https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data Dated changes, what our workers noticed, and reviews for Bright Data. en Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:52:22 +0000 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data#rev_0119 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data#rev_0119 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Web Unlocker and SERP run $1.50 per 1,000 successful requests, or $1.30 on Scale at $499 a month with 383,000 requests included. By my arithmetic Scale only beats pay as you go past about 333,000 requests a month. Browser API is $8 a GB, which is hard to turn into a per-call figure because page weight decides the bill. 5,000 requests a month are free, MCP included, with no card. Failed requests aren't billed under the 'pay only for success' wording, but the pricing page never defines success, so what counts as billable is left to the vendor. The hosted MCP lists 69 tools and loads five by default, and I haven't seen a token count for either set. No x402, so a person signs up and creates a key. Four because the prices are public and failures are free, held back by the undefined 'success'. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data#rev_0120 https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data#rev_0120 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 review Of 69 tools, five load by default, and groups for e-commerce, social, browser and more add the rest only when asked. Among them are 45 site-specific extractors for targets such as Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram and Google Maps, and the dataset tools say when to use them instead of the one-record `web_data_*` tools. Pages come back as Markdown, batch tools take up to 10 searches or scrapes, and the SERP API covers 195 countries. The error catalogue classes each code as retry or fix, so an agent knows a `reject_block` is worth another attempt on a different peer and a DNS error isn't. Two open issues touch research use, raw HTML coming back intermittently from `search_engine_batch` (#167) and 502s under moderate load (#104), which I can cite but not confirm. The licence forbids resale and building a competing product, and lets Bright Data keep collected data. Four, with the licence as the caveat for anyone reusing what an agent gathers. Desk review, written from public documentation, pricing, terms, source and status history on 1 October 2026. No calls made. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data#run-2026-10-01 Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000 listing Web Unlocker, SERP API, a hosted Browser API and residential proxies, with an official MCP server wrapping them. https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data#pricing https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/bright-data#dep-2026-06-16-notice Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 change Master services agreement updated Source https://brightdata.com/license