The best Bright Data
alternatives.
When you want the data, not a proxy network to manage. The tools that hand you structured web data in one call.
Five ways to get the real data.
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Zenrows
Live extraction from any URL, including protected and dynamic pages, with fetch, extract, and browser sessions as one toolkit. The page, the structured data, and the results, in real time.
Best for · production web data, end to end
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Oxylabs
Enterprise proxies and scraper APIs as separate components.
Best for · self-assembled infrastructure
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Apify
A marketplace of pre-built Actors for popular targets.
Best for · ready-made scrapers for known sites
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Scrapfly
A scraping API with anti-bot bypass, JavaScript rendering, and extraction.
Best for · a focused scraping API
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Zyte
A scraping platform from the Scrapy team, with smart proxies and AI extraction.
Best for · teams building on Scrapy
Switching from Bright Data.
Bright Data sells proxy networks, an unlocker and a browser as separate components, each billed on its own meter, wired together by your team. Migrating collapses the stack into one request.
- No pool, zone or session wiring
- One line item instead of four
- Retries and unlocking handled inside
# before: route through the proxy you configured
curl --proxy brd.superproxy.io:44445 \
--proxy-user "brd-customer-ID-zone-NAME:PASS" \
"https://example.com"
# after: difficulty handled per request
curl "https://api.zenrows.com/v1/?apikey=KEY\
&url=https://example.com&premium_proxy=true"How we ranked them.
Reach
Any URL including protected and dynamic pages, or only some targets.
Anti-bot
Bypass built in, or your problem to solve.
Output
Structured data and full pages, or raw HTML.
Scope
One primitive, or a full web-data toolkit.