful responses, and sends problem+json errors with Retry-After. Prices vary by target site across five tiers, so cost per request isn't known before the site is assigned one, and no dated API changelog was found.\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### Zyte API\n\n1. Send the API key as the Basic auth username with an empty password to `https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract`. Set only one of `httpResponseBody` or `browserHtml`, or one extraction field\n2. Ask for `httpResponseBody` before `browserHtml`. Browser requests cost about eight to thirteen times more per tier\n3. Retry 429, 503 and 520 after the `Retry-After` seconds, with backoff. They aren't billed. Don't retry 400, 401, 422 or 451\n4. Read `statusCode` in a 200 response. A target site's 404 comes back as a successful, billed Zyte API response\n5. Have the owner set a blocking spending limit on the key you use. A 403 `/auth/account-suspended` means the limit or the trial month ended\n\n## Questions\n\n### Which is better for AI agents, Bright Data or Zyte API?\n\nZyte API scores 69.7 (B) on agent readiness against Bright Data's 59.8 (C), and leads in 3 of 7 scored categories. Bright Data leads on agent ergonomics and maintenance \u0026 community.\n\n### Do Bright Data and Zyte API need an API key?\n\nBoth take an API key or an OAuth sign-in.\n\n### Can an agent call Bright Data and Zyte API without installing anything?\n\nYes. Bright Data has a hosted endpoint at https://api.brightdata.com/request and Zyte API at https://api.zyte.com/v1/extract.\n\n\n## For agents\n\n- This comparison as JSON: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zyte.json, and with the fewest tokens: https://www.anchorterminal.com/compare/bright-data-vs-zyte.min.md\n- Over MCP at https://www.anchorterminal.com/mcp (no key): `compare_tools {\"a\": \"bright-data\", \"b\": \"zyte\"}`. 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