Bright Data alternatives
Nuclear option for hard anti-bot targets. Start with Firecrawl/ScrapingBee; escalate here when blocked.
Overall 7.66 (curated_estimate, high) · score asOf 2026-09-14 · last reviewed 2026-09-14. This is not an Elo and not a live price board. Provider · JSON
Jobs: web-scrape, serp-scrape, enterprise-proxy, scrape-actor-platform
| Provider | Why listed | Overall | Δ vs subject | asOf |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apify Depot pick when you need a scraper marketplace / reusable Actors, not just a crawl API. Firecrawl for… | same_jtbd_runner, same_jtbd_pick · web-scrape, scrape-actor-platform | 8.21high | +0.55 | 2026-09-14 |
| Firecrawl Depot pick for turning the web into LLM context. Browserbase when you need to *act*, Firecrawl when you need… | same_jtbd_pick · web-scrape | 8.25high | +0.59 | 2026-10-19 |
| Serper Budget SERP hammer. Great for hacks; prefer Tavily/Exa for cleaner long-term agent search. | same_jtbd_pick · serp-scrape | 8.03high | +0.37 | 2026-09-14 |
| ZenRows Best per-request scrape API with agent MCP. Firecrawl when you want site-wide LLM markdown; Scrapfly when you… | same_jtbd_runner · web-scrape, enterprise-proxy, scrape-actor-platform | 8.27high | +0.61 | 2026-09-14 |
| Scrapfly Excellent Firecrawl peer when you need anti-bot + cloud browser with transparent credits. Prefer Firecrawl… | same_jtbd_runner · web-scrape, enterprise-proxy, scrape-actor-platform | 8.25high | +0.59 | 2026-09-14 |
| Browserbase Depot default for agents that need a real browser. Pair with Stagehand/Browser Use for the reasoning loop. | same_jtbd_runner · web-scrape, enterprise-proxy | 8.3high | +0.64 | 2026-10-19 |
| ScrapingBee Use for fetch-the-HTML jobs. For multi-step login/click agents, use Browserbase/Steel. | same_jtbd_runner · web-scrape, enterprise-proxy | 7.98high | +0.32 | 2026-09-14 |
| Brave Search API Best privacy-forward search API with an independent index. Strong complement to Tavily/Exa. | same_jtbd_runner · serp-scrape | 8.33high | +0.67 | 2026-09-14 |
| SerpApi Classic SERP API when you need engine breadth. Prefer Serper for budget Google-only; Exa/Tavily/You for… | same_jtbd_runner · serp-scrape | 8.15high | +0.49 | 2026-09-14 |
| Jina AI Promoted high after pinning official models API token matrix ($0.05/1M). Best as EU-friendly all-in-one… | same_jtbd_runner · web-scrape | 8.12high | +0.46 | 2026-09-14 |
| Oxylabs Enterprise proxy peer to Bright Data. Prefer Scrapfly/ZenRows/Firecrawl for agent-default scrape; Oxylabs… | same_jtbd_runner · enterprise-proxy | 7.99high | +0.33 | 2026-09-14 |
| Diffbot Structured extract / KG peer. Firecrawl remains llm-ready-extract default; Diffbot when you need schema'd… | same_jtbd_runner · web-scrape | 7.96high | +0.3 | 2026-09-14 |
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