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Bright Data

Bright Data is an Israeli web data platform and operator of the world's largest legitimate residential proxy network (400M+ IPs across 195 countries). The platform combines proxy infrastructure (residential, ISP, datacenter, mobile) with higher-level web-access APIs — Web Unlocker, SERP API, Web Scraper API, Scraping Browser, Deep Lookup, and Web Archive — plus a 350-dataset marketplace and an MCP server that exposes 60+ web-access tools to AI agents. Serves 20,000+ customers across eCommerce, finance, real estate, ad-tech, and AI/ML, and is a primary supplier of training and grounding data for foundation-model providers.

agent aware

Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Bright Data the way a machine reads it — 98 machine-readable artifacts across 10 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Bright Data scores 51.9/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 23/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-10 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 51.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 16.4 / 25
Access Clarity 11.3 / 20
Discoverability 6.7 / 10
Bright Data Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile Bright Data

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bright Data. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.

APIs 16

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Bright Data MCP Server

Bright Data's Model Context Protocol server exposes 60+ web-access tools (search, scrape, structured extraction, browser automation, datasets) to MCP-compatible clients includin...

Bright Data Access API

The Access API from Bright Data — 3 operation(s) for access.

Bright Data Archive API

The Archive API from Bright Data — 4 operation(s) for archive.

Bright Data Billing API

The Billing API from Bright Data — 2 operation(s) for billing.

Bright Data Datasets API

The Datasets API from Bright Data — 2 operation(s) for datasets.

Bright Data Delivery API

The Delivery API from Bright Data — 2 operation(s) for delivery.

Bright Data IPs API

The IPs API from Bright Data — 2 operation(s) for ips.

Bright Data Lookup API

The Lookup API from Bright Data — 6 operation(s) for lookup.

Bright Data Proxies API

The Proxies API from Bright Data — 4 operation(s) for proxies.

Bright Data Scrape API

Trigger and monitor asynchronous scraping jobs.

Bright Data Sessions API

Inspect active Scraping Browser sessions.

Bright Data Shield API

The Shield API from Bright Data — 4 operation(s) for shield.

Bright Data Snapshots API

The Snapshots API from Bright Data — 6 operation(s) for snapshots.

Bright Data Tokens API

The Tokens API from Bright Data — 1 operation(s) for tokens.

Bright Data Unlock API

Submit and retrieve unlock requests.

Bright Data Zones API

The Zones API from Bright Data — 3 operation(s) for zones.

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Postman Collections 10

A runnable collection turns the contract into something a developer can execute in seconds. We profile them because the fastest way to trust an API is to make a real call against it.

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

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Open Collections 27

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Bright Data API (Index)

OPEN COLLECTION

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Arazzo Workflows 13

Real integrations are rarely a single call. Arazzo describes the multi-step sequences — auth, then create, then confirm — so both a human and an agent can follow the choreography, not just the endpoints.

Multi-step API workflows described with the Arazzo specification.

Bright Data Marketplace Dataset Snapshot and Deliver

Inspect a marketplace dataset's metadata, read a snapshot, and deliver it to cloud.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Deep Lookup Trigger and Enrich Columns

Trigger a Deep Lookup, wait for it to finish, and enrich its columns.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Deep Lookup Research and Download

Preview a Deep Lookup query, trigger it, poll until ready, and download results.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Provision an Unlocker Zone then Unlock a URL

Create a Web Unlocker zone, confirm it, and run a synchronous unlock against it.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Provision a Zone and Allocate IPs

Create a zone, confirm it, and allocate dedicated IPs to it.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Proxy Manager Create and Verify a Port

Create a proxy port in the local Proxy Manager and read it back to confirm it.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Submit SERP Request and Retrieve Results

Submit an asynchronous SERP request and poll for the parsed search results.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Web Archive Search and Deliver

Submit a Web Archive search, poll it until ready, and deliver the corpus to cloud.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Scrape and Deliver Snapshot to Cloud Storage

Trigger a scrape, wait for the snapshot to finish, and deliver it to cloud storage.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Trigger Web Scraper Job and Download Results

Trigger a Web Scraper collector, poll the snapshot until ready, and download the rows.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Monitor a Snapshot and Cancel a Stuck Job

Read snapshot progress, pull the log on errors, and cancel a job that is still running.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Rerun a Failed Snapshot and Monitor It

Inspect an existing snapshot, rerun it when it failed, and poll the new snapshot.

ARAZZO

Bright Data Submit Async Unlock and Retrieve Result

Submit an asynchronous Web Unlocker request and poll for the unlocked response.

ARAZZO

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Bright Data Rate Limits

8 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Features 20

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Web Unlocker API — 98%+ success rate single-endpoint unblocking with proxy, JS rendering, CAPTCHA solving, and anti-bot evasion
SERP API — real-time Google/Bing/Yandex/DuckDuckGo across 31 languages and 195 countries with organic, news, images, video, shopping, jobs, hotels, flights, lens, trends, and AI Overview result types
Web Scraper API — 660+ pre-built dataset endpoints plus custom collectors with snapshot-based async delivery
Scraping Browser — managed remote Chromium browsers compatible with Puppeteer, Playwright, and Selenium
Deep Lookup API — natural-language entity research over 1,000+ sources with 95%+ accuracy
Web Archive API — petabyte-scale historical web search over 250+ domains
Dataset Marketplace — 350+ ready-to-use datasets across eCommerce, social, real estate, travel, and business verticals
Proxy Networks — 400M+ residential IPs, 1.3M+ ISP IPs, datacenter and 7M+ mobile IPs across 195 countries
Geo-targeting at country, state, city, ZIP, and ASN granularity with sticky and rotating sessions
Account Management API — programmatic zone, IP, balance, bandwidth, and billing management
Proxy Manager API — local self-hosted REST control plane (port 22999) for routing, banning, and refreshing
Scraping Shield API — domain classification API for compliance and trust-and-safety workflows
MCP Server with 60+ tools, hosted (5,000 free requests/month), self-hosted, or remote
Direct delivery to Amazon S3, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage, Snowflake, and webhooks
JSON, NDJSON, CSV, XLSX, and Parquet output formats
Official Python SDK, JavaScript SDK, AI SDK, and CLI
Pay-only-for-success pricing across Web Unlocker, SERP, and Web Scraper APIs
99.99% uptime, 99.95% success rate
SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and CCPA compliant
Open MCP integrations with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Cursor, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, CrewAI, n8n, Google ADK, NVIDIA NeMo, Cloudflare Agents, Snowflake Cortex, and Vapi

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Bright Data Context

36 classes · 1 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Bright Data API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

Bright Data API Rules

8 rules · 3 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Bright Data Proxy Port

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Bright Data Snapshot

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Bright Data Zone

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Bright Data Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Bright Data Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Bright Data Agentic Access

56 operations · 27 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

56 operations · 27 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Bright Data — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Bright Data, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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